Song: Better Late Than Forever by Allister

OMFG!  I cannot believe I was actually able to get on the internet tonight.  I've been leeching since I moved here in May because you basically cannot get any service out here in the 'docks so what's a girl to do?  After election night for some reason the connection went haywire and I have rarely been able to get on since.  I swear it's a conspiracy because you can sure as hell bet I had something to say about the election!  But all that anger and irritation has dissipated and now all I have to say is the freaking idiots of this nation have single handedly handed the world to the devil on a silver platter.  I am ashamed of my generation and the younger generation before me that was able to vote this year.  It seems that was the heart of who voted for the inevitable mess that is sure to come.  But at least I can bitch and complain because I sure as hell voted and you know it wasn't for Obama!  There I said my piece on that and that's all I have left on that subject.

I am no longer in the caveman ages--one of my best friends from Indiana found out I still don't have a digital camera so he bought me an early Christmas present--a Canon PowerShot.  This little sucker is great!  It takes the clearest pictures I have ever seen and I haven't even learned all the tricks of it yet.  I am excited but at the same time worried because now I wonder if I will ever print pictures again.

I have a different viewpoint on gas prices now as the same friend pointed something very interesting out to me that I had never thought of before.  Everybody bitches and complains about gas prices being so high (well, not lately though) but think about this--how can a 20 oz. bottle of carbonated sugar water (Sprite) cost upwards of $2 (depending on where you get it) but yet a gallon of gas (which oil is drilled from the ground in a foreign country, then either refined there or shipped overseas to us to be refined--which is very expensive--and then trucked to different gas stations) we think should cost equal to or less than the $2 sugar water?  Seriously the cost of gasoline should be high for the cost that it takes to produce it and that 20 oz Sprite should cost mere pennies.  I mean it's nice that the price has gone down but I see the other side of it now.  It puts a whole new perspective on things.  See, I can change my mind on something controversial if I understand it!

I love living where I live because it's one of the safest towns to live in in this area, but then again the reason it is so safe there is a cop on every block it seems.  This has decided to pose a problem after over a year of living here.  A few weeks ago I got pulled over because the red cap had come off my tail light, and had shifted down just enough that you can see a bit of white.  I've known about this since last year but I played dumb and my daughter helped out in her charming way by asking 'why did you pull my mommy over?'.  He let me go and just told me I needed to get it fixed as soon as possible.  I have custom tail lights on my car and they go for about $300 or more for a pair, and they only come in pairs, so fixing it right now is pretty much out of the question.  Two weeks later I get pulled over again in the exact same spot (just a couple hundred yards from my apartment complex) after a late night at my mom's and the officer says that he was two cars behind me and he'd noticed I had been riding the right side of the lane a little close and was there any reason why?  WTF?!  It's not that I was weaving in and out or crossing the center line or even close to the center line--nooo, I was riding the right side too close.  I didn't know there was such a thing.  I explained to him it was late and I was just tired (I didn't tell him that was just how I drive cause you never know when an idiot in the other lane is going to be driving too close to my lane).  He shined his flashlight in my backseat and saw my daughter sleeping in the back and said 'well, just let me see your license' and then 'have you been drinking?'  Again, WTF?  I told him no (which I'm sure if my daughter hadn't been in the car he would have told me to step out of the car and given me a breathalyzer which wouldn't have been a problem because I really hadn't been drinking) and then he looked at my license and said 'well, it says you're a safe driver, so just drive safe' and handed my license back.  I have no idea why he couldn't find something better to do like pull someone over that was really breaking the law.  Whatever.

Those are my adventures--better late than never.  Dunno if or when this thing will let me back on but hopefully it won't be almost another two months before I can blog again.  Hope everyone is well.