My vacation is flying by faster than me hauling ass down the highway in my Viper. I've been at camp since last Friday. It seems like we've spent so little time down here, when in actuality, we've been here every weekend, rain or shine. Did I mention rain?
Yesterday was a wonderfully quiet day, no dogs barking and no screeching kids. However, I was rather bored and decided to give the windows inside the camper a good cleaning.
We had one window in the back of the camper that had a crack in it from who knows when, and my trying to wash it gently had that mother going all the way across the window now.....WTF.
A chat with the campground owners will hopefully get it fixed without too much trouble on my part.
Last night, all that was on tv was the democratic national convention......ugh! Not usually an issue with the millions of other channels to watch, but when you are roughing it and only have 6 to choose from, it's a problem. I would rather have sharp sticks poked in both eyes than waste my time watching all those lying polititicans tell me what they want me to hear, just to get my vote.
I am so disgusted with the entire political process that I could scream. A recent newspaper article was talking about the possible reasons for so few people going out and voting. Their thoughts were that it was just too difficult to make it to the polling places. What a load of crap!
My thoughts are that there are plenty of other intelligent people who refuse to fall for the speal that the presidential hopefuls are spewing and just refuse to endorse any of them. Lately it seems all about choosing the lesser of the evils when it comes to presidents and soon after being sworn into office, all promises are off and they will begin to run their own agendas.
Who needs that shit? I wish the people with the power would remember us, the little people and all the issues that we are having here in this country. How about fixing our own backyard instead of bailing out other countries? Aw hell, I could go on and on.....I'm going to write in Fred Flintsone as a presidential nominee. Yep, he's a loud mouth, but he always used to tell you like it is, and I can respect that.

Can you say yum? I can, after having a terrific dinner last night at a new chinese restaurant last night. We were pleasantly surprised by how nice it was inside, they even had cloth napkins. There was an extensive menu, with the option of ordering a box with lots of different options. The wonton soup was wonderful and all our dinner choices were just as great. I can hardly wait to go back.

I was lucky enough to catch some of the Olympics that was on late last night, and watch Micheal Phelps win another gold medal. What an exciting race! I don't think I have ever seen one closer. I am hoping he can do it again and bring home the gold again. What a wonderful accomplishment. I am proud to have such dedicated and talented athletes represent our country.

The news this morning told the story of a little girl who appeared to be singing a patriotic Chinese song, only to find out that the girl with the voice was not attractive enough to be seen by millions of people in the opening ceremonies, and hidden backstage, while a more attractive girl was lip-syncing.
How disgusting. Obviously the Olympic committee cared so little about how they were telling this girl, not in words, but actions, that she didn't measure up.
Women of all ages have been struggling for eons over self image, being bombarded by photos of women who are "perfect" and we should all aspire to be attractive over being ourselves and being valued for being individuals.
Now, the Chinese government wants to hush this up, and even have their people defending the decision, and supposedly they think the western world is making too much of this.
I don't think we are making a big enough stink about it.
Thank goodness for companies like Dove, who encourage girls to be self confident about themselves and see themselves for the beautiful people they are, not the airbrushed beauties that stare at us from magazines, billboards, movies and tv.
The Chinese people are sending a message loud and clear, maybe not the image that they want to send but one that says that physical image is everything.