Welcome to the Family!

A week ago today, we adopted a new member of our family- Sarah Tedesco Perez! Our little Madeleine had been quite sad and in need of a new guinea pig friend. So, after some exhaustive searching and planning, we drove down to the Cavy House rescue in La Honda with Madeleine so she could pick out a friend. We were hoping she'd be a match with Ernie, but alas no.

Madeleine and Sarah seemed to take to each other at the rescue- Maddie would follow Sarah and they sat in a little hiding spot together and ate some lettuce. However, things went sour when we got home. Since both piggies were used to being by themselves, there was some disagreement as to the hierarchy. It was a total guinea pig throwdown. A lesser person would've filmed it and put it on YouTube.

Long story short, the pigs spent a bunch of time in side by side cages but are now in one big (divided) open air pen. They are together during floor time and get along alot better, although there still is chattering and it is our hope that they will get used to each other and be buddies soon.

I must admit, the picture is misleading. Politely put, Sarah is not that petite in person. She's big. I mean Biiiiiig. She has been nicknamed "Chubs" and "Fatty". She is however super sweet and easy to handle and just chill about everything.

Madeleine seems happy to have friend and Sarah, well, Sarah likes to eat. Jen and I however, are quite happy and feel our little pig family is complete.

Scratch that!

When I said that I didn't have a big problem with McCain, I hadn't yet read this. So........ Yep, it's a problem. A big one. Definitely. A biiiiiiiig problem. Huge.

Quote:

"Q:President Bush believes that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt children. Do you agree with that?
Mr. McCain: I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no I don’t believe in gay adoption.

later in the interview........

Mr. McCain: I encourage adoption and I encourage the opportunities for people to adopt children I encourage the process being less complicated so they can adopt as quickly as possible. And Cindy and I are proud of being adoptive parents.
Q: But your concern would be that the couple should a traditional couple
Mr. McCain: Yes. "

Well, I'm going to go and give Madeleine some treats. That is, unlike John McCain doesn't feel that I am good enough to have guinea pigs either.

@#$!!%$!

Overall, I don't have that big of a problem with John McCain. There are of course some issues that were we disagree and I liked him a whole lot more when he was metaphorically giving Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell the finger. I also find it really unfair that while Obama was nearly derailed by the whole Rev. Wright thing, McCain sucking up to John Hagee (a nutball the-world-is-ending pastor who claims that the Catholic church is the literal anti-Christ) received relatively little attention.

But now, I'm pissed.

It was reported this week that despite on/off sanctions on Iran, we are still selling them a bunch of stuff-including cigarettes, which I oppose. I do not believe it is in any way right to subsidize tobacco farmers because fewer Americans are smoking (yay!) and dump cigarettes overseas because they aren't American so who cares, right?

So, when asked about this report, John McCain replied that it may be "a way of killing 'em".

Needless to say, I find the remark cruel and tasteless and in the spirit of my Dad (Bob from Glendale!), I wrote him to tell him so.

Bad Little White Girl!

This is the official Olympic photo of diver Kelci Bryant. I don't know where to start to describe how inappropriate and offensive this is. Yeah, I'm trying to form a coherent argument but all I can say is this is a big ball of wrong.

My Prayers Have Been Answered!

Words cannot express how happy this made me. Ever since that fabulous day that I had my first Reese's Peanut Butter Big Cup, I have longed for the day that a King Size version of it would come out. Everybody said that it would never happen, that it was just too much candy and that it was a horrible idea. Fools! At last I am vindicated!! Sigh. Nobody understands me the way the Reese's Peanut Butter Big Cup people do.

There's no E in Judgment.

I'm just saying, if you're not the best speller, maybe you get someone to proofread your protest sign before you wander around telling people they are going to hell. Just a thought. Then again, I also wouldn't have my pre-tween kids walking around with me looking all kinds of freaked out. So, today Jen and I went to the pride parade and hung out. That's some good people watching right there. Now, it was far more family-friendly than Bill O'Reilly will have you believe (a good chunk of marchers were teachers, cops, firefighters, PFLAGers, synagogues and churches but I'll bet anybody $100 that the clip on Bill O'Reilly's show will be the two leather floats. Fair and balanced, my ass) but good people watching nonetheless.

In all of my people watching, I arrived at one conclusion: the lesbians are a fat, ghetto-y lot. I hate to generalize but the men keep themselves up. The ladies, not so much. Muscle tone was scarce. Now, I realize that I post a bit about my un-thinness and my attempts to turn it around and this makes me hypocritical but c'mon, if I'm feeling thin, then things have gotten out of hand. It seems the ladies are in dire need of some of this body fascism that I hear plagues the gay men.

I got to see Margaret Cho, Cyndi Lauper, Gus Van Sant and Peter Paige! I'm still crushed that we weren't here in 2006 so I could've seen Jennifer Beals so I could see if she looks awful in person . On teevee she looks better at 40 something than most people do at 21. I imagine she would say it is good genes and organic food but I think it is probably much closer to a pact with the devil or bathing in the blood of kittens.

WTF?!

Jen and I had said that we were waiting on the marriage thing to see how it shakes out in November. I think there is going to be an ugly fight about the proposition here in California and I would rather it not be super personal. Now it appears that the Federal Marriage Amendment is making a comeback. I wasn't entirely surprised. After all, it might just be a ploy to get out the vote for McCain. What DID suprise me is who some of the co-sponsors are........ David Vitter and Larry Craig!

If you don't recall, David Vitter is the Senator from Louisiana who has been involved in scandals involving two different prostitution rings and Larry Craig is of course the Senator from Idaho who was discovered to be soliciting sex in airport mens' rooms