PBS has a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? Let’s turn this around….. You don’t have to give your name or email address in order to vote.
It’s very simple – one click.
PLEASE DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!!!
Just click & vote… NOW.
There is a saying in Croatian for getting up on the wrong side of the bed and that’s getting up on your left foot. I did. Loca did.
Loca tried to attack my yoga teacher’s dog.
This from my neighborhood email list:
At 5:45 p.m. this afternoon, my next-door-neighbors encountered a man in front of their house. He was a light-skinned African man, in his 40’s or early 50’s, incoherent, and wearing plaid pants. My neighbors asked him if he needed anything, and then he took a wad of money out of his pocket and started to eat the money. They called the police. If you don’t believe me, there are small pieces of a chewed up $10 and $5 bill on our sidewalk.
Daily Affirmation
September 22, 2008
I enter into the fall season with joy in my heart as I accept the colorful scenery, knowing it is blessing my life with its abundance and glory.
There are a lot of reasons to be down – I could start counting them – the industry that I write about is in turmoil, the industry that I work for is in turmoil, the city I live in suffers from hurricane-itis, my truck needed repair, shall I continue? Why bother. Really, these are all external factors that try to ruin your joie de vivre.
Today is the first day of Autumn. My favorite season. This is the number one reason to rejoice.
I’d go back to bed. Both Loca and I were sick for the latter part of the weekend – she went down first on Saturday night with horrible diarrhea, then I got up Sunday morning and thought that two glasses of wine was too much for a hangover, and by the time I was crying my eyes out over an article in the Sunday NYT about a man who wrote about his baby who died in utero, I knew I was on a path to nowhere.
This morning was already on the verge with mom having to get to the airport so she could go take care of my ill sister, but when my insurance company called me to tell me the woman I had the fender bender with two months ago was seeking medical help (WHAT????), and separately a call that the truck is going to be $1000 to have the brakes fixed as well as a few other things, then I read a round up of industry experts saying how bad the economy truly is, I just had to hang my head and say, blech.
I entered the busy weekend a little shell shocked about losing all my work emails – it’s almost like my lost luggage – you keep thinking it will turn up but when it doesn’t you just kind of walk around feeling a little strange.
We’ve had such a fun weekend but it all came crashing down this morning when I woke up feeling sick – I knew the couple of glasses of wine at the dinner party we were at on Saturday night could not have invoked the feeling and so I tried to go out on my bike only to feel like I was going to puke if I pedaled one more step.
I’m feeling optimistic about Obama winning but don’t want to sit back and expect the obvious to happen. Same thing with everything else – there is a strong undercurrent of uncertainty in the air – in politics, in environment, in financial concerns – it makes me want to tuck and roll.
You wait for certain things in your life, meanwhile, those things come to fruition and yet the minutes are ticking by and the weight of losing time becomes your new focus.
Here’s a great option, and a wonderful and productive idea. Planned Parenthood is all about choice, and education and decisions that are best for the health of everyone. So consider this: Instead of (or, in addition to) sending around more emails “voicing our concerns” about Gov. Sarah Palin, let’s honor her more. Let’s all make a $10 donation to Planned Parenthood.
In Sarah Palin’s name.
And here’s the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they’ll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.
Here’s the link to the Planned Parenthood website.
Be sure to use that link above or choose the pulldown of Donate–Honorary or Memorial Donations, NOT the regular “Donate Online”.
You’ll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the “In Sarah Palin’s Honor” card. Use the address for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202
Went to see Elegy today at Canal Place. The cinematography was lush and the acting superb by Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, and Peter Sarsgaard. Definitely worth your time.
I was speaking to an overseas friend this morning while T and I sat on the screen porch having our tea and breakfast. He said he was having a hard time at work because management kept layering on nebulous goals and then changing the game plan and stressing everyone out over making their numbers. I said these are tough times. But I don’t think anyone is unscathed.
I met a woman the other night at Swirl who owns her own store on Magazine Street, she told me before Katrina she just made money, then after Katrina, she had to strategize and claw and claw to make a living, and now post Gustav, post Ike, she’s not sure if she will even have a business next year.
I see my friends who own small businesses working harder than ever to earn a dollar. I know the stress of the corporate world first hand. But isn’t it true that it is in these harder times when true creativity and innovation surfaces?
Or are we all just spinning around on a hamster wheel – and the true nuts are the ones making the wheel go faster?