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Wow, my brain is a little fried.  Finally got all of my work caught up.  Been working hard since yesterday afternoon on it…..stayed up late to get all the payroll processed.

This weekend started off a little rough, in that our jeep got hit while parked Thursday night, but didn’t know until Friday morning.  Found out while loading it up with the cats so the pest control guy could treat our carpets for the fleas we ended up with from the owner’s cats…icks.  Luckly, the folks that hit us left a note.  Which total took care of the anger we had at it, but now we have to deal with the insurance crap so we can get it fixed…..which isn’t going to be soon enough.  =(

We did some site seeing and went up to Larch Mountain.  Which is where Multnomah Falls are.   We got a site we didn’t plan on and it was stunning.  I’m hoping to get all our pictures edited tomorrow and maybe get some posted…if my work isn’t overwhelming.  I still have to edit Friday’s outing, when D & family visited and our Curacao pics.  I really want to get them up for our families this weekend.

Here is a just one of the pictures, Mt Adams :

Now how could we ever move from this?  We finally live in a state that we are happy in and it is stunning.

The good news is that we didn’t have to be out of the house as long as we thought and our replacement room divider was delivered….that was sweet.  We didn’t expect that until Monday.  Now we can have privacy in our bedroom from our patio doors.

Saturday was our college football day and Purdue could’ve won if they made the field goal and a few other things.  Like hubby saids, Oregon did everything to lose it and Purdue did everything not to win……ggggrrrr  I think we may have startled the neighbors with us yelling at the tv.

Sunday was  NFL, of course, with comcast and being on the West Coast we don’t get crap in games.  All the good games we wanted to see, we couldn’t…..ggrrrr  That so pisses us off.  We are planning on going to Direct TV with verizon….at least we can get the NFL ticket, because Comcast royally sucks when it comes to sports…..even on pay-per-view.  At least the Colts won, even though the Saints lost.  =(

Today it was the gym and then we had to head over to insurance claims….yuck.  Still waiting on the other insurance company to verify the liabilty even their clients filed the claim…..ID theft protections.  Then after dealing with all the crap, then it was on to trying to finish my work.

Of course, reading the news on the political campaigns just drives me nuts.

Here are some articles about the Sarah Palin and how she “governed”  To use that term loosely…..the more that is found out about her, the more worst she sounds.  Even worst then Cheney…..more petty and vindictive.

Palin’s Town Billed Rape Victims to Get Evidence

**That is disgusting.

 Working Mothers Against ‘Supermom’ Palin

**Unlike most working moms, she has a support system that they would kill for.

Palin cut own duties as mayor of Wasilla

In office, Palin hired friends and hit critics

**She sounds even worst then Bush.

Well, where to begin…..it has been a crazy couple of weeks.

We had a great time down at Curacao, crappy travel and then this week.

We have been trying get our work done, unpack and get the other place taken care of.  We have actually done better at the unpacking then I totally expected.  But at the same time it is hard to work when everything is a mess.  Drives me nuts.

I have the china cabinet left, pictures to hang and the rest of my area of the office….it is a disaster and I can’t stand it.  But this place getting there.  It really does feel like home.  We are even going to unpack my heirloom cookie jars that were my great-grandmother’s, which we packed up in Indiana in 2004 and haven’t unpacked since.  I refuse to unpack them in Florida with those damn hurricanes.

Just so I have a note on the date, we did lose a few items to the move yesterday, broken wise, it was an accident.  =(  They were my ceramic Alaskan clay Eskimos that I made back in ’87.   I still have my bear and the ribbons from 1st place that I got at the Tanana State Fair in Fairbanks, so that helps.  It just means that we have got to go back to Fairbanks, Alaska so I can get some more clay items.  I remember how long it took me to “sand” the lines from the mode off before they fired them.  It may me think of parts of the process that I forgot about….talk about flash back in your memory.

I have payroll to do this Sunday, so I have a lot of prep to do that I don’t fell like doing..icks.  I really, really need to balance our check books….I’m looking at the mess pile that I have on my table and it sucks.

During all this we watched the DNC and what speeches that we could.  CNN commentaries don’t know when to shut up…so annoying.

All the feature speakers Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodman Clinton & Bill Clinton did great and Barack Obama knocked down every GOP slam.  Al Gore really hit Bush hard!

I really got tired of everyone bitching about Clinton’s on that she didn’t say that he was ready for Commander in Chief.  What do they not understand that she couldn’t do it.  After everything that happened primary, with that being her argument there was no way.  It would’ve came off as a lie.  She did perfect on what she had to do and that was to address her supporters, especially the women and throw her support behind Obama.  And the argument for Commander in Chief could’ve only have been delivered by Pres. Clinton, as a former President he makes the strongest argument.    I’m not happy with some of the things that Senator Clinton said during the primary, but she didn’t do the slander that one of her main advertisers wanted her to do, but there was no doubt in my mind that she would do what she can needed to do for the Dem Party in the end.  The Clintons may still be unhappy and wounded but they will do what is needed for the party and the country, that is who they are.

As a feminist, it really, really pisses me off that former Clinton supporters are being totally ignorant and plan on voting for McCain!  WTF?!?!  Clinton and Obama are almost the same on policies.  And why the hell would you vote for someone who will be able to put Justices on the Court that will restrict a woman’s right to choose?!?!?  That so pisses me off!  NO ONE is going to tell me that I can’t have an abortion if that is something that I decide that I need to do.

Obama wasn’t the sexist!  His campaign wasn’t sexist! It was the f****kin media….like the stupid moron of Chris Matthews.   Hello?!?!?  Can you not tell the difference?!?!  Are you as stupid as Chris Matthews to believe that?!?!  If you do, you are no better the Limbaugh and Matthews and OReily.

And now McCain’s VP pick….that is such a political ploy, that is all it is.  I would so LOVE to see a woman in VP or President, but not her and not with McCain…..the future of the Supreme Court is way, way too important.  That is what bothers me the most, she is truely an Alaskan in who she is and I do really like that part, just because of my love of Alaska, but she is way, way too conservative and anti-choice…..and just a token.  She is the female Dan Quayle.  =(  As a feminist, that is unacceptable to me.
What really scares me is those people, especially former Clinton supporters that will fall for it.  I’m so hoping that when Senator Clinton hits the campaign trail that it will help minimize that damage from McCain’s VP pick.

I know that I sound like broken record (that is a piece a vinyl that music use to come on, for you younguns), but there isn’t a day that goes by that I reflect on that I’m so happy that we moved to this part of the country.  Other then Alaska, I’ve never felt so at home and enjoyed the natural beauty of the area so much.

I need to get a few things done around my area of the office, so I can find things…icks….and then on to bed.