I went and saw Obama a couple days ago when he came to Kansas City. My husband got there about an hour before I did to stand in line. I went with my sister, brother in law and niece, leaving my baby with his grandparents. I actually considered bringing my baby because it is such a big deal in history but when I got there, I was glad that I didn't. A lot of people did bring their children though. There were thousands of us, all shapes, sizes, colors and it made me realize even moreso how
important this is. Obama truly could be the bridge that we need to bring us into a new day, a day of change.

McCain talking about change, in comparison to what it would mean to have an African American as president, isn't even comparable. Yes, with McCain, we would have a female vice president but that is a joke and I think ladies can agree that that is not how we want to be perceived in office.

Of course, that is not what change necessarily means when they refer to it, but again, McCain does not bring change. Voting with the idiot we call president now 90% of the time is not change. I digress. The point being that I, obviously, support Obama and felt privileged to hear him speak. I don't know that I have ever felt so much a part of history in the making before. Not just because of his race, but because I've never been so close to our (fingers crossed) president, other than being outside the White House that is.

I'm sorry readers, I suck at this. I've been super busy with my baby boy and ... life. Don't worry, I still have plenty of rants. Because I have been focusing a little more on home and family, I can say I'm sick of the cleaners out there. Swiffer, you're on my sh*t list. I cannot stand this ...not a broom, not a mop... not helpful thing. All it does is push dirt around. It may grab some dirt but the pad gets dirty so quick that you'd need to replace it every 5 minutes and that money adds up. Personally, I'm going to write them for a refund. It's not for me.

Febreze is another cleaner that I can't stand. It may temporarily cover smells but I don't know that the febreze smell is any better than what it's covering. I think it stinks; and it's so distinctive that anyone coming over knows you febrezed 10 minutes before they got there. That's not obvious or anything.

I should say I have a heightened sense of smell so it may bother me more than most. I'm just sayin'...

I've had it, I have to say something about all these herpes commercials I see every day now. First off, if I have herpes, I'm just going to take what the doctor gives me. Why are they trying to sell us on what medicine to use. That goes for all these commercials telling us to ask our doctors about so and so. Hey, how `bout I just trust my doctor's opinion based on your medical degree and not give suggestions on what I think would be best based on a commercial?

Second, these herpes commercials actually say "I'm not going to let herpes slow me down". Well, maybe you should. Maybe your inability to slow down is what got you herpes in the first place. I don't know, it's just a guess. If I got herpes, I'm slowing to a stop and looking at my life a little, that's all I'm saying.

Then, on top of that, they have the partner(probably one of many) who comes on and says, "just because she has herpes doesn't mean I have to". Okay, so you're either a carrier or your girl is not so faithful. Either way, it's not good.

Another series of ridiculous commercials is the phone sex, I mean "call a friend" commercials. People you have to know the girls don't look like that right? Have you not seen the documentaries that are probably on at the same time on another channel showing the real girls who work at those things? It's false advertising but hey, what isn't nowadays?

One thing that isn't false advertising is the match making commercials where they show the rejects from the big match making services. "I just don't understand why they rejected me, but their loss is your gain. Meet me here, at www..." What the ...? Who is gonna want to meet these people? I'm guessing you were rejected for a reason and I don't want to find out what it is.

It's crazy. I think now that people have Tivo, advertisers think they can say what they want because no one's watching anyway. I only happen upon these in desperate times, when there is nothing on Tivo. Those are sad, sad times.