Random Thoughts

We have been sleeping with our window open at night recently. Last night I was woken up by the sound of a loud vehicle pulling up in the parking lot, and some noisy male voices. I tried to go back to sleep, but they were just making too much noise. I tried not to think about it, but my angry mind wandered to the idea of them just getting home from a bar. I attempted to shut the idea out of my head and thought maybe they were just getting home from work. Then I heard the most disgusting thing I think I could ever hear in the middle of the night... Someone threw up. In the parking lot. Outside our window. In the middle of the night. It was even followed by a spit. Somehow I managed to go back to sleep but my brain was thrown off and I had weird dreams about going to church in the woods with huge half cougar/half man creatures.


Something else on my mind:
For Juliann's birthday, we got her a Nursery Rhymes book that comes with a CD of all the songs to music. I was super excited for her to have this. We listened to the whole CD the next day and although I was a little disappointed to hear that it was a woman with a British accent singing the whole thing, I still thought it was going to be great. Then I started paying attention to the words. Here are some of the shocking lyrics:

-From "The Queen of Hearts": "The King of Hearts called for the tarts, and beat the knave full sore. The Knave of hearts brought back the tarts and vowed he'd steal no more.
-From "Rock-a-bye Baby": "When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all.
-From "Jack and Jill": "Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after."
-From "Sing a song of sixpence": "Four and twenty black birds baked in a pie."
-From "There was an old woman": "She gave them some broth without any bread, and whipped them all soundly and put them to bed."
-From "Goosey Goosey Gander": "There I met an old man who would not say his prayers, I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs."

Can I say that maybe the problem we have with violence these days isn't all our fault? Can you imagine singing songs about starving and whipping your kids before bed, and throwing someone down the stairs, to your little ones? I think it's hilarious. I must say I definitely prefer "The Wheels on the Bus" or "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."