This one time, at POW camp...

We watched the first portion of the debates with Luciana on Friday. It was great that she watched them and tried to engage in the process by asking many, many questions. It was, however, a bit distracting and seriously impeded my ability to yell obscenities at the tv screen. Maybe for future debates we would be better off watching them without her and taping them to watch the next day with her. I'm absolutely desolate to find that what promises to be the highlight of my year, the Biden/Palin debate, will occur this Thursday when we are camping (freezing) in a tent in the middle of nowhere! We will tape the debate and watch it when we return Saturday, but I really, really need to see it live Thursday night!

I was relieved that McCain made a point to remind us every second or third question that he was a POW. I tend to forget that if not reminded every few minutes. Also, we were titillated to hear that McCain's top priorities, in this troubled economic climate, is war spending and veterans. Boy, that sounds like a plan that will really help the middle class a lot. Even more thrilled that his idea of fixing the health-care crisis is to tax employers on all insurance benefits. He basically repeated the same three tired slogans (Obama = inexperienced and naive, he = maverick POW, pork barrel = bad), regardless of whether they were pertinent to the topic/question at hand. Enlightening. He also revealed himself to be disrespectful repeatedly to his opponent, arrogant in his blatant refusal to even look at Obama, dishonest, and vicious without call. Obama gave (mostly) relevant answers indicating that he was looking at the long-term health of our country (probably hard for McSame to care, as he won't be here long enough to realize the long-term damage he intends to wreak), and was extremely polite and deferential (maybe overly so-but he's smart enough to know how an 'angry black man' would play out), intelligent, and downright presidential. It was such a tremendous feeling to think that perhaps, for the first time in 8 years, we don't have to be humiliated as a country every single time the POTUS opens his mouth. All that said, I still think Obama is the best of two shitty choices. He's just light years away from being as shitty as the repug candidate.

This afternoon we went to the library. H. was here (as usual), so he went with us. It's definitely more challenging to take the two of them to the library than to take just L. We couldn't find any books on Plato, Greek philosophers, or any other specific philosopher that was aimed at children. We did find a pretty good book that covers philosophy and has a section with the ancient Greek philosophers, along with the other biggies throughout history. I think we'll have a lot of fun going through it. L. picked the movie, "The Bridge to Teribithia", for family movie night tonight. M. picked an older movie called, "Labyrinth". It stars David Bowie as the goblin king. Need I say more? That was the one she chose to watch tonight. She seems to be enjoying it, but I had to get the laptop out. It is colossally bad. I guess we'll have "The Bridge..." for next week's movie. We saw that at the theater, where it made me weep horrifically for quite some time. I will probably have to sneak on the laptop then too. I really hate to cry.

I decorated L's left arm and hand with henna this evening. D. was supposed to do it for her, but she is awash in her own stupidity and selfishness at the moment and couldn't be bothered with keeping a promise. Poor L. had to settle for non-artist mommy designs. It finally dried, so we will cover it with saran wrap overnight and wash it off in the morning. It's not horrible, and the girl seems happy enough with it, so I guess it was a success. I absolutely love the look of mehndi and would like to have a real tat done that looks like mehndi.

I finally got some decent pictures of our newest little Willow bird. She has found her one and only true love and it's not me. I am definitely a second-class substitute for Mark. She is completely enamored with him and tries to follow him out the door. She is so pathetic when he leaves.