just wanted to make note of this and a few other things i missed when ranting earlier....
juju and i attended a halloween party at her gymnastics gym on sunday and they gave every family that attended a ticket for a raffle of full tuition.
my lil girlfriend put our last name on it and stuck it in the bowl...well she won!
it is a full semester tuition which we were going to pay next week to get the discount rate of $390!
yay for saving money and being lucky...well my lil girl is pretty lucky in that respect as this fall she attended a car show in town with my dad and myself. there you entered a form to vote on what car you want to win and from those, they draw raffle winners. well she won a $50 gift certificate to a hair salon! she has yet to use it as she is currently growing out her hair to donate to locks of love, but she also wants to grow out enough so when she does donate it, she still has longish hair (past shoulders), so currently her hair is almost to her bum!
when she does go to donate it, it does not cost anything to get it cut! so that gift certificate will have to wait!
my lil girlie is such a sweet kid, aside from the locks of love thing, her birthday party is coming up in two weeks. she is having a joint birthday party with a good friend from school, maria. they are having a skating party and juju had decided that instead of getting gifts from her friends at school, she wanted them to bring food to be donated to the local animal shelter.
maria thought that was so cool, she is asking for food to be donated to the food pantry!
yay for 7 year olds being socially responsible!
i also sent a request to senator lautenberg from nj requesting two tickets to the inauguration. i highly doubt we will get them, but hey, it is worth a try no? i think juju would enjoy a trip to dc and see history before her eyes. she was so excited to go vote with me yesterday.
Showing posts with label election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
obama, race and such
it has been less then 12 hours since they declared obama our president elect obama, and already something about this is really pissing me off....
not him getting elected, please, if that is where you think this is going, close your ignorant eyes and move away from my blog...i don't handle stupid or ignorant well at all...
what is really bugging me so soon is the sheer ignorance of the media and all of these so called supporters promoting the shit out of the "First African American President".
what are you doing? why must you label him in such a way...what about first hawaiian president? what about just calling him president? why must we make him a novelty ack, like william hung?
can we as a people move past the fact he is HALF black?
how about we call him what he really is African/European American?
what about me? i never ever feel the urge to call myself eurpoean american....do you know why?
because i am an american!
A.M.E.R.I.C.A.N.
and so is barak, president elect obama...
i have been tossing around a little thing where i paraphrased a famous recent quote from president elect obama and it goes a little something like this...
we are not african americans or eurpoean americans, we are just americans!!!!!
not him getting elected, please, if that is where you think this is going, close your ignorant eyes and move away from my blog...i don't handle stupid or ignorant well at all...
what is really bugging me so soon is the sheer ignorance of the media and all of these so called supporters promoting the shit out of the "First African American President".
what are you doing? why must you label him in such a way...what about first hawaiian president? what about just calling him president? why must we make him a novelty ack, like william hung?
can we as a people move past the fact he is HALF black?
how about we call him what he really is African/European American?
what about me? i never ever feel the urge to call myself eurpoean american....do you know why?
because i am an american!
A.M.E.R.I.C.A.N.
and so is barak, president elect obama...
i have been tossing around a little thing where i paraphrased a famous recent quote from president elect obama and it goes a little something like this...
we are not african americans or eurpoean americans, we are just americans!!!!!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
cereal, voting and such....
today is E day!!!! i don't care who you vote for, heck write in your dog! just go vote, it is your right and yes, it is your right not to, but why?
why allow people to make decisions for you? when you were a kid and could not wait to turn 18 so no one could tell you what to do anymore, that is when you are legal to vote, you can tell others what to do, so do it!
i will be heading to the polls after i pick up my lil girlfriend, juju bean. she and i are opposite in our decision, but since she is 7, well let's just say mama's vote will count and hers will not. we have agreed she is to keep my vote secret, as it is not open to any discussion to anyone other then myself. after majoring in poly sci and being a part of a very political family, i prefer to keep my political leanings to myself and that way when i do discuss politics (which i love to do) people will not assume to know what party i stand for or who i vote for and base their debate/argument aound that, giving me their true beliefes and allowing me to have true and pure political discussions....
gosh i really am a dork!
on a really cool making own decision/election day have my voice heard....
i created and ordered my own personal custom healthy cereal!
yuppers, my own personal choices.....it was pricey, but i am so excited! i should have it in hand this weekend, maybe monday, but how cool!
www.meandgoji.com/ go and take a peek at it and see...they have premade ones and prices vary based on your choices of ingredients. I love cereal and nutty cereal is my favorite.
i named it muffin's NUTTY! thinking back now, i should have created some sort of clever election day title for it....
i also purchased the one dollar green tag, offsetting my carbon footprint for this order AND 5% of profits for the company go to charity!
ah well!
hindsight and all.....
why allow people to make decisions for you? when you were a kid and could not wait to turn 18 so no one could tell you what to do anymore, that is when you are legal to vote, you can tell others what to do, so do it!
i will be heading to the polls after i pick up my lil girlfriend, juju bean. she and i are opposite in our decision, but since she is 7, well let's just say mama's vote will count and hers will not. we have agreed she is to keep my vote secret, as it is not open to any discussion to anyone other then myself. after majoring in poly sci and being a part of a very political family, i prefer to keep my political leanings to myself and that way when i do discuss politics (which i love to do) people will not assume to know what party i stand for or who i vote for and base their debate/argument aound that, giving me their true beliefes and allowing me to have true and pure political discussions....
gosh i really am a dork!
on a really cool making own decision/election day have my voice heard....
i created and ordered my own personal custom healthy cereal!
yuppers, my own personal choices.....it was pricey, but i am so excited! i should have it in hand this weekend, maybe monday, but how cool!
www.meandgoji.com/ go and take a peek at it and see...they have premade ones and prices vary based on your choices of ingredients. I love cereal and nutty cereal is my favorite.
MY CEREAL
 artisanal cereal |  coconut |  papaya |  macadamia |  cashew |
 pumpkin |  pine |  amaranth |
i named it muffin's NUTTY! thinking back now, i should have created some sort of clever election day title for it....
i also purchased the one dollar green tag, offsetting my carbon footprint for this order AND 5% of profits for the company go to charity!
ah well!
hindsight and all.....
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