If I ever, ever, ever, ever become pregnant and I actually carry the spawn/offspring to term, please do not let it/him/her be like that obnoxious little kid I saw on the bus today. I do not particularly relish the thought of others seeing me with my child on the bus and then later going home and blogging about the obnoxious kid who was chewing a peanut butter and jam sandwich and then flinging bits of the sandwich at people. I mean, I’m sure if I had a kid like that, I would still (most likely) love him/her to death. But at the same time, if I had a kid that would take a bite out of a sandwich, chew that bite, swallow it and then take another bite, spit out the un-chewed sandwich bit and then fling it at my fellow bus patrons, I would be pretty damn embarrassed and I would have the fucking decency to either make my child apologize or I would at least apologize to the people that my brat threw food at.

And yes, the woman saw that her kid was throwing food because she laughed when he threw it and then she just shrugged when the people glared at her obnoxious spawn offspring.

[The Moirae, or The Moerae or The Parcae, are often referred to as 'The Fates' in Roman and Greek mythology.]

That is what I do when I’m bored. Just take screenshots from sites (from Google.ca, CBC.ca and EarthHour.org), open up Photoshop and then put it all together. The problem with attempting to do Earth Hour is that my father kept on turning lights on. And leaving them on. And then walking away. Of course, this just means that when there’s a trial to pinpoint the exact person who is responsible for nearly complete ozone depletion, oceans with a surface acidity of pH 7.00 and temperatures in the 50s (Celsius), I will be forced to take the stand and tell them all about how my father refused to turn off the lights and singlehandedly produced X amount of carbon dioxide emissions. (I jest, my house is fully equipped with those energy-saving lights that are super bright and don’t get hot very quickly.)

Anyways, I also made content! I only opened Notepad up at the end, Photoshop was opened for most of the hour. Icons galore!

So the weather’s not that good today, so I probably won’t be spending the hour in the evening outside. However, I do have plans from 8-9 tonight! My laptop has a full battery, so does my portable dvd player (Stargate Atlantis <3) and my mp3 player and my cell phone. I plan to have lights turned off by 7:59pm and I also plan to be snug like a bug in my room with a cup of hot chocolate and have either Photoshop or Notepad open on my laptop so I can get some things done. There’s content planned, possibly some icons to be made and uploaded. I just wish my house had wireless internet so that I could be iconing (is that even a word?) or typing up content in the dark with internet access. But, since I don’t, I figured that I may as well be comfortable.

My sister thinks I’m turning into an activist, and maybe I am. I see signs everywhere about how people should be getting angry over the right thing, in reference to the annual harp seal hunt. There are roughly 5 million harp seals in Canada and an estimated 9 million worldwide. The hunt is closely monitored by authorities and they have a cap of 270,000 seals that are allowed to be killed during this hunt. Harp seals are hunted for their pelts, blubber and meat. The native people who live in Northern Canada have been hunting seals (and other arctic animals) for thousands of years. Seals are used for clothing, oil and food. Products from the seal hunt are exported to Russia, Norway and China and brings in approximately $25 million (at least in 2006 it did). It is one thing to protest the killing of an endangered species, it is one thing to protest the use of fur in fashion when all other parts of the animal is wasted. But seals are listed as ‘least concern’, in terms of how closed to being endangered they are. They provide income, food, fuel and clothing for families. It’s a business. It is also a sustainable population. If you’re going to get angry over the right thing, get angry over the fact that people cannot kill the animals properly and allow the seals to suffer before ending the lives. Specialists agree that the weapons that they use to kill harp seals are humane, if used correctly. There needs to be education on both sides of the debate, for both the protesters and the seal hunters.

Other protest-worthy topics that I would protest about would include: animal cruelty (note: I still eat meat) and whaling (endangered species that are still getting killed, by the hundreds of thousands, for “science”) (technically a form of animal cruelty, sort of). [I can't think of any protest-worthy topics that I would protest about.]

[For more about Earth Hour, click here or read the entry right below this one.]