Recently, Ash and I have been watching House M.D. daily (almost sacredly at times). Over and over again, the philosophy on this show just strikes me.

I’m going to base this moment on who I’m stuck in a room with. It’s what life is. It’s a series of rooms and who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are.

A girl, a rape victim, said that to House. This show muddles the black and white that people see as Ethics and what’s Right and Wrong. The show itself is gray. Everybody lies. Sometimes it seems to me that this show is more real than any reality show. People are proved wrong and they’re either forgiven or not. It’s not always clear as to what people think and why people do things. And sometimes they do something wrong and they’re either caught or they’re let go or everyone goes about and pretends nothing happened. This show questions eternity, faith, and more or less it tells the Hippocratic oath to go to to hell. This is real. They lose people. It’s not happy. It is happy. It’s life.

I like this show. It’s over now. Now? History Channel for more reality TV! They’re talking about the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Can you imagine if we still made things like that? Imagine how much we would know now if we hadn’t lost it all in the dark ages and burned all the great libraries and destroyed so much knowledge!

Everybody lies and people are ignorant. C’est la vie.

It has been a productive day! Woke up this morning, had a breakfast of biscuits and honey (yum!), and then started cleaning like mad. I shut myself up in our bedroom and folded all the laundry, hung it all up, and organized the dirty stuff. I then went through what boxes could be packed, organized boxes that already had stuff in them, and cleaned the shelves and side table. Then I went to go clean Kendi’s cage which is in our room (to keep her warmer) and look what I found:

Kendi’s first shed! Yeah, I was really happy because it means she’s healthy. So now she’s eating right and on schedule and she’s shedding. I was worried about her eye caps because I had that problem with other snakes, but she did fine and they came off with the skin. She’s really pretty and bright now but I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of her before she curled up in her macaroni box. What a good snake.

After that excitement, we got the hallway, the bathroom, and the kitchen done. We’re working on the living room now (well actually, I’m blogging, and Ash is working on the living room – she does the vacuuming and when she’s done I’m gonna clean the ferret cage). It’s been a really good cleaning day and our room is probably the cleanest it’s been in a long time. I’m proud of us for actually getting so much done. I even re-did my blog info since it was pretty outdated. If I have time after dinner, I’ll work some more on the free wordpress themes I’ll be putting up. Anyone interested in them? I’m also thinking about holding a contest – anyone be interested? And if so, any ideas for the winner?

Okay, back to cleaning. (Don’t forget to vote for Snailbird.com!)

Yesterday I finished my first free wordpress theme, and I started on my second last night. I’m gonna wait to put it up though until later because this morning, Ash and I are going to clean house. We’ll be moving in two months and today we’re going to start cleaning up and packing some things away.

Ashland is beautiful in the fall, but we’ll be going to Tennessee in December where it will be warmer and I love the mountains. MOUNTAINS. It’s temporary until we end up in Austin, Texas where we want to make our home permanently. That won’t happen until late 2009 I believe, but I really can’t wait. There are so many more options down there for us, and so many more opportunities. We’ve even started dreaming (and slightly getting ahead of ourselves) and looking up real estate in Austin. Some of the homes even on the lower end of our estimated budget are really nice. I’m crossing my fingers that it will all work out. It will.

But right now, in this moment, our house is filthy and we need to clean.

And another thing! Snailbird.com is Blog of the Day at FuelMyBlog. How awesome is that? Now go vote and make us even cooler!

(I’m actually really excited about this. Are you a new reader? Comment and introduce yourself and let me know what you’d like to see more of here. I’d really appreciate it.)