5 Reasons Why Seat Belts are Worthless on Airplanes.

As Mandy and I sat eating our McDonald's yesterday the thought arose, how is it that when we hop into one of the church's economy sized van's for a trip, we must wear our seat belt but yet, you get on a school bus or public transit and no seat belt is required, nor do they provide one for you if you wanted to "buckle of for safety". This led to another thought, why must we buckle up on an airplane?

• When taking off, the sheer force is more than enough to keep you in your seat.

• It's not like we're going to crash into another plane in mid-air.

• If we do crash, a seat belt is the last thing you're gonna need to hope to walk away from it.

• It's not actually possible to fall out of your seat, there's hardly any room to sit down in the first place.

• It won't keep you from hitting the seat in front of you either 'cause the seat in front of you is actually in your lap.

This isn't to say that I would have ever wanted a seat belt on the school bus. Let's face it, if you do that then you might as well hand every student a helmet and chinstrap as well.

I can breathe. . .

for a few more days at least. I am anxiously awaiting the end of a very long and (at many times) frustrating term. I know the end is in sight but I still have one more mountain to climb. . . okay maybe a couple. I just gave a presentation of my so called "term paper". Yeah it doesn't really look like one at the moment and it is has to be 10 pages by next Wednesday. I have an HTML test and project due next Tuesday and Thursday. Oh and somewhere in there is a Chemistry final. So yeah, maybe I don't have a few days to breathe. :(

On the upside though is that on my drive to class this morning I caught the oh so beautiful aroma of freshly cut grass which can mean only one thing. . . spring is just around the corner!!

It's been one year...

since I first picked Mandy up for our very first date!! On that Friday night one year ago I took her to see "Failure To Launch". I was soooo nervous! You gotta understand, I'd never done something like that before. . . I was never the guy who asked out a girl. But it would appear that it worked in my favor that night because we are still very much together.

Now one year later, we celebrated by going to Hot Pots! this afternoon and started painting a coffee mug for one another. After we worked on those for about three hours, we went back to my place and I made her dinner. On the menu was a roast, garlic mashed potatoes, carrots and broccoli, and blueberry muffins.

After dinner we watched a movie and it was only fitting that we watch the same movie we watched just one year ago, "Failure To Launch". We now sit her at her place playing "Sorry" and I must say I am getting my butt kicked.