This has been a busy weekend. We voted, bought a car (more on that when I have time to take a photo. Needless to say, I am ecstatic.) and made an executive decision to stop answering our phone unless the phone number of a close relative of friend popped up on the caller ID. I don't know what it's like for those of you not living in swing states, but out here in the Land of Enchantment (really, that's what they decided to call New Mexico) we are just getting pounded with campaign commercials, mail flyers, and worst of all, incessant phone calls advising us on how to cast our vote. It is outrageous. In the last two days, we have logged a total of 18 messages on our answering machine, ALL of them automated recordings of people like Laura Bush or the Secretary of Something telling us why the fate of the world rests on us voting for either George W. Bush or John Kerry depending on who is calling. If there were real people on the phone, that would be great, because then I could explain to them that SHUT UP, I HAVE VOTED! But you feel pretty funny yelling at a recording, not that this has stopped me much in the last few days.
This is all to say that I have many stories to tell, but they are all going to have to wait until after the election. I have to work election night, which means a long time spent hanging out in the county courthouse, waiting for returns. In the meantime, I think the blogging world is going to have to wait for my return. I'm sure I'll have plenty of funny stories to tell on the other side of the election. Stay tuned.