2008 Election Experiment - Please respond!

For the last...oh...year or so, I have periodically written all kinds of things about the election, about the issues, and about the candidates. Click on the "Politics" tag to get most of it, although I wrote some in the first half of the year before I started tagging those posts. I suppose if you search "Obama" or "McCain", you will probably get all of them. Here, this will probably do.

Anyone who reads this regularly, assuming you didn't skip this stuff, has seen a pretty large sampling of my thoughts on the election. What I would like now is for some feedback from those of you who have read parts or all of the stuff I have written.

Please leave me a comment, or send an email to me.accidentally@gmail.com and answer these questions:

1) Who do you plan to vote for (or will you, or can you vote)?

2) Who do you think that I am going to vote for?

3) Where do you live/vote?

Obviously, if you can't or won't vote...I still want you to answer #2 (that means you, foreigners!!!). Also, please feel free to elaborate on why you are voting for or against any of the candidates involved.

I will tell you a little more about what I am up to on Tuesday, when I will also tell you who I am going to vote for:-)

Other than that...Happy Halloween, Happy Weekend, and don't forget to turn your clock forward!

Tinkerbelle or Treat

I can't believe no one was impressed that I showed up at a wedding not knowing that it was two girls getting married...seriously, who else could that happen to?

Who watched Obama's infomercial last night? I actually found it almost a little embarrassing... too cheesy for my taste. Also, I may have misheard, but I think he set his new definition of rich at $200,000 a year. Biden said $150,000 last week...anyone else not like this trend? And is it at all surprising? Sigh...

Tomorrow I am going to do my great 2008 Election Coverage Experiment, so you all have that to loo forward to.

I am off to Chicago for the weekend tomorrow because I haven't been in a while and I miss Tinkerbelle:-) Some other people, too...but mostly her. I probably should have picked a different weekend since Munchkin wants to stay home for Halloween with her friends, but what can you do. I don't always think ahead... This means that we will likely go together in the next couple of weeks (maybe right after Thanksgiving?) I suppose she is old enough to go by herself, but I still like to go with her:-) For this weekend, though, it is just me, which may actually be kinda nice (oh, The Boy is going to the Cape for a guys weekend). Munchkin is staying with Smoking Hot Roommate on Friday and Big Sis on Saturday...aren't they awesome?

I am hoping to get there in time to go trick or treating, which will require me getting out of work very early. That may be ambitious, but in the event that I can't, she has promised to stay in costume until I get there...the costume is a closely guarded state secret... Other than that, I am gonna try and catch up with some friends and some family and that is about it. Let's pray it doesn't snow...

Finally, I have been remiss in not mentioning that I am most likely going back to school next fall. I covered a lot of this last fall when I decided to put it off until this year, so I don't have much else to add other than having decided to apply. So, that will be taking up a lot of my time from now until January. I am going to apply to two places (both are super fancy-shmancy schools really close to here...you can probably guess what they are) which might not sound like much, but includes lots of essays and some interviews and lining up recommendations and so on and so forth. Umm...so...wish me luck, I guess:-)

A late weekend recap

It was bad of me not to write yesterday, I know. Many, many apologies...stupid work got in the way. What's up with that?!?!?

I have some weekend recapping to do, which is late, I know. But it was a very eventful weekend, so I feel like I should cover it. First off, wake and funeral for The Boy's Aunt on Friday night. Entirely too suddenly, and it was really difficult on his Mom, but she seemed to hold it together pretty well. I am sure that she is a total mess now that the events are all done and there is no planning to distract anyone. I found myself wanting to hug her a lot...she's nice:-).

We had a really nice dinner with his brother and sisters afterwards. Nothing special, it was just nice to be able to sit down together without children or other family, which we have never really done before. (If you want a brief recap of his sisters' relationship, read here. It might make you cry...it makes me cry:-))

The funeral was Saturday morning, and was equally difficult. I cried a LOT...I really, really liked his Aunt and I will miss her. She was an awfully cool lady. The burial and lunch reception were nice, a lot of his family was in from out of town, so it was a good chance to catch up with some people briefly.

After that, we had a wedding to go to, which was actually a lot of fun, but sort of draining, and The Boy was absolutely exhausted by the end. However, I did get to say something that I never really guessed I would say...

