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Eek! A post, a post!
So yeah….a few things have happened since I last posted.
I got in a huge fight with my mom. I finished my pumpkin hat and went to a fun halloween party. I got a little drunk. I took a little time off. I did a lot of work things and let’s see…there’s something else…
OH YEAH! There’s a new leader of the free world.
President-Elect Obama
So let’s back up to Halloween.
For Halloween, I decided to knit Crazy Aunt Purl’s “Halloweenie Beanie”, which is essentially just a pumpkin hat. I think it turned out really cute!
A pumpkin girl.
So I was a pumpkin for Halloween. On the day itself there wasn’t too much to report. My sister’s job hosted a costume contest again in the UMC. We went over there and it was pretty funny what people come up with.
That night, I just hung out at home, hoping for a Trick-Or-Treat -er, but I didn’t get one. Sad. I of course bought a big bag of candy. Now it takes up space in my house. I should probably bring it in to work. I ended up watching “Shaun of the Dead” which was really awesome. One of my co-workers came as Shaun and he did a great job as it. I had never seen it, so he burned it for me. It was a great thing to watch on Halloween.
I went to sleep peacefully that night, only to wake up at like 7:45 to a phone call from my dad. Well apparently my mom went all crazy again about McCain, or should I say about Obama. You see, Obama decided to make his last trip to Colorado before the election to my hometown, Pueblo. Well it wasn’t just in Pueblo, it was directly in front of my mother’s antique shop. Well since she’s gone off the deep end about hating Obama and loving the Republicans, she went nuts when the Secret Service told her she had to shut her shop down. Well they actually told her she could stay open, just that customers would have to come through the back door. So instead of just enjoying the historic event, she made big huge signs to hang in her store windows, got interviewed by all the local news stations and even for Fox news up here in Denver. She’s made friends with conservative bloggers through out the state and the country over this crap. Obama hates small business was the gist of her complaint. She wanted to be the next Joe the Plumber.
The worst part, we learned from reading the article about her that the campaign offered her VIP passes to meet Senator President-Elect Obama and she declined. GRRRR.
So needless to say, the rest of the family spent all morning on the phone with each other. I decided that I couldn’t take it anymore and called her. I left her about five messages on all of her phones telling her that she was burning bridges in such a Democratic town and asking her to stop. Well she finally called me back with and we got into it of course. I couldn’t just sit by while she said the most ridiculous things. Such as — “if Obama is elected I’ll have to provide health care to my employees.” What employees?? She only has one, and that one just got fired. I told her how completely wrong she is. With Obama’s plan it was that you would have to have more than 25 employees and then you would get a tax break for providing health insurance. Anyway, it was totally ridiculous. She ended up hanging up on me of course because she’s like a child. So I called her back about five more times. On my fourth message I warned her that if she didn’t answer on my next call or call me back that I would just become indifferent to her and this madness. Sure enough, no call back or pick up. So on my fifth message I told her this…
“I’m going to put on my Obama t-shirt and go to the store and buy tons of food to take to the Obama office in Boulder where Marissa is working the phone banks, so I can feed all the volunteers so that when Obama wins Colorado and wins this election you will one day have good health care and social security so I won’t have to worry about you in your old age because indifference begins now.”
And that was that. I promptly followed up on that promise. Since then I’ve gotten even angrier with her, but haven’t been able to direct any of that toward her, which is for the best.
It doesn’t really matter any more because this country overwhelmingly voted for change and did the right thing. I have no idea what she’s up to down there and I don’t really care right now. I knew the best revenge would be if he won, and sure enough he did.
After such a crazy Saturday afternoon, I got ready for Mike’s Halloween party. It was a really great time. There were some new folks there and that made it way more fun. I got a little drunk and laughed a lot.
Sunday didn’t amount to much and then Monday and Tuesday were busy with work. Then Tuesday night it happened! I decided I wanted to hunker down and watch on my own but as it became clear that once they called the west coast it would be over I rushed over to Marissa’s house to watch them call it. I got there about ten minutes before west coast polls closed. Once they called it for Obama we opened champagne and celebrated. I’m so glad I went over there! We of course ended up in tears. What a moment for the whole world, but especially for this country, and extra especially for Democrats or like minded people who want to return this country to what we know it can be. Boulder erupted! Obama got like 75% of Boulder’s vote, there were even fireworks! Ahh Boulder, you deserve to be happy every now and again!
Me and Marissa before it was called.
Chris and I afterwards. I've been crying!
Anyway, I took off Wednesday so could just bask in the glory of it all. I watched a ton of coverage and then thew the West Wing into the DVD player to celebrate even more. It was a nice day at home.
So that’s what I’ve been up to. I may be going to Pueblo for the weekend. My dad wants me to come down so we can have a celebratory dinner. The only thing holding my back is that I am soooo tired and I just want to rest and do laundry and the like. We shall see. Either way, I’ll post about it.
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