So, here's the thing...

Aug 27 2008

Ants are evil

So let me recreate the scene from my life 20 minutes ago.

I come over to my parent’s house after work to find that they have perhaps the worst ant line…nay, three different ant lines…running from their back door, across their dining room, and to their cat’s foot bowl.   Picture each line about an inch wide and solid black.

Turns out, I don’t do so well with ants.

At that point, seriously considered pretending I hadn’t come over, going home and acting surprised when they told me about the infestation later.  

Man, I wish I was shitty daughter.

Instead I find the only thing I can to douse them with…Windex (don’t hate..it did the job)..and begin to soak an entire floor full of the little bastards.

K…well that’s not so bad.

But now there are ant carcasses all over the floor. 

Grab the paper towels and begin wiping them up.  I have a system worked out…all is going relatively well. 

Yeah.

Then I hit a patch where there are a bunch of them still alive.  Before I know it..ants…cov.er.ing.my.hand. 

Its at this point I may have over-reacted a bit..screaming at the top of my lungs…and running…in my flip flops, across the tile floor that I have just soaked with cleaner.

Fall.  Hurt ass.  Get up.  Fall again. Which, I’m sure will all really suck tomorrow, but at the time…still waaay more concerned about the ants now traveling up my arm.  And not like one or two here. 

I got to the kitchen sink..washed them off…went and jumped in the shower (didn’t do the job..I still feel them on me).

But…um…now what I do?!? The cleaner and dead insects all over probably mean its a little past the “leave and pretend like I never saw” point….

Right? 

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Aug 26 2008

My mother was born before women could vote. But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for President.

This is the story of America. Of women and men who defy the odds and never give up.

How do we give this country back to them?

By following the example of a brave New Yorker , a woman who risked her life to shepherd slaves along the Underground Railroad. And on that path to freedom, Harriett Tubman had one piece of advice.

If you hear the dogs, keep going.

If you see the torches in the woods, keep going.

If they’re shouting after you, keep going.

Don’t ever stop. Keep going.

If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Even in the darkest of moments, ordinary Americans have found the faith to keep going.

— Hillary Clinton.  Way to go, Hill.   I am proud to have voted for you…
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Wow..

Janet Napolitano (Gov-AZ) is being a little catty and snide right now…and I love it!!
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I may actually start counting the number of times I get chills during the DNC.

I smell change in the air…and I like it…

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The Greatest

So, this post will mean little to very, very few…especially my age…however, I was just blown away by the cover of Jackson Browne’s new cd, Time the Conqueror  (Wait..I’m stopping to take a moment to wipe the tears from my eyes that Jackson is releasing a new CD.  With like, new music.  Seriously..not a joke…I started jumping up and down when I read that).

Here’s the thing.  I have been a Jackson Browne FAN.AT.IC since conception…it was inherited by my hippie-parents.   Hands down, my favorite musician/singer/celebrity…whatever.

BUT.  He ALWAYS..since like 1967 has looked like this:

Its his thing.  That he always looks the same.  The facial hair…threw me off a bit.  He looks all wise and guru-ie now. 

I think I like it. 

CD comes out on September 23.  That’s 29 days, in case you’re…you know..me..and counting. 

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Lunch

I just ate a burrito that was the size of my forearm, literally.  Which I think is the same length as your foot, but that makes it sound far, far less appealing

Going to be sick.  I washed it down with a vicodin..lol..so that will make all better. 
(still taking for the mouth…not like a recreational thing..thought I should clarify)

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Can I just say that I would give my left leg right now (I drive with the right) to not be at work but be, instead, live blogging from Denver?
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laceymae:

asprettyasasong:

“For a million dollars,” Jay Leno asked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today, “how many houses do you have?”

“Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell,” McCain said. “I didn’t have a house. I didn’t have a kitchen table. I didn’t have a table. I didn’t have a chair. And I didn’t spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out.”

Oh for the love of….

When all else fails use the only defense you have, I suppose.  Over and over and over and over.

We.  Get.  It.   We also get, though you wish we didn’t, that being a POW makes you an automatic war hero.   It does not an automatic leader make. 

Aug 25 2008
Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be.” And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and settle for the world as it is — even when it doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations. But he reminded us that we know what our world should look like. We know what fairness and justice and opportunity look like. And he urged us to believe in ourselves — to find the strength within ourselves to strive for the world as it should be. And isn’t that the great American story?
— Michelle Obama.  See what I’m sayin’?
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Turns out Barack is not the only great orator in the family

I’m pretty sure Michelle just became my hero.

And…can we talk about how beautiful she looked?  I may be girl-crushing.

I NEED this to the first family. 

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I am in the worst mood today

I hate everyone and everything. 

Didn’t get any sleep…not a minute..back at work.  Not happy.

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