For Heather

Heather sent me this, but I'm only going to do numbers 1 and 2, since the rest isn't my style, but I do enjoy sharing random facts about myself.

1. Halloween is tied for my favorite holiday season (yes, it is so a season!) and I love coming up with a costume. This year I'm tied between Sarah Palin and a corpse bride. The corpse bride was in the works for awhile, but I was recently inspired to be Sarah Palin this year, since I have a cute suit that I never get to wear, and can do her voice fairly well. I walk around saying "I'm a hockey mom from Alaska" all the time anyway.

2. My constantly saying "I'm a hockey mom from Alaska" comes because I've recently started to listen to the Rick Emerson Show again. I used to listen when I lived in the Portland area, and just started downloading the show to my iPod and listening on the bus. I love it.

3. My current favorite thing to drink (if you can call it that) is a Pumpkin Spice Shake from Culvers.

4. I have always loved the Christmas season, but not for any religious reasons. I just love the trees and the lights and the music (both secular and religious.) But the whole "War on Christmas" thing just makes me want to scream. War on Christmas my ass. Christmas was placed at the end of December to replace a pagan celebration, just like Easter was. Stop acting like the only purpose of December is to celebrate the Christian religion. If that's what it means to you, great. Celebrate and worship away. But stop yelling at other people (I'm talking to you, Bill O'Reilly) for having the sheer audacity to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."

5. Having realized that fully half of my answers so far I turned into mini-rants, I thought I would list a fact I don't really like to share. I envy people like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly who get paid a ridiculous amount of money to just yell at the top of their lungs about stupid things that I sometimes think they don't actually think/believe.

6. I'm kind of in love with John Stewart.

7. I'm not usually this political, but with this whole year being dedicated to the election, it's been on my mind lately.