Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot express how it felt to watch the election results last night and find out that Obama won. That was one of those goose bump-inducing moments... when you know you are watching history in the making. That is such a cool feeling. His speech was amazing! I really wish I could have gone downtown to see it live! But I'd probably still be there with a crowd that large.

Some of my friends are frustrating me a bit with their reaction to Obama. I know we cannot all agree on one person, but the way they're verbalizing it is kind of scary. I've seen too many words like Communist, Socialist, Terrorist... do they honestly think that, or were they brainwashed by hearing it throughout the election? It is obvious that the majority of people in our country want to get out of the rut we are in right now- that Bush put us in- and turn things around. And I honestly don't think anyone I know makes enough money to have to worry about paying more taxes under Obama's plan. Get real, guys! Calm down and accept the fact that when people get out and vote, when they take things seriously and are tired of being in the situation we are in right now... GOOD things happen! I believe our country is not as "stupid" as some people have claimed it to be because McCain lost- I think for the first time, maybe ever, people realize that we can really make change happen. Could things get much worse for us right now? Doubtful. And the scariest thing of all to me is, if McCain had won and something had happened to him, do people honestly think Sarah Palin would be a good President!? It's those people that make me nervous. I won't go far enough to call them 'stupid', but I will say that no matter how quickly Obama moved up the ladder, he is far more qualified to run our country than she is. Hopefully things will cool down now that it's over, and the McCain supporters will stop fighting it. I know they can't all think he's a terrorist, but from the comments that were shouted during McCain's concession speech last night, there are some scary people out there who don't have their facts straight. It's people like that that make me a little worried for Obama's safety; the extremists who booed him and shouted lies about him. They compared him to JFK last night- I guess that's what made me start to think about that side of things. I truly hope he will be safe and no one will try anything stupid. Okay, I think it's time for me to cool down a bit and let my blood pressure go back to normal now...

In other, very different news, today is the last day of nice weather. From here, it starts getting cooler, windier, and now they are saying it may SNOW on Saturday!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Hopefully it won't stick. I'm not ready to drive in snow... I haven't done it in years and I'm not quite ready now. And oh, that wind!! It's crazy!!! We raked leaves this weekend and you can't even tell now! I'm glad some of the trees still have leaves on them- otherwise it would be bare and a little depressing! Fall here is beautiful, I will say that.

Anyway, I will quit rambling now. I'll update some more later... and will try not to let other people get to me and go off on another tangent. :)

-Ash