Has the World Fallen Yet?

Well, the election season is over. Can't say that I'm happy about the outcome. Ashton and I were hoping for a different outcome, although we knew that it was not likely. I spent a lot of time in front of the TV, keeping track of which states went to who, yelling at the different people talking on the TV, and soon needed comfort food. So, I baked a pumpkin pie. Took too long to bake so I haven't gotten a chance to eat it yet. Looks good though!

We have a lot of worries and skepticism about our newly elected President. Socialism, to any degree, being one of the top concerns. We don't want to have to pay for other people's life styles. Ashton works hard for his money and I feel that if we want to donate some to charities, whether through the Church or otherwise, that's up to us. It's hard to save and plan for the future when someone is taking all your "extra" money (I'd like to know who decides what is extra) to pay for someone else who is either too lazy to improve their lifestyle or someone who's just hit hard times. If we really wanted to help people out, we'd create more jobs. (For other troubling policies http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-11-02-1.html )

Of course, we're always skeptical when someone is the "media baby." I don't feel that Obama was fairly tried by the media, and certainly not to the extent that McCain was tested. Although, that hardly matters now for the political race, as we look ahead, we're not sure that Obama will ever be able to do anything wrong, or at least that the media would admit. That to me is troubling, but we'll see how it turns out. Right now I'm just trying to be satisfied with Propisition 8 passing in California and hoping that San Francisco's appeal doesn't work. (Don't know how they can appeal with the general public voting on it.)

On other news, we woke up this morning to snow and a bit of a snow storm. Thankfully, it's stopped snowing and we only got an inch or two, but it's sad that winter has come already. I'm just not ready to only see white for several months. I haven't even taken care of my pots of flowers. Although they haven't died yet. They're strong little suckers.