I just returned from watching Borat. Interesting, very interesting, and very funny, in a sad way too. Man, some people are just too much for me to wrap my head around. Idiocy, close mindedness, ignorance, religion, whatever you want to label it. I admit I laughed a lot, but at the same time I was cringing.

Oh yeah, halloween candy is the devil!

Hopeful Day

Wow, maybe my votes actually did count this time. I even went so far as to write a CA senator as to why I would not vote for her based on her stance on the "War" in Iraq. I looked up every person, every initiative, I tried very hard to be informed. My voting skills of the past have been to look at groups supporting or against certain measures and vote that way. I took it further this time and it seems as if my time and energy paid off. Ok, maybe it was just the way America swung this time, but I am reasonable happy with most of the outcomes. I am looking forward to George being blocked as much as possible his final two years. Dare I say it, maybe, just maybe, but I am not holding my breath, every last one of our countrymen will be brought home from Iraq, that crazy place in the sand where they die, lose limbs, get burned, families are destroyed, all for lies perpetuated by that mega-ego-maniac that considers himself the topmost authority over the universe. Yep, that is it, Master of the Universe, but not the good one from when we were kids. I could go on and on about that awful person and all of the awful things that have happened on his watch, but I am putting positiveness out there right now. Most of you who know me know of my political leanings. Government interference be damned.
Wow, a lot has went on in the past couple of weeks. I missed my sweet friend's first baby shower thanks to an intensive, weekend long marriage seminar. I think other than birth, that seminar was the most emotionally draining thing I have done. It was tough, it is tough still. I do not like being vulnerable, especially to Byron. It kind of irritated me, that the entire time, he still denied having anything bad happen to him when he grew up. The man's mother used to have their family pets put to sleep while they were at school because she was tired of them, but according to Byron she was almost a saint. Her other mode of disposal was to take whatever animal they had and drive it across town for drop off. I was not really hopeful going into the thing and I am not so hopeful now either. I think it may have been different if an actual opening up and realization had occurred. Why do I keep going forward? I hear Connor saying, "Mom, the worst thing ever would be...." Feel free to fill in the blank here, anything regarding us being broke up, divorced, fighting, not living together, etc. Although, I suppose it can not be categorized as forward, more of why am I still in the holding pattern. The seminar had a lot of truth in it. We as human beings are destined to pick those that make us stretch and grow no matter how much it hurts. I am a hailstorm and Byron is a turtle, we are not compatible as such, so we are supposed to work to empathize with one another, using actual understanding of where the requests each is making is coming from, and acting based on that. I am not sure I needed to pay 600.00 for that.
Miss Molly is napping right now, but after she gets up we are headed to the orthodontist, yes, my two year old girl with baby teeth is going to the orthodontist. She was trying to get her pacifiers out of the kitchen drawer last Thursday and ended up falling. She broke her fall on the concrete with her mouth and lips. Her lip is no longer swollen and the four splits in it have healed, but her teeth are still pushed back about 1 cm in her tiny mouth. The good news is, they are closer back to normal than they were last week and they do not seem to be changing color. The changing color would mean out the teeth would come, then the poor child would have no new teeth until her adults come in around age six or seven. The hits just keep coming with that girl. A silver lining though is we were forced to take the pacifiers away for good because they would cause the loose teeth to reposition themselves wrong.

One more revisit to the elections, thank you my open minded, civic minded, liberal, free and peaceful thinking friends. One small step has been made to making this nation respected and great, as it once was.