Best Vacation EVER!!!

I am on the best vacation I have ever had and looking at that statement I realize it is kinda sad , what does that say about past vacations?) but also not sad cause I am loving this.  No trips, no travel, no packing, no plans. Just eight days of doing whatever I want to do.  And what I want to do is learn a few things, do some soul searching, give some quality time to my family, and enjoy an appreciate every second of it all.  Not so easy living in someone elses house but it is possible.  My father likes to keep the television on cnn all day and that does really throw a wrench in things.  Try blocking out 24 hour coverage of the Boston bombings.  I am all for reporting the news but I definitely see a change in our media today that EVERY aspect of an incident is pulled apart and analyzed and dissected over and over and you hope that not everybody is sitting in front of a tv glue to this not moving forward in any way.  I grew up feeling in my heart I was a democrat.  We were working class and in the early 80's the republicans were the epitamy of evil greed.  They were big business pulling the strings while my parents both worked through illness and aches and pains just to make ends meet.  When I became old enough to vote right before Clinton's first run for president I was so excited to stand in line for two hours with my mother who was also voting for her first time ever.  When I look back at how black and white I saw things it is almost embarrassing.  I no longer consider myself a democrat or connect with any particular political party.  I view all politicians now with the same clear lenses wondering what kind of wolf is hiding under the sheep suit.  The recent betrayal by so many who promised to make changes to our gun laws in the wake of a tragedy only to cower to the NRA when it was time for action confirmed what I have so recently learned.  The media is no better.  The bombing in Boston was truely horrific and tragic and deserves to be reported.  The stories of bravery in those moments and the people who stepped up to help others we need to hear those things.  Why do we give not as much but MORE attention to the alleged fiends who committed the act.  Why do we need to know every minute detail of their lives.  I don't care where they went to school, what they studied, what kind of a child they were.  You dishonor the real heroes in this when you continue to focus on these young men.  Then there is the loss of life in Texas and how that seems to have been given almost no coverage why, no way to sensationalize that story with no villan.  It all is just a reflection of our society today.