why november 4th will always be a bit somber in our humble home...

this morning, ben and i walked to the house on our corner and voted in their enclosed patio. this deserves some qualifying...
1) they had a yes on 8 sign on their lawn all days preceding the election. yuck.
2) their enclosed patio smelled. bad.
3) said enclosed patio was covered in odd and old family pictures. both oil painted portraits and prints. but none that were nostalgic or lovely.

as we walked away ben and i fived over the fact that we just canceled out each others vote. see, it is easy to five at 8a.m. when there are no results. and no one has been crowned victorious. it is another, 12 or so hours later, when one of us is relieved/happy/excited about the future and the other is frustrated/angry/convinced that the next four years are lost. and it is always one or the other of us. so had tonight been different, so too our respective moods.

so, i celebrated very quietly tonight. as in, silently. with the exception of getting the good news from my little bro (who also shared even better news that he and his soon-to-be-mrs. were celebrating with me. so awesome!) it has been very quiet here tonight.

oh well, i will save my celebratory spirit for tomorrow when i see my mom (btw, you can take your "stop bush" sign out of your front window any day now...her poor neighbors have had to see that every day for 8 years) and the rest of the fam who will be happy to celebrate with me.

as shakespeare would say, "huzzah!"

that last part was just for me...i have been looking for a good reason to bring that word back into circulation :)