February 2008 Archives
This will be the first caucus I've ever voted in and I am stoked. I think seven years of watching this GWB train wreck has woken me up to the finer points of politics. I mean, I always vote. But it wasn't until this election that I even knew what a superdelegate was. Or that I even had much of a sense of who the contenders were for various nominations.
Speaking of superdelegates, it appears they are yet another reason why our democracy is only so democratic. And I'm not just saying that because I plan on caucusing for Barak Obama.
I think the road to the Democratic nomination is going to go on much longer than Super Tuesday.
I've been scatterbrained lately because I'm trying to do too many things in too short a time. So far nothing disastrous has come of this ditziness... until now.
I plugged my camera in to take off the pictures from the last few days so that I would eventually be able to update my photo-a-day thing. I got distracted and didn't actually copy the pictures to my computer. Later, I wanted to take a picture so I unplugged the camera, DELETED THE PHOTOS OFF OF IT (assuming that if it was plugged in, that I had actually uploaded my photos) and took a couple of pictures.
So I've lost four days worth of pictures. And my ambition to have a year's worth of photos-of-the-day has been brutally crushed.
I think I'm going to cry.
Heart, originally uploaded by AMK.
Hope your Valentine's Day is filled with sparks.
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Sorry. I couldn't help it.
According to the National Retail Federation (via CNN), "each person is expected to spend $122.98 on Valentine's Day."
What? I guess I don't know these crazy people.
Brad and I are spending about $30 on Valentine's Day, if you count the groceries and inexpensive bottle of wine for our dinner tonight, which I don't really count anyway. Valentine's Day gifts are never really given in our house, even more so this year because we just made a big purchase that will suffice for gifts for all our Valentine and birthday and random other gifts for the foreseeable future: plane tickets to Ireland.
Yep. Brad and I are going to Ireland for 12 days in early April. I can't tell you how much easier it is for me to get through this last awful part of winter knowing what I have to look forward to. That'll be a good use of our tax rebate money, eh? Spend it all in another country. Apparently I hate America. I'm okay with that.
Hi! Remember me? The one who hasn't posted in two weeks? And who hasn't been posting Flickr photos?
I'm still here.
The past two weeks I've been battling first a painful shoulder blade/upper back (I still don't know what I did to injure it), and then a nasty cold. I haven't felt like talking to much of anyone, including the internet at large. I think winter has gotten the better of me. I'm tired all the time, uninspired, and just sort of existing. The prospect of my upcoming Ireland trip is the only thing that's sustaining me these days.
It's not really that I'm depressed, because I don't feel depressed. I feel tired and uninspired. This is usually the part where I question my very existence -- why I'm here, what I'm doing, what's the point of it all. But to be honest, that's getting a little old because I never come up with any answers. Instead, I'm just trying to nurse myself back to health and be as good to myself as I can be until I can shake myself out of this hibernation. Because I know I will, one of these days.
In the meantime, my coworker gave some tulips to each person today to try to bring some spring into everyone's day. It couldn't have happened on a better day.
