Happy Thanksgiving

Yummiest Thanksgiving Lunch Ever.

I Like To Hear Some Funky Dixie Land

Funky white dudes make my day. Seriously, my old friend Matt from the U and wiretapmag. Total funk di funk. G Love and Special Sauce. Special, all right. But I loved his tunes. And I saw him with Salt Lake City's finest funky white dude, LeGrand. LeGrand now plays retro funk on KRCL in Utah. His show is the creme de la funky funk funk.

But this group are the kings of the funky white dudes, the gatekeepers of all things FWD, and they are my favorite. I love listening to them all day, every day. They've even helped me feel the funk when I was actually in a funk. They're so funky that every high quality you-tube video of them does not allow embedding by me and others that are children of a lessor funk.

Before I die, I want to see them LIVE and until I'm funky enough to embed a decent video of them, I'm posting this song. A trick by this tricky tricky half-white gal: turn it up REALLY loud while cleaning your house. You'll feel the funk even as you wipe the funk.

UFO Sighting

An ad for a free copy of the Book of Mormon on The Huffington Post

Not Quite As Meaningful As His PhD . . . But Close.

Please kick some tail.

Post-Election Blues

In an effort to wean myself from my addiction to politics, I did the following exercise. It's a form of art therapy. My name is Liz. And I'm a poli-rage-roll my eyes at sarah palin and at twilight . . . aholic.


Concept:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
http://www.flickr.com/search/
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
(choose four columns and three rows, also choose individual URL's)

Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your nickname.

Thanks, Half Breed Outlaw, for providing tonight's zen activity here in Provo of the Pacific.

I've Been Tagged!

Ok, this is actually the first tag I've followed through with in a long long time! Forgive me for not doing the tags sooner, it was Election year! And you know what that means. It means that I'm busy obsessing day to day and minute by minute, about the bowling score of Barack Obama and the cost of Sara Palin's wardrobe. Where was the time for fun and friends during this, the year of the insane and inane politicking throughout the country? It was spent screaming my lungs out every time BHO was up a point in the polls.

So here we go!
1. Link this post to the person who tagged you: Siana
2. Post the rules on your blog (done)
3. List 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Random Things:

1. I roll my eyes a lot when I'm sitting in church. I think that politics has no place in Sacrament meeting, Sunday School, or Relief Society. I also believe that God loves gay people and while I personally do not support gay marriage (I'm very supportive of civil unions), I do believe that gay bashing on Sundays (and every other day) should be punishable by law. And that law should be the force feeding of rainbow jello salad.

2. MDs annoy me. 4 out of 5 of them are crazy. Certifiable even. Many of them do have a "God complex" which wouldn't be so annoying except that then people actually believe that Dr. Yellow Teeth can make their 90 year old father with Parkinson's disease run the next Honolulu Marathon. It's not a pretty picture yet MD's lap it up.

3. Bras. They're a mixed bag. I spent years refusing to wear one and then years wearing only one. I once had a water bra that I loved so much I wore it even when the straps dug so hard in my skin from my 60 pound weight gain that I yelled "uncle" at random intervals during the day.

4. I love Debbie Doxey's house. It's huge, it's on right on the beach, and it's just beautiful. I'm not sure how I'll ever afford a home like that but I'm tempted to actually take The Secret's advice and make a materialistic vision board that I feel so guilty about already.

5. I love to bake. I LOVE to bake. Really, I LOVE TO BAKE!!! I'm avoiding it as of late because of my addiction to sugar and carbs and lovely looking pastries. But the holiday season is near and I don't think I can hold out any longer. I feel a banana cream cake with cream cheese frosting comin' on. Help!

6. I'm obsessed with the most self aggrandising blog called "blurbomat" (www.blurbomat.com). I check it like 100 times a day. The guy who writes it is Dooce's husband. The blog cracks me up because it attempts to discuss controversial topics and some of the commenters are so lame. They have such strong opinions on topics they haven't read much about. I love it because it's certain that I'm the smartest one in that blog room and that brings some sort of legitimacy to my stay-at-home wife status. Sad, but oh oh so true.

So there it is. Now:

I tag Lisa (come on, just one more. It won't hurt, I promise!), Patria (of course, did you really think you could hide?), Don (dude, you know you wanna!), Leslie (girlfriend, don't be all mainland snobby now!), Jenny (who hasn't posted in over a month), and Dooce (wouldn't that be hilarious if she actually responded to this?).

