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I Voted, My Kids Owe Me $100, and Closure
November 7, 2006
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Great. Now I’ve got some screwy version of “Ding Dong the Rhythm is Gonna Get You” in my head.
The kids are so darn cute. I’m glad the voting went well. And I’m glad the neighbor wasn’t stalking you. See? It all worked out.
A busload of elderly… sounds like something that would happen to me. It could have been worse, it could have been a busload of Elvis impersonators… or worse-yet, a busload of young republican Elvis impersonators.
And thanks Lumpyheadsmom… now I’ve got a screwy song in my head too…
I keep glancing at that pic of your kiddo in the hat, it’s totally cracking me up. You should hold that $50 thing against them when they’re older and asking you for money.
There’s something about being registered Green that causes Red States to lose their minds.
Every time I move or whatever and have to re-register my info gets lost and doesn’t arrive on time and I have to fill out the loser-who-didn’t-register-properly ballot, but I did I swear!
(This isn’t just Missouri, when we lived in Omaha they did the same thing. It’s enough to make me register Democrat)
I love it.
I am voting tonight!
Get that money from those kids before you let it slide.
This is embarassing, but Gabriel’s favorite song is “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, by Def Leppard . He makes me sing it to him and I have to personalize it for him too.
Glad you got to vote! Love Ian’s hat. Email me your address too, I have gifts for your kids!
I haven’t hardly thought about Ding Dong the Witch is Dead since someone I know sang it the night Nixon died. Now I’ll be thinking about a high school band. In a temple. And Nixon. Thanks, Sarah.
I’m glad she raked it your yard back when those slacker renters lived there. GOD KNOWS these renters, oh my what lay-abouts they are.
I don’t like your neighbor.
I’m afraid I can’t come visit unless I can TP her house.
Because I’m a renter, and that’s the sort of slatternly thing we do.
Your kid looks like Indiana Jones.
You have a leaf truck? What the hell is that? Like green-waste stuff?
I mow my leaves.
You think he’s wearing the hat as some sort of homage to K-Fed?
I can’t believe I just wrote “K-Fed.”
I remember the days of double-stroller voting. I was too much of a bitch to let anyone in front of me, even old folks, although I hope to be one someday.
So congrats to you!
I love the hat. Last time Noodle owed me money she gave me monopoly money.
If you do this everyday until they’re 30 you won’t even need social security to fund your retirement!
Haha!! My kids are wearing cowboy boots everywhere these days too. That hat rocks, by the way.
(And now I have Gloria Estefan in my head, thankyouverymuch.)
I love the hat! My 3 yo had cowboy boots with fringe, even, but she has refused to wear them. Her sisters long for them, though.
We voted in the evening, so past the bedtime of the seniors. We just see them all the time in the grocery store.
OMG, how cool would it be if Gloria Estafan was cast in The Wizard of Oz (or Wicked?). That would be perfect.
The hat totally rocks.. so does your neighbor, btw.
Congrats on VA (almost at this time) going Democrat. Exciting stuff.
PS How are you going collect the $100?
That hat? Is awesome. And? The Foot Book!!
The trip down memory lane with the 80′s music reminded me that yesterday we went to CiCi’s pizza (this is a buffet pizza restaraunt. Don’t get me started on what I think of buffet and pizza in the same description as it is enough to make me want to hurl, but my son likes this place and so does his friends. Nuff said.) while standing in line I catch the music and it is a song by The Cure. Myself and two young sons listening to The Cure as background music in a cheap pizza buffet place is not what I would have ever envisioned 20 years ago.
Did Ian go as Freddie Kruger for halloween?
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I love the hat, he does look like Freddie Kruger though…
The foot book. The only appropriate literature for booting a Senator from office who probably can’t even read at Dr. Seuss level.
what a charming story. i just love that your kids love the gloria estefan song, because as i recall, you despise here!?! am i wrong?
i meant you despise her – you get it
Petunia’s current request is “It’s a Hard Knock Life” from Annie, and she gets stuck on the “‘Stead of kisses, we get kicks” and just keeps repeating that line over and over and over again.
And it may get me flamed and most certainly means I am going to hell, but I wish Gloria Estefan had died in that bus crash fifteen years ago.
Way to go, Sarah. Congrats on doing your part for a better tomorrow (today). And I just heard about Rumsfeld! Ding Dong the Witch Really IS Dead!!!!
Good for you for sticking it out at the voting place! I know it’s hard with little ones. This year, we traded off kid-watching duties while the other went to vote because we were afraid we’d have to wait a long time with cranky, hungry kids.
And that hat is WAY cute!
You’re voting experience was way more exciting then mine. I just stood in line for twenty minutes with complete strangers, then gave my name to a 400 year old woman who couldn’t hear a damn word I was saying, and then finally got to vote. There was no marching band or crazy neighbors. Now I feel cheated.