I think the next four years are going to show us some double standards that'll make your head spin. Let's start with this: If a Republican president were about to be inaugurated in this bad economy, how many stories do you think we would have seen by now about the "appropriateness" of having a multi-million dollar gala when people are suffering and losing their homes? How many calls would there have been by now for the celebration to be "toned down" out of respect for all the Americans going without this year? Yet, The One will probably have the most expensive inauguration in American history, and not a chirp from the chattering media. They'll trip the light fantastic at their fabulous and expensive balls, and no one will say
a word about how tacky it is. But if it were a Republican? They'd be screaming from the top of the New York Times building that he just "doesn't get it."
Oh yeah, ready yourselves for the double-standard bonanza of the next four years. The only silver lining is that being slavish devotees of democrat politicians has just about ruined the American media NYT stock down 20% this year alone, newspapers all over the country laying off workers so perhaps they'll be looking for a new approach to bring their value back up like, ummm, reporting honestly and accurately. (One can dream, right?)
(i'm too tired to do anything but thumbs today.)
He comes home for good some time in early June.
That is so hard to deal with. I had a 90-lb Shephard Husky mix and got a call from the local police one day that he had bit a child! 
Come to find out, my dog had nipped my neighbor's son's ankle. He didn't telll anyone because it didn't break the skin (there was a mark on his ankle though) and they were running and playing. The dog was never off his leash and my daughter had him out in the yard between the houses. Well, the next day the kid has a test at school that he didn't want to take, so he tells the teacher that his ankle hurts because a dog bit him. So the school nurse calls the police (as required by law), the police call me and I had to quarantine the dog for 14 days (if I remember correctly). He was up to date on his shots but it was a law (I lived in NJ at the time.) The boy was very embarrassed, his family was very apologetic and I was just very relieved that my dog didn't hurt him. The dog was really just a big baby (Patches was his name but Cement Head was his nickname!)
They went out to the store, so I'm enjoying some quiet. 
I got my KitchenAid mixer 
- so I'm going to attempt to bake cookies today. 
We were able to travel across the state to see DH's family, so that was nice. The roads were a little iffy on the way back home and we almost hit 4 deer, but we got home safely.
Just wanted to check in and say HEY! It's at least 80 degrees today with zero clouds in the sky! Hit DHS again this morning for TSM and my new favorite besides Soarin'- RnRC! Rode it twice! Once for wardfamily1 per request and the other time for Zip, since his location says G-Force Records Studio C. 
but what's really got me tickled pink is how much my dh loves this little guy. 
My driveway is long, and uphill. Fortunately I had used my friend's shovel (he brought it to me yesterday) and completely cleared the concrete pad at the bottom---the rest is dirt. But with the bottom cleared at least I could get a solid start at heading up the driveway. I got stuck on the steepest part, which is maybe 25 feet from the bottom...but I picked up cat litter while I was out so I sprinkled a bag around and made it up that part. Got stuck again near the top, and that time was a lot harder to get unstuck (second bag of cat litter didn't quite do it and I had to go get the shovel). But I made it! 
