Only the Fools Jump

UPDATED with More Photos. Intermixed with the previous.

So, that's an item off my bucket list.

I think I'll do that again.




I have always wanted to skydive, and I've had a huge desire to do this over the last few summers, and I made it a vow that I would go skydiving this summer, after we graduated, as a gift to myself. It did become largely that, a release for the crap i had to put up with, and a reward to myself for not completely losing my mind.

Well, the fact that I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane might be the first sign that I've completely lost my mind. Hah!


this is Jim, who owns the establishment. A part of me wanted to go by myself, but I'm glad I went tandum because I wouldn't have had a clue as to how to do this, there is a lot to know and he walked me through it.


Practicing jumping out of the plane, I was really nervous and giddy with excitement. Heheh


In the airplane. Some of the pictures blurred, but I was getting ready to jump out for real.


They give you a series of steps you have to go through to successfully jump out of an airplane, but when you jump, sometimes everything escapes your brain as the only thing you can think about is "I'm jumping out of an Airplane!!!"


The soumersaults followed. And spinning in the air as you hit terminal velocity.




Look, I'm UPSIDE DOWN!!!



The air just wraps around your cheeks, and you look a little like a freak. But hell, adreneline is pumping, blood rushing, this is a freakin' TRIP!!! Holy cow, you can't believe you did it!







Checking altitude, you have to be at the right point to pull that ripcord.


The landing, again, a little blurred *sighs* but we landed like pros, on the ground and no falling on my face.


I should go through the windblown look more often. It's very becoming on me, don't you think?


That, right there. all I can think is 'hooah!'

Now excuse me, I need to go sign up to jump again.

Edit skydiving twice in one day will kind of make one nauseous. But yes, I will have to do this again in the not to distant future!

Because the first pictures blurred a bit, and I signed up for a second jump, they took some more pictures. the camera they took it with is very similar to my Canon, so I showed them how to fix the settings. Can you tell which ones were taken on the second jump?

I don't know why I like this picture, but it might be the casual candidness of it.

(Arch your back when you come out of that plane!)
Kentucky Skydive

7 Questions

My sister tagged me. I've done memes like this before but whatever, let's see how that answers differ from the last one.

Question #1: Where were you 10 years ago?
I was in my senior year in high school. I was a suitable nerd for high school standards, having no sense of style and just kind of a bit of an outsider. Didn't really have a clique per say, I mostly floated around.

Question #2: What's on your to-do list today (this list includes today and tomorrow morning's list)?
1. Clean House
2. Finish posting the Kilo pictures
3. Watch Drillbit Taylor and Forbidden Kingdom and return to video rental.
4. Fine tune vacation plans
5. Buy another travel book from Barnes and Noble
6. Clean out the car
7. Skydive
8. Do Laundry

Question #3: What if you were a billionaire?
I would go to school to get the job I've always wanted, travel the world at my whim, and eat lot's of sushi.

Question #4: Name 5 places you've lived.
1. Winnemucca, Nevada
2. Colusa California
3. Spokane, Washington
4. San Antonio, Texas
5. Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo

Question #5: What are 3 bad habits you have?
hahaha...only three?
1. Surfing the internet when there are far more productive things I could be doing, and rechecking the same sites just to see if they have updated.
2. I talk to myself. People often wonder if I'm crazy. I'm willing to confirm it.
3. I pick. At anything and everything. Not necessarily my nose, but I have a tendency to pick, especially if I'm deep in thought. If I don't to much and keep my hands busy, I don't pick.

Question #6: What kind of snacks do you like?
Sushi. I love sushi. I also like to curl up with a bowl of cheerios and raisins. Bagels with creme cheese. I also like an english muffin with a bit of turkey and some mayonaise. And hot cocoa on a cool day, or chocolate milk on a warm day.

Question #7: Who will you tag??
I don't tag. But if you do it, tell me in the comments and I will check it out!

Meme Time, Arrgh. . .

ARRGH! It be INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE Day!

Ahoy there, mateys! I got me a meme to accomplish today. Arrgh.

MEME INSTRUCTIONS:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes.
Don't fix your hair.
Just take a picture.
Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don't go posting an eight megapixel image.)
Include these instructions.



There be nobody to credit for this meme, because everybody be doing it. Arrgh.

I be just completing me physical training when I took this here photograph.




I cannot do a pirate accent. To bad the joes are gone, I would have fine tuned it.

