Updates

The kids seem to be feeling okay this morning after a full night's sleep and no fever since yesterday afternoon. But noon is Sis's fever time so we're waiting to see if it's over. Right now they are playing "Farmer Sis" and "Farmer Bud," complete with bunny hutch and pumpkin patch, actually two of each but on the same farm (if I understand it correctly).

Otherwise, this week is full of Halloween celebrations, from a party at Mama's office after Chinese class, a pumpkin festival at school, Halloween itself, and a party at church. But I'll make that a separate post later this week.

Lastly, I am ready for this election to be over. But only if Obama wins. Otherwise, I can wait for the election forever so McCain can to continue to shoot himself in the foot. Is it just me or does he seem to have changed into everything he previously abhorred? Amazing how the GOP can take what seemed like one of the more decent Republicans and turn him into something more, well, Republican, so quickly. And that running mate of his! I hope that if McPain loses, we never hear from that governor on a national stage again; let Alaska keep its own. Just like I wish Texas had (yes, yes, I know, and I've said so, the Bushes are actually not real Texans, but, in the end, they've been embraced by that state. I agree with the Dixie Chicks, it's embarrassing.). I haven't written much here on the current president or the election, as both make my blood boil and I become too incoherent to form rational sentences--come on, I'm a lesbian, feminist, pro-choice, environmentally-conscious, almost Socialist, pagan-leaning UU with bi-racial children who advocates for just wars only (though sometimes I'm even more of a pacifist against all war), tighter gun control, the abolition of the death penalty, civil marriage, the complete separation of church and state, universal healthcare, a higher minimum wage, a caretaker tax break, higher taxes for the wealthy, and good public schools--the last 8 years have been hell. But I will be glad on January 21, 2009, as one bumper sticker put it, "the end of an error."

Let's just hope it's the beginning of the Obama era.

Otherwise, we might just give up the United States as a lost cause and move to Canada.