Ok, folks. It's that time again.

Say anything. Tell me a secret. Tell me some gossip. Tell me I suck monkey balls. Anything goes except, you know, death threats or illegal activity and that sort of thing. Anonymous comments are enabled. IP logging is off. Comments are not screened, but in a day or two I might make the entry private.

Have fun. Play nice. But PLAY!

I'm posting this since I'm applying to become an adopt_a_mom mentor, but feel free to read even if you're just interested to know my story. ( I didn't know how to make this NOT long... sorry. )

As a Texan, I know that thanks to the electoral college system of this country, my voice would not be heard yet again. But I went and I cast my ballot anyway. Then I had to sit back and put faith in a country that had let me down so many times before. Of course I was afraid. I had to sit idly by with nothing more than the hope that other states could see what I saw and feel what I felt, and HOPE that they could do what I could not. That they would be the instruments of change that this country - this world - so desperately needs. And last night they did just that. Thank you to those of you on whose shoulders the fate of this country rested, and who stepped up to the challenge and made what I and millions across this globe believe to be the right choice. I'm completely indebted to you. Last night hope won over fear. Inclusion over isolation. Open-mindedness over bigotry. And wisdom over ignorance. And I'm not talking about the candidate, but about the electorate.


I have never been more outraged as an American than I was on December 12, 2000.
I have never been more ashamed to be an American than I was on March 20, 2003.
I have never been more disgusted to be an American than I was on November 2, 2004.
And I can say with complete sincerity that I have never in my entire life been more proud to be an American than I was last night.

I pared down my friends list somewhat, mostly people who either don't update much (if at all) or I just really feel like I don't know well enough to let into the deeper parts of my little world right now. Just an FYI. =)

I'm posting a number of items of maternity clothing for sale and directing some folks from a couple of communities here, so those of you on my flist who aren't pregnant, just scroll on by. ;-)

For those of you who ARE prego and interested in checking 'em out... ( check 'em out - most prices just reduced! )

( More goodies with newly reduced prices! )

( Even more added October 2 )

Thanks for looking!