Happy fourth!

America's birthday is definitely something worth celebrating. We live in a land that is free. Free? What does that mean to me to us? I think that it gives us luxuries citizens of other countries don't have. For example we can vote for whomever we want to and a sillier freedom is that we have the luxury of shopping 24 hours at a Walmart if we wish.

Those two very different examples seem normal to us. But take the time to think about how people live elsewhere. Sure some live pretty good, but a lot live terrible lives without many things we take for granted daily. On the serious side of the example penny, people can't vote or even if they can, their vote isn't really accounted for. On the sillier side, if you run out eggs for the cookies you're making at 2 am, in some places stores close at 5 on the dot. What do you do then? Here we can go to our 24 hour walmart or maybe 24 hour cvs. Its these truly simple luxuries we take for granted daily. Truly, and not sarcastically, we have a lot to be thankful for here.

Today I celebrated my land of the free by tanning, drinking a beer, and playing in the ocean and pool with great friends and my hubby, instead of working. I'm lucky I get to do all of these things in my beloved country without any trouble. I was even able to buy drinks at the store because it was actually open on a holiday (a simple luxury that comes in handy.)

I hope you all had a wonderful day celebrating our old lady's birthday. I know I sure did!


Ps- I read about three pages of City of Bones by Cassandra Clare today. Its my newest read and it's interesting so far. I'll try to post about Crossed by Ally Condie tomorrow.