Wow! It's been over a month since my last post!

So I'm thinking of trying something different. This LJ has normally been a place to post my fic and the occational meme. But with my current schedule, I barely have time to breathe, let alone write fic!! So, to let those that care about me know that I'm still around, I'm going to actually start posting about what's going on in my life. I haven't decided if I'm going to go Friends Only yet. (Fic will always be public.) I think that's going depend on what I start talking about.

Also, I have a mood theme, but I'll need a place to host it. Is photobucket a good place or is there someplace else I should be looking?

ETA: Look! It works! I have a mood theme! Made by pink_cosmos, if anyone is wondering.

I went onto YouTube to find the "Mah Nah Mah Nah" song. I found so much more than that!! So I had to share! First up... a trip to Seseame Street!!

ETA: So, I fixed the tagging issues... and added a few more songs.  Including two from the very early days!

So 2006 is almost over.  I’m actually sorry to see it go.  It was a pretty momentous year for me!  But rather than go off on some long rambly monologue about everything that would be far too personal to post and rather boring for everyone but me, I thought I would put together a “soundtrack” for 2006.  These are the songs that I listened to without end during 2006, the ones that will always remind me of a specific time this year and/or just fit my life… all too well.  I really didn’t put an explanation as to why each of these make the list, but I can.  

When you see this on your f-list, quote "The West Wing" 

JOSH: What does it remind you of? (He mimics Ritchie) "I believe in hope, not fear!" ... "I'm a leader, not a politician!" ... "It's time for an American leader!" ... "America's earned a change!" .... "I before E except after C!" ... It's fortune cookie candidacy! These are important thinkers! And understanding them can be very useful, and it's not ever going to happen at a four-hour seminar when the President's got an embassy surrounded in Haiti or a keyhole photograph of a heavy water reactor or any of the 50 life-and-death matters that walk across his desk every day. I don't know if he's thinking about Immanuel Kant or not - I doubt it, but if he does, I am comforted at least in my certainty that he is doing his best to reach for all of it, and not just the McNuggets.    (Beat)    Is it possible we would be willing to require any less of the person sitting in that chair? The low road? I don't think it is. 

(Quote from Political Affairs.  Meme from cantbesilent.  Much thanks to both!)

I've worked on this all week.  (And have mostly avoided other people's commentary for the same amount of time.  So, I'm not entirely sure what people have been saying.)  My thoughts on the subject haven't changed, but it has taken me a while to able to articulate what I’m feeling.  Not too surprisingly, this turned out to be long. So, I’ve divided it into three sections.




Sigh.  My show has ended.