solid as barack

What an election! I voted during the last election but I honestly don't remember much about it. This time things were different and opinions changed.

I like John McCain and I think he is an amazing guy I was considering him at one point as our best choice then I felt like his campaign took a turn. The point of no return was when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. There was so much about her that I didn't agree with.

For a while I also was interested in Hilary Clinton. I think like other people I wanted to go back to the years of Bill Clinton. I wanted to erase the years of W. But when it came down to vote for the democratic nomination I went for Barack.

This is the first time I have ever paid close attention to the election coverage. This is the first time I was listening to every news clip and searching online for anything I could find on the candidates. This is the first time I had long in depth conversations about politics with friends and family. This is the first time I actually cared about the propositions and to some degree understood them. This is the first time (because I didn't get my early ballot) I walked into a polling place on election day. This is the first time I was glued to all the coverage and actually got scared at the beginning when results slowly came in.

John McCain's concession speech was reminiscent of what he sounded like before and it made me sad that he couldn't run a campaign his way. Obama's speech was encouraging not only because of the words he was saying but because of the culturally diverse audience he was addressing. I was proud to see the melting pot come out in full force and stand up for change.

best things ever 21

Today while crunching numbers at work my mind started to wander and somehow it ended up reminiscing about elementary school and book fairs.

I LOVED BOOK FAIRS!!!! Yes, I'm serious I used all capitals. I loved getting some money from my mom and buying the newest Sweet Valley Twins book, bookmarks, pencils and maybe if I had enough money some stickers. It was the best feeling of my young life.

I also loved getting those little Scholastic order forms for books and stickers.

Oh to be young again.

this is halloween

We hope everyone had a fun and happy halloween. We had fun dressing and tormenting Daisy. We spent the rest of the night watching scary movies and Ghost Hunters while passing out candy to millions of kids trick or treating.

Even we had a little fun dressing up. The kids can't have all the fun.




















This is when Daisy finally gave up.















This is what happens when you are 6'8" and you wear a gigantic afro wig and you rush to the door to give out candy.

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I watched Love in the Time of Cholera over the weekend and the whole time I thought this movie would be so much better if it was all in Spanish with subtitles.

I also didn't like that John Lequizamo was in it. He upset me.

Sometimes movies like these are just missing something.

old people and technology

Last night after Zac got home from work we started watching my latest obsession, Angel. It was well past 9pm when my cell phone rang.

First of all, nobody ever calls me and lastly no one ever calls me late at night. Yes 9pm is late!

I checked my phone and it said Mom and Dad.

Oh Shit....what is going on....is someone in the hospital...someone died...this isn't good...

All the above was running through my head.

Hello

Terry...tengo una cartita...como lo quito

You have a text message?! YOU SCARED ME!

So I try to tell her how to read the text message but its useless because she keeps getting into create a text. I finally told her I don't know and that it probably isn't important and that its probably a text from Verizon. I then asked her if she had the booklet for the cell phone and she said yes but that she doesn't understand it. I then said "isn't it in Spanish?" She said she still doesn't understand what to do because they use confusing words. I finally told her I didn't know how to help her and so we hung up.

Two minutes later she calls back.

I did it. It was a message from Verizon. I just wanted to let you know so you can sleep tonight.

Thanks mom!

yeah i know.

Our new homey home.













Our security system.













In our backyard.













She is just too cute! Little Giulietta soaking up some Mt. Lemmon sun.












Saul and Zac, best of buds until Zac takes away Saul's super power tool...a hanger from Sears.

back online

it feels good to waste time on the internets again. this past weekend has been quite hectic with some very good and not so great things happening.

monday i found out that quite a few people were laid off from work. with a new company taking over and the state of the economy i guess it was inevitable but when you have never been through this before its a pretty heavy thing to deal with. the past couple days its been very odd at work. there are a lot of good people missing. when you spend most of your day with these people they feel like family and losing them hurts just as much. i guess its a sign that you can never get too comfy in one spot. the days of loyalty and staying at the same job forever is something of the past. this whole thing makes me feel like getting the resume updated and ready to go just in case.

so other than that its been a pretty good weekend. last thursday we received keys to our new to us house. since then we have been packing up the old house and moving. we've been shopping for appliances and visiting home depot and lowe's like every other day. its starting to feel like home as i unpack and put things away but it still feels like another rental home sometimes. that feeling slowly fades away as we have to buy stuff like fuses and new locks for all the doors. i must admit i liked using the drill the other day. is that dirty? um.... so anyway. i think daisy is happy. she has more yard to run around and go crazy in. there are plenty of lizards for zac to chase. what makes me happy? probably all the shopping lists started in my head and the shoe closet zac said he'll build for me. oh no wait that is from sex in the city. i think the virgin mary bench in the front yard makes me happy. i really want to tell the security companies that keep hounding zac that we don't need a security system because not only do we have daisy (she can pee on burglars and gross them out) but we also have a virgin mary bench. no thief will cross the virgin mary...she will kick some ass if somebody messes with her. at least i like to think that.