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4 more years….

Posted In: Everyday life — November 3, 2004 @ 1:24 pm — Stephanie

…of this. And worse. They have congress and the presidency. Now they’ll probably have the court. This is a sad, dark day in American History.

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Election day haiku

Posted In: Everyday life — November 2, 2004 @ 5:04 pm — Peter

Got this from dailykos.com

Let’s let bygones be bygones
And let bitterness pass
I’ll hug your elephant
And you kiss my ass!

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Halloween

Posted In: Everyday life — @ 3:37 am — Stephanie

We had a total of FOUR trick-or-treaters! I can’t believe that! When I was a kid, we used to stay out hours and hours canvassing nearly the ENTIRE town for candy. The streets were filled with kids in costumes, and we actually often ran out of candy to give out. Now, we are left dealing with an entire bowl of unclaimed candy. Peter took some to work with him, but the rest of the bowl is still there, leering at me…begging me to have just…one….MORE!!! My teeth are aching, and I have this perpetual ache in my tummy from too much sugar being consumed at a constant rate. HELP ME, PLEASE!!! I want to offer it to the kids next door (who didn’t even come, dammit! They drove somewhere else in their costumes), but that might seem weird. We don’t talk them much, since the time when we asked them politely (albeit increasingly less so) five or six times to stop playing football in front of our huge picture window. I do like kids, just not these ones. Is that mean? Oh, well. I’ll get over the guilt, I’m sure. So, maybe I’ll unload the rest of this cavity-causing crap onto them.

We spent Halloween night at home on the couch, waiting in vain for trick-or-treaters to come begging for candy. We had FOUR, but at least they were cute. We had a tigger who was overjoyed when I told him to take as many as he wanted. His parents looked a little annoyed with this. I guess I should have asked if it was okay first… I bet that kid is bouncing off the walls somewhere in Denver tonight. haha. Tigger came with a My-Little-Pony and someone else we can’t remember. It must have been an unremarkable costume or something. Otherwise Peter and I are just stupid. Either or! Our final trick-or-treater was a cute little girl dressed as a mummy, complete with toilet paper dressings and black undereye circles. Very cute.

On Halloween Eve, we attended a silly dog costume party at our doggy day care facility. It was a benefit for Maxfund, the no-kill shelter we used to volunteer for. I made a LOT of catnip toys for the mews there, and we contributed food and a gentle leader to the shelter. The party was ok. We were surprised to find that they had a KEG there! I don’t drink beer, but thought it was plenty amusing. I was boring and nursed a water.

OH! And we brought cookies to contribute to the dessert buffet. They are my favorite Jam Dot cookies, vegan of course. A small group of people tried them and absolutely HATED them! We watched as they fed the cookie to their dog, after proclaiming that it MUST be a dog cookie! We are so confused by this, since earlier that day, Peter brought close to 80 cookies to work, returning with only about 20 uneaten cookies. Everyone at his work loved them and polished off the entire first huuuuge plate Peter brought. It’s so strange to us that those four people at the dog party were so obviously disgusted by the cookies, while the people at work seemed to really like them. Peter and I shared the last remaining cookie, to see if something was wrong with them, but it tasted fine to us. Oh, well…can’t please everyone.

Iris was timid and shy while at the party, preferring to cling to us. She was dressed as a ballerina, pink tutu and all. I have to take pictures of her in it, since Peter forgot our camera that night. We bought a disposable on the way, but we’re lazy about developing film. I still have a few rolls of film from my very first trip to Europe back in 1995! I’m talking like 5-6 rolls!

Oh, but Iris found a friend at the party and they played chase and wrestled each other. Fun fun fun. Except when Iris nearly fell into the dog pool! It was freeeezing out that night and it would not have been fun to contend with a shivering, frozen puppy.

I should retire for the evening, seeing as I’m to be up in a mere four hours to go vote with Peter. I expect all the sane people in this country to go out and elect John Kerry, but I’m not holding my breath that there is enough of them to count. I’m bringing my passport, state id, and social security card as a precaution…because I am the most paranoid person on the planet when it comes to dealing with slimy political crap. After 2000, I’ll believe the GOP to be capable of just about anything, including steal this election, too.

Wow, I really ramble, don’t I? heh.

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