Election 2008

Recently Guiliani and Edwards dropped out of the 2008 Presidential race.

When Guiliani dropped out I did a little dance in my collegue's office. I litterally pumped my arms and spun around. I am not a fan of this particular New Yorker. I didn't agreee with alot of his views, and strongly believe that in today's global community you have to have more experience than mayor to be a successful president.

A friend and I discussed the importance of experience in a president. the position I took after our discussion is that a president needs to be a great leader who has the experience that would provide them with key, helpful international connections, support of intellegent, truthful and knowledgable advisers, and knowledge of the inner workings of capital hill.

We both agreed, Guliani does not fit the bill.

Edwards dropping out of the race should be interesting. Will he support anyone? Who will he support? Will he play Kingmaker? We will just have to wait and see.

Feb. 5 will be fun!

My Own Pictures

Tigger and I at MGM studios! Disney is my favorite place on earth.



A picture of me at my very first home, live, Dallas Cowboys game. During tailgating I mentioned that this was my first game and people just started handing my buffalo wings, painting my face. It was glorious.



A classic photo of my time in Washington D.C.



My maid of honor bouquet for my sister's wedding.



Picture of the Washington D.C. Mall



Me in San Fransisco!



This is a rainbow that I saw on a road trip with my dad. This was an extraordinary rainbow because as we closed in on it became a whole rainbow, then doubled. Which meant that not only did wa have a whole rainbow that we were driving into, but it had a twin underneath it. It was really cool. the road literally went under the rainbow.



More pictures of my road trip with my dad.










Mayan Ruins. I went to see some mayan ruins on a cruise in 2006. I was amazed by the quality of these ruins.






I know I shouldn't technically put a picture of myself on the web but... this is me at the Mediterranean ocean.


This was taken in southern France from a helicopter pad that Meghan and I sneaked on to.



I took this picture from the 3rd row on the 50th yard line at the Eagles stadium.

Video Games

Before I go on about various video games that I am currently enjoying and games that will be coming out soon and am desperately wanting to buy I want to say that GAMEINFORMER recently compared how "green" various electronic companies currently are. It depresses me to tell you Nintendo was last on the list. I have a Wii, Nintendo 64, and two games boys. They didn't meet any of the criteria. I can only hope that this means they will be trying to improve their global footprint. Microsoft came in as causing the 3rd largest footprint. The #1 green company was Samsung, followed by Sony.

Well now that's done, let's get down to business. I love video games. I have a special fondness for silly, simple games. I am not a fan of first person shooter game. These just befuddle me. As I mentioned above, I have a Wii. This has got to be the greatest console EVER! Even if I only played Wii sports this console would be worth every penny. I currently own: Shrek the third (DO NOT BUY THIS), Super Paper Mario (DEFINITELY DO NOT BUY THIS), Mario Party 8 (fun for drunken gatherings, but usually just leads us to team tennis), Super Mario Galaxy (Anyone seeing a trend? This game is actually pretty fun. I tried playing drunk once and the lack of gravity made my game playing skills very entertaining for my friends), Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (There are no words), and of course Wii Sports.

So while I have major enjoyment in my Lego Star Wars and Marios I am so excited for some new games. I guess Lego Star Wars was a huge hit because their coming out with not 1 but 2 new lego games (Batman and Indiana Jones). Now I could go either way on Batman, but Indiana Jones is just freekin AWESOME!! I grew up loving two things (well three things but lego's doesn't seem to be making a lego Die Hard anytime soon) and those were Star Wars and Indiana Jones. I could probably spend a whole weekend in absolute bliss just watching these films (not including the new Star Wars...George Lucas I hate you). My god mother had a pool when I was young. She also had a pool vacuum that we lovingly called R2-D2. When I got to college I wanted to be an archaeologist just like Indiana Jones. I have since grown to realize archaeology is not like that, but I still want to work with artifacts, preferably in a museum setting. So imagine my elation when I turn the page in GAMEINFORMER to two whole spreads about LEGO Indiana Jones. Let's just say I was...happy. With the Wii I will actually get to snap his whip!! Oh, Remember that seen where he had to fight the crazy guy in the desert town and even though he had his whip out he pulled out his gun and shot him (in know this was because he had muffed up the whip sequence for far too many frustrating takes)... I love that scene. The game comes out late this year and you bet your bum I will be playing it every second I get.

The next game I'm really excited about is Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. WAHOOO!! Just the title is exhilarating! This game comes out on February 26. Dragon Quest was the first RPG I played and really, REALLY enjoyed. I remember sitting in my friends college dorm, after they had all gone to bed, and playing the game for hours. I never pulled all nighters for school, but Dragon Quest... for that I pulled all nighters. The game was so much fun. I can't wait for the new one to come out. I will again not sleep, but who need sleep, not me!

There is a third game that has caught my attention, but it is not for the Wii. This one is for the PC. Civilization: Revolution. This game will be coming out in 2008. I'm not complete sure about it yet. I love Civ. 3. I enjoyed playing the new Civ. with my bf, but I do not yet own this version for myself. (something that I keep meaning to remedy.)

And that is all for video games.

Pictures!

An Arctic-hare. This bunny lives in the Arctic. It has thick white fur and short ears. It looks like an adorable snow ball. It is now the background on my desktop!



Bill Gates. In a recent poll done by College Grad Real World I selected to be Bill Gates, if I had to chose which celebrity I would be out of Bill Gates, Oprah, Tom Brady, and Brad Pitt.


A book I just finished that frustrated me to no end, and at the end it just made me angry! The characters we're either "users," people who use everyone around them with out caring about others or the repercussions, or "doormats," people who are use and do nothing about it but complain to their grandma.



Rodents of unusual size are real! Scientist found remains of an ancient rodent that was 1 ton, the size of a car! Imagine having one of those in your basement.


A girl holds a red flower between soldiers in Stavropol during a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Stavropol from German forces.

Go Bloomberg!

At a recent committee of Mayors Michael Bloomberg proposed a $15 taxes per ton of emissions produced by companies. To this I say GO Mayor Bloomberg. He isn't exactly being revolutionary here, since his plan is very similar to Se. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, but I always cheer on support for the environment.

Bloomberg's response to Pres. Bush's voluntary emissions targets was that they are like "voluntary speed limits--doomed to fail."

CNN covered Bloomberg's statement and the committee meeting.

Back To School!!

I am highly excited. Extremely Excited! UNNATURALLY EXCITED! for school.

That's right I am not only going back to school, as a non-degree student at GMU, but am overwhelmingly excited. I normally get excited by a new semester, but this is beyond anything I've experienced before. I have already read one article, and plan on starting my book, The Board Member's Book by Brian O'Connell, tonight!

My first class is on Monday. I hope it all lives up to my excitement.

What politician are you most like?

I recently took an on-line quiz to see which politician I have the most in common with (at least as far as political views are concerned). The quiz starts by having you rate the importance of various issues, then they ask you questions about the issues you think are the most important. I had an 88% similarity with Mike Gravel, 86% similarity with Dennis Kucinich and 85% similarity with Bill Richardson (who recently dropped out).

If you interested in taking the test follow this link.