Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Get Your Gratefulness On!!

Man I’m excited for Turkey Day this year!!!!! I am ready to eat my weight in stuffing and mashed potatoes and pie!!! We get to eat pie for breakfast!!!! I can’t wait!!!! I thought I would take a few moments and reflect on a few things I’m thankful for right now (in no particular order & FYI some of these might be quite cheezy which I know is so unlike me!!! Deal with it!!):

#1 I’m thankful for my roommate!!!! Currently my sister Jamie (Strudel) resides with me and for the 1st time EVER in my life (besides when I was living by myself) I’m not having to deal with an ounce of roommate drama!!! It is so great!!! At 1st I wasn’t sure if me & Strudel would survive as roommates but seriously it’s been great and I’m glad we’ve had this time together. So tender right?!?!



#2 I’m thankful for Johnny my Precious!! No joke- it has been a hard time lately for yours truly and Johnny has had to listen to me out right bawling my eyes out more than I’m sure he’d care to but he’s been really good to me even tho I’m sure he wants to pull his hair out!!!! We’re coming up on 9 years of Precious good times!!! So much tenderness!!!



#3 I’m thankful that Lifehouse is back in the studio recording a new album!!! They really are the soundtrack of my life and I need some new anthems!!!



#4 I’m thankful to be reunited with Marissa!!! She’s one of the few people in this world who truly gets me! Reunited and it feels so good!!!!! I am so looking forward to our visit in a couple weeks!!!!



#5 I’m thankful for the unusually warm weather we’ve been having lately. Sure 40 or 50 degrees doesn’t sound that warm to anyone not living in Idaho but it’s amazing for us! It’s getting a little chillier but still NO SNOW!!! Consequently I am thankful that I haven’t had to turn the heat on in my apartment yet!!!

#6 I’m thankful to still be employed!! In case you didn’t know I work in the Mortgage Industry and unless you live under a rock you know it’s not really the market to be working in right now. But I’m still gainfully employed and even better I still have an assistant!!! Who else is gonna get all my work done!?!?

#7 I am thankful for my DVR!!! I went 12 days with no DVR and honestly it wasn’t that bad but I am grateful to have it back! In general I’m thankful for the person who invented the DVR-there’s a special place reserved in heaven for that person I’m sure of it!!

#8 I’m thankful that gas has gone down so much lately!!! There’s a gas station that I pass every day on my way to work and every time I see the price drop lower it just fills me with warm fuzzies!! If only I could find a way to add that to my food storage!!!

#9 I’m thankful that it’s Oscar season!!! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! There’s gonna be some good movies coming out here in the next little while all leading up to the most important night of the year-Oscar Night!!!! I love it!!!



#10 I’m thankful that my man Tony Almeida will be back on 24 this season!! Now while I do think it’s lame that they killed him off and then brought him back his absence has left a whole in my heart that can not be filled!!! Altho from looking at the previews it looks like he’s a bad guy (can you blame him!!?) and you know what happens to all the bad guys in 24!! Jack Bauer snaps their necks with his legs!! I survived Tony dying once-I don’t think I can do it again! But I will get to wear my I Heart Tony t-shirt again when I watch!!!



So there you go-the top 10 things I’m thankful for right now!!!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Melissa Hively Has Voted!!!!

So I pulled the lever for Democracy today!!! Me & Strudel went downtown during lunch to do our civic duty!! Couple of things about my voting experience today:

#1 Our designated voting place was the Courthouse Rotunda. ohhhh La-ti-dah the Rotunda!! by the sounds of that I was expecting to go down there and have finger sandwiches and other such refreshments waiting for me like we were going to a garden party. Yeah right!! Turns out the Rotunda is the lobby of the courthouse and they just crammed us all in there and it smelled like crime!!!

#2 Is anyone else concerned that old folks are running these voting booths?!!? Those crazy oldies couldn't get our names right prolly cuz they didn't have their hearing aides turned up!! And we're trusting them to handle and tally up our votes?!?! I'm scared.

#3 They make you listen to and watch this little tutorial on how to punch your voting card!! People is it really that difficult!??! If you can't figure that out on your own then I don't want you voting!!! And after you hand in your ballot they announce your name & that you have voted! It's kind of exciting!!!

#4 Before we went to perform our civic duty I played Sister Suffragette from Mary Poppins for us as I thought it an appropriate anthem for the afternoon's events!!!

Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus
"Well done, Sister Suffragette!"

And of course I took a picture of us!!!



Sister Suffragettes indeed!!!!