oh, for cripe's sake.

i fell asleep in front of the tv last night at like 9pm. i'd hoped to head over to the election shindig, but i'd gotten the kitties back from the sitter and monkey was going through a major freakout. sometimes when i bring them home after boarding them, she just gets soooo clingy, and if i even leave the room she wails. last night a girlfriend of mine came over for an hour, and i walked down to her car with her to get back the visitor's parking permit... i was gone less than a minute, and yet when i went back in the building i could hear her yowling from 4 stories up. eek. so i stayed in to save myself from being evicted over her yowling (technically we're not suppoed to have pets in the building, although everyone does. but i think a yowling one could be grounds for being booted.)

anyway, so i fell asleep around 9 on the sofa, and had an awful night's sleep. every time i turned over, i'd catch a snippet of the election coverage, and it was making me more and more upset. i can't believe we don't have a president yet, i just want this to be over so i can be either really happy or really pissed off. i'm not a big fan of waiting. *sigh*.

another list

things that made me happy today:

1. i stepped on the scale, and am down 5 pounds from last week.
2. i had a great lunch hour -- ate a big plate of grilled shrimp and steamed broccoli, then went to williams-sonoma where i bought a fantastic pear tea and 2 jars of my favorite tomato sauce.
3. i made plans to go to swingin' new england next weekend... my first big dance compatition in a couple of years.

things that made me sad today:

1. i woke up to find i have a president i don't want.*
2. i drove by copley square at mid-day, and saw them taking down all the scaffolding and stage stuff from last night's kerry rally/concert/celebratory party. it looked really lonely.
3. at a clinic in chinatown today, an old lady sat next to me and began muttering to herself... then she ceremoniously took off her sneaker, and did an intricate foot-picking for a good 10 minutes.
4. peter fell off a ladder at work and broke his shoulder and a tooth. and i can't give him a hug from 350 miles away.


*the classic thing is the story my mother told me today... mom voted for kerry, but her friends, all christian, voted for bush... and why? because their ministers told them to. *sigh* religious guilt is a very powerful thing. if you want to vote for bush, do it because you like his stand on the issues... not because someone tells you to. i can only imagine how many votes were cast because someone stood up in a pulpit and said "do this", and people said "okay" without even trying to be well informed.