it’s the day after thanksgiving. substitute early morning shopping with a cup of hot coffee, and that’s my black friday. sleeping in late, reading my books, sipping delicious coffee, browsing my favorite celebrity stalker sites… that is my favorite way to spend a day off. especially when the rest of the world is scrambling around over-populated retail stores fighting over potential holiday gifts.
in other delicious news, my favorite author of the moment is releasing her new book on may 5, 2009! i so do not care what it’s about. it will become mine, and as i have done in the past with her 3 previous books, i will devour it probably inside a 48 hour window. the book is called “pretty in plaid”, and features a pair of argyle stockings that are absolutely so hideous that you can’t help but fall in love with them. let the countdown to may 5 begin. and pass very quickly.
ps- go read anything by jen lancaster that you can possibly get your hands on.
yes, an oven. may it rest in pieces. in my quest to honor my heroes, today i made cookies for the veterans that frequent the pharmacy i work in. so, i made 6 dozen cookies, and threw 2 dozen out. why? because my oven had a seizure and progressively continued to increase in heat until it was no longer at the 325 degree preset. by the time i pulled my blackened (nope, not the yummy cajun kind) rocky road cookies out of the oven, the internal thermometer in that stupid hot box read 550 degrees. what happened?!? hence my severe frustration. this adventure lead me to believe i have married a saint. while most husbands would overreact with wild amounts of fear, my darling husband laughed when he received this text message this morning: “the apartment smells like i had a cookie bonfire in it, which i TECHNICALLY! didn’t. also, i hate that oven.” my patient spouse is the best roommate ever. so anywho… now i’m stuck with the smell of scorched cookies, and no matter what i do, it WILL NOT GO AWAY. ps… that smell is not as good as one would hope. so, bummer. please, someone tell me what to do with 24 giant, dark black rocky road cookies, or that awful smell that has filled our tiny apartment!
ok. so this has been on my mind majorly. in light of the recent (like, yesterday) election, i’ve decided to become vocal on this matter. i promise not to get too preachy, but lately things have been getting ridiculous. primarily, i need to admit… i HATE politics. let’s just break that word down for a hot second here. poli. that means many. as in a lot. the second part of the word “politics”? ic. as in ick. like gross. so here we are, engrossed in voting over a lot of grossness. so now that the election is over, let’s talk about what the crap just happened. i seriously don’t care who won. both candidates are highly incompetent, frivolous, and lack adequate oxygen flow to the brain. now, as a general rule, american society doesn’t really get to me. but this election season, i feel confident i could have shaken everyone if i thought the consequences would have been anything other than miserable. to vote for a candidate based on the color of their skin is just laughable. yet, this is the situation we have found ourselves in. the color of your skin is as arbitrary as the color of your eyes, the width of your hips, or whether you prefer stilettos to flats. yes, it’s genetic. which means it’s pre-determined. you do not get to select your skin color any more than you get to select your sperm/ovary donor or the quality of your infant-hood upon your arrival. i cannot understand the reasoning over selecting an individual to run an entire power house based on how they look under a suit. (ps: barack, you are NOT black. i repeat - NOT BLACK.) GASP! yes, folks, obama is just as much white as he is black, so for him to claim an anglo heritage would be just as feasible as his claim of an african heritage. this is not to bash obama. i seriously don’t care about him. this is exclusively to take a brief look at one reason for the stupidity of our great nation.
second order of business. november 11 is probably one of the most important days on this country’s calender. for those of you googling or scrambling to find the calender, it’s veteran’s day. the most noble citizens in this country have to know they’re appreciated. whether you support or hate the current war is irrelevant. our armed forces are brave, humble, and heroes beyond anything i could imagine. if we can’t respect our soldiers, who can we respect? there is no citizen who is more deserving and less appreciated than this group of great people. soldiers are why i’m proud to be an american. no single human deserves a holiday more, yet year after year, these heroes go unnoticed and unrecognized. it is one of the most appalling crimes we could commit against humanity. how can we ignore them? things need to change, and we need to change it NOW. these greats are dying in other countries so other citizens can enjoy the freedoms we take for granted. i do not care if you voted or not yesterday. but there are other countries where the citizens are only allowed to vote now because of OUR soldiers! why? because our soldiers care about humanity more than the rest of us who sit at home forgetting about the thousands of huge hearts who may or may not see their families this christmas.
i cannot stress enough my apathy towards your political view point or whether or not you voted. but i’m begging you… please don’t forget our heroes. don’t let another year go by where our soldiers feel unappreciated. don’t let the spouses of the fallen feel the cold wind of our forgetfulness. don’t let their children think they’ve died in vain. i’m begging, remember our soldiers.