Voter Registration

Yesterday afternoon a nice young lady knocked on the door of our apartment.  She introduced herself and says she was canvassing the area to get people to register to vote.  I told her that I was a registered out of state voter.  (New Jersey represent!  Although probably not for too much longer.  I even filled out and got a new voter card after I got married.  How good is that?)  She responded with, "But you live here."  I replied with "Yes, but I have an absentee ballot from my state."  Sheesh.  What part of registered out of state voter don't you get?  If I know that information, one would come to the conclusion I know a thing or two about voting.  It all ended with Silvio running out the front door to play in the muddy grass which led to me running around like an idiot to catch him.

Yes, I think it is great thing to get people to register.  It's your right and privilege as a citizen of the United States of America.  Personally, I think you should go to the county clerks office and do it yourself.  Take some initiative.  My reason for voting:  it gives me the right to whine and complain or, alternatively, praise and take pride in how America is handling things. 

With that, I need for people to not bother me about registering so I can make a decision for my absentee ballot.  I'm still really quite muddled up to my ears in with this and all three recent debates have done very little to sway me in either direction.  I guess I need to keep looking at Senate records and their proposed actions.  At least -- my income tax class has given me a lot of insight into the tax code.  Anyways, I should keep hush-hush on that - I hate it when people try to sway me with information they've found, so I don't want to do that here.

Back to the grind!

Banking

My head, probably more aptly, my money is going in circles this week.  Originally in Wachovia, which was supposed to be taken by Citigroup, and now this morning, looks like my money is going to be with Wells Fargo.  I really don't have any worries about it though because the FDIC insures my accounts up to the first 100,000 dollars.  (And no - I don't have 100,000 dollars, but I wish I did.)

Family Website

I created a family website for everyone to keep with what our little family (Andrew, Silvio, and myself) are up to.  Right now it is still in its infancy.  As time goes by, I am sure that it will become much more expansive.  I have a bunch of more ideas, but at the moment I have a bunch of other projects - like my christmas stockings, gifts (holidays, birthdays, and the like), my income tax class (I'll probably write about that later), and so much more that is making the website building move along slowly.  Anyway, below is the link to our site.  It was quite easy to create with google, given I haven't made a website in about 6 years.  Without further ado,

Keeping Up With The Gieseys

I have a bunch of other ideas for journal entries, and yes, it includes finishing off writing about the honeymoon.  In the meantime, I have to get on my list of to-dos for the day:

1. updating our budget
2. calling the vet to get the necessary papers so little Silvio can travel with me to NJ in the next couple of weeks
3. domestically fun things - ie laundry and food shopping
4. working on some gifts
5. mailing packages
6. working more on this website, christmas stockings, halloween decorations and the like.
7. prepping for tomorrow's tax class