to remind myself

I will take each year as it comes, but I will never take you for granted.

-Wedding Vow #15

Things could be much worse.  Many people have lost their jobs, lost their homes, lost their businesses and their pride.  Luckily, this hasn’t yet happened to us.  However, since we’ve returned from our honeymoon it feels as though we’ve been hit from every direction.  Problems with the car, job stress, moving woes, changing tax laws, etc.  I’ve been trying to keep a happy face.  I do believe it will get better.

Last night Dalin told me that he wishes it wasn’t hitting us all at once.  I told him – maybe it’s not that bad…I said, “It’s kind of like getting a nose job and a boob job at the same time.  Double the pain, shorter time period.”  :)  I was happy to make him smile.

For me, times like these always shed light on the important things.    We have a big support system.  We have our health.  We have we each other.  We should never take those things for granted.  If I had a few giant houses, 18 new cars, and no taxes to pay (I’d be John McCain – hhahahaa)…j/k….I’ll start over….If I had a few giant houses, 18 new cars, and no taxes to pay – but was alone, without the love of my husband, our family, or our friends, it would be worthless.

So – today‘s post is just to remind myself of my wedding vow #15: 

I will take each year as it comes, but I will never take you for granted.

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Barack Obama is One Cool Cat

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

-George McGovern

He’s no Hillary (had to say it Mom) – but tonight Senator Obama proved to me that he is one cool cat.  I enjoyed watching his simple yet intellegent and presidential demeanor during tonight’s attempt at a “town hall debate”.   

 

I trust Obama, he understands. 

At one point, Obama touched on how hard it is for teachers to survive in these conditions and it resonated with me.   My good friend and roommate has been laid off twice this year and currently, has been teaching for 2 months without a paycheck.  Last night, her frustration brought her to tears. 

The last time I heard Senator McCain mention teaching as a profession, he was encouraging citizens to become teachers or join the military because it is patriotic.  I’m sure more of us would join the military if we knew we weren’t going to be deployed 4 times to war with the chance of never returning alive…and more would gladly become teachers if we knew there was a bit of job security and that it would pay more than an entry-level sales job.

His head is in the clouds…he does seem like he has a good heart – I’ll give him that, he’s just way off base.  Like…WAY OFF.

The other most intriguing facet of the debate transpired in my imagination.  I want nothing more than for Tina Fey to be able to morph into a John McCain look alike so she can re-live these following moments for us:

• John McCain referring to Senator Obama as “That One”.
• Joe Six Pack enjoying a sip every time John McCain said “my friends”.
• John McCain on the defensive, trying to bash Obama nearly every time he had the floor.
• John McCain saying to a man in the audience that he, personally, “had probably never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” before the economic crisis. 

And last but not least….

• John McCain’s take on our Social Security crisis.  I’d love to see Tina Fey’s spin on McCain saying it’s ”not that difficult” to fix Social Security, that he would organize a high-level commission of “the smartest people in America” to solve the problem.

Smartest people in America?? 

He should have just used Palin’s SNL spoof answer…

“You know we’re gonna take every aspect of the crisis and look at it and then we’re gonna ask ourselves, ‘what would a maverick do in this situation?’ And then, you know, we’ll do that.”

5% of me wants the election to never happen.  It is quite entertaining.