Random

What a week! Here are a few things that have run through my stream of consciousness this week:

1. While watching the HBO series "The Wire" and sipping a latte (two things, by the way, that white people like), one of the characters offered up the old adage, "Heavy is the head that wears the crown." That got me to thinking--as a show mostly about running the business and busting mid-level drug dealers will do--about life today. We elected a new president who will inherit quite a bit--war, a bad reputation in the global community, a tanked economy, foreign threats......and the hopes of Americans that, "Yes we can!" It's no wonder President (elect) Obama wants to hit the ground running. Props to W for (at least seemingly) working toward easing the transition.
2. Speaking of P (elect) Obama, the boyfriend of a friend of mine has been working writing some of O's speeches and talking points. He has spoken to Obama directly. That makes me, like, two degrees removed from the head honcho himself, right?
3. Some people feel the need to get the last word in an argument. I am just such a person. I wish I was bigger than that, but it's one of my vices. So, for better or worse, allow me to say one last thing...if you've never had a conversation with someone, you're hardly qualified to comment about what someone has or hasn't been through in their "young" life.
4. Having completed the half-marathon, I am now running purely because somewhere along the way I started to enjoy it. That and I want to be in shape. Somehow, it's freeing not to "have" to put in a certain number of miles.
   
5. My two-year-old started taking showers. What? When did he change from a toddler to little man?
   
6. In other "time flies" news, my daughter is walking about 90% of the time.
   
7. I am now addicted to lattes. Don't know when it took me by such force (maybe coffee coolers are a gateway drug?), but now I get it.
8. I remember reading the books in the series "The Babysitters Club" and getting inspired to be a great babysitter. I made myself available to all for a cheap price (until I lived in Chicago, then I was like, $5/hr/kid or it's not worth my time). Where have all the babysitters gone? (Mayhaps they are reading about vampires these days and are no longer interested in babysitting?) I just want to go see a movie and maybe go out to dinner without having to eat in shifts and do a song and dance for the kids. There are times when I really wish I lived closer to family.
9. Due to a pre-Christmas gift of money, we now have a new computer. No more playing solitaire while I'm waiting for a page to load.
   

Gotta go...I'm jonesin' for a latte....