Busy week

This past week sure was busy! First there was Halloween, which was so much fun! Didn't end up going to Kings Dominion, but I did the next best thing -- go trick-or-treating with the kids! They are so cute. I had a fun weekend with them and my 2 sisters. We had homemade chicken chili with biscuits for dinner, plenty of candy all weekend, and yummy ice cream. We played tennis for a couple of hours - as Saturday was beautiful! - and had fun on the wii. Yay for family!! (Photo upload isn't working right, so I had to embed the images from picasa web.. thus the small pics)

From Halloween '08

From Halloween '08

From Halloween '08

From Halloween '08

From Halloween '08

From Halloween '08

The other thing that captured my time this week was election day! I seriously had no idea who to vote for, as neither of the candidates appealed to me. About an hour before I headed to the polls to vote, I took an online quiz to see which candidate best matched up with my views. Turns out it was Bob Barr. What? Who the crap - ? So great. McCain and Obama came up further down the list. I just decided that whoever had the highest ranking in my quiz (between McCain and Obama) would get my vote. So that was that! I fully expected to wait in line for AT LEAST an hour, as I had heard all the horror stories of that morning. I grabbed my book, my mp3 player and some snacks and headed out the door.

Turned out I didn't need these items, as the man behind me was a chatty cathy. He first was commenting on how others looked: "Look at that lady's hair! Why would she wear it like that? It looks weird." Now, I must inform you on what I was wearing... I had not showered, so put on my green army-type hat, with my hair pulled back. No make-up. I had on the same color green, very baggy cargo pants, a brown zip-up hoodie over a white hooded thermal shirt, and a brown plaid scarf draped around my neck. I would have described myself as Tiny Tim-esque. And he's commenting on OTHER'S appearances to ME? Hmmmm.

Then: "What school do you go to?"

Me: I don't go to school

Dude: What? Do you want to be illiterate?

Me: I'm done with school. I just work

Dude: Really? When were you done?

Me: Um.... like 2002?

Dude: Oh, wow. So where do you work?

Me: In DC

Dude: Really? I hope you take public transportation.

Me: Yes, I do.

Dude: So I guess this isn't the first time you have voted?

Me: Nope. I look young, huh?

Dude: Yeah, you do.

Me: I'm 26.

Dude: You don't look like it!

Me in my head thinking: Yeah, well I would have pegged you as an illegal immigrant had you not been waiting in line to vote.

Turns out I waited in line for about 45 mins with the actually very entertaining Mr. Pedro, to take 30 seconds at the little booth to cast my ballot. Yay! I proudly wore my voting sticker all day.

LATER THAT NIGHT....

I'm finally drifting off to sleep (after a crazy trip to try to pay my rent! - another story) with my book slowly falling closed as my fingers relax, when I suddenly jolt all the way awake due to an outburst of cheering in my building. It was then that I realized Virginia went to Obama and thus he won the presidential election. No emotion from me besides relief that this mess is finally done, I turn my light out and go to sleep. What a day.