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Today is election day…and it’s an interesting day. Honestly, I’m ready for this to be over. I’m tired of every single channel talking about it non-stop.

Let’s be honest, the media has changed the way we decide who we’ll elect. Polls are put up way ahead of time, but depending on the channel you’re watching (left or right) the polls are slanted. They’ll take the same poll and spin it for their view.

I will be happy, happy,  happy when this is all over with.

Man, what a day…seriously, if it could go wrong, it did go wrong. (online that is)…I came to find a few of my websites were down…well, I guess I wouldn’t call FIFTEEEN a few…

Either way, all fifteen are back up and running okay, so I’m happy that’s resolved. I had set aside today to do a large project, but then ended up having to a a different large maintenance project instead! By around 6pm, I finally got around to the original project I intended to do.

I did take a 2 hour break to watch a little TV with my husband, but I’m back at my desk for a little while longer. I’m sure tomorrow will be a little brighter.  

I need to remember to put on a watch tomorrow. I lose track of time, but I have somewhere to be later in the day. I’m taking my son to see a special event at a theater. Now, I just have to not lose track of time. Of course, he’ll remind me eighty times.

I have a selection of watches. I have my Timex Expedition, a Movado watches that my husband got me, and then another watch with a fun pink band. I find now that I work from home, I rarely wear a watch. I used to wear it daily, like “clockwork”…get it?

Either way, with clocks around me, watch on, I’m still known to lose track of time. I’m a master at it! It’s just once I get into a project, in my mind, it takes 15 or 20 minutes, but in reality 90 minutes have gone by.  

I started school on Wednesday. I was done on Thursday. What?

 It turns out if I get my master license, due to paperwork technicalities, I’d lose my other 2 licenses which are 3 and 4 years old! I’d lose my experienced license status, as well as one license that is particularly important to me!

It’s a matter of choice. Get one master license, or keep the two I have. I chose to keep my current two. The master covers the other two, but then you get one new license. In this field, when your license is over 3 years old, you’ve reached EPL, and is needed for opening a shop. I’m not in a hurry to open a shop, but I understand the value in that right now.

Oh well…back to my websites and such! I dont’ mind being home in my jammies with my dogs.  

Do you remember when people used to send out things like birthday invitations and party invites? These days, it seems with email, people skip that formality and just send somebody a quick email. I don’t know, I like the formal invitation. I think it’s a nice touch to still get something in the mail like that. Look at wedding invitations; you don’t see those being done online as much as others. I guess it’s because weddings are more formal, so people want something special.

 Birthday and party invitations can be special too. It’s just finding nice cards, and taking the time to write them out. I just did a large mailing project for a site I own, and handwrote about 100 envelopes. I think it’s a nice touch to take the time to handwrite something out. It shows people you took out more than one moment of time for them.

If you’re looking for a nice selection of invitations, try ThePartyStartsHere.com. 

My husband was thinking of seeing the movie "Traitor" today. I hope I spelled that right, since I don’t know which movie he’s talking about. I was actually surprised to see there are so many movies in September I want to see! I don’t have extra time in September, so that’s not working for me!

I’m sure my son will want to see "Disaster Movie", since he’s a big fan of spoofs, so we’ll probably see that this weekend. It’s not my first choice, but I’ll take him, since he likes them a lot. Don’t get me wrong, I love spoofs, but some of them are getting downright bad. I did like "Superhero Movie" though, so maybe there’s hope for this one.

"The Women" looks good, along with a few others. Funny thing is, now I can’t remember what I wanted to see. I think there’s another that’s due out September 12 that looked good. Bad timing for me, but whatcha gonna do?

I’m 41. I’ve had two children. Let me just say now, I pretty much know where every bathroom is on the East coast, because my bladder has made that an important part of my life these days.

I’m a little nervous about doing Yoga in the Park next week! I mean, what if there are no toilets nearby! Okay, okay, so it’s only an hour, and I should be okay, but I think of those things!

Sure, sure you laugh! Go ahead, but wait until you’ve had kids, hit your 40’s and drink too many liquids. You’re day will come! Then all you’ll be able to do is remember you read this post years ago!

That’s right, my bladder and yoga post will haunt you in the future, as you suddenly start looking around for a place to go!  

Indiana Jones, Wanted, Hancock, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mama Mia, and we’ll be catching Batman this week….

 That’s a lot of movies! I didn’t realize just how many movies we saw at first. I have to say, I liked all  5 of them! Let’s hope I like Batman too, which I expect to.

 Swing Vote looks like it could go either way…ahahah, no pun intended. I’ll wait for the reviews on that one. Step Brothers, I saw the preview with my son at a movie, and it looked funny. WAIT! It’s rated R, and when I saw that same preview at a rated R movie with my husband, suddenly it was LOADED with the F bomb, ya know? Seriously, what looked like it could be a fun idea, turned into non-stop cursing. That movie is out, and a shame…could have been fun.

 I guess with school coming up, and my husband’s schedule changing, we won’t be seeing many more for awhile. I guess our next run will be around the holidays when the big movies are coming out again. 

Man, my skin is doing swell! I have Rosacea, as I’ve mentioned before, and during July I had to take two doses of antibiotics to clear up a sinus infection and a bad cough that wouldn’t go away. After twenty days of antibiotics, my Rosacea was looking great! They’ve put me on tetracyclene in the past, but that just kills my stomach.

 Anyway, it was a lovely side effect for me. There was no blackhead removal, no break-outs, no thickened, red skin on my cheeks or anything. It was just clear sailing baby!

 Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. It’s August now, and the Rosacea is flairing up again! I guess you just have to enjoy it while you can.

 I considered getting laser treatments for the Rosacea, but I haven’t made any final decisions on that quite yet.

Happy 4th of July