Sounding Off and So Much More

I'm still recovering from the Elections. I was a poll watcher. Which meant that I traveled within a 20 mile radius to 5 different polling locations making sure that everything was OK. And everything was . . . sort of. One poll worker was telling me jokingly that he was directing all Democratic voters to come back the following day and vote. HAR HAR. I asked him if he was serious and the guy sitting next to him told me that NO, no voter was asked to come back the next day. I also got a lame hate email about the same thing: "Republicans vote on the 4th, Democrats on the 5th". I replied asking the sender to remove me from her mailing list. This person is also a local real estate broker. She totally just lost the business of me and anyone within earshot of me. I don't have time for stupidity, especially within local business owners. Are they serious about sending that stuff? And that podunk video store with no air conditioning and no customers, are they serious when they put up campaign signs endorsing a Republican drug user during the primaries? I think that candidate lost because of their "endorsement". Or maybe it was because of the drugs. Who knows. I don't get Republican voters anyway.

So while all this hoo hah was going on, I missed posting on some other stuff that went on.

I went to Italy for a couple of weeks this summer. Boring. And yes, I've been before, and yes, I had tons and tons of family there. But I don't look at Italy as some awesome vacation spot. It's one of the homelands for me so I don't have the tourist gaze. I wish I did sometimes though. But I was there to take my Dad to my real home (where my heart is) after his stroke so any attempts to move into the subjective experience of the tourist was futile.
I did, however, reacquaint myself with the virtues of Arugula. It was everywhere and I loved it. While eating the pizza above, I kept forgetting to eat with a fork and knife. It just didn't seem right to me. It wasn't comfortable. But I eventually gave in. Then I began to realize that it is quite disgusting to eat pizza with bare hands. ew! Why did we start doing that anyway?

So in August, while I was still recovering from Italy, Tevita participated in a church/community service project. Even with the quality of photo, can you guess the politician he's standing next to?
That's right, Hawaii Senator, Clayton Hee. They and about a hundred others came to clean the nets from Kahuku Beach. Nets that were tangled amongst the reef. There goes those Pasifik men taking care of our islands, one piece of aina at a time.

Cute Tidbit

The new code names for the Obama family have been issued from the Secret Service.

Renegade
Renaissance
Radiance
and Rosebud
I love this country!

Some Sadness . . . Still

As I bask in the glow of President-elect Obama, I'm also aware of the layers of mess he's inheriting. And I'm trying to be 100% hopeful, really I am. But I can't help myself. Because our middle class are now becoming homeless, our soldiers and their families are hurting both emotionally and financially, and mother earth is all but giving out. Even though we've elected the modern day Joshua, I can't help but wonder how different the state of our country would have been had America not missed the opportunity to vote overwhelmingly for one of the greatest politicians of our generation.

A Whole New World

This new first family makes me happy and proud to be American.






All photos courtesy of The Black Snob.

Yes We Did!!!

Today's Email from my Mom . . .

My mom has never been very political so I was a little surprised to find two emails from her this morning regarding this election. It's interesting to see how she likes Ralph Nader, may come around to voting for Obama,. . . and that she also loved Ronald Regan! Voters are complex, they decide based on a myriad of reasons and experiences. I told her that I do hope she votes Obama but if not, I suppose we can still be family. :)

Hi Liz:

I have been very undecisive and unhappy that the people that I would have voted for are not on the ticket. Now, I would like to have voted for Ralph Nader, but I know my vote would not affect the presidency. So it's McCain and Obama.

Obama, I feel does not have enough experience, don't know anything about Biden. McCain is too old in the tooth and spent too much time in bashing Obama's credentials, Sarah Palin makes me shiver to think she could be next President if McCain demises during his Presidency.

I usually read your Blog every 3 months or so and decided to look it up today. I know you have always been an Obama fan. As I read through your Blog and at the last part of it regarding what Obama & Bidens future plans for America are, I could not help but reminesce on Ronald Regan.

In my opinion and during all my voting years, Regan was the one who kept to most of his promises, getting people off the welfare system, etc. Also working at Clark County Legal Services gave me direct access to Ronald Reagan's doings and I was so impressed with what he did during his presidency.

So I have to say, because of you itemizing Obama & Biden's plans during their presidency, my inclination is to vote for Obama. We'll see.

I had previously thought I would just abstain, but that would be irresponsible. So your mother will be at the voting polls today.

Love to you both and l am really looking forward to seeing you at Thanksgiving.

Mother

Excerpt from email #2:

Also, you need to know I stand my ground regarding my last email to you. However, my decision, if Obama I vote for, is purely based on Michelle Obama. Have followed her interviews, her speaking at conventions, Larry King Live show. I think she's very intellectual, very grounded in her comments, very positive, and very much a mother and family person.

If Obama Wins Tonight . . .

I'm having this to celebrate

If he doesn't, I'll eat two.