The summer is almost over. I can't say I didn't have a great time this summer, but I can honestly say that the summer was over too fast. The rest of the warm weather will be spent nursing my drought-stricken potted balcony plants back to health, and seeing if I can fit into any of my winter duds from last year. Big stuff.
I fell far short of getting all the things done that I wanted. I desperately wanted to get in a tandem jump (skydiving). It has to be a tandem, as I haven't jumped in years and really will never be able to afford the sport. Couldn't afford it when I was active in it, but I just blew everything off with the exception of feeding the kids, and jumped the rent away for an entire summer. (Well worth doing, if any readers were contemplating this).
I'm practicing holding my breath for the balance of the election run. Within the circles I travel, everyone is nominally right of me - Michael Moore is probably right of me, if the truth was known- and I have to hold my nose and pinch my lower lip to avoid blurting out "You're morons! He is NOT a Muslim!!" over and over again. It will be a squeaker I think.
As a woman who said, regarding Ronald Reagon's election run, "Nobody will vote for a man wearing lipstick and pancake make-up", I don't see how any thinking professional woman could vote for McCain and/or the fanatically religious (at least in public) little pit bull in lipstick he has chosen for a running mate. But I was wrong then, and I acknowlege that there seem to be quite a few woman in my small town who are ready and willing to allow the government to poke around in their privates and make life changing decisions for them. I try to explain to them gently that if the aged white men in the government are allowed to make a law stopping women from choosing abortion, eventually those same aged white men will be able to force them into having an abortion if it suits them. This will likely happen because of overpopulation and let's face it, women will have given them the right, by passing a law saying to the senators and congressmen :"You decide for me, I can't handle it." Most of them don't hit me when I say it, but they don't agree with me. Sigh.
