Hope every one’s Thanksgiving went well. Ours was awesome. On Thursday, I had everyone over for dinner at my house. We ate a huge meal then settled in for some Trivial Pursuit. Ben won and now thinks he is king so I am sure there will be a rematch at Christmas. On Saturday night, we had a little gathering with a few of my cousins at the bowling alley. We did a potluck dinner and then bowled. I kicked some ass and brought home the trophy!!! I know I had a little advantage because I normally bowl there and my Dad owns the place, but still I won!!! Today, it’s all about recovering from our food hangovers!! Two days around so much food is too much!!! Yuck! I feel like I have gained 20 pounds!!!

Friday Five

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?
Yes! I love everything about shopping bargain hunting, finding the perfect thing, the people, money, everything!!!

2. What was the last thing you purchased?Christmas gifts for Jodi and Kelli.

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why? I like both but because of shipping costs I end up going to the actual store. Plus, it’s easier to buy clothes at an actual store then online because sometimes the pictures are way off of how the clothes acutally look.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it? No, my parents tried but for some reason it never really worked out.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing? A couple of text books for school that weren’t really needed.

Yesterday, I had an interesting political/social justice talk with my Mom. We were talking about the death penalty and whether we believe it is right or not, which brought us to the subject crime. For some reason, my Mom thinks that the U.S. is too lenient on crime and that all the other countries are very strict. I told her that’s not true. The U.S. has been upping the punishment for crimes for awhile now and the result hasn’t really decreased the amount of crimes committed. I said that crime is a social problem that we try to take care of in the wrong way. I said the system here punishes rather than tries to rehabilitates or even prevent crime. But she still thinks that we aren’t tough enough on crime. I told her to watch Bowling for Columbine and that might answer some of her questions as to why our society is the way it is. We also talked about immigrants. Now, don’t get me wrong my Mom is very liberal just sometime undereducated on issues. She tends to believe every myth out there until it is debunked for her. She really believes that people who immigrate to this country get handed the American Dream. She thinks s they get all these breaks and are able to just have the best life ever while our own people are starving. I told her that’s not true. Immigrants receive very little help when they come into this country. I don’t think she believed me. It’s strange for me to think that she thinks it is so easy for immigrants when in reality it’s not. I hate that she thinks things like that, but all I can do is slowly work on showing her the truth.

I suck at updating this site!
I am busy with school and my internship. Both are going well, but I had to give up hopes for making the Dean’s list because my History class sucks. I wrote the best paper of my life and got only a B+. I hate B+’s- either give the A or give it a B. None of this + crap. The reason why I am so pissed is because she hardly marked anything off on the paper so I don’t know how she justifies the B+ when she shredded this other woman’s paper and gave her a B. So I don’t think I will manage to squeak out an A in that class thus, no Dean’s list for me. It pisses me off but then I realize that I have to just let it go and be happy with a B. Damn that is hard!

I’m all registered for classes for next term. I am taking 14 credits at CSC and then 6 credits at a community college. Two of the credits at the community college are PE classes and the other 4 is one Literature class which I get to take online. By the time June rolls around, I will have completed both my sophomore and junior years having taken over 50 credits this year.

My internship is going well. I haven’t done a whole lot yet but I should be doing more in December. Right now, I am focusing on researching and learning more about Domestic Violence and Child Witnesses to Family Violence. Interesting, but also really sad.

Everything else seems to be going well. I am anxiously waiting the start of the holiday season. I can’t wait to get my Christmas stuff up. I also have most of my Christmas cards ready to send. I’m crazy I know….

Here’s a fun little quiz:

So the Democrats are trying to figure out how to win in 2004. Here’s the secret:
STOP TRYING TO WIN REPUBLICAN VOTES!!! Some of the candidates are quite transparent in there push to appeal to particular groups.

See, they know that Liberals are going to vote for anyone but Bush. So the sad truth is that they aren’t even campaigning to win our vote. But in the process of trying to look more moderate to conservative voters, they are losing my respect! See I hold every candidate up to the Wellstone Meter! And sadly for me, most of the candidates out there don’t even rate. I won’t sell my beliefs and values short like I have in the last few elections. If Bush gets re-elected there is always Canada!!!

Ugh! It’s snowing! I hate snow! I hate the thought of winter! Every year I want to run screaming from MN when it starts to snow. The thought of having to look at snow for the next six months sickens me. I need to move to a wamer state!

This in from Tiff:

Who am I?

I attacked and took over two countries.

I spent the US surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury..

I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not
easy!).

I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in
any 12 month period.

I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the
stock market.

I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on
vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad’s, but
I did).

After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided
over the worst security failure in US history.

I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any
president in US history.

In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their
jobs.

I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any
other president in US history.

I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-
month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than
any president in US history.

I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president,
since the advent of TV.

I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution
than any other US president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused
to intervene when corruption was revealed.

I cut health care benefits for war veterans.

I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the
record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US
history.

I’ve made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any
in US history.

Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US
history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a
Chevron oil tanker named after her.)

I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the
Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any
market in any country in the history of the world.

I am the first president in US history to order a US attack AND
military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the
will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international
community.

I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the
history of the United States, called the “Bureau of Homeland
Security” (only one letter away from BS).

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending
increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was
tough to beat, but I did it!!).

I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations
remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations
remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of
congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US
history.

I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

I withdrew from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by
default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations
election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate
campaign donations.

The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of
my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate
bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron
Corporation).

I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US
history.

I am the first president to run & hide when the US came under attack,
then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force One

I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

I took the world’s sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a
year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the
biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the
people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to
world peace and stability.

I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.

I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees
who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in
corporations bidding for government contracts.

I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than
any other president in US history.

I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less
than two years turned every single economic category heading straight
down.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES: I have at least one conviction for drunk
driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not
available).

I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during
time of war.

I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug
use.

All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away
to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view.

All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view.

All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served
on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding
public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
review.

GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
Washington, DC