Maybe It's the Socioligist in Me

Yes, I majored in Sociology.

My senior year in college, the sociology department put out a brochure entitled

"What CAN You DO With A Degree in SOCIOLOGY?"

Inside the brochure (and I am not making this up) it said in big BIG letters

"GRADUATE SCHOOL IS THE CHOICE FOR YOU!"

Great.

I just spent three years working towards a useless degree. That's just perfect.

Same year; I had a professor tell us that sociologists had perfected a theory called the "I Knew It All Along Theory."

That meant that sociology was a field based on the idea that they were going to explore thoughts that people knew all along and just prove them right.

Like what makes a long distance dating relationship compelling and difficult is "absence makes the heart grow fonder" AND "out of sight, out of mind." Both are true. Both can be proven. I knew it all along.

What a great thing to get a degree in.

Anyway. I found this blog that uses sociology and social-physc thought processes in parenting and I find it really compelling. Cause I'm a nerd.

It gives me a lot of food for thought and I have liked it a lot lately.

Take a look!

Half Full: The Science for Raising Happy Kids I don't think that social science has the answers for raising happy kids, but I do think it has something to bring to the table!

New Blog-Times

Have any of you seen this blog?
www.peopleofwalmart.com

Just pictures captured on camera phones of people shopping at Wal-Mart.
Truly, truly hilarious.

New Blog to Note

My good friend Lindsay Hancock has started a blog and since her husband is doing the EXACT same thing that my husband is doing right now, except her husband is in fact BUBBA NUBBINS...I thought that you might want to follow along and see our perspectives.

Since we are both behind cameras all the time, the only chances we have to actually be seen, is probably on each other's blogs. Are we nerds or what? We live down the hall from each other, our daughters could be twins, our husbands doing really ridiculous raps about eating nachos at the Honeycomb to Justin Timberlake tunes. What's not to love?

Anywho, it is a great blog already and you will like to see how she updates more often than me since I am getting tired out from all my twittering and whatnot.

Check it out www.hancocksroll.blogspot.com

Also, the Hancocks have the best stories-already they one about a bear in camp that I didn't know about! GO NOW!

new blogs of note

Oh yeah, this morning...we had to say goodbye to Ben. He is leaving! MOVING OUT. What? Huh? He is sailing on cross-Atlantic voyage to Spain on a once in a lifetime opportunity and he is leaving. He started a blog at www.blogofthejohnson.blogspot.com and you can read along with him.

We will do an homage post to Ben at a later time, GET READY. But we love what he wrote about us there. It was really sweet and honestly, I don't know what our lives are going to look like without him being there when we get home. woah. Enough. Can't go there yet.

Onto other nonsense,
my husband started a blog too. Yep. I know. What is this world coming to? He is www.mightybignoggin.blogspot.com (seriously. That's the name.)

This blog just made me laugh

It's called "This is why your fat" and it has picture of food that is disgusting look but probably tastes fantastic.
I personally love the Oreo picture.
Check it out.

www.thisiswhyyourfat.com