Sarah Palin Name Generator

One thing that has a lot of people talking is Sarah Palin's unusual choice of names for her children. Honestly, I like a little unusual-ness in names, its always fun when you are an Emily or a Jason and you go to school with fifteen other Emilys and Jasons (though it appears these names are no longer as popular lately).

So, what would your name be if your mother was Sarah Palin?

Click here for the Sarah Palin Name Generator

Kami Erickson, if you were born to Sarah Palin, your name would be:
Bullet Bodycheck Palin

Hahah, PERFECT!

I love it!

Why couldn't my parents name me something cool like Bullet Bodycheck???

(actually, I couldn't imagine having a name like that. I'll stick to my own, danke.)

Underground Fighting

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

I saw this a few weeks ago, and it made me laugh out loud.

I kind of saw it coming though.

Hey, found it online!

This website is somewhat addictive

Women and Firearms

Warning - This Post is Rambly
I've been reading a lot of right wing blogs lately, mostly because I like to keep up on the latest going ons of the political season, and for some reason I get particularly energized during presidential election years (and pretty much ignore politics the rest of the time).

Actually, I think I would be more of a political blogger if I wasn't in the military, but my military standing keeps me neutral in the scheme of things, though by all rights I will say that I will most likely vote McCain/Palin and snicker at the multiple fallings of the Obama/Biden ticket lately.

However, with all of this energized talk of Sarah Palin and what she adds to the ticket, I find it interesting about how people talk about her because of her stance on gun issues. Here is a woman that actively goes out and fires weapons all of the time. And hunts.

Is a woman who uses firearms really that big of a rarity? Is shooting a rifle considered a predominantly male hobby? It seems like people are talking about Sarah Palin and her love of guns as an abnormality, and thereby some people have been referring to her as a hick and ignorant, because, well, only rednecks like firearms, right?

So she has been villified on the left, glorified on the right, here is a female politician, a woman, who is very outspoken on gun rights, is a member of the NRA, and actively goes out and hunts moose.

Granted, I'm not much of a hunter myself (I, like a lot of girls, like soft furry woodland creatures and feel a little guilty at the thought of killing them, but I won't say no to venison, as long as I'm not the one shooting it)

So, where does that leave us women that actually do like guns? Is the love of something that goes bang really that monopolized by the male gender? I mean, from my own experience on the subject, and becoming semi famous for toting around an M203 with a look on my face that I want to cause you bodily harm, I had a lot of guys who seemed to oggle the fact that here is a girl who can hold her own (sort of), but more importantly, liked to go out and fire weapons. Because it's a hobby. It's fun! Why the bloody hell not?

Guys aren't the only ones who are allowed to enjoy the power that handling a firearm can bring, and besides, if you really think about it, do you know how much safer this world would be if everyone knew how to fire a gun? Who would actually want to rob anybody at the thought that they might easily get shot?

So, is that the appeal of Sarah Palin by those on the right? It must be something along the lines of having that awe of femininity while being interested in something men are as well, that being firearms. And hunting.

And then there is the left. Is that the same reason why she causes such a raw intensity of hatred, because she embraces guns, manages a family of five children, one of which has down syndrome, without considering the impact that it might cause on mother earth, and so happens to have a successful political career? Wait, weren't career women a strict Democratic Demographic?

You can't be a woman and be a politician, and be FOR GUNS, while having children in the house. What kind of woman are you? You are supposed to nurture and love, not want to kill things.

Indeed, one of the reasons why I like Sarah Palin so much is I can identify with her.

But I also can say I liked guns before Sarah Palin made it cool for women to like guns.

My Listy List of Lists

Alright, so I like to do posts about lists, quite a bit actually. Despite being a highly disorganized, very hight strung individual, I often times like to write down goals of what I hope to accomplish, and hope to someday accomplish them.

Take for instance my new years resolution. I generally write my resolutions down January 1st and then I don't really look at them until the following January 1st. For the record, I just looked at them and I'm already on epic fail mode. But I'll discuss that on January 1st.

In the great tradition of lists, seeing as my time has been freed up quite significantly, I rented The Bucket List and it got me to thinking about how I would like to make a list of things to do before I die, or just things to do in my lifetime, what I want to accomplish, whatever. Because things to do before I die does sound a bit morbid.

I could have sworn I had blogged about this before, but I am having difficulty finding that particular post.

Hmm. . .

BTW, I surfed the internet looking for things that interested me. Some of these may never be attainable, but who knows? Life is short, but a lot can happen. Some items are big, others are miniscule. But they are all things I would like to do before I die.
THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE

• Step foot on every continent.
  
• Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
  
• Walk along the Great Wall of China.
  
• Go on an African Sufari
  
• Visit Dubrovnic, Croatia
  
• See the Louvre
  
• Backpack across a country
  
• Scuba Dive the Barrier Reef
  
• Climb the Pyramids in Egypt
  
• Go to all 50 States
  
• Hike the Grand Canyon from one side to the other
  
• See the Statue of Liberty
  0 - Adventure:
  
• Swim with Dolphins
  
• Learn to play the Guitar
  
• Write a novel and get it published
  
• Illustrate a Children's book
  
• Learn to Surf
  
• Bungee Jump
  
• Sky Dive
  
• Paraglide
  
• Get my Pilots License
  
• Compete in a Triatholon
  
• Earn My Wings
  
• Run Bloomsday in under an Hour
  
• Run a Half Marathon
  
• Run a Marathon
  
• Participate in an Improv Everywhere Project
  
• Do a trick, in the air, on a snowboard. And don't kill myself doing it.
  
• Max the APFT at least once before getting out of the army.
  
• 100 push-ups
  
• Make up to Combatives Level 3
  
• Take up a Martial Art
  
• Be an Extra in a Movie (and actually show up in the completed film)
  
• Take a Photography Course
  
• Learn Archery
  
• Fence
  
• Learn to Juggle
  
• Learn how to dance (swing, salsa, tango, all that jazz)
  
• Get a belly dancing outfit and learn how to belly dance.
  
• Learn to speak German Fluently
  
• Do a 24 Hour Comic
  
• Participate in Nanowrimo successfully.
  
• Marry my Best Friend
  

OFF THE LIST

• Drive Across America
  
• See Europe
  
• Ride in a Gondola in Venice, Italy
  
• Ride a horse on the beach
  
• Spend the summer in a National Park
  
• Go to Oktoberfest in Munich Germany
  
• Buy a DSLR Camera
  
• Do a Webcomic
  
• Paint a Self Portrait
  
• Ride in a Helicopter

Some sources of inspiration?
The Best article - 50 Things to Do before you Die
Your100Things
2do before i die
100 Things by Squido

This is a work in progress. I'll keep adding as I go.

Military Motivators

I found this blog called Military Motivators earlier this summer and wanted to post something on it, but since i was kind of given an ultimitum of posting anything military related, I just kept mum on the subject.

Unfortunately, the blog was taken down, because the military apparently wants to thwart anything that might be related to military matters on the internet. No matter what.

One of the reasons why I have been mum on the subject. And I continue to be mum on the subject.

Still, you can find a few of them online, you just have to google 'em.

some of my favorites.




There were a few others, but I can't seem to find them *sighs*

I made a few of my own, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post them. that, and they are more along the lines of demotivational parody posters, and they use pictures of the troop we just got finished training.

Yeah, I post them, I'll get hosed. So I'll post the one that you can't really tell who it is. Besides, the subject getting his head thwacked is getting out, so its not like he's going to be targeted by some terrorist group who saw him get knocked out on the internet somewhere.



I did about a half dozen of these, maybe one day *when i get out, hah!* I'll post the rest of them.

Parody Motivators HERE!

The Plan is in Play

I don't know what is going on with me at the moment. I don't think anybody really knows what is going on with me at the moment.

But suddenly, today I realized something.

I've got 15 days of paid vacation. That's just over two weeks, where I can go and do whatever I want. I need to either take it while working (and after next week, I'm not going to be doing a whole lot) or I can get it paid out when I leave here.

I was thinking about this in one of three ways. One, I can continue to work off the rest of my orders, not sure what they are going to have me do in the meantime, and pay off my vacation time at the end (where I'll get the most money, but however, I won't be getting a much needed break), I can refrad early and go home asap, and pay out my vacation (which is what I was thinking about doing, long story, tell it to you some other time) or I can stay to the end, and take my vacation NOW.

There is an upside to the latter plan. See, if I do the second plan, its kind of hectic to go back east to go back west, but if I take my leave NOW (or rather, in the next couple of weeks), I can plan my vacation around that instead.

And believe me, a vacation is much needed at this time.

Also, it has sparked an excitement in me as I think about this. 'ooh! A vacation! I'm in Kentucky, and DC is only ten hours away!'

Yes, my friends, I am plotting a Road Trip as we speak. I've got to get the fine details plotted out, but it basically entails me, my car, my camera, and a debit card to pay for the gas. I'm thinking of doing a loop, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio.

