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In the midst of all this election stuff, I failed to post my November Wishes!!

November 4: Happy Birthday Laurel (BOT)
November 10: Happy Birthday Dave (Winston’s)
November 11: Happy Birthday Maura
November 12: Happy Anniversary Dana & Adam
November 14: Happy Birthday Matt Jones
November 21: Happy Birthday Danielle F.
November 26: Happy Birthday Mr. “B”
November 26: Happy Birthday Aley K.

Hope you all have a great birthday/anniversary!
If I’ve forgotten you, please let me know so that I can add you to my list!

SB and I were in line to vote this morning at 6:10. We weren’t sure how many people would have our same idea of voting before work!
Luckily, we were only 50-60 people back from the front of the line. Once the polls opened at 7, the line seemed to move pretty good - we were back home about 7:40.
How was your election experience?

I look forward to spending this evening with some close friends to watch the results come in. I try to keep positive thoughts on what I hope will be the outcome.

 Over the past few months, I’ve listened to excuses people have given for not voting.
A few of my favorites are:

-The voting poll lines are too long. (you wait hours for a ride at DisneyWorld for a 4-minute ride… look out folks, this is a FOUR YEAR ride!)
-If I register to vote, I’ll be called for jury duty. (I’ve been registered to vote for 12 years, and I’ve been called twice - not a big deal when you have the opportunity to make a difference for your country)
-I’m undecided. (at this point, if you’re still undecided, you probably shouldn’t vote)
-I don’t like either candidate. (if you paid attention, you’d probably find that one of them shares more of your values than the other)
-I still dont know enough about either candidate. (again, if you paid attention - this has only been going on for a year or so… and there is plenty of material out there if you will take the time to find it and read)

Have you heard any excuses during the election?
Have you voted?

Well, the comments you all left were very interesting.

Here’s the story. Last week, SB heard syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz talking about republicans and democrats all living in a world together… kind of like cats and dogs all living in a world together.
Boortz said, generally speaking… most repulicans are dog owners, and most democrats have cats. I was just curious!
SB made me a graph based on my comments, plus some other people that he knows with their parties and pets. For the most part, the few people we sampled… the results are fairly close to what Neal Boortz predicted. There’s really no scientific proof for this, obviously - but it was fun to think about all our friends, family… and their pets.

HAPPY ELECTION DAY!
Get out your vote!

Steven heard a theory about cats and dogs on the radio earlier this week… and I would like to test this theory on my readers.
Please tell me about your pets - do you have dogs or cats? If you have both, how many of each?
Leave your response in the comments, and in the next few days… I will get the full “theory about cats and dogs” from SB, and post it so you will know your results!
(I hope this turns out to be as intriguing as I think it will).

Three years ago today, I wrote this post:
Final Countdown

I can’t believe that, three years ago, tomorrow… Steven and I moved to Georgia. Sometimes, I wonder where the time went… other times, I feel like we’ve been here for years.

I am so lucky for the friendships I’ve kept over that time - most people just eventually fall off… they quit calling… then the emails get more and more infrequent… then it’s just exchanging birthday and holiday emails… and before you know it, they’re just gone.
That post still makes me a little sad, thinking of all the memories we shared there. I love the new life we’ve begun here… but the memories from the TRI will probably never fade. We’ve made wonderful new friends here, and like the TRI folks, I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
We are truly lucky in the changes and choices we have made. To all the people I’ve crossed paths with in my life, thank you for making me who I am today.
As Steven said one day back in 2005, “One door has closed, so that another one can open.” And they certainly have.