November 17, 2007

• Hodgepodge

  • With just over 6 weeks until the caucuses, Iowa is bombarded with political ads, and they are getting more and more frequent. I'm sure by Christmas, every other ad will be for someone wanting to be president. Caucuses are Jan. 3, I think.
  • Although we have lived here nearly 12 years, this will be the first caucus I will attend. We moved here immediately following the caucus in 1996. I didn't quite understand the caucus process in 2000 and didn't attend, forgetting that while we have a primary later in the year, we don't get to vote for president at the primary. In 2004, I was sick on caucus night, so I didn't go. By then I'd learned that the caucus is where all the Repbulicans in town gather in one place, all the Democrats in another, and they have a big meeting debating which party candidate we should put on the ballot and then vote on it at the end of the nite. There are no voting booths. It's like a town hall meeting. It will be interesting to actually participate in one this year.
  • The weather man is predicting snow on Wednesday.
  • We have no plans for Thanksgiving day itself. We rarely get a whole day that neither of us has to do anything, so I think we'll just sit home and enjoy it. I may make hubby his favorite beef and noodles for dinner or just a ham steak and a few Thanksgiving-style sides. My friend "L" invited us to her house, but I'm liking the idea of puttering around my own house doing my own thing all day.
  • My friend "L" and I will venture out early Friday morning for our annual tradition of bargain hunting on Black Friday. We stick to the smaller towns where the crowds are not vicious. We made the mistake of going to Des Moines one year. We got there waaay too late for the good bargains and the lines at the registers were hours long. Not again.
  • Some malls are opening at midnight Friday morning. We are toying with the idea of whether we are capable of handling starting shopping at midnight and going until 6 or 7 a.m. We'll make that final call when we talk Thursday afternoon to plan our shopping strategies. Luckily, I've scheduled myself off on Friday so I can come home to sleep regardless of when we get started.
  • I hope everyone who is traveling for the holiday gets to where you are going and back safely. Happy Thanksgiving.

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