Love

Things I Love

(Inspired by Denae’s Love Week)

 

I love Blue Bell’s Cookies ‘n Cream Ice Cream. 

I’m addicted.  This was dinner one night in December when Jakob was out of town.  1/2 gallon of ice cream in bed while surfing the internet.  I’m surprised I didn’t die of happiness.

I love Pink’s song “Just Give Me a Reason”. 

I don’t love music, but I love songs.  I hardly listen to the radio, but when I find a song I love, it is like a gift and I listen to it over and over again until it finally loosens the hold it has over me.  This song is my current obsession and I can’t get enough.  I burned this single song to a CD and I listen to it constantly in the car.  It is driving my boys crazy.

I do not love the video.  It is kind of creepy and has her thrashing around on a bed in her underwear.  But I don’t know how to embed just the song, so I’m posting the video.



(I also love tattoos.  I can’t explain it.  Well, yes, I can.  It is part of the good girl/bad boy thing.  It’s a good thing that I know we shouldn’t get them, or Jakob would be covered with them just like Carey Hart.)

I love Charles Krauthammer. 

My liberal friends won’t appreciate this, but I think Charles Krauthammer is the wisest man in the world.  He is the final word on all things political for me.

He is a genius.  He is just so knowledgeable about so many things.  And he is so logical.  He has no emotion in his opinions.

His story is amazing.  He is a paraplegic.   This is from an interview with him I found online:

LAMB: What year did you have your diving accident?
KRAUTHAMMER: 1972. I was a freshmen in medical school in my first year and ended up being hospitalized for a year and two months. But since it happened at Harvard Medical School, in one of the swimming pools of the hotels at the complex, I ended up doing my year-plus stint as a patient in Harvard teaching hospitals so that I was able to do my second year of medical school in the hospital as a patient.  Even though I wasn’t able to attend any classes, I’d study at night. And they were very good at having the professors tutor me at night. Then I rejoined, then I was released from the hospital, I rejoined my class for the third year. And then I graduated a year later.
LAMB: I don’t know about if you mind telling the story, but what happened in the diving accident?
KRAUTHAMMER: Very simple, I hit the bottom of the pool with my head and it caused no injury except a breaking of the spinal cord.
LAMB: And you spent how long in the hospital?
KRAUTHAMMER: Two months.
LAMB: What was your reaction to that when it happened to you, I mean, during that time?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, being a medical student and that week studying neurology, which was rather ironic, the book I had with me when I was hurt was neuro-anatomy. I knew exactly what happened the second it happened. And I knew exactly what the consequences were and I knew what the future was. And I think that was a help to me, because I never had any illusions. And a lot of my, ­­the bedmates I had on the wards where I was had a lot of illusions. And I didn’t have them, which I think was useful. So I knew, you had two choices, you could give up or you could just pretend it hadn’t happened and do everything that you could to. And what I resolved is I would never, I would try never to let it change my life, or change the direction of my life. The irony is that I’d intended to be a psychiatrist, which is about the one, that and radiology was about the only thing I could do. And that’s what I wanted to do, so I went ahead and did it.

I just think his perspective on his accident, his career, and his life is so level and I think that transfers over to his opinions on the world and politics.  Anyway, I just love him.  Here is a recent Fox News clip where he just seems to put both the republican and democrat in their place with his knowledge and perspective.