Thoughts as of late

Lately, I’ve had many thoughts on many different topics…and of course I haven’t kept up on my blogging so now I choose to blog about most or all of them (we’ll see how I feel as I continue on).

On Tuesday we got a new President! I’m waiting in hopeful anticipation at what these next four years will reveal. On a side note: Michelle Obama majored in sociology…I knew I liked her.

Here’s my political rant:

• Today, I was looking on CNN.com and I see a thing that says Limbaugh wants Obama to fail. What an idiot. You can’t have the President fail and at the same have policy changed/fixed that will better the country.
• For some reason, I had the urge to watch Fox News on inauguration night – I guess I was curious to see what they were saying. Well…some political person on Fox stated that one of Obama’s first executive orders would be to expand funding of abortion in other countries. And that we have too liberal of President. Well actually, the first executive orders given out by Obama were to close Guantanamo Bay and ban torture.

Here’s my personal thoughts:

• I’m not quite sure when it happened but it did…someone called me a yuppie and preppy. For the last 4 years, I’ve tried hard not to be. I’m not sure why. I guess because whenever someone said it to me it wasn’t in positive connotation…always meaning something I really didn’t want to be. Even during high school I didn’t necessarily want to be labeled as that but I never tried to avoid it either. Recently, I walked into a women’s transitional housing. I felt completely out of place. I actually felt like a fraud. In recent memory, I can’t remember feeling like that. I’ve felt a lot of different emotions walking into situations like that, but never a fraud.
• My last post about DSHS allowed me to finally release everything I had been feeling for so long. I haven’t felt this free in a long time! It was the first time I’ve ever been able to say enough to feel like I’ve said everything. I never realized how much weight I was carrying around with me every day – all the pain of nine months finally released in one afternoon of blogging at Forza. Thank You Jesus!
• There is this older couple sitting on the couch by me at Forza. I can’t help but think of my grandparents. I miss them. But I am thankful for moments like this when I see love and all I can think about is my grandparents.
• I saw Revolutionary Road last night. While I probably wouldn’t watch it for fun or again, I thought it was a good movie. I remember this one line in the movie by Kate Winslet when she asked who made up these rules (or something like that). ahh! I love my soc degree so much! So much!

More politics:

• I read the letter in the Wall Street Journal from Barbara and Jenna Bush to Sasha and Malia Obama. I thought it was very touching letter.

"And finally, although it's an honor and full of so many extraordinary opportunities, it isn't always easy being a member of the club you are about to join. Our dad, like yours, is a man of great integrity and love; a man who always put us first. We still see him now as we did when we were seven: as our loving daddy. Our Dad, who read to us nightly, taught us how to score tedious baseball games. He is our father, not the sketch in a paper or part of a skit on TV. Many people will think they know him, but they have no idea how he felt the day you were born, the pride he felt on your first day of school, or how much you both love being his daughters. So here is our most important piece of advice: remember who your dad really is."