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Frank the turkey that is.

Jason and I spent the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday visiting our parents and family up in Wisconsin. It was a fun weekend. Wednesday I spent the day helping my sister set up her new laptop (which means I got my old one back) and having dinner with my parents while Jason caught up with old high school friends at a party…

Thursday was the main event… We spent the morning watching Harry Potter III and convincing Frank (Jason’s family’s turkey) to finally reach 180 degrees… Around 1 he warmed up a little and we enjoyed a great Thanksgiving meal #1… Then it was of to my house for Thanksgiving meal #2… the turkey there was unnamed… but we almost had a crisis when Sassy (my parents dog) didn’t have a chair at the table… But never fear I was offered cranberry goo… Just as I am every single year since birth… and just as I have, every single year since birth, I told my parents I don’t like it… Ahhhh traditions… Then it was back to Jason’s parent’s house for some good old reliable cut throat competition with a dose of fun thrown in… We played spades and hearts and had a good time winning and losing….

Friday we had lunch with an old high school friend and then hit the road for the six hour drive home to two kitties who hadn’t been loved in three days… Friday also marks an anniversary for Jason and I… If we were still dating (instead of being married) it would have been our seven year anniversary… What better way to share it than with family and friends in the morning and two needy kitties at night… Now if only we could have skipped that drive in between…

And last but not least… I don’t think I have said this here… but all the wedding pictures are now available for your viewing pleasure here.

I take joy in mail… Extreme joy… Insane, I’m wacko, obsessed joy… I like the mail… When I go to get the mail I am excited….

For the past few days I have gone to get the mail.. (or sent J to get it) and there has been nothing. Today when I opened up the mailbox and saw nothing, I made a pouty noise. I think I need help. I don’t care if it is a bill or junk mail (which is all we get)… I just want to be able to open it, see something and take it out…

Well with all the election talk I decided to give my two cents… I am fairly middle of the road politically… My beliefs tend to stray more towards the Democratic end of things, however. I”m not even sure what I want to say here…. I think.. that mostly I am disgusted with people on both ends of things after this election.

First of all… people who vote Nader and then complain about Bush winning should not complain. I applaud people for sticking to their beliefs and voting for the candidate that matches those beliefs… but if that vote takes away votes from a person who has a chance of winning whose views are kind of close to yours also… then why vote for the person and help the opponent win… Generally Democrats are closer to Greens than republicans… so by voting Green you essentially vote republican which doesn’t make much sense to me…

UPDATE: It is fine if you vote for Nader under the realization that it means Bush will most likely win… I am just upset with the people who think they can innocently vote for Nader and it will not hurt Kerry… If a person would rather have Kerry over Bush than they should vote for Kerry because otherwise you are helping Bush win. I also don’t agree with the fact that our country only offers us two not very good choices… but it doesn’t look like it will change anytime soon, so in the mean time I would like the person who best represents my values and can win to win… and I will do what I can to ensure the person who least represents my values stays out of office…

Next… if you think the world is ending and you must move out of the country then do it… The economy lags in response to legislature… so, the economy we saw the last four years was more a result of Clinton than Bush… we will see the start of Bush’s economy in the next four years…

And that brings me to another thing… Most of what happens… happens through the LEGISLATURE… not the executive… So worry and complain more about who is taking seats in the Senate and House… Believe it or not… That makes a bigger difference…

And last but not least… More than half the people in the United States voted for Bush… No they were not only stupid southerners… If you truly believe that over half of our voting population is stupid then I think we have bigger problems to worry about than Bush….