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My Life Thus Far
2008-09-18 04:59:34 (UTC)

The Box Of Normality

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Man, I've got one hell of a headache. I know it's because
I'm tired. You'd think Keenan would be the reason I'm
tired, but no. Keenan has been sleeping fine. Kiki is the
one with the problem. Last night she didn't go to sleep
until after 1am. I never could figure out what was wrong.
We sent her to bed at 8pm (as always), but she'd keep
coming upstairs every 15 or 20 minutes with one problem or
another. She was thirsty, hungry, had to potty, Zoe was
meowing at her, etc. Snookums fell asleep around 11pm, so
it was on me to keep sending Kiki back to bed. I'd tuck
her in, read her a story, give her a cup of milk, thinking
it would be the last time. Nope, inevitable she'd come
right back upstairs. Once she did finally fall asleep, I
thought she's sleep in this morning, but no, she was up
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 6:30am. Usually 8am is my
wake-up call. So long story short, I didn't get much sleep
last night and I'm tired. So far tonight I think Kiki will
be okay. She didn't get much of a nap this afternoon, so
she must be exhausted.

I'm bored out of my mind writing about the days that
nothing interesting happens. So, none of that. It was a
normal, run-of-the-mill kind of day. I'll just leave it at
that. I've been on autopilot lately. I handle my parental
duties, live life like it's all planned out and rarely
think outside of the box of normality. I need to take a
few moments every day and have a deep thought. Otherwise
my brain cells are going to slowly die off and the $10,000
in student loan debt I'm paying off will all be in vain.
Ouch. that hurt. Logically, I know I've got a ways to go
on my student loans, but I rarely think of it in any other
terms than the $120 a month payment I make. Student loans
are evil. My parents weren't there to help me, I had no
choice, but by God my children will not start out life in
debt like I had to.

I need to look into registering to vote. I'm 26 years old
and I've never voted. Mainly because I hate politics with
a passion and there's never been a candidate I felt
strongly enough about to bother. I don't honestly think
that it matters who is in office. Things are always the
same or similar to the way they always are. Maybe I don't
know enough to see a difference or maybe I'm right. I just
think it's about time I at least make some attempt at
having my voice heard (even if I think the electoral
college is fundamentally flawed and should be done away
with and replaced by a direct popular vote). Washington is
a Democratic strong-hold. It doesn't matter if I vote
because Obama will win Washington anyway (that's who I'd
vote for, by the way. I'm as liberal as they come). Even
though I like Obama, this is why the electoral college
sucks. Every vote should count on it's own, instead
of whoever gets the most votes wins that state's electoral
votes. Bush would never have been able to screw us over if
a direct popular vote was in place and Kerry had won. But
then again, Kerry might have done an even suckier job. Who
knows? This is the most you've ever heard me talk about
politics and it probably won't happen again. Sleep
deprivation makes me do and say crazy things. I'm
delirious. Did I mention I hate politics? So, don't send
me feedback in an attempt to get into a political debate.
You already know more than me and you'll win. Unless you
want to tell me how much you hate Sarah Palin. Then I'll
agree with you.

Well, there was my deep thought for the day. I need to go
to sleep now. Ciao.




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