Yes We Can!!

Wow, what a great night!

Here is the victory speech from South Carolina and if you didn't catch his speech on MLK day it made me cry it was so good.

And Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama claiming he would be a president like her father!

January update

Looking back since my last blog there have been some fun things:
Cindy's baby shower with great women, food and wine
A friend from Acoustic started working with me at Microchip so I have a friendly face at work now
An amazing bookclub with my Soroptimist friends to discuss A Thousand Spended Suns - over 15 people showed up for the 2 hour discussion!
Lots of yoga, wine and trivia in my new Ahwatukee location and routine

And some crappy things:
Tyler's arm is infected badly and she is back in the hospital. Had a surgery today to remove the infected area and is scheduled for another tomorrow to stretch skin to cover the infected area. My god, can't she catch a break. All I can think about is her recovery and pray that she heals completely, quickly and qualifies for the state healthcare plan so that her bills are manageable and this doesn't ruin her life.

Obama isn't kicking Hillary's butt in the primaries as I had hoped :(

And some embarassing things:
Showing up to my friend Michelle's baby shower at 3pm instead of 1:30pm and not even realizing it until people started to leave "early" - organization only works well when you have the right information in your Palm! Oops - sorry Michelle.

My new husband

In December, after we all had WAY too much fun at Julia's post-chemo party, Ben lost his glasses. This prompted him to go to the eye doctor and get not only new glasses but also contacts for the first time.

And this week, he got his braces off !! So he has been chewing gum and eating sticky foods to make up for lost time.

Look how handsome my new and improved guy is with his blue eyes and million dollar smile... well it didn't really cost a million dollars :)

Go Obama!

I am over the moon that Obama took Iowa tonight!!

We are ready for change and I feel hopeful.

Here is a link to an insightful article that my friend Duane shared with me and it really sums up why I think Obama should be President: Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic Monthly on Obama

Ho Ho Ho...

We are all moved into our new appartment and loving the neighborhood. We can walk to Outback, the wine bar, a great deli and a bar to play trivia. And we can walk to BevMo which is a little dangerous. Plus when things break the appt complex fixes them for us. We are enjoying the hot tub at night too and got cozy robes for Christmas to bundle up for the cold walk after. I might never want to move back into a house! Did I mention that Kelly lives in the same complex and can join me to a walk across the street for wine?? Ahhh bliss!

Our early Christmas with Colombes was lots of fun this year. My nieces are at a fun age and Nora was keeping track of whose turn it was to open gifts and very excited about her gifts. Hailey was a little overwhelmed as the night got later but she was cute too.

We flew to Ohio for Christmas with my family and it was just PERFECT. It had been a year since I was in Ohio and it was awesome to see Courtney, my parents, Granny, Cindy, Mike & Zach. And of course Stella. We ate way too much and all got way too many presents. Mostly we talked, giggled, teased and just spent time together. I love family traditions. Tyler got us all the most creative gifts this year including the "Alcott University" T-shirts and photo calendars featuring Stella the pretty puppy!

I also had time to visit with old friends and it was great to catch up with Amy who I've known since 1st grade and Kelly who I've known since 6th grade.

Thursday Ben and I flew back to Phoenix and have had a relaxing time off from work with reading, spending time with friends, and computer games. Now it's back to work tomorrow and I guess it is time for reality.

As Ben and I got back to Phoenix on Thursday, Tyler went to Columbus with Courtney to spend time with friends. She had a roller skating accident and managed to shatter her right elbow. Tyler just recently moved to AZ and doesn't have a job or health insurance yet so this has been a very stressful and emotional time with her hospital stay, major surgery to repair/rebuild her elbow full of metal. My parents have taken her back home to Y-town for her recouperation and I'm hoping she has a speedy recovery and is back in AZ soon.

We spent New Year's Eve with Kelly and Kevin starting with a New York midnight celebration of pizza and wine at NYPD Pizza, then Chicago midnight celebration at Kelly's appt, and the west coast celebration with desert and more wine at my appt. It was a low-key and perfect way to bring in the new year!! I can't believe it's really 2008 already! Should be an exciting year ahead.