Happy Thanksgiving

There are a lot of things to be grateful for: Being able to celebrate with my family, all of us are here and healthy, my job, my friends, and this years especially: Nyquil!!!
One of the worst days of the year to be sick is Thanksgiving. I slept most of the trip to mom's house and most of the afternoon after getting here and in a few minutes I'm going to take another shot of nyquil and go back to bed. But tomorrow is another day and hopefully I'll feel better then. And now nyquil is calling.

Brenden Foster

Have you heard about Brenden Foster. He's the little boy that had Lukemia whose final wish was to help the homeless.



That is so touching and so sad. When I first read about Brenden earlier today all I could think about was my own little dude, who is a year younger than Brenden was when he was first diagnosed with Lukemia, and really make me gratefull for everything in my life and for every moment that I'm with him (yes even when he is driving me insance). I can't imagine how trying and how hard this has been for his family. My heart goes out to them. He was so selfless in his final days, he knew what really mattered.

So Excited

Gov. Palin is coming to Georgia!

I am so excited. I signed up for the event here in Augusta on the Saxby Chambliss website and we are ready to go. I actually had already asked for the day off to run errands and go to appointments and the rally is at 8:30 am and my first appointment is at 9:45 so bright and early I'm going to call and try to get it pushed back a little. I can't miss this! I told the Army Dude about it and he said he was coming with me. He likes Gov. Palin. I think he has a crush on her, shhhh.
So bright and early Monday morning we are going to be making our way downtown to the James Brown Arena. I'm wearing my shirt. and I'm taking pictures and I'll probably act like I'm at a rock concert lol.

Speaking of Senator Chambliss: all you Georgia Voters, please don't forget to vote. Early voting is taking place this week and the polls open Tuesday. I can't imagine what a Democrat super majority would mean to the country. Imagine the same party having all the power in Washington and not just control of all branches but a super majority in the Senate at that.

By the way, do a yahoo search for images of Gov. Palin and then do one from Google and tell me there isn't a difference in the types of pictures that come up. I was appalled by what I saw from yahoo.

Gitmo

Obama has said over and over that he plans to close Guantanamo Bay and move the prisoners. He's even said that he wants them tried in open civilian courts.
Here is a little clip on closing Gitmo and moving the prisoners and what it would mean to give these terrorists civilian trials:



But what did his nominee for AG say about the Gitmo detainees?
(back in 2002)



I wonder if he still believes this or if he has conveniently changed his position to match that of his new boss.

Real(?) Housewives

I got hooked on Real Housewives of Orange County a couple of years ago. It's fun to watch and see what those ladies are up to and how wonderfully spoiled their kids are. It was just fun.
Then came Real Housewives of New York. Not as fun as the original but it was OK. This time around it was fun to watch how self absorbed the ladies were and give commentary about what I think the maid is thinking when one of the ladies keeps barking orders at her (get it yourself B**!!!).
Now they came out with Real Houswives of Atlanta. When I first heard about it I thought OK now this is going to be good, this is going to be like the original but choc full of southern belles showing them what the south is about. Yeah not so much. It's a bunch of northern transplants that think they are the best things since, well actually there was never anything better than them. The season is now over and Bravo had a marathon going Saturday night. I watched a few episodes before it finally got to unbearable to watch anymore. It was painful really. I really hope that, if they do decide to revisit the ATL that they find people that are really from here instead of these clowns. I have never seen a group of people that were so stuck on themselves. There was the self proclaimed "power couple" they were awesome, or so they thought. There was the one divorcing her football player husband who is demanding a 7 figure settlement because she wants to keep the same standard of living and fabulousness, because she is "it" in her own mind. There was the wife of the basketball player who needs a full staff including estate manager and chef and maids and such to do everything for her because she's so busy doing nothing that she can't do anything for herself. And the single mother who plopped down 18k on her 11-year-old's birthday (WTH?) no doubt funded my her married sugar daddy. The last character was actually real. She seamed like the poorest of the bunch and she tried but you can take the girl out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the girl. She was my favorite one though.
That show was a HOT MESS!

Who forgot to pay the heat?

It is so cold! This morning we set a new record low for the day with 18. Wow! It was 18 degrees when the little dude was born too, in December, in Germany, and it was snowing. I don't expect that in Georgia. This has been the coldest November since we've lived here. This November is even colder than last December! Where is Al Gore and his global warming when I'm freezing here?

This cold weather makes me think about Christmas, and my favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas Story. I've been thinking about that movie a lot since the Army Dude said he was going to have Santa bring little dude a red rider BB gun for Christmas. HA!

Funny Videos

I thought this video was funny. It's one of those man on the street deals where they ask people current event questions:



The video on this one isn't great but the sound is good and it's classic:



And staying on the automaker bailout theme:



Standard practice for security reasons?