I’m just kind of flabbergasted at McCain’s choice for veep.  I agree with Hillary…No Way, No How, No McCain.  The only thing good that I can feel about Palin is that she is a non-washington-ite.  It certainly has been good fodder for the folks on CNN today 🙂

I worked a 6p to 2a shift tonight for Kim.  I’m still on midnight schedule, so after watching Swingtown (which is getting the boot, damnit) and Friday’s Young and Restless, I decided to go on an internet search of something.  I settled on Another World..the soap opera from the 60/70/80’s.  I started watching it in 1964…I was young…I think that may have been when it started??  I hated to go to school during the school year because I missed many months of it.  During the summer, it is what my dad and I did from 2:00 to 2:30 before he left for work at 2:30…He loved Rachel 🙂  After Another World, I believe it was “You Don’t Say” and then at 3 the Matchgame…anyone else tripping down memory lane here.

I actually have the holiday weekend off.  I don’t have to go back to work until Monday night at 2300.  Hoping the weather is decent … “he” and I will celebrate our 29th anniversary on Monday…uh huh, I was a very young child bride 🙂

Until next time…..

I hate playing with boys…I just get so competitive and I”m not sure where that comes from.  Don’t take me wrong…I find men basically tolerable – although I do like to sit back and watch them the way one might like to watch monkeys in the zoo.  Woooo…who whizzed in her raisin bran….

Maybe I’m just intimidated?  I love pro-football – in fact I’m the sports fan in the family…I love playing fantasy football because it brings a totally new way to watch a game..but I don’t like the draft very well and I really  have a problem with being the girl with all the boys when I’m not scoring high…those overgrown, hairy homo sapiens probably slipped me some testosterone in my diet cherry pepsi.

My picks weren’t great..I dropped the ball on Running backs…I did pick up Joseph Addai – but the rest were not even starters 😦 Quarterbacks – Derek Anderson and Eli Manning and Brodie Croyle – I really hope Croyle shocks Kansas City and the nation this year.  Anyway…the draft is over – I’m ready for some FOOTBALL!!!

I THINK WE CAN…it has taken me until tonight to totally throw my support behind Obama.  I missed Bill’s speech the other night but have watched a good part of the evening democratic convention coverage and tonight I thought Obama was amazing.  It was a political speech – it was supposed to be rousing rhetoric…but tonight he gave me a sense of realistic hope for America.  I liked Biden while he was in Iowa for the caucuses..I really supported Hillary but did have some hesitancy to support her 100%…I kept feeling in the back of my mind that my support for Hill had a good deal to do with my support of Bill…but this Obama thing tonight felt good.  I think the Obama/Biden ticket is exactly what America needs. O-bam-a, O-bam-a………

Until next time…..

So we go to Hyvee (Iowa’s employee owned grocery store) to return pop cans and bottles – one of those little rooms off the store where you insert your can/bottle into the mouth of the crusher and collect your pay slip which you take to the courtesy counter for your savings account money aka bottle deposit.  HyVee keeps the little room very neat and tidy but I don’t like to set my purse on the floor while I”m feeding the machine…so I hung it over the spout of the little sink in the room.  An employee comes in to empty one of the machines, sees my purse and says – oh honey, that is one of those automatic faucets…you might want to move your purse in case it turns on.  “he” promptly grabs my purse for me – and he and I both think to ourselves – whew that was lucky.  You so totally know where I”m going here, don’t you.

So we walk out of the little room onto the sidewalk and I feel a drip running down my leg…$*!#&^(#$@! My purse holds water.  It was half full of water..just sitting there soaking into my cell phone, my checkbook, my 2-year calendar and all of the other useless, important things I carry in my purse.  There in the parking lot of the grocery store, I take everything out of my purse – thank goodness, I’m past tampons – and pour the water out of the purse …*(*$#&*)(….. I was in a foul mood for the rest of the night – if I had done something like that and thought – I probably shouldn’t do that because…… I would have chalked it up to listening to my instincts and laughed it off – but for some reason this really pissed me off…

Note to self…….

The dogs normally form a chain around the coffee table at night while we are watching TV… Sierra frequently sits up and watches TV…but last night they were all wierd, Devil Dog actually jumped up on the davenport but couldn’t get comfortable…We couldn’t figure out why they were all hundling around mama…

In all of Sierra’s pictures, it looks like she is being beaten…I assure you, she just hates to have her picture taken as much as I do….

Billy and Benny are a couple of the cleanest cats ever…they have to be…if they aren’t cleaning each other, they are cleaning themselves…here’s my question…When Billy is doing his bath, I hear this wierd little sound like regurgitating fluid..this morning – there was an itsy bitsy little drop that didn’t soak in.  Am I on to something?

I went to Waverly today.  My job was to check on the kid’s house after the June flood.  Thank goodness it was in pretty good shape.  I also got ahold of a contracter while I was there to repair the basement steps and do some clean up and remove some probable mold down there…Nice quiet day…it rained all the way up there (about 2 hours from home)…I listened to sirius radio all the way.  back and forth between channel 4 “movin’ easy” and CNN, NPR talk and NPR now.  On the way home, I ate 3 chocolate chip cookies from Subway…I took a detour and drove thru Parkersburg – it was hit by a major tornado earlier this season and leveled a huge part of town….the trees are just desimated…lots of rebuilding going on – lots of brand new very nice houses.  Some folks are living in camping trailers on their lots.  I just sat at a stop sign in wonder…how does the tornado blow thru and take out everything in it’s path on one side of the street…and doesn’t appear to have damaged any of the houses on the other side of the street.  Probably never have the answer to that question but it just fascinates me.

He’s making chili for supper…it’s 73 degrees but very humid…

Waiting for Katy to call me with the text from Barack Obama with his selection of a running mate.

Until next time….

Days off finally arrived…and today was payday…all those hours I worked in the last couple of weeks paid off 🙂 Holy Toledo!!

By the way…where did Holy Toledo come from…I wonder if this is just a midwestern term.  I’m sure you have the answer and you know who you are.

“He” is going to play golf this afternoon wtih Bruce; then I’m going to meet them at Okoboji Grill for some dinner and fantasy football advice.  Our draft is Wednesday so I’m going to try to soak up as much of the guru’s advice as I can.  Again this year, I’m the only girl.

Msmandylee’s husband told me to really think about Cleveland this year – he thinks they are going to break out…what do you think about that, Katy.

Isn’t this about as peacful as you can get.