(Beware: This post will only make sense to a few special people. :)
This election has me on the edge of my seat and has my daughter yelling English phrases that crack me up. The fact that I am blogging 2ce in one day shows that I am in desperate need of an outlet of nervous energy. I guess as a writer, I have to write!
Reenactment with 4.5 year old girl - When I came home from voting today
Her - "Mommy, did you vote?
Me - "Yup. Look I even got you a sticker."
Her - Cool. Did XXXXX win?"
Me - "No honey, we won't know until tonight."
Her (yelling very loud with a frown on her face) - "Oh my giddy aunt! What's taking so long?"
Now first, let me say that this exclamation made me miss my hubby. I am just not the same when he is not here. My balance is off. My heart is a little emptier and my family is not the same when he is gone. We just have a certain hum to life when he is around. sniff sniff
Secondly, how cute is it that my daughter has picked up his English phrases. She - at times - almost sounds more British than my hubby does (sorry honey :)
Thirdly, Cor Blimey! Could she have said it any better?
This election has been going on for what seems like a lifetime. I have never been involved in an election like this one. I have always voted. Though, I have not always been happy with my vote and pretty confident that my inlaws have been mortified as well.
(BTW just to get in a tidbit about marketing, we marketing people call regret - Cognitive Dissonance. Others call it buyers remorse. Personaly, I prefer the official phrase - it sounds better and I sound smarter. What's bad is that I love to slip it in a conversation whenever I can - which makes me - yup you guessed it - uncool as usual).
I certainly have NEVER followed elections in detail like this and I have NEVER followed since the primaries started. This time, I was there every step of the way.
And tonight, I realize: Gordon Bennett, I am exhausted! I can't imagine how the candidates feel. This has been a long 2 years. I could have given birth to 2 kids (technically) by now.
So today, my daughter summed it up perfectly - as usual. "Oh my giddy aunt! What's taking so long?"
So can we just get on with it already! Its like a great movie that would never end.
I have run the gamut on my finger nails. Chewed every piece of gum in the house. Now, I am on to a cool Sam Adams Winter lager.
I am on the edge of my seat - watching politics - and I am left with just feeling old. I remember my parents watching and discussing politics - zzzzzzzz Boring!
And here - the election is my thriller of the day! Crumbs!
Tootle pip!
2 comments:
I've never heard "Oh my giddy aunt!" before. What does it mean? I'm thinking like an "oh my goodness" kind of thing? For a while, I picked up the so-called swear word, "Pants!" from one of my Brit friends. To this day, when I hear it, I crack up.
"Oh my giddy aunt" is too adorable. Is it really a Brit phrase or did your creative darling make it up? When I was in London several years ago, I asked a coffee house server where the rest room was and he almost fell on the floor laughing when I finally made him understand what I needed. He and his cute, young buddy sniggered madly at the concept of a "resting" room rather a "toilet" as they so elegantly put it. Felt so old. Sigh.
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