I used to blog all the time until I graduated. It's pretty sad because I don't have so many antics to write about. We used to have a lot of antics. I still have some, I just forget to write about them. I'm pretty sure that I'll start updating more regularly once I have kids...except they'll be lame "my kid is so cute/clever/funny" things that no one else will care about. Except other mothers maybe. But that's what those mom confession boards are for. Even though I'm not even close to pregnant, I'm addicted to truemomconfessions.com. When I worked at NorthKey, I would look at trueofficeconfessions.com because it was relevant. Sometimes it made me feel better but most of the time it put me in a bad mood and made me hate my job more. Now that I like my job, it's harder to read about people just complaining about theirs all the time. That their isn't supposed to have an apostrophe is it?

So at my new job last week I was working on creating a brochure. And in publisher, in order for the brochure to print out right, one page has to be upside-down. So I made everything right-side-up and then flipped it when I finished it. But that screwed things up for some reason. So any corrections I had to make, I had to make typing upside-down. This led me to type things like commmmmunities. Don't ask me how I managed to get so many m's in there without noticing. Maybe I was thinking about m&ms, my favorite candy. Which you can buy me for my birthday. Which is coincidentally in a month. I like those DTV commercial countdowns because I can add two days to the countdown to keep track of when my birthday is.

On to politics. I hope our next president doesn't suck. I feel kind of bad for already being sick of the inauguration stuff since I can't honestly say I'm excited about who it's for. But I do recognize the historical significance and of course will respect the president for who he is and what he does, even if I don't agree with all his policies. It's not like I'd agree with all of anyone's policies. So I just hope he doesn't suck. Because if he doesn't, then good for our country! And if he does, I guess I can gloat at all the people who voted for him? Anyway, the whole segue for that was because I read today about inauguration mishaps like Nixon's first inauguration parade that had dead pigeons along the parade route. Why, you may ask, were there so many dead pigeons? Because Nixon had the bright idea to put something in the trees to keep them from roosting there and I guess pooping on the parade or him or the sidewalks. I don't know. Either way, the stuff they put on the trees was supposed to make their little feet itch so they wouldn't hang out there. But they ate it, got poisoned, and died; littering the parade route with their decomposing little bodies. And that, my friends, is that.

so there were apparently hurricane force wind gusts running around my area yesterday. it was pretty crazy. we had to bring in everything from off the deck and people were losing pieces of their siding and shingles and stuff. our house came out unscathed and we were only out of power for about 6 hours or so. our grill scooted across our deck which was pretty funny. and we drove to mom's house to try and grill a frozen pizza...and saw this guy standing on the side of the road with a fishing pole just smiling away. so we follow the fishing pole with our eyes and on the other end of it there is a plastic bag. it's like a ghetto kite or something. but this old dude was having a ball.

anyway, lots of people still don't have power but i think it could be worse. at least it's not cold and we're without heat and it still stays light until about 8 or so. but we didn't have power at work so it's really hard to get anything done.

people are still freaking out as if there are sharks on land now. nobody knows how to deal with stoplights that are out and people either fly through them or sit and wait forever. so it's been an adventure and i like adventures.

i'm going to go put my tomatoes back on the deck now. have a good day!