Conspiracy of Evil

Dear Mr. Blues,

Please, I beg you, leave me be. I thought that maybe you'd be staying for a day or so, as is sometimes the case. But now it seems that you have dropped in for a nice long visit, and I'm asking you to kindly, please, GTFO!

I have not been able to finish any craft project I've started in the last two weeks, which means I've got a lot of unfinished knitting laying around. You can almost build a fort with all the yarn.

It may be that you are in cahoots with Mr. TimeChange (believe me, mister, I'm on to you and your evil), conspiring to make me stay in bed longer. Or that you've worked out some deal with Old Man Winter. I was excited for the snow, but now that it's all gone and only the bitter cold remains, my spirits have dipped yet again.

So here's your first warning. Consider yourself On Notice. I'll be visiting Pickle to get my weekly dose of baby cuteness. I'll be stringing Fairy Lights throughout the house to combat the early onset darkness. And I'll be wishing for snow every chance I get.

If all of that doesn't work, and you refuse to leave...be warned, things could get ugly. I'm talking SpongeBob SquarePants marathons here.

Oh NO They Di-int

The Detroit News is now Dead To Me. They officially endorse McCain.

"The Republican presidential candidate has the character, pragmatism and independence necessary to lead a united America...."

And yet-- "We readily acknowledge that McCain has run a distressingly ineffective presidential campaign."

Oh, and this-- "Palin is a promising governor and has excited the Republican base, but she is clearly not prepared for the role she was chosen to play and is costing McCain support...."

But, yup, still endorsing McCain. Wow, just WOW. Even The Salt Lake Tribune, a newspaper in the heart of the most conservative state in the nation, is endorsing Obama.