Quote of the Day

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Election Stickers

How long are people supposed to keep their candidates election stickers on their car. Everyday I am noticing so many. I understand keeping the Bush/Cheney - they won ... I totally understand the ones sold after the election that say "W still the president" ... but Kerry/Edwards lost ... it is official ... votes have all been counted ... we have had the Inauguration ... he is the president ... isn't leaving the sticker on the car holding on to a dead dream ...

or is it there to let people know you didn't vote for Bush??

Staying Positive

Unfortunately most of my day is spent around negativity ... it is amazing how two people can see things so differently ... I am most definitely a glass half full [even though as a child when asked if it was half full or half empty I asked, "Are you filling it up or drinking from it, then I can make a decision" ... smarty pants that I was] ...

I am worried the negativity is really affecting me ... so I am going to do everything I can to be positive under any circumstance ... because I see negativity and I don't want to become that ... it is a trying position to take but I see the outcome of letting the bad vibes seep in and I don't want that to happen ...

So here is the start of doing whatever I can ... and whatever I have to ... to be a positive uplifting person ... no matter what ...

of course the boxing I am doing every night sure will help letting any aggression or negativity out ... that might be while I love it so much!!!

Is this for real?

I first want to say I am in no way making fun of his looks ... I realize beauty is in the eye of the beholder ... but come on ... is this guy serious??? This is his posting on a dating site? Isn't he hoping to score? Or at least meet someone for some nice company ...

But isn't the Superman outfit a bit much ... does this woo women? Am I the only one not turned on by the outfit? I just can't believe this is putting his best foot forward towards meeting the woman of his dreams ...

or maybe it is ...

The Legend of the St. Valentine's Day Fairy Dinosaur

Many people believe the dinosaurs became extinct
because of some loopy meteorite showers.
This is simply not true.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they held out for love.

Dinosaurs wouldn't settle for relationships of convenience
(like the roaches for example). It was a tough choice between
extinction and compromise. But in the end, they refused
to procreate until they found that special someone
~ and as we all know, that's not easy when you're bigger than
Lincoln Memorial and have a brain the size of a pea.

So one by one the great dinosaurs died
~ Choosing to sacrifice their species
rather than live in a world without love.

Only one dinosaur survived,
the St. Valentine's Fairy Dinosaur.
She lives to insure all other species find love
~ true love ~and make the dinosaur's great sacrifice worthwhile.

So on Valentine's Day, of all days
~ Get out there & love somebody ~
in honor of the dinosaurs.

Happy Valentine's Day!!
Love . . . Liz

Grocery Store Insanity

I know better than to go to the grocery store on Sunday afternoon ... but there was stuff we needed and I bit the bullet and went ... by the time I left I was so frazzled I think my hair might have been standing on end ...

I was amazed at the numerous people who had their cart stationed in the middle of the aisle and looked at me like I was a bitch when I politely said, "Excuse me" ... and for those that couldn't seem to comprehend, "Excuse Me" I then moved the cart out of my way ... one woman actually snapped "Don't touch my cart!" ... as politely as I could muster I said, "My plan wasn't to shop with you today, so in order to proceed I must move your cart." ... she seemed a bit perplexed ...

As I stood in line to check out I felt myself shaking with frustration ... an older [than me] woman actually pushed my cart out of the way and got in front of me in line ... I explained to her the items on the belt were mine and that I was actually in line waiting to check out ... she wouldn't move ... so I wedged myself between her cart and mine and just pushed forward ... it was like being in a Twilight Zone ...

I unfortunately chose a checker that felt it was his mission to chat up the woman in front of me ... I checked my watch because I know time can be skewed in the grocery when I think I have actually entered the depths of hell ... 9 minutes they chatted ... 6 of those he wasn't even checking anything out ... just flipping through a notebook to look up items ... but would stop flipping while they chatting ...

When I could finally see the light and all her items were scanned out came the coupon book ... holy shit how can you not have these out ahead of time ... or during the chat fest ... now I was totally locked into line ... even if I had a breakdown I couldn't escape ... after perusing her coupon book I was ready for my turn ... she just had to pay ...

Lo and behold out comes a checkbook ... all I could think was ... "what the FUCK ... checks ... who the fuck uses checks anymore ... are you kidding me ... you are writing a check and you didn't take it out of your God damn purse until this moment" ... how could she not have filled it out while he was checking her out ... not only am I stunned that people are still using checks ... but to wait until everything is complete to fill it out ... and better yet after he gave her the receipt she stood there and entered it into her registry and did the math ...

I will seriously ... in the future ... try never to go to the grocery on Sunday afternoon ... it was almost worse than going when the mass public freak out cause there is going to be snow and I unfortunately need regular groceries ... not 87 rolls of toilet paper ... carts filled with loaves of bread and enough milk to nourish an army of preschoolers ...

Early Valentines

I had a very special Valentine's Day 2 days early ... while out and about we stopped at Dick's Sporting Goods and David got me a heavy bag and boxing gloves ... I've talked about wanting it for some time now but just decided it wasn't necessary ...

It was the perfect Valentine's Day gift ...

Once we left the store David asked if I wanted to go ahead and go to my office to hang it up ... I was game so we made the trip to College Park after stopping at Home Depot for chain ...

I was impressed with David's will and determination to get the bag hung ... we have a 15 foot ceiling in the warehouse where the bag was going and we didn't have a ladder tall enough to easily reach it ... so for over an hour David swung rope to get it over the rafter ... then attached the chain to pull it up over the rafter ... I would have given up long before David ... but he kept at it and eventually got the bag hung ...

for a while it felt as if we were on an episode of the Amazing Race and this was one of our challenges ... actually more like a Road Block since I kept cheering him on like the women on the show do ...

The bag is AWESOME ... best workout ever in half the time ... I can't wait to get back to the office on Monday to do some boxing ... it really was exactly what I wanted ... a great first Valentine's Day as husband and wife ... :)