little bit of crazy leaking out

Portrait of a Sheep with Ear Tag, Pennsylvania

The rules: Are posted at the beginning. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer. Play nice, children.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago? 

10 years ago we were childless (and chickenless), hubby and I were living in Tacoma with two dogs and three cats,  I was commuting to Gig Harbor where I worked as a drafter for a local telephone company and I was really into scrapbooking.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today- not in any particular order?

Laundry, dishes, finish building the raised garden beds,  clean off the dining room table, and bathe the kids.

3. Snacks I enjoy.

Yes.

4. Places I’ve lived-

Seattle, Edmonds, Seattle, Gig Harbor, Tacoma, Seattle, Lynnwood
(all in Washington State)

5. Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Start up that fiber commune I’ve rambled on about to my knitting group.

6. What are some jobs you’ve had:

Babysitter, pizza maker, gas station cashier on the graveyard shift, retail (photo lab, book stores, Radio Shack, women’s clothing, craft store), drafter, and mom (don’t even try and tell me that’s not a job).

7. Peeps I want to know more about:

Emma, Betty, Annie, Terri, Debi, and Jeanne

Read this, it’s important.  If it makes you angry pass it on.

Did you feel the world stop rotating today about 10:30am (pacific time)?  You did?  I’m not surprised.  Want to know what happened?

Here it is.

My dad said he might vote for Obama!

I know, I’m shocked too.  You’re not, oh, I guess I should explain.  My dad is very conservative, but not religious.  He’s a hunter, gun rights advocate, and NRA member.  He is a pull yourself up by the bootstraps kind of guy, he comes from a very poor background but I enjoyed a middle-class upbringing because he did pull himself up.  For the most part he feels if he did it there is no reason anyone else can’t do it, and his political views mirror that.  The last time he voted for a democrat was JFK, so it’s been a while. 

Today Dad came over for a visit and while we were talking about the caucus yesterday he piped up with, “I’m seriously thinking of looking into voting for Obama if McCain gets the nomination.”  Now, coming from my dad, he might as well have said he was going to dance naked under the next full moon (and really, we don’t want that).  After I picked my chin up off the ground we started talking about what was holding him back from voting for Obama, and it turns out Dad wanted to know about his stand on gun control.  I hopped onto the internet and printed out a page on Supporting the Rights and Traditions of Sportsmen (pdf), Dad was pleased with statement “He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting.” 

By the time he left I think he was pretty much convinced.  He did make it clear that there was no way he would vote for Hillary Clinton, he may dislike McCain enough to look at voting for Obama, but I think hell would have to freeze over for him to vote for Hillary. 

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