Performers from a Santa school gather in London's Leicester Square.

Inauguration!

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I am so excited to be going to Washington DC in January! I will be there for the swearing in of our 44th President Barack Obama! My cousin is very graciously offering up her pad for me to come crash and spend a couple days with her! I am looking forward to spending time with her, and also to be amongst the thousands (possibly millions) of Americans to witness the transition of change(I can beleive in) and a historical event in our country!

Toys..

I know right now isn't the best time to be buying the newest hottest electronic gadget but I just couldn't help myself. Between Christmas coming up (I heard Christmas carols already in the stores) and the latest economic woes I wasn't sure if I should splurge or not, but that Oprah is just such a good saleswoman how could I not?

The newest, latest and greatest electronic that she couldn't even wait to show her audience until the "greatest things" show was the Amazon Kindle. I was so impressed with this device that I bought one for myself only a few days later (I used the Oprah coupon so I didn't have to pay full price.) So far I am very happy with it. I am fighting the urge to buy books left and right! I am trying to be disciplined and only buy books I am going to read at that moment, and not buy books that I want to read. Especially with it all right at my fingertips it could get costly if I just start buying books!! I am sure that I will write more as I learn more and more about the product. So far it is nice smooth easy reading, and so convenient.

So here is a quick overview on what the Amazon Kindle is in case you don't want to click on the link. It is essentially an e-book. You have over 190,000 book titles literally at your finger tips that you can buy and have downloaded to your Kindle in less than 1 minute! You don't ever have to sync it to your computer, or to anything for that matter it comes to you registered and ready to go. There are no monthly costs associated with it, no fees lurking to bilk you of all your money. You buy the device, you buy the books, DONE! The books are also a lot cheaper, not to mention you don't have to drive to the store, or the book doesn't have to be shipped to you, also no trees were hurt in the process for your Kindle book! This is truely the wave of the future for reading. Also another cool feature, if you don't know what a word is (yes I run into this often, and just move past it, and try and deduct a meaning) well have no fear, you can look it up on wikipedia through your Kindle and know what the word means right then and there! Pretty nice huh? Ok, I can feel the Oprah excitement coming on.... Before I run away with my excitement let me just wrap it up and say it is pretty cool!

Pledge..

I pledge on Nov 4th 2008 (Election day) to call 5 people and ask/remind/encourage them to vote! This is a very easy thing to do and just one more way to make sure we get out and vote!

Kickball Tournament

Saturday November 1st was the fall kickball tournament. Games started as early as 8:00am, it was an all day one loss elimination tourney. I packed a bag full of clothes, and layers to change into seeing as how we would be there all day and was supposed to continue to rain all day. It had rained most the night, and had been raining most the day by the time our first game rolled around. We gathered at the field confident we would beat our first team "The Pie Rats" seeing as how we had already beat them in the regular season. We started off a little slow going 3 up 3 down in the first 3 innings but both teams started to get warmed up finally in the 4th (some of the hangovers finally started to where off, actually I think they just got sick on the field. Ya it was pretty!) We were on a high going into the 7th inning, up by two and all we had to do was hold them.......3-4 we lost!!!! Ouch........