I really want to see some historical landmarks, Jamestown is on the list of places to see, as is Gettysburg. Of course, there's the Capital, and I would love to see New York. Granted, I could probably spend my entire two weeks in either of those places, but seeing as I have a limited amount of money and want to see as much as I can in two weeks as possible, I think I'm going to limit those two cities to three days (possibly more depending on how much I decide to cut out of the trip)

But as my mother can attest, when it comes to planning these things, I can cram as much crap into as little time as humanly possible.

Now I have to figure out what to do about lodging.

So, any recommendations of what i should see in particular?

Bored?

I think I need to bookmark this page.

Lately, I come home and don't have anything to do. I think i need to start getting creative. Or something. . .

Create a Painting

Click here to create your own painting.

Ok, that is completely and utterly random.

You answer a bunch of questions related to your mood and what you like and it spits something out.

I found this on Bored.com and thought I would give it a shot. It just looks like some random generator took a few brushes out of Adobe Photoshop and puked them on the screen. And is that supposed to be a bird disappearing into the maroon horizon?

Call me skeptical. But somehow I don't think this could be classified as Art.

Yearbook Yourself!

You know when you get into those moments of insanity where boredom strikes, you know you are supposed to be working but bloody hell, you have been working for 14 weeks and you can't do anything any how until somebody else gets with you on what you need to do so for crying out loud, you are going to go surf yourself some internets and find out more about what the left has to say about Sarah Palin.

Or you can be like me and find yourself on amusing websites like YearbookYourself.com. where you can poke fun at yourself to your endless expense. And I'm very good at poking fun at myself.

So you have a gob of pictures taken through the ages, from 1950 to 2000, and you upload a picture of yourself looking straight into the camera (or therabouts) and off you go.

Of course, first you must find yourself the perfect picture. I had a hard time coming up with this part because most of my pictures are not here, but on my desktop back home.

So I had to make do with the ones of me using my point and click and snapping pictures of myself. Because, well, usually I'm bored when I do this.


this was taken in one of those 'man, do I really have to go to work today?' phases where I just didn't give a flying rat's behind. It was a linen day, so sue me if I just wanted to crawl under the table in my living room and crash for the entire day (I'm good at doing that when i have my few hours off by wasting them crashed out on the couch somewhere, and not even the excuse of having drunk myself into oblivion the night before. No, really, I'm that boring.)

Well, I'm looking at the camera right? So, this one works, right?

If you like the whitewashed look, perhaps. But otherwise, not jiving with it.

For kicks and giggles, I decided to try my infamous 'NOT SORRY FOR VOTING BUSH INTO THE WHITEHOUSE' gung ho kickass pose that made me semi famous for all of fifteen minutes and the scourge of liberal nutcases in the Democratic Underground.


Hehe, sorry, couldn't help myself. For some reason, a chick with a 203 larger then herself looks alright making that face, but when you superimpose that on a wholesome 50's gal, something comes quite off about it.


I could never rock that hairstyle. thankfully, I was born in the 80's.

Or is that a good thing?



Yikes!


What is with the uniforms? I'm telling you, I'm low on pictures right now. But I decided maybe if I toned down the look of "I will slaughter you using only my eyes" and see if that might work a little better.



It's doable. But of course, I wouldn't want to have the gloom and doom picture on my highschool yearbook, and I don't think that was the fashion in '76.

Well, I don't have access to my own high school pictures (they are awful, I had no fashion sense whatsoever) however, I do have (in the theme of this post seeing all of my pictures are in uniform) my military pictures.

Including my basic training pic. Heheh.


Yes, before the beret, there was the garrison cap. It had other less PC names as well. I won't go into detail.

But, well, the cap is kind of in the way.


Whoever thought those glasses were sexy? Some fads just need to stay dead, and I hope the horn rimmed glasses remain a thing that stays dead in the past.

But that damn garrison cap.


Back in 2005, when I decided it would be a brilliant idea to chop my hair off (and then I spent the next year trying to grow it out, but look, I'm actually SMILING), I took this picture. A rarity, I know. But it's nearly head on, and the tone of the picture isn't so off that it completely whitewashes these hideous pictures. And what's more, they actually WORKED!

Except for a couple came out with Double Chins. heheh, scary how some of these are fairly accurate depictions of what I would look like if I was in that era

from 1950 - 2000


Um, those last two are '98 and '00. And I graduated in '99?
I think I'll take my senior pic, thanks.



