Perpetual Smile

In the last two days I’ve become hopelessly addicted to grape Kool-Aid. I bought a box of those little packets you can add to your water, and that’s all I’ve been drinking. The point was to save some money — I buy a cup of coffee every morning — but now I think I’ll end up homeless, and all because of Kool-Aid.

My cat has found herself an addiction, as well. I bought a pack of Doublemint gum and keep it in my purse. Last night she pulled it out of my open purse and was chewing on it. I put it away and zipped up the purse, but this morning I found the purse knocked aside as if she’d been rubbing her face on it. This afternoon she sat so close to the purse I thought she was going to OD. I think she likes the way the mint smells, but it’s really funny. I put the purse next to her this evening and she rubbed her face all over it and then looked mad when I took it away. Spearmint, apparently, is her crack.

So, tomorrow is the election. I really think that Obama is going to win. I won’t be mad if McCain wins, because I think they could both do a great job, but I really believe that Obama is going to make changes here at home, and that is what we need. I don’t really dislike anyone in this race, which was what made it so hard. Tomorrow will be the first time I am voting, and Mike is voting too. He has never voted and is “tired of rich white guys” running the joint. The really tough part about this race was, like Secondhand Karl said, there was hardly any talk about the issues. I think Obama talked more about the issues than McCain did.

Anyway, politics are boring. How about those jack-o-lantern pictures I promised?

Mom, Lauren and I made a jack-o-lantern

Glowing in the dark!

Sadly we didn’t light it on Halloween (Mom brought it to my aunt’s house for the baby) but we had a lot of fun carving it. It was the first time we’d done a pumpkin in a few years. I designed it but when we went to carve it out it all went downhill! Still, we had a lot of fun doing it, and I guess that’s what matters. Next year I’ll have to design something with less teeth.