Girly Stuff: October 2008 Archives

It's Blog Action Day, and the word of the day is: Poverty.  Something that is approaching a little too close to my life lately.

Granted, I have a house to live in.  I even have a backup location to flee too if need be.  I have food in my refrigerator, I have a positive balance in my bank account, a bed, and clean clothes to wear to the job that I still have.

Heck, I even still have a pittance in my 401(k).

What I don't have is any extra money.  NONE.  I used to sponsor a child through World Vision but I just can't afford that right now.  Well, I could if I weren't so shallow and didn't buy things for myself.  But sadly, I am shallow and consider my sanity a more pressing matter than the welfare of others.  Especially others I can't see.  It's a failing that I apparently share with lots of people.  That doesn't make it any better, but it makes it easier to live with.

I do wonder sometimes wonder why drugs and prison were allowed to replace interfering with people's lives for the better.  Instead, we have to wait for people to fall so low they'll take any hand up.  How are we supposed to break the cycle of poverty?  And don't say education, because public school education - the kind that impoverished neighborhoods get, anyway - is beyond worthless.  Everyone else is educated, but they aren't learning the important lessons about caring for your neighbor - even the ones you can't see.

A what, you ask?  An Infrared Sauna, I say.  Why do I want one?  Well, because I like being warm.  I like lying out in the sun.  Also, I have had JRA (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis) since I was a teenager in my wrists and knees and since I am now overweight, also in my hips.

I love staying in hotels that have saunas, you can just go and wrap yourself in a towel and be warm all over.  Your joints relax, you sweat away some pounds, (always drink lots of water before you go into a sauna!), your skin glows, your sinuses open up, and it's warm.  This is why cats curl up in the sunshine and just look so content, it's the same feeling.

A far infrared sauna is even better because you don't have to worry about UV rays burning your skin.  It's the same theory as those heated rocks that savages used back in the old day, only updated for modern times.  Note that the savages never had to worry about high blood pressure or asthma.  Heck, even Native Americans didn't have high blood pressure until the Europeans came with their bibles and their fire water and their smallpox.  Sweat lodges!  Hot rocks!  And now I want one too, only it won't fit in my tiny condo.  They have small ones that fit three people, which is good because saunas should be social things.  I'll need a husband too....