Danger-prone Daphne

...is alive and well and living in me!

For Thanksgiving, Mark & I drove out to Homewood to spend the day at Leigh and Doug's house. I made a pumpkin pie and homemade whipped cream! On the way into the house, I slipped on the wood deck and almost bit the dust. Thank goodness for that fence or I would've ended up in a pile in the grass on top of the pie. With no grace what's-so-ever, I somehow saved the pie from getting completely smashed (although since I used organic and 2% milk it didn't set right and was a bust anyway). Crisis averted!

Mark was making the stuffing and I offered to help prep. Doug sharpened all the knives and I chopped onion, celery and leeks. Next - on to chopping the potatoes! We were all in the kitchen having fun. I came really close to cutting my finger and was in the middle of declaring as much when I actually did cut my finger. Yipes! I hate when that happens. I'm a chicken when it comes to blood - especially my own. So I grabbed my finger and jumped up to run to the sink and immediately smashed my face into the metal bar on the bottom of the cabinet. Classy!

After a few minutes of trying to stop the bleeding and not pass out, I recovered enough to enjoy the rest of the evening (with lots of wine). My finger is healing nicely -- although I must say that normal activities like curling eyelashes, tying shoes or texting become difficult without two functional opposing thumbs). Not sure if the bridge of my nose is broken or not...what's a girl to do?

Wow!

Look at her.

Photo from the first Obama Administration White House State dinner.

Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm AFP/Getty Images

Gobble

Thanksgiving is in 2 days!! And yes, I only love the holiday because of the food.

Muppets do Queen

Awesome!

(Tip of the hat to Perez Hilton.)

Rumor has it...

Obama may send up to 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Not sure, but don't think I'm happy about that.

Sweet!

Prez O and the NFL make a PSA.

Veteran's Day

After delivering a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, President Obama (along with the First Lady) walked through Section 60 which is reserved for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mark Knoller of CBS News got confirmation from the cemetary officials that this was the first time ever a president has done this.

*photo by Luke Sharret, New York Times

Happy 40th!

Today, Sesame Street turns 40!!! Congrats to what I consider one of the best shows on tv.

Google is celebrating by creating logos featuring the cast of characters (see pic). Some fo my personal faves are Cookie Monster and Grover -- I seem to have a thing for blue monsters.

Who's your favorite?

Memorial

On the eve of Veteran's Day, friends, family and dignitaries gathered today at Fort Hood to honor the 13 soldiers that were killed last week in the shooting massacre.
Pool photo by Rich Johnson, Fox News (via Mark Knoller, CBS News on Twitter).

Here you can read President Obama's remarks.

Stimulus at Work

The end of my street...

And this is too damn funny

Stewart channels Beck.

My Rep...

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Quote of the day

"Woo! I'm Elizabeth Taylor -- Cat on a hot tin roof!"

~woman in wheelchair after I startled her by coming up behind her to hold the door open.

Good Ole Ave

This was posted from a Daily Dish reader in response to Maine voting to reverse the right for gays to marry in the election yesterday...

Here's one of my favorite Lincoln quotes, from an 1855 letter to Joshua Speed:

"I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

Insert "gay" for "negroes" in the above and my point is made. His logic resonates still.

November

It's been a while since I've posted anything. Excuses? The usual: busy, lazy, not-focused, didn't have anything pertinent to say...

Politically, my feelings have been all over the map. I wanted to post extensively on the health care debate many times, but find I'm happy I didn't. We're going to get a plan - something of a compromise, but still a solid basis to build on (which will take years). I wonder if the public option would cover a psychiatrist so I can work on not being addicted to the talking heads spin cycle?

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of when Obama was elected president. Everyone, yes Everyone, wrote an opinion piece spinning it in their direction. I think he's doing fine. Yes, there are things I wish he would speed it up on and things I disagree with, but I don't think any rational person (not on a payroll to spin right) could say we are in a worse position than we were a year ago. Well, I guess they would bring up the deficit which we will need to deal with shortly, but first we need to fix stuff.

I still get upset with all the hate and negativity spewing forth. I try to limit what I read, but it still seeps through everywhere. Why is it those are always the loudest voices?

Grumpy

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