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Sometimes I swear I just don't understand people. At all. What the heck motivates some of these people I know to do the things they do?!

Well, anyway. Happy St. Patrick's Day (a day late), everyone! I celebrated by wearing all of the Irish jewelry that I own, and reading the Irish Travel Guide that I recently bought. In it I found out how to say "good night" in Gaelic--oíche mhaith, which is inexplicably pronounced 'ee-ha-vah'. Go figure. Gaelic and Welsh are facinating languages, but I'm SO GLAD English makes at least a little more sense.

This news deserves a celebration: my parents and brothers are packing up for a week in Texas and leaving me here, so that I can work and take care of my grandparents. I will enjoy a week alone being Independent and Adult and Now Having Anyone To Tell Me When To Go To Bed, and I have already started making a list of Things To Do While Every Is Gone, including things like eating meals consisting of nothing but cheese, bacon, and icecream, and renting lots of movies.

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Umm.. about guns. Firearms which are kept for the sole sake of a house's security (as opposed to, say, a hunting rifle that is actually used once in a while) statisctically make the house less secure. Accidental deaths/injuries cause by domestic firearms are much more frequent than actual cases of defense. You don't need firearms. Things like steak knifes, cast-iron skillets, lamps and other real-life-tools-also-useable-as-bashing/stabbing-weapons can be arranged to where they are easily accesible in just about any room... but since they actually serve a practical purpose, they are much less likely to cause unintended harm. Ha! This coming from a soilder.

Yours in Christ,
Jake