3 days worth; clothes and ponytail; flowers; broken car, beautiful day and To Kill a Mockingbird

Missed a couple of days, because our internet inexplicably went down, so here's the blogs for Thursday and Friday.

Day 44 - 14th February 2013

I have tried to blog, but my internet's down so I'm here (word doc.) instead. Today, I had a ponytail, wore my new skirt and tights, and went for a horrible exhausting run with Lily. I was then trying to stretch my legs out to lessen the pain tomorrow, so I got out my birthday yoga book (Thanks Maria!) and had a go at that. I really love stretching, and especially yoga.

I'm finally getting somewhere with my EPQ, it's really getting to a finishable point, and I did loads today. Yay!

Day 45 - 15th February 2013

Internet's down again! I think it might be this meteor that's passing close. Today, James bought me flowers because we had a stroppy argument; we did the signing choir for Hannah's EPQ presentation and I ate a lot of oreos. Tomorrow we're going to Clive and Lotties, and I'm excited to do lots of reading (just started 'To Kill a Mockingbird') and loads of crochet over half term.

Day 46 - 16th February 2013 (today)

We were supposed to be going to Clive and Lottie's today, but when we were about 5 minutes away from home the car went ker-plunk... We stopped to check it out and apparently the front suspension had basically pinged off, so that was that. Now we're all sitting around doing not a lot. I went for a run with Lily and James, and guess what? Running on my own is worse that running with one fit person, but running with two fit people is just demoralising. I'm exhausted, and starving and I don't think my legs will ever recover.

In other news, I read To Kill a Mockingbird today (and last night), and I can so see why it's a modern classic. It was beautiful, and it's had me thought-provoked all day... and wanting to call my first son Atticus ;)

I think it just makes me really deeply consider the little prejudices everyone carries around with them, everyone stereotypes certain people, and I think that's something I would love to work myself free from, to view everyone as a separate person, and not to make assumptions about them based on their previous actions; I think if everyone could possibly even try to think like that, the world could be fairly close to perfect. That leads me to thinking that; isn't that what a lot of religion is supposed to be about? Acceptance and Forgiveness. And yet religion and race are still today a big cause of conflict and war. I think that might be why I find religion such a difficult concept for me to accept. I believe in the ideology of religion...I just don't believe it works in practice to be governed by anyone but yourself, because if you've got a God to rely on, it helps you not to take responsibility for what you've done. 

Or that's what I wonder anyway...

Today was gorgeous weather, just thought I'd mention, it had that very early spring smell, like the smell of good things coming.