No, No, No, No, No, No,....Please Don't

Someone make this stop.

Snowing

We got about 3 inches of snow yesterday and expect more ice and snow tonight. Good thing we stocked up on milk and toilet paper.

Maggie is especially interested in the snow, having only experienced it once before (see West Virginia Christmas story). We went to the apartment tennis courts yesterday and let her off her leash to let her explore it on her own. We have mini-tennisballs that she can get in her mouth, but she wasn't interested in the icy tennis ball yesterday. She would run with it for a few seconds and then drop it. After a few minutes we were all too cold to continue, so we went inside and watched Back tot he Future and Back to the Future II on the DVD player. The inDemand video isn't working right now, so even though we purchased Harold and Maude, we weren't able to watch it--rats.

Celebrating Choice

Today is the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As one can imagine, this is quite a big deal at Planned Parenthood. There was a press conference this morning and tonight is Rock n Roe, our benefit concert. All proceeds will go to the March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC, April 25. (If you are prochoice, plan on being there!)

Being raised Southern Baptist, I have a constant voice in my head that argues against my pro-choice beliefs. It places blame, hands out plenty of guilt, and sounds an awful lot like my old youth minister. When the voice becomes too much, I usually find myself looking around me at the amazing people I work with and the patients we serve everyday. My coworkers are kind, passionate, dedicated people that stand up for the women everyone forgets - minority women, poor women, immigrant women. The patients are always relieved to find a place free of judgment and full of kindness. These people remind me that choice is not really about politics, religion, or government. It is about women and the life decisions they have right to make. Or as my coworker says Pro choice is pro life when women's lives matter.

Spam Poetry (Written at the end of an advertisement for I don't know what)

Support open-source. She will work it out on her own; let her be. I think the purple was better than the blue. What a good idea?
Is it really so different from TV? People like to be spoken to as they speak -- simply and to the point.
I am scared of watching the news and reading the newspaper. Rainbows dont' just appear out of nowhere. I love to kiss and tell. There is a great conspiracy brewing.
He talks and looks like a puppet but loves to be called george. I love you dearly.Will work for happiness. Here's my point: The rich are benefiting at the expense of everyone else. The proposal is going as planned.
Sit back and relax--this will all be over soon. A lot of people are talking about this.I believe in the golden mean. You are my best friend.

Amazon.com marketplace--What did we do before the Internet?

In the past two weeks I have sold three textbooks for about 40 bucks a piece on Amazon.com marketplace. If I tried to sell these books back at the regular bookstore rather than to another poor student, I probably would have gotten about 12 dollars total. I know it doesn't need to be said, but how great is the Internet???

Not much else to say. I have started my last semester of law school. I am excited, but a bit hesitant to end my run as a professional student. Tangentially related to that, I was filling out my Bar application and found myself writing a narrative of the time I got suspended in high school for cursing too much at a soccer game--those were the days. BTW, does anyone remember what date that was? The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners wants to know.

Over the weekend, I noticed that one of Maggie's ears had fallen back down. That's right they were both down, then one was up for about 2 months, now it's back down. Weird...

Clean Sweeping

If you don't know by now, Clean Sweep is new (meaning we ripped the idea off from the Brits) home improvement show on TLC. They clean, they purge, the organize, they decorate.

Inspired by the show, I finally threw out the yard sale stuff. Since I don't have a yard in which to sell and probably won't for awhile. I also purged a lot of books and Nicholas and I sold them around time town.
Nice Price books gave us $15.00
Book Seller gave us $20.00
Books on Ninth gave us $35.00 in store credit to buy more books we don't need.

A grand total of $70.00 (sort of). Way more than we would have made selling them for .25 cents a piece!

Since my husband uses the blog to rant occasionally about sports and my New Year's Resolution was to write on the bog more, I have decided that I will share my thoughts on a subject that is very close to my heart...the upcoming presidential election. It seems appropriate considering the election is exactly ten months to the day away.

I'm not going to predict a winner or any such nonsense because truthfully I have no idea what will happen. I do however know that in the circles I run (excluding DeWayne and my stepdad) everyone wants Bush to lose. The problem is no one is willing to do anything about it. Everyone wants to offer their opinions but no one wants to get up off their butt and do anything. My fear is if this complacency continues we will soon be looking at another four years of Dubya - another four years of war, greed, and everything bad in the world.

If we are to stop this from happening, then we must start campaigning NOW. I don't care who you support. I personally support Dean and spent last night writing letters to citizens of Iowa hopefully convincing them to do the same. However, if you like Kucinich, that's fine. Tell everyone you know about Kucinich. The important thing is not only to inform people how good your candidate is but how truly bad Bush is and how absolutely essential it is that they vote.

It doesn't take much. Spread the word. Pass out flyers. Write letters. I promise you they'll take your help. Lord knows they/we need it. It's now or never and November is just around the corner.