I wish I had a larger image online (that I knew where it was)

PS - I think I could totally work the 'fro, doncha think?

Kentucky Horse Park

sometimes my camera is too smart.

It has an auto focus feature, but sometimes focusing on the wrong object. Like those fascinating trees in the background.

Anyway, this morning was a very grey morning, and I have learned that overcast days will play an important part to how your pictures come out. I also need to get a cleaning kit for my camera.

I spent a good majority of my day in Lexington, at the Kentucky Horse Park. I have heard of this place and had decided that I wanted to visit it since I am here in Kentucky.

See, I am a girl, and sometimes I even act like one too. and it is a known fact that about 87% of the female population likes horses*, kind of like how the same proportion of the male population likes motorcycles.** Well, I love horses, so i spent the day taking pictures of them.

No, I didn't get any pictures of myself. I just got lots of pictures of random strangers on their horses.


I took about 700 pictures, every now and then you just keep taking pictures because sometimes when you take 200, you get that one that is just cool. Like this one. This is an Akhal Teke, which is a breed of horse that is highly spirited and very rare. the cremello coloring was what won me over. But I still remain a devout fan of Buckskins.



I think if I could learn to do anything horse related, it would be to learn how to jump 'properly' on a horse. I took dressage lessons for a bit back in 2006, but when I felt I was starting to go backwards, I stopped doing them. Maybe one day, when I have my life figured out, i'll learn how to jump a horse. But I ain't getting any younger. Besides, Skydiving is a higher priority on my 'bucketlist'.


But i still took lots of shots of random people jumping their horses. Lot's of jumping shots.


Truthfully, what I would really like to do is cross country, which is when you get on a horse and just race it along a course and jump over obstacles along your way. Why does this sound like a load of fun? Well, because One: racing a horse along the countryside is always a lot of fun and Two: Jumping over obstacles.

Plus you get to run through water. Just sounds like a lot of fun to me. And not nearly as showy and formal as show jumping.

Meanwhile, more random Horse Pictures.


More Akhal teke, in costume. I have always been fascinated by these horses


Little mini horse, pulling a cart. The buckskin paint is my favorite color on a horse.


Funky Ears. This kind of horse has a name, but it aludes me, and I'm to lazy to search the internet for it.


stick your tongue out at me. damn, how did I cut off it's nose? Maybe because I had the super zoom lens on? That might have something to do with it.


Just like the eye shots.


I love using the Macro lens.

I got a gob more pictures (like, 700+) but something tells me that most people might start to zone out once you start posting more then a coule dozen, so here is some of my favorites I took.

*this statistic was pulled out of my ass and is not based on any scientific findings regarding the percentage of the female population related to their love of horses, but it's still probably fairly accurate.

**When doing a survey, I asked roughly twelve random males in the army in the 17-36 age range if they liked motorcycles. Only one came back stating that they didn't particularly care for them (the 36 year old representative no less) while the rest enthusiastically stated their support for two wheeled motorized vehicular transportation.

What to Do?

Holy crap!

I've got the entire weekend off.

Specifically, I have been ordered NOT to come in this weekend. For any reason. Unless it's an emergency.

What am I to do with myself?

I'm thinking Lexington. Or Nashville. One of the two. Maybe both?

Now, I need to fish up somebody to go with me. That I don't see as Stalker material.

Damn, it sucks when everyone you know in the area is either married, in a relationship, working, or a Private.

The RNC

Did I mention how much I like Sarah Palin?

Let me reiterate how much I like her. By saying I really really REALLY like her.

No, I said that already.

For some reason my cable isn't working (not that I watch tv ever but now and then it is nice) so i had to streamline the RNC on my laptop, using my really poor internet connection so it was choppy at times, but what a terrific speech!

I may have mentioned I like Sarah Palin before, but I think its not so much of her being a woman, its the type of woman she is. And with all of the crap going on in the news about her right now, especially with her oldest daughter and what that poor girl has to go through having been thrust in the limelight, really there are some on the left who are beginning to disgust me.

I would like to see where this campaign goes, but I think the McCain / Palin ticket can only go up from here. They are attacking Palin, when it only brings out the obvious discrepencies in Obama's own run for president.

I'll keep the political commentary to a minimum, being in the service and all they like us to keep a non partisan viewpoing on matters, but still, I had a reluctant idea of who I was going to vote for before, but now I know I will be voting with pure conviction now.

Who'da thought that the choice of VP would shake things up this much?

Theme Parks and Loner-dom

So, since roughly Mid June, I have had exactly two full days off.

