Never Forget

With the crazy news hitting the world right now that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, my mind naturally wanders to 9/11/01. This year will be 10 years since that awful day, and I hope this news today can bring some peace to the families who lost loved ones that day.

On a personal note, I have a hard time "celebrating" the death of anyone, even someone as heinous as Bin Laden, but I can absolutely understand why this is something that is being celebrated. It does seem crazy to me to think of the thousands of lives that were lost in the last 10 years in exchange for this one life. I guess I just hope it was all worth it.

Rules are rules?

The assembly decided to allow Mark Hall's appointment to be Fire Chief. Mayor Sullivan of course said he saw no reason to change the rule about nepotism for the muni, just bend the rule for this special case (shocking).

Irony came just one day later....now Sullivan wants to end Fill the Boot because of the rules against panhandling on Anchorage streets. So, it's ok to bend the rules for your buddy, but not so much for disabled kids once a year? Oh boy.

Gotta love politics.

Toot Toot

That would be the grammar police. Not that I am an expert, but there are some things that just bug the heck out of me. Examples are misuse of there/their/they're or your/you're. I find it especially irksome (and also hilarious) when these violations are printed, and better yet, publicly distributed. OK, here's the deal, I was driving to work today and was behind someone with one of those annoying honor roll stickers on their car...."My child is a honor student at...." Luckily, for ASD and for myself, this was not a local school so I don't have to worry about sending my child to a school that should probably have their honor students doing grammar checks for them!

That's all.

P.S. For all you MOA residents.............get out and VOTE TODAY!!!! (I would prefer you vote for Eric Croft, but it is a free country after all)

Bad blogger

Sorry it's been so long...things are just busy! I promise to post pics of Mason soon. He is getting so big and is trying SO hard to roll over now.

President Obama signed an order today about embryonic stem cell research, reversing President Bush's previous policy that banned federal funding. This is so exciting for so many reasons! I know there is a huge debate about using embryonic stem cells, and the when is it considered "life"...and I'm not getting into that on this blog. I'm sure Obama will get some crap for this, since most people think he needs to be focusing on the economy 100%...but seriously, this needed to happen. He promised it during his campaign and then made good on those promises! (how many politicians do that?)

On a personal note, today is Monday, which means that my Copaxone injection is in the stomach. I HATE doing it in my stomach, so when I saw Obama did this today it was extra special to think that maybe, someday, I won't have to gives myself shots in the stomach (or at all) anymore! We also banked Mason's cord blood (we used CBR)and in the horrible event he someday needs it, more research can only help widen the scope of diseases treated by stem cells. There's even a possibility that I could use them for my MS!

OK, enough of this. Back to work :)

Starting him off right....well, left

Mason continues to grow and grow. It's so much fun to watch him learning every day. He is really starting to have more awake/alert time and loves looking around at his surroundings. Of course, yesterday he spent most of the day sleeping, so he was a little confused as to why he needed to sleep at night. I'm sure we'll have many more confused nights, but man are they rough! I'm convinced that post-partum MS flairs have far more to do with stress/fatigue than they do with hormone drops. I've been good so far, although I have been having some random symptoms the last couple of days. Nothing that classifies as an offical flair up though...keep your fingers crossed for me. We'll see what my MRI looks like on the 29th.

Well, in some of his awake time yesterday, I managed to get this pic of Mason. Todd laughs about this shirt, but I just remind him that I will encourage and support our son in anything he wants to be when he grows up....except be a republican :)

85 and time to retire

Happy Birthday, Ted Stevens....oh, and move on over.....Mayor, ahem, Senator Mark is in charge now! Hopefully as one of his last acts as Mayor he'll approve the AFD contract. Anyone know if David Ramseur is going with him to DC?

Sorry, Canada, not moving yet! Good morning, America!!

I have to admit, I was a little worried last night going to sleep. I was worried that it would be like the time I went to sleep and Al Gore was the President elect, and I woke up to find out he wasn't. But I woke up this morning, checked, and everything is how it was, and as it should be. For 4 years (since the DNC in 04) I have loved Barack Obama, and for the last year I have been watching as others either fell in love with him too, or, we'll just say they didn't love him quite so much. Through the name-calling and mud-slinging, through Hilary in the primaries, and Palin in the last couple months...all we heard was "yes we can". And THANK GOD people finally listened! Yes, we really can...and what do you know, we just did!

Now, while I have never been so proud and excited and full of hope for our country, the same cannot be said for the state I live in. It looks as though Alaska will be sending Stevens and Young back to D.C. AGAIN! I don't really understand how this happens year after year, but this year is especially upsetting, what with one being a convicted felon and all. And on top of this, Sarah Palin will be coming back to Alaska to govern again. This worries me in so many ways and for so many reasons. In the end, she's better here, watching Russia from her front porch, than sitting in the White House ready to take over, but I just don't see how it's going to work now with all the people she has pissed off in our legislature. Not to mention the people she has embarrassed across our entire state.

Enough of that. I'm sticking with excitement for our country, and with the fact that I no longer feel that I have to move to Canada. And as if Barack wasn't amazing enough, we now have Michelle as our First Lady! Even if you don't care for her (which, I don't really understand, but apparently there are some of you out there) how can you not appreciate watching the clothes! It's like our generations own Jackie O...but, before she was Jackie O and was still Jackie Kennedy. You know what I mean.

In closing, I would just like to say, THANK YOU, AMERICA!

It ain't over yet

For those people living under a rock, Election Day is tomorrow. I'm afraid that Democrats will, like they have historically been, be lazy tomorrow. It's a fact that dems don't get out there on election days and VOTE! I think a lot of it is the polls, they show Obama ahead, so people think, why bother? Please, be bothered! Get out there and cast your vote...and hopefully tomorrow night we can all celebrate the begining of some real change in this country.

Ok, enough election talk...for now...

Remember to Vote!!!!

How does this woman not scare everyone as much as she scares me?




And I know this is and older video...but it's a nice reminder since Tuesday is the big day.

Kleenex filled birthday

No, I'm not crying about my upcoming birthday, I'm sick. It's been a long time since I've had a cold, I don't really remember when the last time was actually. But, sure enough, everyone in the little space I'm confined to at work has been passing in around, and while I avoided it longer than most...it found me. And just in time for the big 2-9 on Wednesday.

The worst part is being pregnant and having a cold. You can't take anything for it! Oh, except regular Sudafed, and cough drops. Oh, Tylenol...so basically, as I was saying, you can't take anything for it. And since I already feel like I can't catch my breath 90% of the time, being all plugged up fills in that 10% that I had a glimmer of breathing normally.

Other than having a cold, things have been fairly boring around here. Todd's birthday was Tuesday, and of course he was at work. Thursday night Todd made dinner for me while I watched Sarah Palin stumble through her debate with Joe Biden. Last night we went to my parents house for a little joint birthday gathering. I know sometimes Todd thinks it's a little weird, but that's just because our families are so polar opposite on things like this. So, while he thinks it's weird that my family gets together and celebrates birthdays and such, I think it's weird that his doesn't even call each other half the time (no offense to any of the Loy/Moran family intended).

We also went to another childbirth class Friday. I was considering becoming a childbirth class drop out for most of the day before the class, and of course, Todd would have totally supported this, but we went anyway. It wasn't as bad as the first class. I left feeling a little more confident in my own ability to labor and give birth, although I'm still not 100% convinced that a c-section isn't the way to go.

Well, that's all for now. It's time to open another box of Kleenex.