Hey, you missed my pity party!

Well, my poor excercise partner Lisanne didn't miss it, I went out to run yesterday and kinda fell apart. I think I cried for the first mile. I have been super frustrated with this whole running/excercise and losing weight thing I have (not) going on. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself, but like she reminded me (and I have told other people SO many times) that it IS hard to lose weight, that is why so many people don't do it. And I know I have lost some, but so slow you'd never really know it. Boo hoo! So we ran our 3 miles and I ate good all day and cleaned my house from top to bottom and took a nap and I felt better. Then today we did a Biggest Loser DVD workout that was good and fun. I'm not quitting!!! I am making myself do this, and I will like it!!! I'm going to step it up on all levels. I guess what frustrates me is that I can't just "eat better" or "exercise more", I have to be all in, killing my workouts 6 days a week and eating PERFECTLY to see even the smallest results. It is very time consuming and mind-consuming and just......HARD. But, I'm just not happy when I'm out of shape. Tomorrow will be lifting and then a big run on Saturday.

OK anyway, Sadie did perform on the Channel 3 morning news and was so cute!! She also sang her solo that they will broadcast on Christmas day sometime, I hope we can see it. She did a really good job, she is such a cutie! It was really fun going to the station, and we got some cute pictures. One of the other moms has them and will get them to me hopefully soon!


Today on the agenda, winter clothes for the kids! I think it is officially jeans and log sleeves weather, especially since they walk to school. Sadie got hers before science camp and I have some stuff from last year, but I need to fill in some gaps. Shopping is always fun times!

Its the Holidays!!!

Can you believe it?? Christmas music on the intercom in Walmart and Frys, displays everywhere, Yikes!! I really don't mind, even though this will certainly be a scaled back Christmas this year. Aw, who am I kidding, it is scaled back EVERY year!! LOL I really need to start trickling in the shopping so it won't hurt so bad. I found the movie White Christmas at Sams club the other day, I was so excited! Its my favorite and really gets me in the holiday spirit. Every year I have to try to find when it is on TV, and even then it is usually some scaled down version (they cut out the best dance scenes!) and with commercials. Now I have my own copy!! Yes, I already watched it!! :D Tomorrow is the last day of calm before I start getting things together for Thanksgiving. I have a LOT of projects to work on. A LOT.

Tomorrow (veterans day) Sadie will on TV with her Sunshine Generation singing group. Channel 3 's morning show is having the kids sing a couple of patriotic songs and then they are going to tape them singing some Christmas songs to play on Christmas day. I think Sadie will be singing a little solo for one of the Christmas songs, so that is super fun. It will be an EARLY day tomorrow. If I can find out what time they will be on I will post it. I'm excited to go to the studio and see it all happen.

This weekend Mark and I went out to watch the Rage In The Cage fights. I was actually only going so that Mark didn't have to drive over there and go all by himself. Someone we know was fighting, that was the reason we even went. We were able to meet up with Chandler and Casey and hang out with them too which was fun (Chandlers brother was fighting) and it was fun to just get out. I'm really sad that he will be back working weekends for a long time again. Dang. Bummer.

So now what??

Heres my recap.....

What does it boil down to?? Not much. I truly don't think that things are going to change THAT much. Especially not for a couple years. Like when it was the Clinton Era. Everyone knows that they are really bad as far as power hungry, immoral, and they probably did murder their way to the top.(I know Maddy is cracking up right now) OK but really the only harm they did that people can really remember is the fact that a lot of kids were exposed to some sexually graphic shenanigans going on in the White house because it was all so public and scandalous. I was a teenager then, but if I was a parent of kids my kids ages at the time I would have been freaking out. We all just thought it was funny. Yes, the economy was strong and everybody got richer, but in general our society took a big step down morally. Hmmmmm, interesting. That can't be good. ANYWAY my point is, Obama may have all these beliefs about aggressive abortion and wanting to tweak the constitution and redistribute wealth to lean us even more towards socialism, and all of this other horsecrap, but most presidents have all these high ideas, making them actually work is another story. Of course, now that the house and Senate are majority Democrat, he has more of a shot, but I don't think he can come in and just reform the country in a fowl swoop. He will have to compromise a lot. I realize that people think they are going to get a handout, and things will be more "fair" but we have an example of that. Its the Indian reservations. Yikes. If people don't work for what they get, they don't appreciate it. Easy come, easy go. I just have to have hope that there can be a happy medium, because things are obviously not working as they are. I am totally disgusted with how the Republicans have conducted themselves the last 8 years. It is all such a mess. Unfortunately this country's moral compass is shifting, and there is nothing we can do about it besides try to teach our kids and be prepared. If Obama wants to teach his daughter that if she makes a "mistake, she won't be 'punished' with a baby". Thats his perogative. I'm just glad he won't be teaching my kids. That gets to be my job. It just makes my job harder when the current I am trying to swim against gets stronger, but that dosen't mean I'm going to fail. Things are going to continue to go downhill, because these are the last days. No election is going to change that.

On the positive side, I am happy that so many people are enthusiastic about this election. It always really bothered me in the past when people just felt like "so what, I'm not even going to bother with it". That definetly hurts our country. We are Americans, if we don't care, who will? It was nice to see some energy in the whole process. I'm glad that people are happy, because just the positive energy alone will help all of us. We need some confidence back. And 102 passed, which is great news! We do still have a lot of say at the local levels, which is reassuring. Honestly, I would be a lot more bummed out had McCain won and 102 not passed, so I'm trying to see it as a positive election. I just have to keep doing my part.



THE END

Now back to our regularly scheduled blogging

Halloween and Politics

Well I think I'm over my bit of Halloween scrooginess. I'm usually way more into it than I was this year, I'm not sure what the heck happened. I was pretty bummed that I had to miss BOTH grownup costume parties, so mabye that was it. We had a really fun time while my mom was here, so that helped and Mark was able to come out with us on Halloween, which he never does so that was good too. The kids had a blast, so thats what counts.

Now on to the Political scrooginess: Warning: soapbox rant ahead!

The election and voting on the propositions have my guts in a knot today (and for the past couple weeks). I don't want to write a novel about it, but lets just say I m not thrilled with McCain at ALL, but Obama is truly scary. I'm so ticked off that McCain was so wimpy as far as not bringing up some issues about his opponent that are SO important and SO wrong. People are so concerned with little things and not looking at the big picture as far as our constitution and what this country's purpose is. People have rights and priveleges so screwed up and backwards. Everything has to be politically correct and fair all the time for everyone, and its ruining our country. Bottom line is that this country is going to hell in a handbasket, whichever candidate wins will determine how fast we get there. If 102 dosen't pass and our state takes the same road as Massachusets has with it, I'm going to have to home school or something which will be really annoying. OK I can't think about it any more its making me sick. ARG! I voted on friday. I got there at 6 am, and was 7th in line. The office opened at 8 and by the time I left at 8:15, there were about 300 people behind me. Crazy.

Mark is gone for the week(basically) and I am so bored, I'm gonna go do some errands today which will hopefully help my mood. Right now its time go get a good workout in and work off some stress. I vow to not watch ANY more news or TV until at least 5 pm tonight. I need Election Detox.