I have a confession to make. Last night I was sound asleep by 9pm. Obama had 103 votes and I just couldn’t stay awake any longer. I’ll explain that later, but I was elated when I woke up at 2am (even though it was a terrible migraine that got me up) to see that Barack Obama had won, and by a good amount. There will be no recounting, no hard feelings about winning a popular vote but losing the electoral. Its a solid, fair victory. What I loved even more, was waking up to Barak Obama’s email thanking all of his supporters and his twitter message this afternoon doing the same. And that .. is why he won. Barak can connect with us unlike any other president has, and I love it.
I’ve been teaching the last couple weeks, and its been interesting to see how the students follow and get excited about this election. Yesterday I wore my “I voted” sticker to my elementary school assignment, knowing that the kids will notice. And they did, and even though I tried to avoid answering the question “Who did you vote for” I couldn’t ignore the students who said “I bet she voted for McCain”, and always corrected them, as quietly as I could. Today we watched Student CNN with the morning announcements and my entire 1st grade class erupted with cheers and “Obama” chants. It was awesome, and I’m glad their teachers had them so involved.
Staying with the teaching thought .. I’m signed up with the same school until the end of next week which is awesome. I get to know the teachers and the students .. and I really like it there. I also love having a fixed schedule, up at 6, out the door at 7, home by 3pm. I’m making my own lunches, which forces me to eat better (and drink less diet coke). And I’ve been cooking dinners too. I feel like I’m getting so much accomplished. One of these days I think getting an office space again will really help Sean and I separate work & home.
So why did I fall asleep so early last night .. well because of a flea. Monday evening I was hanging out with the dogs on the couch and scratching Daisy when I found a flea. Only one, and its the first one I’ve ever seen on either of my dogs. So they got their Advantix that night .. and it made Daisy insane. She cried in her crate for 4 hours (during which I let her out numerous times, but all she wanted was to get into the bed with me, and that wasn’t going to happen with the flea gunk on her). Finally at 1am I took her out and lost it. I screamed at her since I had to be up in 5 hours and had gotten no sleep. Sean came and took her away to his office. She apparently cried all night long, and slept for less then 2 hours. Tuesday I had to work and was shuffled around 6 different classes for teachers to learn a new computer system. I had every grade from 3-6 and had to handle 2 classes without lesson plans. Its amazing how draining that is. Then after school I went grocery shopping, cooked dinner and baked cookies and when I finally had a minute to sit down, I just passed out 
I did get a fantastic night sleep though.
This is a freakin’ long post but I have one more change 
Tonight I dyed my hair brown! My first instinct was to pick up the ‘light ash brown’ from the store shelf, since I believe that is very close to my natural color, but I really want dark, dark brown hair. So I went for a color by feria that said ‘light brown’ (#60) but looked close to what I want. So I’ve dyed, rinsed and blown my hair dry .. and of course its lighter then I wanted. It really wouldn’t be that bad except that the ends of my hair, the parts that have been bleached again and again by my highlights .. look a bit gray 
I have a 2nd box just in case, but now I’m wondering if I should pick up something darker or stay with the same color tomorrow and go darker next month. Looking at Feria’s website I think their Espresso (#40) might be a good choice. Anyways I’m excited for my hair change .. and glad I didn’t end up pink like my red experiment fiasco.
And incase you didn’t see this super cute picture of the pups on Daisy’s Tales .. I just have to share it here.
