Good things from our Thanksgiving trip:

Scarlet's Walk playing on our road trip
watching the sun rise
good, New York bagels
going to the library
Massie's
listening to Ryan and Kelly sing while I hung out with Kimberly
The Thanksgiving Day parade and Elf, even though I only watched them peripherally
The Sims 2
smelling my perfume oils with my sisters
holding babies
lying around by the stove with Kelly before bed
Saratoga
buying stones from the Magic Moon
snow flurries
the yarn store with Allypants!
seaweed salad
a birthday present from Kim, complete with clown nose
seeing Raina, Kimberly, Kelly, Ally, and even Mary all at once!
Moby
making pizza for everybody
Henna tattoos
Love Actually (and the resulting lovefest)
cheesecake for breakfast
lunch from the four seasons - a whole bunch of delicious nutritious things!
getting home and going out for clam chowder at Crazy Burger because there was no food in the house :)

I miss everyone already and I love you.

Dear Rest of the World - We are really, really, really, really sorry. See all of us sorry people?

I love it.

A Letter to Incredulous Friends Around the World

(I link to the LJ posting of this because that is where I found it.)

"But despite all that, Bush won by only a small margin, with 55 million Americans voting to turn him out.

55 million Americans said no to the Iraq War.

55 million Americans said no to Abu Ghraib.

55 million Americans said no to Halliburton.

55 million Americans said yes to working with the rest of the world.

We are with you in your concern for human rights.

We are with you in your concern for the environment.

We are with you in opposing the Iraq War.

We are with you in abiding by the U.N. Charter.

...Like the Red Scare of the 1920s, like the McCarthy period of the 1950s, like the Nixon years and the Reagan years, this too will pass.

And so there will come a day when you and I alike can once again recite the line from Neruda, "America, I do not call your name without hope."

(lj user seamusandjamal), via katy: "I want John Stewart to rock to me to sleep and tell me it's ok"

In honor of election day:

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. ~ Dante Alighieri

And as we proceed to mosh through this desert storm.. in these closing statements, if they should argue, let us beg to differ.. as we set aside our differences, and assemble our own army to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president for the present.. and mosh for the future of our next generation.. to speak and be heard.. Mr President.. Mr Senator..
- Eminem, from "Mosh"

"This isn't about wishes. It's about choices. I believe we can beat this evil. Not when it comes. Not when its army is ready. Now." - Buffy :)