I Smell Election

Early voting begins Oct. 20 and I am all over it. I like to go to the local Fiesta grocery store near work on my lunch hour and get it over with. Who needs the insanity of Election day? Find your neighborhood early voting spot here.

I also smell Board removal action. The High-spanic Health Coalition Board--or, at least 6 of us--had a teleconf yesterday and we removed 1 board member per our Bylaws that state we can even do so by committee, ha ha ha! I offered up 2 more names while we were at it. Those are on hold but if I have anything to say about it, their heads are on the chopping block.

I had a private conversation with one of the other board members yesterday, and she is someone that I adore and admire. We both agreed that we are in a firing mood as far as these board member slackers go, and we both agreed that we are "Do"ers, not "Talk"ers. We believe in by God getting things done and we can't stand lollygagging! For example, that job description I wrote up b/c I was tired of waiting around for anyone else to do it. Our Prez had called for a teleconf to "discuss" it before we wrote it, but I didn't see the point in YET ANOTHER DAMN MEETING, so I wrote it up and sent it on its way for comments, additions, etc. And now it's done and I sent it out the the public at large on Tuesday! We even got 1 submission already, but I am disappointed b/c I put for them to send a "cover letter with resume" and this person's cover letter sucked. I was also critical of some minor typos on her resume. I am hard core.

S and I have been majorly PO'd at each other lately, for like the past week. Tonight we are going to go see this movie (my idea), which looks quite cheesy but it has firefighters and is Christian so it should be right up our alley. We had a double marriage counseling session yesterday--2 hours! Our counselor is awesome. He's been married for 38 years. People like that sure give me hope, that's for sure! Anyway, he's also very effective at getting me and S to really think about things. I still say I much prefer to give my money to marriage counselors and not divorce lawyers. I just found out about a couple I know that I was surprised to hear apparently just got divorced. I went to their wedding but have not kept in touch much. They met in a bar.

I spoke to L. earlier who is going to South Africa tomorrow! She is meeting up with J1 and J2 and I am so jealous, but so happy for them, thinking of the good times they will have! Then we will all party together at New Year's in New Orleans. I am trying desperately hard to get my good buddy Greg to go with me and incidentally, his friend Matt whose brother is in fact NOPD! I hung out with those guys and our other friends--Monkey John and Opie--last Friday night and it was the best, most fun time I have had in a long time. We drank beer and caught up, we went to the Continental and ran around there, we ended up at a new friend's house that we just met and we hung out there until about 5am. I was in the living room watching Dirty Harry, Johnny was asleep next to me, Greg was passed out drunk in my car, our new friend--a very tall, very funny Australian who was impressed I pronounced Melbourne as "Mailbin"--was in the back yard playing guitar, and Matt was outside smoking cigarettes with our other new friends Jack and Neesy. It was total play group time. It made me feel young again! And the next day I had to deliver to Greg the items he'd left in my car: his cell phone, his sunglasses, and 1 shoe.