Labels: Monday Secret
posted by Lindsay @ 8:04 AM
Sharing the journey that has taken me from being a single girl in the advertising agency world to a married mommy running my own freelance writing and consulting business (and every random adventure in between).
THINGS I LOVE: Thunderstorms, power ballads, princess camping, exploring new cities, Jon Stewart, greatest hits CDs, clever ads, packing for a trip, George Clooney, impractical footwear, movies about spies, Starbucks, reading an entire book in one sitting, a house full of friends, movies about spies, buying presents, a perfect French manicure, warm modernist architecture, getting flowers for no reason, being faux brunette, Mary Poppins, making lists on Post-It notes, decorating for Christmas, having a brilliant middle-of-the-night 'aha!' idea and then actually remembering it in the morning / THINGS I HATE: People who whine, wearing sweats in public, 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, birds, American tourists in foreign countries, taking down the Christmas tree, poems that rhyme, the misuse of semicolons, being lied to, unpacking after a trip, being closed-minded, naming your kid something common but then spelling it stupidly, cowboys, overly cautious drivers, fake curse words, ridiculously long surnames, strangers who start awkward conversations with you in places you can't readily escape
2 Comments:
I've always thought that spoiling a ballot is a bit of an empty gesture because nobody knows why, or whether you even did it intentionally -- the pencil might have just slipped or whatever. I have done it, though, when I honestly thought there were no candidates worth voting for...then wondered if I would have been better off joining the masses who don't vote at all (they're basically "saying" the same thing).
Nowadays, with most federal ridings being contested by at least four parties, it's not hard to find one that is at least in the ballpark in terms of sharing your values. I'll continue voting Green as a protest (and affinity) vote unless another candidate has even the tiniest chance of unseating our odious MP, none other than the infamous Stockwell Day. Never going to happen sadly, but I would even vote Liberal as a lesser-of-evils sorta thing if I thought it might get Stockwell (and hopefully Harper) out.
It's a tough one, hey?
I still believe that if you didn't show up to vote, you forfeit the right to complain about government for the next four years (or however long it happens to be before our Canadian powers-that-be decide to call another election).
I won't make my *final* decision until the all four major national parties have had their chance to share their campaign platforms and state their cases.
Can we vote for Obama? hehe
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