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I Call Shenanigans!

April 23, 2008 · Filed Under Politics ·  

Hillary Clinton I’m calling even more shenanigans today, when I found out that Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania.

This makes me even more sad than I was yesterday. After losing 11 straight states, Pennsylvania is the state that makes Hillary think she can make a comeback.

Grumble…

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Pennsylvania Primary Day

April 22, 2008 · Filed Under Life, Politics ·  

Today marks the day of the presidential primary in Pennsylvania. I have been looking forward to this day since reading websites talking about Super Tuesday. I have done my research, know who I’m voting for, knew I had to get my state ID renewed since it is almost six months expired, I thought I had everything in order.

I decided that I would go and renew my ID yesterday since the boyfriend’s driver’s license needs to be renewed and while looking up the business hours for the DMV, I read that I couldn’t just show up and get my ID renewed. Where was I when they decided these rules? I just showed up and got my ID initially, why do I need to mail out some papers and wait for them to mail me back papers and make an appointment now that I want to renew it? I call shenanigans!

So since I am without identification to go along with my little slip of paper saying I can vote, I can’t and I am pissed! I love voting; I take my right to vote very seriously and of course this would happen. So if anyone out there lives in Pennsylvania and didn’t plan on voting, why don’t you go out and vote for Obama for me so I can feel like I kinda sorta voted? That’d be just swell, thanks.

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Moving Tip: Avoid Moving in an Ice Storm

February 6, 2008 · Filed Under Life ·  

Menstrual Poetry Headquarters has officially been moved!

The boyfriend and I moved on February first, and it was definitely an exciting time for me. I have a great love of moving and new surroundings and the fact that being in the same place for two years was getting to me, not to mention he had been in our old apartment for nine years prior to my moving in with him, we probably shouldn’t have made the move in February. Our move was quite spontaneous; our old apartment’s roof was leaking in several spots and looked as if it were about to cave in at the next rain or snow fall and our landlord was completely disinterested in the entire fact that not only was our roof in horrible shape, but other things around the house that he had “fixed” were not indeed as fixed as he may have been under the impression they were. Within just a day of my incessant bitching about the state of the building that I believe needs to be condemned, we found a new place with a kick ass landlord and moved in as soon as possible.

February is by far the worst month weather-wise in Pennsylvania. February is when the extremely large snow falls happen, which I’ve been used to, living in the same area all my life, but little did we know, freak ice storms also happen to occur in February!

While moving the majority of our belongings from our old apartment and into the uHaul sitting outside, it looked as if it were raining. The steps were wet, but as I was carrying a heavy box down the two flights of very rickety steps outside to get to the front of our apartment building, I slid down one and then another and then, at 5am, all that could be heard was “Holy shit! Not rain, not rain.”

After a few hours, we finally had all of our stuff in the uHaul outside and we drove from our old, should be condemned apartment and an hour north of where we were, where the weather only got worse and the streets only got icier along with the porch of our new apartment completely covered in several sheets of ice.

12 hours later, we were completely moved in but the ice still wasn’t letting up. 6 days later, most of the boxes are unpacked, the apartment is looking great, and our office is gorgeous and much roomier than our last. Good choice to move, absolutely wonderful new apartment, never moving in February again.

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