Check out the new wheels!

We got a new car!! It's an '07 Saturn Vue, v6 and AWD. It's totally rad. Dan now drives the Escort to work and I get the Vue. It only takes me ~7 minutes to get to work so we won't rack up the miles. Even though we take turns driving places, it is my new car. We dropped off the '94 Ford Aerostar van to the father-in-law's house. Dan had been driving that for a couple of years now. I'm so glad we don't have the van anymore. It worked when it had to but it's old and sounds like crap. Enjoy the new car, we sure are!

Can I vent for a minute?

So I read a lot of news lately b/c I can't really find things to do with myself at my job. Some days I have things to test and other days I decorate my office. Anyway, I need to vent about Sarah Palin. I read an article describing a rally where a bunch of "soccer moms" attended. They were making comments like "she is just like us" and "she has flaws and she's telling people about them, she's just another working mom". Well, it's all well and good that she admits to having flaws. But if she's Vice President of the United States her flaws aren't going to be the same as Sally Smith's. Sally's flaw is that she burns the cookies for the PTA bake sales every time she bakes them. Not like the flaw of... I'm VP and the prez. just died. What does a vice president do again? Also the naughty librarian look is not working. She looks like one of those women in videos like Hot For Teacher. It's like they blindfolded McCain and spun him around like pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. He pointed and Sarah Palin won the prize. They don't even agree on some issues that are important to voters like spending, stem cell research and drilling in ANWAR. She also has contridicted herself with her comments on climate change. She's not clear on her views. These elections are getting worse than kids in middle school starting rumors. It makes me sad that is comes to ads and media hype every election. I will vote anyway.

My mom's 60th birthday

It's been a while. I had to post some pictures from my mom's surprise 60th birthday party. My sister, Pi, flew me down to Tampa for the long weekend. 2 aunts flew in as well. Add a cousin and you've got yourself a party! We had a great time and my mom had absolutely no idea that we were coming. My niece is awesome and I love her to death. I was worn out by the end of it. I made it home with only one problem on the flights. We had to turn around en route from Atlanta to Omaha b/c the de-icing mechanism was not working. New plane, back in the air, home late, but safe. It's all good. Enjoy!