Another Friday night, and I stayed up all evening.
I saw the sun rise and I'm not ashamed.
Oh how I wish McCain could get this much money
.....he's in an awful way.

Face it, folks.  The wind has changed.

Get with the program.

My Republican/Right-Leaning Independent family members weighed in, last weekend, with their opinions. Here is what I gleaned: 1. He talks down to us. We don't want to hear that we should lose weight and drive smaller cars. (My counter: *rolls eyes* and plans to buy a Prius and start exercising more). 2. He's smug. Arrogant. (My counter: So are you, sometimes). 3. He falters when he doesn't have a teleprompter in front of him. (My counter: McCain falters when he DOES). 4. He planned this since after he wrote his first book. Maybe before then. (My counter: McCain has been planning to be President even longer....and hey, he wrote a book too!) 5. We don't like big government. (My counter: I don't like small-minded people running and owning everything while the rest of us get diddley-squat.) As you can see, I had a fun weekend with my Republican family. Truth be told, though, I still love them. And they still love me. And they admit that they think Obama's gonna win this thing. And they admit that they can put up with that. They also admit that they don't do ONE QUARTER OF A THIRD of what I do for their candidate, like I do for Obama. Republicans.....they are so silly.

Ladies, do you hate having your period?  Take a pill!!  Skip your period for three months at a time.  It's okay!!  I'm sure it's all natural and proven effective!  The fine print says so, after all.  Right??

Folks, do your legs sometimes twitch at night?  Feel restless?  Take a pill!  Get used to visiting Atlantic City and/or Vegas, because gambling tendencies are increased when you have restless legs.  It's okay!!  I'm sure it's all FDA approved no matter what you do.

You folks in relationships who finally gathered the strength to admit to your prospective partner that you have genital herpes, but that it doesn't spread to your partner unless you have an outbreak, only to witness a Valtrex commercial and find out otherwise, and then wonder:  It's okay!!!  Take a chill pill!!!!  Obviously some study has taken place to prove you otherwise, while you were restlessly turning and tossing in your bed one night, wondering why your girlfriend missed her period for three months straight.

Don't worry yourself even more about rising health care costs and the meat wagon that HMO's have become.  Worry more about adopting an illegal alien child who cannot afford our healthcare system, and then worry about how you'll explain to him or her why.

Meantime, take a pill!!

So I wake up this morning in my mother's guest room, and I go out to the kitchen to grab a donut, and I hear my mother in the other room, apparently talking on the phone. 

I hear her say, "Yes, I voted in the primary......Yes, I voted in the last general election.  I have never missed one........Conservative.....McCain......"

(For those of you who aren't aware, my family is basically Republican  -- although us Libs are starting to trickle in).

My mother goes on to answer several more questions, and then I hear her ask how she was picked, and when the results will appear.  She then told the pollster she's never in her 70 some-odd years been polled before, and she thanked them for the opportunity.

So she hangs up, and my sister and I start blasting her with questions about the questions.  The pollster was Quinnapiac, by the way.  Two questions that I found very interesting were:  Which potential first lady do you know more about?

My mother said, in an aside to us daughters, "Well, I really don't know much about Cindy McCain other than that she once popped pills and she's filthy rich."

My sister chimed in, "She does a lot for humanitarian causes", to which my mother replied, "Oh yes, she adopted that baby from um, um, some foreign country...".  My sister and I both said at once, "Bangladesh."

My mother than said, "Oh, right.  But I know a lot more about Obama's wife, she's all over Fox News", to which I groaned and rolled my eyes.

Another question was, "Who would you rather have as first lady?".  My mother, of course, replied with "Cindy".

Sad, but true.

As to how my mother's question as to how and why she was picked, the pollster explained that their computers punch in area codes from all the states and it randomly comes up with known land line numbers.  The pollster also said that the results from this poll will appear either Tuesday or Wednesday.  Now my mother is all excited and can't wait to see the Quinnapiac this coming week, knowing she's a part of it. 

I really wish she'd been in the shower when the phone rang.  I could've been the one to answer it, darn it.  Well, I would've had to lie, I suppose, and tell them I was the qualified homeowner, but still....