Accalia's on an organizing mission right now. She's taking all of the clothes out of her dresser, folding them and putting them in piles. Hopefully she'll want to put them back in her dresser!

Wasn't it absolutely thrilling to hear Bush say that we're going to spend $87 billion in Iraq? There's a homeless man who sits near the entrance to Wal-Mart most weekends - a veteran - holding a sign asking for any sort of help. His dog lies in the shade of this man's green duffle bag. Today, after we left Wal-Mart, we ran to McDonald's and brought back some food for this man. After hearing Bush speak, Cory said, "If we can spend $87 billion in Iraq, we shouldn't have anyone have to sit outside of Wal-Mart needing food or money."

Maybe I've missed the great economic upswing and all of the good economic news that this war was supposed to bring. I haven't seen it around here, at any rate. The poor economy is still hurting families. One of my fellow LLL Leaders and Area Department Coordinators (ADCs) is resigning her ADC position because she has to go back to work to help the family after her husband just took a huge pay cut.

Cory's parents brought us two boxes full of tomatoes and cucumbers. There's no way we would get through all of those, and I don't can. None of our neighbors need anything, so I took the majority down to a table outside of a nearby Catholic church. The church has this table set up much of the year so people can give their food donations and others can come and choose what they'd like. Apparently many of the local homeless population takes advantage of this.

Well, it's getting later but I'm probably not going to get to bed for a while with Accalia on her rampage. On to other things, I guess...