Mean People Suck.

I don't read a lot of blogs.  Ironic, since I'm the author two of my own, the editor of another and regularly contribute to a few more.  (Is there a correlation here?  Maybe all of my own blogging is the reason I don't have time to read others...)  I skim through a few daily and others I check in on every few days.  Some I only check every few months (sorry, private bloggers, I forget about you if you aren't in my reader!)

Anyway, I was checking in on one of my favorites this morning and I could tell that something had happened in the blog world surrounding this particular blogger in the past few days.  This sweet girl, Monica,  talks about her running, her eating and her life in an open, candid way that really speaks to me.  Maybe because she is hysterically funny, but mostly because she is so honest.  If she messes up, she tells you.  She isn't perfect.  (News flash: NO ONE IS!)  Well, the other day she was lamenting that she had gained some weight while trying to lose.  (Who hasn't been there?  No one except my genetically-favored sister.)  She got some of the harshest, most judgmental and downright MEAN comments I have ever seen!  I couldn't believe that people could be so cruel to her.  Of course, you know that almost all of the comments were from other women.  What is wrong with us?  What is it about women that makes them so catty to each other?  Why can't we celebrate each other's successes and empathize with each other when things aren't going the way we want them to?  How pathetic, too, that these women felt that they had free reign to rip Monica to shreds because they could hide behind the anonymity of the internet.  Grow up, ladies.  We are no longer in middle school.

This is our family motto:

It is hanging where we can all see it every day.  I don't care if my kids are the best at anything.  I don't care if they are super-athletes or incredible students or abnormally talented musicians (maybe because I am pretty darn realistic...)  But I do care that they do their best and that they are nice to others.  I think that most of us in this world are just doing our best.  We all fail.  But we get up and keep trying.  So don't knock people down when they are on the ground--reach down and help them up for heaven's sake!  It's just pathetic that people are mean.  Another favorite quote:

I didn't make this one into a crafty little sign.  Maybe I should consider it.

Okay, off my soap box.

Today's lunch included some goodies from the garden--HUGE cherry tomatoes and crisp cucumbers!

Our cucumber got re-routed by the fence.  Still tastes good!

Mixed with Albacore tuna, purple onion, and a bit of fat free sour cream.  (No, I didn't eat all of that in one sitting--it should last for a few days!