Well I certainly meant to post before now.
I meant to come on here and make my obligatory "proud to be an American" post-Obama victory entry, but the time got away! Michelle O. got a lot of flack from the media when expressing a gesture such as this, however innocent it may have been, but let's just say that when I was in downtown Athens watching the victory speech and seeing people cry and hugging loved ones and strangers and feeling hopeful...well, I really have never felt more proud about living in the U.S. I have never seen anything like what was happening that night and so much happy crying! At work I checked my e-mail right around the time Obama had pretty much won and Yahoo had this banner up with a picture of Barack Obama and it said "Barack Obama: First Black President of the United States" and I started crying, I couldn't control it. I also can't believe how happy I was to vote...it really felt like something that I would talk about when I am elderly and talking to grandkids about our first black president. Any other time in my life that I've actually felt like a part of history it was because of something like 9/11...something bad. But this was so, so good!
I am so glad that the United States is finally socialist, at long last.
Just kidding.
On Nov. 4th I made Barack Obama's potluck chili. The recipe was in an interview that he did for some northwestern newspaper a while ago and I found the article online. Of course I slightly adjusted the recipe to use ground tofu stuff instead of ground meats, but everything else I kept authentic.
Halloween was fun.
YUM.
On Devils Night I made stuffed peppers for dinner and we carved them like pumpkins. Carl's is really scary like Lord Voldemort.
Fun pepper:
Evil pepper:
Pumpkinmeter.
Carl and I hung out with Stephen and Sabrina all night. We saw a haunted house and ran and danced around Athens. I was Violet Beauregarde, Carl was MacGyver, Stephen and Sabrina were devils-in-love.
I am meeting Brooke and Kimball in THE CITY for new years eve. Here's my dress:
TGIF (almost)! Dinner with buddies! The house smells like carrot cake mmmmmmmm.