The Best Night

It rained last night. I made a chai tea latte, curled under a blanket and enjoyed the smell and sound. It was so great to fall asleep to the pitter patter. It'd had been a really long time since we got a good rain. It's the simple things that make me happy!

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, everyone!

NKOTB recap

I realized I never blogged about my trip home for the New Kids concert. Let's just say it was a ton of fun. The concert was great. It was hysterical to see girls dressed in old New Kids apparel. Julie found her buttons so we each wore one. Oh and it was the loudest concert I've ever been to. Our ears were ringing the next day. Jordan was still dreamy. I took video on my camera, but it didn't come out very well. You can't see much and you can only hear me singing (badly). I didn't want that footage slipping into the wrong hands. Here's a pic:

The rest of the trip was fun seeing my friends. I wish I could have stayed longer. Julie - is Anna still listening to that "Where's the Nine" (or was it seven) song? I've tried to block it out.

And I have inside New Kids scoop. A co-workers roommate is a fashion designer assistant and flew to Salt Lake City this weekend to dress the New Kids for the American Music Awards. She said all of them were really nice except Donny, who was a diva. He demanded to wear a long fur coat. Keep in mind the AMA's are in LA...it's been in the 90s here. He also wanted them all to wear matching suits with "different colored arm bands". He must still think it's the early 90s.

Headers, Earthquakes, The Office and More

Love my new header? Yeah, me too. Thank you to our immensely talented friend!

Anyone see The Office? Was Michael Scott on a plane not one of the funniest things? I would have personally gone a little further with it (Michael Scott + airplanes = comedy gold), but it was still great.

Our new PlayStation is pretty fun. We only have a racing game at the moment, which is actually pretty cool (and I'm not that into racing games). I'm having a friend from work over tomorrow for Wii night.

On another random note, does anyone else find it crazy that it's already mid-November? We haven't made Thanksgiving plans yet. I assume we'll have dinner with my parents and take off for a little trip up north on Friday morning. We want to go to Hearst castle and Paso Robles wine country. Just a few more things we're crossing off our CA to-do list before we get the heck out.

Oh and I know this is like beating a dead horse, but did you know yesterday was a big earthquake drill out here? Take a look at this animation of what the "Big One" will look like (fast forward to 1:15 for the real impact to begin). Is that not terrifying? Oh and did I mention that they say we're 150 years over-due for a big one?

On that note, hope everyone has a nice weekend free of natural disasters!

Countdown

Most weekdays I count down the hours/minutes until 5:30. Today I'm even more excited because any moment now a package will be delivered to my work and I want to get home to try it out!

I can't wait for the new Beatles game. My Christmas 09 wishlist has officially begun.

Stalled

This election has been a nice distraction recently. It has almost made me forget that there are no new jobs. The past 3 weeks or so has been pretty discouraging, job wise. Since the economy started tanking, there's been a dramatic slow down in new postings. It makes sense, so many companies are laying off, not many are hiring. It seems the few that are new are IT, Finance or some equally non-related field. The end of the year is always a little slow. I hope after the new year things will pick up.

On the other hand, I'm a giant believer in timing and when it's meant to be it'll happen. When I've been on great job interviews that end up going nowhere, I'm ok with it. There's a reason I wasn't meant to get that job and go down that road. So I believe that even though there have been some really good openings that we haven't been called for, it's ok. It'll happen when it's right.

I also regret to say that we were right - just because we have good experience, it doesn't mean we'll have offers thrown our way. I wish we were wrong about that.

This election and the new incoming administration totally fuel my love of politics. I've mostly looked for TV jobs for myself and occasionally environmental and political jobs. I should really dive more into political/DEM party jobs.

We Did It

Thank you, Ohio! I'm so proud of my people. I choked up when they called the state.

What an amazing night. Anyone want to meet me in DC on 1-20-09?

Vote!

Seriously, I'm giddy with excitment. We have champagne chilling for tonight. I feel like a kid who hasn't celebrated Christmas in 8 years. I even woke up early this morning and tossed and turned because I was so excited for this day to start. I am beyond excited to get home and camp out on my couch and watch all the states get called. And counting on an Obama win, the victory speech in Chicago will surely be exciting.

Soon I'll be able to pull out my handy poll closing map to start checking off states that have been called. I wish I could go home early. We're ordering pizza and booking a coference room to watch tv for lunch today!

We're Almost There

I'm so excited for tomorrow - I can hardly stand it. Finally, we can vote. We can elect a new president. We can put this nasty 20 month election behind us.

Come January, we can start to change the mess created over the past 8 years. We can end these wars so no more of my family members and so many other families have to go over there and serve. And maybe we can finally start to step up and do some real work for the environment and global warming. The possibilities are exciting.