And I would really like to know . . .

why Blogger sometimes doesn't give me any paragraph spacing at all, and apparently saved all the spacing for that last post.

My experience as an elderly Floridian

Well, almost.





I went to vote today. And the system they used was a different one than I've used before. But, I consider myself a basically intelligent person, so I wasn't worried. Well, after marking my vote for Obama, the page didn't look any different. I had to really push part of the contraption that held the ballot down so that the ink would take. It was hard to see and a little awkward. I had to do that each time I voted for someone on that part of the machine.





I'm glad I got my voting done. I am pretty sure I didn't place any votes for Pat Buchanan. And I really appreciate Larry and Debbie watching James so I didn't have to take him along with me for the long lines on Tuesday.



In honor of voting today, here one of the best photos of when I "saw" Obama last February in St. Louis. It wasn't all my fault. I was shorter than the people in front of me, was very far back, and it was in a darkened stadium with bright lights facing me. And I was behind the stage. :-)

No photos of trick or treating. . . or storytime . . .

But here is one Blake took of us at the coffee shop after we went out for dinner Thursday. One of the servers took our picture at the restaurant, but this one is better. I finished the acrylic album I made at Archiver's as a gift for Blake, but found that we have very few pictures of us together lately. We appear to have stopped asking people to take our picture together, and we haven't been very good at the end of the arm shots. Until I realized what the problem was. We tended to look at the screen instead of the lens. Duh. So, this is a bit of an improvement.

We had a great time on our anniversary. The new restaurant down the street is ok, but we were both a little disappointed. But, it was so nice to relax with some drinks, eat our food in relative quiet, and then go for a coffee afterwards. And to return to a quiet home. Yep, James was with the grandparents! Yeah!

Blake left for LA early on Saturday for a conference and won't be back until Friday morning. He's having a good time and says he can see the Hollywood sign from his hotel. And that he saw Governor Arnold in the airport. Then he said he was kidding about that one.

So, James and I have been entertaining ourselves here. We went trick or treating in Independence with Shane and Katy and family on Saturday, which was fun. We didn't get to stay for the parade, though, because it was naptime and James kept wanting to sit on every step or bench he saw. Since that time, he has been enjoying his candy. When I let him have it. I find that it works well for bribes.

Today we went to storytime at Borders. He actually sat for most of it and had a great time. He especially liked the cookie at the end.

Blake has the camera, so all I have are a few pictures on a disposable one and my phone. I'd forgotten what a pain it is to not know how your picture looks when you take it AND to not be able to just take a million of them and delete.

4 Years Ago Today . . .

I needed work done on my car, so I went to a coffee shop while I waited. It was a political season then, too, and I was reading What's The Matter With Kansas. The guy at the next table asked me about it, and 4 years later I wake up to find this:




I had no idea how much meeting Blake that day was going to change my life, and I just couldn't be happier about it! Happy Anniversary, Blake!

It's Raining, It's Pouring

and that makes it boring here. We stayed in and drew pictures of dogs, danced with James' truck, and miscellaneous other things. Not too exciting.

Today's picture is from when my Mom visited recently. We went back to Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead. Here is James feeding the fish.

Neglect

I have been so neglectful of the blog lately. Not because there's anything wrong, or because we haven't done anything. Just not getting around to it. So, I'm not really going to try to catch up. I'm just going to try to start putting short little posts and a "picture for the day". Capture some of those images from Mom's recent visit and some of the things we've been doing.

So, today, James and I went to MOMS Club and that was about it! A pretty average day. Today's picture is from Oct. 4, when we went to the KC Renaissance Festival. I'm sure I'll have more pics posted from this. It was a lot of fun. I like this photo because Blake was so happy with his mead. He had the cold and the warm mead. He liked them both. I thought warm mead was nasty. In this photo, James is probably looking at the caterpillar that was crawling along the table.

And, Blake made some changes to his blog, I guess, because the link that first worked now doesn't (thanks, Mom). It is actually http://geekswithblogs.net/blake/Default.aspx I hope.

Learning a new system

Blake has started a blog!  http://geekswithblogs/blake And he is showing me the program he uses for his posts.  Apparently, I can use it too.  We shall see.  The tool is Windows Live Writer and I'm excited to use it!

Border Town

All of our tv stations come from the Kansas City area, which is in both Missouri and Kansas. Know what that means? Twice as many political ads! It's not bad enough that Missouri is a battleground state for the presidential contest, but I get to hear about all the ways that both Missouri and Kansas politicians are evil, and why I should vote for the opponent.

Just a few more weeks . . . I suppose I could turn off the tv . . . but after 2 years without it . . . nah.

There are more important things to talk about

But they will have to wait. I'm a little behind on things here. I spent most of yesterday looking for my keys. I knew at 6:30 am, when I wanted something out of my car, that they were missing. I looked everywhere, with the exception of digging through the trash. Blake said he'd help me look when he got home, so I thought we could do that task together.

Blake is always losing his keys, the card to the fitness center, etc. But, I do a pretty good job of putting mine in their spot. Or at least really close.

So, it was a long day, with me getting more and more annoyed and worried about where they might be.

I asked Blake if they might be in his car. He said no, and acted like he looked. During dinner, he remembered using them to go get his wallet out of my car Sunday. So, about 12 hours after noticing them missing, and going through every drawer and freezer here, he found them. In his car. He owes me! (But at least I continue with my record of not being the one to lose these things.)