The first day was a sunday. I had nothing to do because everyone was in the field and I couldn't get out there to join them, because I suck at driving.

So I stayed home that day and did absolutely nothing.

Except maybe sleep a lot.

The next full day I had off was today.

I slept in until about sevenish.

Then I decided to use my pass to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom so I decided to try to get there as close to opening time as possible. I got there roughly 0930, only to discover that they don't open until eleven.

So I went to a flea market instead. I hadn't eaten breakfast, so I looked for something to eat.

I bought a slim jim and a charlston chew.

Remind me never to get a slim jim again. And I don't have much of a sweet tooth so I ended up eating about half of the charleston chew before tossing both away.

I waited in line to go ride roller coasters for about thirty minutes. really, I came for the roller coasters and the water park. I discovered recently that I can't stomach twirly rides that spin you around.

I hit up three roller coasters in under an hour. Because Kentucky Kingdom was actually a little on the dead side for being a holiday weekend.

that can actually be quite nauseating.

Why is it the older you get, the less fun things as a kid are? I used to LOVE roller coasters. I still enjoy them, but they aren't as nearly as fun anymore.

So I bought a swimming suit and decided to hang out in the water park for a while. Except I am a loser who came here by myself. See, everyone else popped smoke on friday except for the CQ. And me. Because apparently I'm the only one who can track 1100 pieces of TA 50 that needs to be turned in on Tuesday so I've been coming in every day except for today to make sure it is ready to turn in.

HAH!

So excuse the dour mood if I didn't really have anybody to go with. But it is definitely one of those places that you don't go hang out at by yourself. You take somebody to hang out with.

Everyone I know is either to busy to go do things like this with, popped smoke on Friday and I have no clue where they are, married to another person and hanging out with me would look inappropriate, or in training and therefore, well, off limits for these kinds of things. But I can guarantee that the last demographic would have gone in a heartbeat.

Besides, I don't think anybody in training needs to see me in a bikini. I've been in uniform every day this summer. I think I blinded a few people with my pale swedish skin that saw sun for the first time in months this afternoon.

Yeah, I think next time I decide to go to a theme park, I'll drag somebody along with me. Regardless of how reluctant they are to go. I'll just plan it better.

Yes, I think this summer has finally taught me that socializing from time to time is a good thing! A very good things.

Now I should probably get to bed. I got a crap load of TA 50 to turn in in the morning.

McCain / Palin for the Win!

So, I've been kind of watching this political season from afar, starting with the primaries and finding the war between Clinton and Obama amusing, but overall not exactly thrilled with the choice I was given. For a while, I wanted Obama over Clinton, becuase I just don't trust Clinton, but the more I learned about Obama, the less I liked him. And Clinton was looking better and better as the Democratic Nominee.

But that left the conservative nominee being McCain, who isn't as conservative as I would like him to be. I like his stance on Pork projects (in that he hates pork) and the military, but there are a lot of things about him that I didn't like. It was making the third party candidates look more and more inviting, but I was becoming more and more of an Anybody but Obama voter, which would make me a freakin' hypocrit because I can't stand the thought of voting against somebody. I prefer to vote for somebody.

Well, the talk of the week is McCain's choice in his VP Pick of Sarah Palin. I didn't know much about her before she was picked, though I had heard her name mentioned. And when I found out that she was the Republican VP Nominee, I did my research on her and I have to admit something. I Like Her. And when I say I like her, I really really REALLY like her.

I mean, seriously, this is my kind of woman. She's a true conservative, she's honest, she doesn't play traditional politics, what you see is what you get. And she is a gun nut and lives what she believes. I can respect this woman, and I am not a feminist by any means. I believe that there are some jobs that men are better at doing then woman are, and not every woman is qualified for certain jobs. But some have the credibility to do certain jobs and I would vote for the right woman and this is just the type of woman I would vote for.

Palin adds a lot to the ticket. and it says something about McCain and the direction he may take us (and perhaps leaning more into conservative stances on issues) by choosing Palin as his running mate. I hope this is a clue as to where he plans on taking his presidency should he get elected, but as I watch the Obama / Biden ticket start to flounder and sink (hopefully? Remember, I actually posted a post rooting for Obama until I learned more of his policies and realized how horrible he would be for this country) I can just hope that I won't be let down should McCain and Palin get elected into office.

The political season has just picked up more gusto. yeah, I'm a little late on things, but come on! I work 16 hour days and just got my second day off since mid June today. I have every right to be a little late on the blogging front.