1. How quickly I can pay my bills
I remember when I had to write out checks, put them in an envelope with the bill stub, find a stamp, and get them in the mail on time. This morning it took me less than 4 minutes to pay my power, cable, cell phone, and car insurance bill. And I don't pay them through my bank's on line bill pay. I go to each company's individual website and pay them. And STILL, it took only a few minutes to get done.
2. How fast Cara's girls are growing up
When I moved to Florida, Darcy was half a year old and hilariously making those tense fists-stuck-out-front faces. Madison was tiny and telling me, while we watched Barney, that girls have vaginas and boy have penises and did I know that? Now Darcy is 12 (is she 12? when was she born? 1999? Oh yea that would make her 12) and she is in love with Selena Gomez and watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and worries about her hair and her weight. Now Madison is 14 and on the verge of turning 15. She is a freshman in high school and talks like an adult all the time. I think she is more mature than I am. She cooks and cleans and works hard at school on stuff that I don't remember having to learn as a high schooler. Just a couple years from now, Darcy will be driving (God help us) and Madison will be going off to college. I just can't believe it.
3. How much better you feel after you poop
Do I need to say more? Peeing is great too, but nothing like dropping a load. Let's not exaggerate this, but I can sort of see why the cat runs crazy all over the house after he does it.
4. How much better everything is when I really
trust God and put effort into the relationship.
When I have not gone to a church service in a week or two, I become a much less pleasant person to be around. When I have not read the Bible in a long time, the effects may not be dramatic but are very noticeable to me. The more I resist putting everything in his hands, which is often, the more I can tell the difference.
5. How every single time the drug addict is
surprised that there is an intervention.
Every episode of Intervention starts the same way. They say that the addict believes they are going to be in a documentary about drug addiction. They say the addict does not know there will be an intervention. Now this series has been on the air for 6 years, according to the Wikipedia article. Do drug addicts not watch TV? I would think drug and alcohol addiction might inspire a lot of TV watching, depending on the drug of course. Meth addicts are probably too busy cleaning. After a couple years of this very famous TV program being on the air, you would think they would catch on. Just how many documentaries about addiction do they believe are being made every year?
