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    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     		A New Day
    Does anyone have the chimp-o-matic on their google page? Didja notice what it had on it today? It's a new day. A new hope.
    I admit it, I read Houssie's post the other day, even though I tried to convince myself that I didn't. (Cubs fans and others will understand how aware of curses I am.) I stayed up later than I had originally planned last night because I just couldn't let go of the euphoria. I had to stop myself from hopping in the car and driving to Grant Park just to hug someone. Just to be there. Just to be. I wanted to hear the speeches. I wanted to share in the joy. I wanted to share in the tears. Tears of joy. Tears of hope. I've not dared to hope for so long that I didn't want the feeling to end.
    Kevin and I went to the polls together yesterday. I waited till after work. The feeling of anticipation was with me the entire day and I could hardly wait to get home and go hand in hand to the polls. It was momentous. When they say stand up and be counted I could really see that in action. Kevin turned 50 years old this year. This year, for the first time in his life, Kevin registered to vote and voted. He voted. He counted. For the first time since i was two and a half months old, Indiana went "blue" and foted Democrat.
    Last night when I finally came to bed, Kevin asked why I was waiting up so long. I told him I was listening to my President speak. This morning he noted that he'd never heard me refer to a president as "my president."
    Of course.

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    11/05/2008 04:10:00 PM



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    Post Production
    All week I've been feeling like maybe I was coming down with something...or maybe just feeling a little burnt out. Anyhoo, I spent those days counting down to Saturday when I knew I'd be able to sleep in a little. Turns out that "a little" was just that...about an hour longer than usual because I had to run some stuff to the school that Asia had forgotten to take with her for the SATs. Grrr.
    Determined to be lazy come hell or high water, I jumped back into bed and willed myself to fall asleep. No go. So, still vowing to not. do. anything. today I turned on the TV and settled in for a little mindless diversion. I watched an hour of Princess of Thieves with Kiera Knightly, the last 30 minutes of Ocean's Thirteen and most of The Jane Austen Book Club (which I loved) before deciding that maaaaybe since conditions were ideal, I could do a little cleaning.

    Ideal conditions mean that no one is home, there is very little chance that anyone would call and I had a full charge on my phone, which is also my mp3 player. Some major tunes and a pot of coffee later I find that I've cleaned all three bathrooms including tubs, sinks, toilets, walls, floors and baseboards, vaccumed every room of the house, including stairs, swept and mopped all other floors, cleaned the woodwork around the front door and windows, done 2 loads of laundry and also cleaned, purged and filed every piece of paper in or near my office including all old files, and dusted every dustable surface.

    Tomorrow if conditions are still good, I should finish the laundry, clean the aquarium and possibly tackle Kevin's office. I'm assuming now that since I actually plan to do those things that very few of them will actually get accomplished.

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    11/01/2008 08:19:00 PM



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