The wedding was for a girl that he used to work with. I have met her once or twice, only briefly. We got to the church, and sat down. I opened the program, looked at the names and said "Hey, you didn't tell me that this was a lesbian wedding." Somehow, that got lost in the discussion...lol. So yes, it was my second lesbian wedding, and quite different from the first...I will spare you the details, though. It was a beautiful wedding and I had a lot of fun, even though I didn't know anybody at the beginning.

The Boy ended up sleeping until about noon on Sunday (I told you he was tired!) so Munchkin and I had a breakfast date with Smoking Hot Roommate. Then we went to dinner for The Brain Surgeon's birthday (Happy Birthday, buddy:-)) and that was about it.

So, there you have my eventful weekend... and this weekend? Chicago...more on that tomorrow.

Two years

Was your blog-i-versary a week ago? Mine was...and I seem to have forgotten it entirely. But yes, two years and six days ago, I sat down in my (then, and again now) living room on a Friday night and decided to start writing shit down. I was a little bit sick, so I had stayed in and the mood struck. Two years, and 560+ posts later...voila!

I wish I had more time to write about this, because I feel like I should have some pretty deep thoughts. And, given the time to articulate them, I do. But I am a little rushed and can't give this the attention that I want to right now. Maybe some other time...

I am actually disappointed in myself for missing the anniversary. Because, I LOVE blogging. I really do. I love that I can spout whatever nonsense comes to mind that day...be it politics, TV or what I had for breakfast. And I love that I can read other people's nonsense, too. I love that I can go back and read my thoughts from certain times. I love that other people can chime in on life. I blog almost every weekday, and almost never feel like it is a chore. In fact, there are a lot of times that I wish I had a computer nearby to write something down. Often, I forget what it was that I wanted to write.

Mostly, I love the "blog friends" that I have made...who are, at this point, too numerous to even begin naming. You stretch across the world, and around the country. You have political views from the far left to the far right and everywhere in between. You are lawyers, and doctors and nurses and teachers and bankers and techies and students and all things in between. You are smart and funny and charming and cute and friendly and compassionate and thoughtful and all of the other nice words that I can't fit into that sentence:-). You are married, single, divorced, engaged, gay, straight, tall, short, men, women, old, young, parents, children, brothers and sisters (um...I just realized that there are very few minority bloggers...what's up with that? I have two Asian readers, and um...that is about it...seriously?). You are all different, and that is what makes you so great:-)

A lot has changed in two years, and I am sure a lot will change in the next two and the two after that. But hopefully, I will be able to blog it all:-)

Oh...some things...

I just realized that I have kind of a busy weekend ahead of me, partially because I completely forget that I have a wedding to go to tomorrow...oops. Anyway, the sad part is that I have a wake to go to tonight and a funeral tomorrow for a (semi-close) member of The Boy's family. And the person died too young and too suddenly, so that may be sort of tough.

The funeral is tomorrow, but I think I will be able to get to Munchkin's soccer game and still have plenty of time to go...fortunately her game is early. Like, really early...

An old co-worker of The Boy's is getting married tomorrow, and I sort of forgot that we were going to that. As such, I am not sure that I have anything to wear...I could very well wear the halter from my dress for Big Sis's wedding (it was a two piece dress) and a black skirt. But I have to make sure it is clean (I think it is) and have to come up with some kind of a jacket, too, since that was really a summer dress. Decisions, decisions...

Finally, on a much lighter note...did anyone watch Celebrity Rehab? If you never have, it is a really interesting show on a whole bunch of levels. Also, Gary Busey is on it, and he is hilariously crazy!!! Like, totally bat shit nuts. He has checked himself in, but he has been sober for 13 years, so he doesn't view himself as a patient, he views himself as like a helper to the staff. Totally weird.

It also led to a great quote from Amber Smith, a model and actress that I recognize but whose name I never knew. First of all, for a drug addict, I can't get over how remarkably gorgeous her hair is. I mean, she is gorgeous overall, but I feel like people that use that many drugs have like dead, stringy hair...but she somehow has long, shiny, flowy hair that totally defies a drug addiction. Anyway, after a brief conversation with Gary Busey where he told her about his role as like a helper, she confessed "I don't think I want to take advice from someone that seems crazier than me."

Anyway, I laughed really hard at that...

Have a nice weekend, everyone:-)