Helloooooo November!

So October….NOT the best month for our family.  I’m thinking, hoping and praying that November will be much better.  As much as I love the month of October for many reasons, this year I am very excited about November.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ready to be done with this election!

The best thing about November:  In one week we will no longer have to listen to political ads!

Thanksgiving:  Evil Genius is cooking.  People will actually be coming to my house.  Last year he made the world’s most awesome turkey.  Thank you, Alton Brown.  I’m making green bean casserole and some sort of dessert, because I just don’t do the cooking thing so well.

I love this! HA HA!

I’m wishing for:  A WHOLE month where no one in my family gets seriously injured, appliances don’t quit completely, cars don’t need any major repairs or replacements, our bank account doesn’t go negative, all of us stay well, and perhaps good news on the job front for me (yeah, I haven’t heard back from Lowes.)  That’s not asking too much, is it?

More likely to happen:  If I can get the Halloween decorations down before December, I will consider that progress.  If I can take a walk without being injured or bleeding, I’ll take that too.  Yesterday I bled all over my purple coat from a cut I got at some point on my hand.  That stinks.  I love my purple coat!

Thus far, I have noticed one thing-now that Halloween is over, I am unpopular.  Leading up to yesterday, I was getting over 100 hits a day.  Awww… back to reality!  Halloween costumes that are cheap and thrifty attracted a lot of attention this year.  Hmmm… I wonder what I could tag my posts with this month?

Even the turkeys are feeling the pinch right now, heh heh…

Pardon My French Ann Coulter, But You Suck!

This is a soapbox. I’m about to stand on it.

I’m not very funny today, this has been brewing in my head.  I’m paying a pretend visit to Ann Coulter, in my head of course.  This is what I’d like to say.

Hi Ann!  How are you?  Can I have a few minutes of your time?  What?  You don’t want to talk to a little person like me?  Well too bad, I’m going to talk anyway.  What’s this thing I’m carrying?  Don’t you know what a soapbox looks like?  All these years in politics and you’ve never seen an actual soapbox? I’m going to put it down right here and stand on it.  Don’t knock me off.

Now that I’ve had a few hours or so to collect my thoughts before I did this, I have stuff to say.  I don’t usually stick my nose in politics, because I don’t like to rock the boat.  I vote.  I do what I’m supposed to as an American citizen.  And I stay quiet for the most part.  But what you said, or rather “tweeted” the other day quite frankly royally pissed me off.  I have a lot of names I could call you, but then that would just bring me down to your level, and that’s not nice.

What has happened to the people of our nation?  When did we stop respecting each other?  When did we lose our manners?  When I was a kid you respected people who were in authority, whether you liked them or not!  Adults may have disagreed, but they disagreed respectfully.  No wonder our nation is in trouble.  It has nothing to do with who our president is, or what party is in office, or who controls everything.  It’s all about attitude and respecting each other.

You think that just because you were born blonde, tall, and beautiful that you can push people around when they don’t see things your way (though you may only be 4’5″ for all I know.) You think that because you had all the right breaks in life that it’s ok to bully people.  I’m just a Mom of two who doesn’t have a job, who didn’t make all the right decisions, whose trying to make things better, but I’m a bigger person than you. I’m part of that middle class that is disappearing, who sacrificed while her husband went to school to make a better life for his family after working for factories that were closing their doors.  I’m part of those families who lives paycheck to paycheck, because all of our extra money goes into our gas tank so my husband can drive two hours a day to pay our bills.  I’m one of those people saddled with massive student loan debt between myself and my husband, because I thought that going to school to get my degree was the right thing to do.

It’s people like you that make others think it’s ok to act like a big bully.  It’s people like you that make people like me, who appear just a little bit different, feel like we have no place in this world.  That rather than let someone make the right decisions, talk them into other things and then laugh as they fail.  It’s people like you that don’t give others a fair chance.  It’s people like you that make my son feel like being bullied every day is normal, and that it’s ok to act like those kids.

I worked for three years in special education.  That beautiful little girl I worked with was a ray of sunshine, who lit up rooms when she walked in, whose laugh and smile and sunny outlook are contagious.  She is who you were mocking when you made that remark.  I hope that she never has to know that word that you used.  You messed with the wrong group of people.  Parents of special needs kids are some of the strongest people you will ever know.  I hope you rue the day you made that remark.

I hope you’re happy.  I’m sure you are, because I’m sure you got the attention you wanted by once again opening your mouth and making other people angry and hurt.  You don’t know how happy that would make me to know that there is one little twinge of remorse in that ugly black thing that you call a heart.  My hope for you is that you learn to start respecting other people.  By the way, respect is when you value other people’s point of views, when you show regard for someone and their feelings, when you accept people for who they are.  I looked it up, even though I already know what it means, because I check my sources.

Ann Coulter, you suck.  I’m done, that’s all I’ve got.

I never actually said it because I’m better than that.