Pink Flamingo on Toast

I'm a lucky girl and I wanted to just list a few things I'm thankful for. Jerry (I love you! Thanks for letting me be your family.) Tabitha (the closest thing I have to a kid of my own. You're one cute cat!) Family Health (it's not perfect but I'll take it) Friends (both near and far I think of you often) Having a roof over our heads and jobs to keep it there. Random kindness (I'm seeing more of the past few days, gives me hope) Democracy (just imagine if we had a lifetime of the past 8 years) Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Have a safe and happy holiday. _\,,/

I feel like I haven't had a chance to breathe lately. With Jerry 's family and now mine it seems like something is always causing "drama". We try to live drama-free but it doesn't always turn out. Here is the latest: Jerry's mom had surgery today to clean out her incision and was put on a vacuum to speed up the healing. She may be ready to leave the nursing/rehab home soon. That means Jerry and I will have to help her find a suitable place to live. She really can't be at home alone until she becomes more independent. My dad had a tumor removed from his bladder and ran into a few complications. He is home now and we are waiting on some test results to see what happens next. Tomorrow I move to a new school. The good news is I get to sleep in a little bit as it doesn't start until 9am. The bad news is it goes until 4pm-ish. I'll miss getting out at 2:30pm. I'm looking forward to the change of schools though Another big change is the size of my mo...

People who use 2 for to or too. People who use prety for pretty. People who use comming or cuming or cumming for coming. Teachers who are too busy texting to take control of the classrooms. Drivers who don't know how to merge into traffic. Yield does not mean come to a complete stop! Not knowing what's going to happen next. I know, you never know. Doesn't mean it can't bug me! Neighbors who think it's cool to sit in their driveway for an abnormal amount of time with the radio so loud I can hear it inside my house like it's coming from my radio. Having to bite my lip because I can't correct a teacher when they are just plain wrong. The tag on a shirt that just won't stay tucked in. The pothole in the road that never seems to get filled. **Whew, that was cathartic!**

First of all, Happy Veteran's Day. It is a great honor to live in this country and we should all remember and honor those who have fought for this country in our military. Thank you! I'm off today, due to the holiday. Tomorrow is going to bring some uncertainty to my job. I will still have job but I really won't know where I'm going to be placed. I hope to move over to one of the other middle school as the current interpreters there are wonderful and the opportunity to learn more from the would be amazing. I've learned at my age though to be flexible and just go with the flow. I could be put at a high school or elementary school. *shrug* It's all good. Just having a job is good! I'm going to miss my current school.

I'm kinda choked up tonight. I think I've cried 3 or 4 times since 11:00pm. I'm proud to be an American. I'm excited for President Elect Obama. (and that his girls get a new puppy) I'm touched by the turn out at the polls. I'm overwhelmed by the number of people who voted. I'm also thankful that it's over. Jerry and I haven't really stopped talking/obsessing/web surfing about this election in a month. Tonight we both quietly celebrated as the man we both voted for won and will be our next President.

Twas the night before election, when all through the house Not a computer was glowing, or the clicking of a mouse; The sample ballots were on the table and ready for review, In hopes that the poll lines would be steady and few. The voters were all nestled and snuggled in beds, While visions of hanging-chads danced in their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I with my nightcap, had just settled down to watch an campaign recap. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my recliner to see what was the matter. Away to the door I flew like the "Flash", I tore open the screen door and checked out my stash. The moon on the breast of the campaign signs below, Gave a lustre of mid-day to the garden gnome below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a decked out SUV with eight tiny volunteers. With a little old drive, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be our neighbor Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, and he whis...

Jerry and I voted on October 20th, the first day of Early Voting. We wanted to make sure with all the things that had been going on in our lives the past 8 (wow!) months that we would get our votes in. Jerry was also concerned about his mom voting. Would we have to take her to her polling place, could we do early voting, maybe an absentee ballot? That's what he settled on. He put in the request weeks ago. It never came. He put in another request and it still hadn't come on Friday. He told his mom and she said that it was okay with it. Disappointment set in. I think he feels it's not only a privilege but a duty. He was darn right cheery when the absentee ballot arrived yesterday in the mail. We quickly went to the nursing home and watched as she filled it out. Helped her seal it up and made sure the envelope was signed and dashed off to the nearest post office box to make sure it would reach the elections office before 7pm Nov 4th. I'm sure she didn'...