Long time no update.

[nolawitch58]

Since our old buddy naruki_oni posted (even though it was more like a drive-by), I'll finally core dump my recent history.

I thought I didn't have any more vacation time left, but my boss made me take yesterday and tomorrow off. Sweet. I made pies yesterday and did last-minute shopping, which I hate. We're supposed to go to the in-laws this afternoon for Christmas dinner and presents. Fine. Whatever. Hubby's nephew is engaged to a woman with two young children, one of whom is an extremely annoying toddler. Thankfully, the weather is pleasant so I can escape to the great outdoors if she gets on my nerves too much.

Two weeks ago, the New Orleans area had snow. Yesterday and today, we're running the air conditioner. When we had Yule ritual at the Celtic Monument on the weekend, it was mild. Nobody can tell me with any degree of veracity that climate change isn't happening. Ask our friends in the Pacific Northwest how they like their snow. As I watched the Seahawks game last weekend, I was thinking about how freaky it must have been for blackbyrd2 and ms_issicran to see that nasty white stuff falling in their neighborhood. We were wigging out two weeks ago here when it snowed. My coworkers asked the boss if we could leave at Noon. I told them we'd be better off if we stayed put until it started to melt in the afternoon. I was right. Going home wasn't as bad as going to work that morning.

Vel and Gil's Yule party was a huge success. The fact that Ray Buckland was in attendance made it even more popular than it usually is. Everybody was there.

Time ticks by until the end of the repulsive Bush Administration. They're leaving unflushed turds in every toilet it seems. What a bunch of asshats. Three weeks and counting until sanity can reassert itself in our government. I hope none of y'all expects things to get instantly better. The sheer magnitude of the damage the neo-con bastards have done to our country will take years, if not decades, to clean up. Obama will have to undo a lot of the obvious fuckwittery, but there are nasty Easter eggs of fuckwittery hidden in the form of incompetent political cronies being converted to civil servants so they can't be fired, obscure regulations that are destructive to some aspect of American life and that may not surface for a while, and the rebuilding of government integrity that has been so pervasively contaminated.

I'm probably forgetting stuff. If so, I might return for an edit.

Comments

[goddessmusings.livejournal.com]

Happy belated yule! I miss y'all so much, especially this time of year! I still say that if I can crate my dogs we should be able to crate children...it's for their own safety! And our sanity! ;-)

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Not only crate 'em, but sedate 'em. They're loud, smelly and obnoxious--the kids, not the dogs.

We miss you both too. You shoulda seen the snow! I watched the streetcars coming down Carondelet with a two- or three-inch accumulation on top, festooned with the customary holiday greenery. It was surreal. Go check the pictures on the nola.com website.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

We had snow that got rained on and then froze into an inch or 2 of solid ice, which didn't melt off till yesterday, when it was 50!

Yeah, I heard something about Bush making some edicts or memos or executive orders or some such - like the one about not providing federal protection for people to avoid doing things (like give out medication) that they have a moral objection to. It is really vague, and Obama can't just wave a magic wand and make it go away - *Congress* has to do it (gah!) - however this particular edict has all the state's Atty Generals up in arms because most, if not all the states, have their OWN statutes about this exact thing, that is very detailed, so it might be tossed out by the Supremes. We can only hope.

But yeah, what a fucking mess.

I stayed home instead of going to the thing at my MIL's last night. I had a fine time knitting and quilting, and getting a lot of that done.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Congress doesn't have to undo the so-called "conscience clause" objection directive. That was created by the executive branch, so the incoming exective branch can jettison the fuckwittery of the outgoing executive branch.