Daily Archives: Wednesday October 29th, 2008

First real update in a while

 

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Not sure why I stopped posting “real” blog post’s, I know not many people read what I have to say, but I need to remember what I thought on things a few years from now, so I guess I need to start seeing this as a personal journal that just gets read by others ever so often.

5 days and counting… As I already posted I think it will be a “landslide” Electoral College wise and that is all that matters. I personally think the straight up “popular vote” where all 50 states and US territories all vote using 100% exactly the same voting methods, and you are forced to register to vote at the age of 18 just like males are for the selective service.

Palin is said to be the GOP “future” and all I can think about that is, she barely survived 6+ weeks of “vetting”, what would 4 years of “vetting” turn up?

I am still disgusted and deeply sadden how far McBush 2008 pushed McCain 2000 to the dark side of humanity.

This has been a busy week for us, Friday night we went to the “10th annual Pimps and Ho’s Bash” that raised money for Breast Cancer. I had a really good pimp outfit on and I actually had a good time, but I knew quite a few people there so it was easy to have fun.

This past Monday night we went to another Halloween party where the theme was “Ron Jeremy” and we were all to dress like him….

Ugh….

Don’t want to be Ron… don’t want to look like Ron…

But I’m a team player and I went with it, I got my sweats out, stained t-shirt and bought a long hair wig and mustache and I didn’t shave my face for a week. Unfortunately the mustache wouldn’t stick since I hadn’t shaved my face for a week and the hair was too long to get the glue to skin.

So I instead went as “Rambo Ron Jeremy” with my cameos and what have ya….

Yes, it was funnier in my head.

We also had a “Juan Jeremy”, “Dong Jeremy” and “Einstein Jeremy”

It was fun, but we hardly knew anyone, about 100 people and we knew maybe 6 or 7 but we still had fun getting to know new people as well as getting to know friends better.

We also went to Mt Larch again and went back to Multnomah Falls and had lunch, we basically just drove around for a few hours and did about 30 minutes of hiking, the wind gust on the gorge was insane, 70+ MPH gust at times and we was at Crown Point which is a wide open spot when we got drilled by the wind hard enough it almost knocked us over.

We are making a day of it tomorrow; we are going on a planned 12-13 mile hike from the 800’ elevation to the 2800 elevation and back. We will have at least 5 miles of inclined hiking from start to the halfway point, after that its downhill.

Cats are evil.

So many people are so up in arms that Obama doesn’t have “the experience” and my thought on that is they just don’t get it, it’s not always about experience, it’s about Hope and when was the last time you really had Hope in this country?

VOTE!

How Do I Feel?: hopeful hopeful

Tomorrow’s Goal

Well today was ok.  I did really good on the treadmill, ok on the weights, finally donated our old dinning room set and did some work.  I really need to get focus on work….damn news sites….I’m so addicted to them…grrrr

We have decided not to go to the gym tomorrow.  We are going for a 12mile hike.  Everytime we don’t go to the gym, I end up feeling guilty, but the whole reason for going to the gym was to get in better shape so we can do things like that.  And our standard PDX weather is going to start tomorrow night and we would like to enjoy the dryness before it hits.   So we are trying to reprogram our brains when it comes to the gym and I really prefer to get my exercise doing things like hiking and working.

I’m kind of nervous about tomorrow.  We have done about 4-5 miles before, but this one is starting at 800 ft elevation and going up to 2800ft.  That is what I’m more concerned about.  When we were hiking around Larch Monday we were out of breathe on a small incline and that is at 4000ft.  Now will someone explain to me what good is doing a treadmill with inclines for the last 8 months if it hasn’t help me from losing my breathe?  I don’t get it.

We each got a back pack with water, extra socks, protein bars and some extra shirts…and of course we will have our cameras.  We think we may be done with the hike by 4ish.  We will see.

We just got done watching the Obama campaign message.  Pretty damn powerful on how it spoke about the middle class and how they are suffering.  It was good.  I’m so sick and tired of McCain/Palin use of dirty code words and insinuations.   It is disgusting.   I so hope that Obama wins…it looks like he will, but I trust nothing.  Not with the way the GOP uses voter suppression and lies.  They stole the last 2 and when it comes to racism in this country….

Our cats are doing good.  Reggie has taken over my lap right now wanting love.  Sakura has claimed Harold’s and Drew & Alexis are downstairs.  The kittens are still feisty as hell…Sakura just did a hell of stretch on Harold and pawed his neck…adorable.  We have issues with the cats taking up our bed and not leaving us any room to move around in.  It looks like we really do need a king size.  Hopefully we will be ordering that in a next few weeks.

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