Oh Happy Day

I filled up my gas tank today for $18 ... it was ... amazing.

Friday Night Twilight

Way excited that 'TWILIGHT' opens tonight!!! ... Even though I think I'm gonna force myself to wait until a week night to see it so that it won't be insanely crowded ... perhaps in a week or two on a Wednesday night ... I want as little disturbance while viewing the film as possible. :P

So glad it's Friday. So tired.

Next weekend I'm going to put the Christmas decorations up- woo hoo! I was tempted to do it this weekend, but then decided that I couldn't bare doing it BEFORE Thanksgiving so I decided to wait.

I think I'm going to start building my website for my wedding planning business soon - yay! Hopefully it won't look like total crap. :P

Little Big Ramble

Ok so I'm pretty sure I'm going to be obsessed with the new PS3 game 'Little Big Planet,' which I bought for Chris for his birthday on Saturday. I've only gotten to play it once so far, so I haven't had time to go into full obsession mode, but once I do ... there's no turning back. :P

I also took him out to Black Angus for a birthday lunch, and it was soooo tastylicious! I also had not one, not two, but THREE different versions of "Texas Tea," (aka a really yummy booze drink,) SO good!!

Ran on our new treadmill for the first time today. Lovely.

Saya shed her skin today. Cute! My baby is growing up, haha. :P

Today

I met the actor Bill Cobbs at the Elephant Bar today, and it was rather cool. :P

Conference Madness

Currently I'm at my hotel and have just finished the second day of the California Couture Conference for the Association of Bridal Consultants. I've had a lot of fun so far and am learning lots and meeting new people, which is lovely.

Sunday I arrived at the Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach (where the conference is being held,) at around 12pm and it was hilarious because as I pulled up to the front of the hotel, (valet parking ONLY) the valet dude came walking up to my car and tried to open my door for me only to find that the door handle was broken, hahaha. It felt really weird being "helped" out of my car, lol. Talk about fancy shmancy! There was lots of classes that day and a beautiful outdoor poolside reception that evening. Unfortunetly, my cell phone managed to some how fall out of my bag during a work-shop and I immediately went back to get it and it was gone. Some one stole it and decided not to turn it in so I'm pretty peeved about that. I've suspended it so that they cannot make/receive calls or do anything with it. GRRRRRRRRR!!!! (So I need everyone's numbers for when I DO get another phone.)

Today was nice. Got up early and stopped at a Starbucks on my way to the conference where the nice young asian barista dude gave me my drink for free! (I must've looked good in my professional attire, hahaha.) Lots of classes today, a beautiful luncheon and fashion show, great food ... and now I'm entirely pooped, hahaha. And yep that's about it so far! I'm too lazy to write out all the details ... and yeah.

Vitriolic Smears after Mr. Obama's victory

I just got a call from UPS. The treadmill I ordered less than a week ago is scheduled for delivery on Veteran's Day! Now I wont have to take a day off work to wait on the delivery man.

In other news, Barack Obama won the election.

Here are some of the responses from the Right.

"Congratulations, moonbats. You finally have your revenge for being forced to look at all those flags after 9/11. This is a day of celebration for everyone hostile to America and the principles of individual liberty for which it stands. Enjoy it while you can ... What (you) have done to this country is beyond forgiveness." - Moon Battery

"If only one good thing has come from this election, it's that it is crystal clear who the enemy is. We don't have to compromise any more. We're liberated." - Caption This

"We are fooling ourselves if we think the United States is still a Christian nation. Its people just elected a barbarian as president." - Jill Stanek

"What we need to do now is pull America's head out of its ass before these bastards do too much damage." Black Five

Has anyone taken a look at the election results? Appalachia is the only geographical area where John McCain performed better than George W. Bush. One guess as to why McCain performed so extraordinarily well there.

The unfortunate thing about comments like these is that they reinforce the caricature of Republicans as Nascar-loving, country-music listeners who are anti religious freedom, public education, environmental protection, science, foreign diplomacy, middle class, union membership, health insurance, immigration, action on global warming, gay rights and, of course, civil discourse.

This is, understandably, disturbing for I know many good people who happen to be Republicans. How then does one reconcile the actions of the party, and its talk show radio mouthpieces, with the people it represents?

Rainy Saturdays = Marvelous

Happy late Halloween to all ... oooops. Hehehe.

Today was marvelous. For the first time in such a looong time, it was cool, cloudy, and rainy all day long. I LOVED it. So much. I played on the internet, played with photoshop (bought an awsome photoshop portrait techniques book,) went clothes shopping and spent way too much money, had me some coffee, and am now sitting here listening to Mozart while typing. Lovely.

The ABC (Association of Bridal Consultants,) conference that I won the scholarship to is next weekend in Newport Beach, I'm excited. I have my own room in a lovely hotel for two nights, pretty nifty.

By the by, everyone needs to get addicted to the Huntsville computer games. I am. Go to http://www.mysterycasefiles.com and you can try a free trial of all seven games. Hmmm ... I think I'll go play right now!