This past week has been a fairly depressing one, which makes me not want to blog much. There were huge layoffs in our IT organization at work, Lindsey was voted off and Mikalah stayed(!), the mortgage company that we're dealing with seems to have no idea what they're doing and the Terri Schiavo situation is really bumming me out.

The good news is that we sign papers and do our initial walkthrough of our house tomorrow. If all goes well (which means the mortgage company doesn't get their way), we will move in next week. I'm excited - hopefully everything goes as scheduled.

The Terri Schiavo case is absolutely insane. It bothers me that Harry Reid has not done anything to help save Terri. He hasn't directly opposed the cause, but he has been more of an obstruction than a help. This shouldn't surprise me since he has gone very, very soft on his pro-life position since becoming minority leader. I listened to Reid on Hannity and Colmes and found it interesting that Reid refused to answer the question about whether abortion should be made illegal or not. He said he couldn't answer the question because people have different opinions about what "legal" means. That's a pretty strong stand from someone who claims to be pro-life. I'm just very hopeful that things change and they let Terri live. Court-mandated murder is a scary thought. In a related thought, did you know that a living will can be created by anyone and can be very informal? A signed note on a napkin that states, "I don't want to be kept alive using life support" serves as a completely legal document. It's not even necessary to have a witness. Everyone should have a living will...

Even though things are pretty gloomy these days, I have a lucky feeling this week - Mikalah is going home.