I'm growing in popular demand...WATCH OUT!

Oooh, gosh, golly, gee! I have TWO readers now! :o)

I guess that means I better get to posting more often.

I had to dig my car out of snow today. The problem is is that my landlord and her little worker-bees are insanely lazy. THEREFORE, they don't usually snow blow until a good week after it has snowed. So, I can expect my guy neighbor dude, that scares me a little, and I will have to dig each other cars out again...

Let it snow, let it snow, let is SNOW!!

I haven't posted in awhile, but that's because I haven't had much to talk about as of late.

I am currently is a masters level Finance class. Anyone who knows me knows that Accounting and Finance are, by far, my WORST two subjects...ever. Personally, why anyone would voluntarily do that as a career is beyond me. I am just trying to get by right now and get this semester over with. I've been dreading this semester since I got accepted to the program. No joke. I'm very thankful that I have a very laid back professor. He's an accountant by day and a heavy metal band member by night....seriously. The band he belongs to is pretty popular, actually. They are called Midian, but I know I'm spelling that wrong. So don't take my word on it. They play at the Rave a lot as well as all over the country.

I am going skiing on Friday (hopefully) with my BF and we are going to SkiBrule. I haven't been to Brule in a VERY long time. My fondest memory is Erica sliding down my favorite run, Log Jam, on her stomach backwards. I laughed so hard I ALMOST peed my pants...hahahaha.

Ta ta!

This day is finally here...

No more political commercials! YAY!

I voted this evening after work and was pleasantely surprised by how fast I was in and out. I must have gone at a good time (3:45 pm) because I didn't have to wait in line. I placed my ballot in the giant machine thing, and got my sticker! Woo!

I was surprised with how many people at work said they were NOT voting. I understand the notion that the majority of politicians suck, but if you feel strong enough to not vote for either, then just vote for yourself. At least your exercising your right to vote.

Especially for those of us in this nation who haven't always had the right to vote, you should vote today just because you can. And you should today because of how hard others have fought in the past for you to have that right.

Just food for thought.

...now back to the hw.

Make love, not war

I went out last night for Halloween. I haven't gone out on Halloween in a couple of years. I usually avoid this scene just because it's a bit too hectic for me, and honestly, I still feel burnt out on the bar scene from overdoing it in college over 2 years ago...

My bf and I went as hippies. We figured it'd be the cheapest costume we could do because we already have the necessary clothing. All we had to do was buy him a long haired wig, and put some peace signs on us.

It was a good time. We hung out with friends we haven't seen in awhile. BUT, I did imbibe too much....Who would have thought that drinking wine, beer, AND hard liquor would have been a bad idea?

hmmm O:-)

This is absolutely horrible.

...and scary. It's sad to think that it is almost 2009 and there are people out there that are thinking as if they were living in President Abraham Lincoln's days.


Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.

Opinions = everyone's personal right...

Tonight is going to be a short post as I have a ton of hw to do.

All I have to say is that I cannot wait for this election to be over with. I am consistently being attacked for my choice of candidate. I tell people, who I know do not share the same opinion as me, that I do not want to talk about politics and they keep harassing me. I feel as though, if we know we do not agree, why talk about it? We're not going to change the other person's mind. We're only going to drive each other nuts and we'll both walk away feeling like the other person is a complete moron. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

On a side note, but related, I've been receiving 2-3 emails PER DAY from my father with crap he finds off the Internet to tell me why my choice is wrong. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I had to break down and email him back to tell him to back off. I hate having to do stuff like that, but when I see those emails from him, I want to jump out of a window! haha.

I'm leaving...on a jet plane.

I'm back in the good ol' state of Wisconsin.

I went to Colorado to visit my sister. She is living in CO Springs, temporarily, for a internship. It's beautiful area. We had a great time :)

I arrived in CO on Friday, Oct 10th... We went to the Garden of the Gods and to Manitou Springs.

Garden of the Gods was absolutely breathtaking and should be visited by everyone at some point in their lives. The sun was about to set as we were there, so I got some pretty neat pics :)

Manitou Springs is an old hippie town. Definitely my type of atmosphere. My sister and I did some shopping, ate dinner at a mexican restaurant called Amanda's Fonda (fonda means "Inn" in spanish), and played some games. We gave the tickets we won to some young kids...we're nice like that.

On Saturday, we made a trip to Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek is about 1 hr away, so we didn't do anything else when we got back to CO Springs. It's a neat city and it has a lot of history. It was a gold mining town back in the 1800s. Now it's made into little shops and casinos..LOTS of casinos. So, we gambled...a lot. Also, Cripple Creek was having a fall festival when we were there, so we saw a few people dressed in 1800 attire...it was really cool.

On Sunday, we did some site seeing at Pike's Peak. The drive up to the top (well...almost top...it was too windy for us to go to the VERY top, so we made it to the 11,000 elevation before the trooper made us stop) was gorgeous. I have never been to CO in the fall, so it was neat to see all the mountains with fall colors vs snow.

Monday, my sister had to work, so I just stayed in and watched the marathon of America's Next Top Model. For lunch, I walked to Souper Salad for a salad to go. It was a nice relaxing day. We later had dinner at the Elephant Bar, which was EXCELLENT.

I miss my sister already though :(