Get over it

Dan Savage says it is a good rule of thumb is that it takes one third of the time you were with someone to be fully over the relationship. I think that sucks, because I get a whopping 8 or 9 months to get over Tim. Yesterday it was exactly 2 months. It sometimes still seems completely strange and foreign. I feel still like I may wake up and it will all be a dream and I will be back in California.

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I have said before that I am somewhat apathetic about the upcoming election. I am not really a fan of either of the presidential candidates and I feel when I pick one I will just be trying for who would screw up the country least. This will only be the second presidential election that I have been able to vote in and so maybe before that I didn't pay as much attention. Or possibly I have forgotten what it is like to watch television since I haven't had one in so long, but I can hardly make it through my beloved House MD with out wanting to scream at the TV. I hate all the ads: "Obama will raise taxes and isn't ready to lead" "Can we afford 4 more years of the same with McCain?" Holy smear campaigns, Batman! Can the candidate in their million dollar advertisements take a moment to tell me what they want to do instead of how horrible their competition is. I have to tell you, Their plan is working! I think they both suck. I did vote in the primary election and did not vote for either of these 2. While I am excited that we have a woman running for vice president because I tend to believe women have a lot of common sense and having raised 5 children I can bet she helped negotiate a lot of things and didn't encourage any of her children to go to war against the others. I am just so tired of the election and we still have to go through 2 months of this shit!

Tour de Fat

This was my first time even hearing about Tour de Fat in Fort Collins. I lived in Fort collins from the age of 5 to 16 and some how missed out on this wonder of my home town. My cousin, Ellen, asked me to go check it out with her so that we could decide if we wanted to participate next year. The answer to that is a resounding "Yes!" We discussed various costume options for the whole clan, but we have an entire year to plan. I have to also procure a bicycle during this time. This will be my 3rd bike of the year. After having on stolen and leaving another in the care of Tim in California I am going to be very choosy and make sure that I have a good lock for it. I will try to upload some actual pictures of this weeks Tour de Fat in the next few days, but in the mean time tune in next week when I discuss why strangers can't keep their hands off pregnant women's tummies which my pregnant best friend has asked me to discuss.

Career Change

So I believe this is the longest I have been jobless in my entire life. I am now going on over a month with no income. Picking up and moving cross country on no notice sucks like that. So with all the trouble I am having getting back into a job in my chosen profession, I have picked a few alternatives to start researching if worse comes to worst.

1) Cryptozoologist- I will go hang out in jungles and look for things like the Loch Ness monster and el Chupa Cabra. Hey I sure hope there is no special degree needed for this.

2) Professional Dominatrix- according to my favorite blogger Dan Savage, for this career to be legal there is no sexual contact. I would get to put hot boots and be mean to men (I think I am at a good place it my life for the man hating).

3) The next Ace of Cakes- I love to bake. Cake is good. There is no bad here. Now if you have eaten one of my cakes you might say, yes delicious but not beautiful, so I might need to work on this a little.


Let me know if there are any other alternative careers I am missing.

Sarah is the Man!

So I'm am getting a little crabby about all the guff Sarah Palin is getting with her VP nomination. But she doesn't have enough experience! If we are all behind a man running with only 3 years of being in the senate what is wrong with the idea of someone who has been a governor for 2. I am sorry but I like the idea of a Washington outsider being considered for this office. Something the McCain ticket is not lacking is experience...McCain sat next to Jesus in the third grade. The man is as old as dirt and been through it all. We add to the ticket someone who has not been corrupted by Washington and I think we have something. The first thing Sarah Palin did as governor of Alaska was sell the governor's private jet because that was a silly expense. She has been a mom of 5 children one of whom has downes syndrome, and been the governor of the country's largest state. I think she makes a pretty cool addition to the republican ticket. It is about time we have a woman in this high profile office (that isn't Hillary). You go Sarah...I think you rock!

RIP Cut Throat Bitch

So I have great love for the television show House. In California Tim and I didn't have TV so we actually got into the show by watching old episodes on the interweb. So I moved before I had gotten up to date with the show. So now that I am living alone I decided I could break down and get network channels, so then I had to get caught up before the new season starts. So I rent the episodes at my friendly neighborhood video rental place. As I watch it I think the 4th season sucks because they have mostly gotten rid of all the characters we love (except House, himself-at least I love him...age Tim 20 years give him a limp and a vicodin addiction and you have house) they introduce all these new people that you don't really like. But then just when you have gotten used to them and even started liking them, what do the writers do? they kill one of them off! It really pisses me off when television makes me cry, like there isn't enough sadness in the world with out pretending it. I'm sorry if I ruined the end of season 4 for anyone but this happened months ago and I just caught up.

best quote ever

"Just make sure you take all that sunshine out of your pocket before you put your jeans in my washer."

Teresa Bell, after offering to let me use her washer and dryer while we were cleaning the new baby room