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o hai
05/31/2008 = 09:02 AM

This is actually more of a "kthxbi" post, but when you put the word "goodby" into a blog title, you make people panic.

I'm not going anywhere, blogwise, even if I am, geographically (for those who didn't know, That Man of Mine and I have sold our home and are moving cross-country to find jobs and an affordable place to live).

No, I have someone else to whom I'm saying goodby, and I want to tell you about it, so you can say goodby as well, if you're so inclined.

You know I don't tend to get political in here. It's not quite the whole "don't shit where you sleep" philosophy so much as it's the whole "I hate politics and I want at least one spot on the internet where everyone is more or less getting along, thanks ever so."

However, the Queen of Internet Pancakitude sent me, via email, a link to a website wherein one can write a farewell message to the current presidential administration, and I felt strongly enough about it that I didn't even need to stop and decide whether I wanted to participate — the second I saw what they were doing, I said, "I am All. Over. This."

Due to my tenuous financial situation, I initially thought I would send about a million bad words to the man in charge, ending with "And don't let the door hitcha where the good lowered splitcha," but there was a word limit of 200 per submission.

So I had to start cutting bad words out of my diatribe, which was very difficult for me, because the war, in and of itself, makes me feel as though I need at least 750 to 1000 words, most of them being "asshole" or derivatives thereof.

Ultimately, I decided that I might, possibly, create more of an impact if I stayed perfectly calm whilst still retaining an air of complete and utter contempt, and I feel that my final submission carries that sentiment appropriately, yet consists of enough easy words that he can read it all the way through without any help from his wife or mommy.

I was going to reprint it here, but it was accepted, so I'd far rather have you go to the site, read it there, comment on it if you're so inclined ...

... and write your own.

Here's mine.

If One of Us Has to Be Out of Work ...

To those of you who think I am wrong, of course I am. The rule of thumb is that everyone's politics (and driving skills, religion, and chili recipe) is wrong and your own is the only correct ideology in the universe. Click the little X in the corner. It's not worth wetting your big kid pants over.

Tags: Farewell43; George W. Bush

drinking: coffee
listening to: Linkin Park, Given Up
current scent: calgon pear caramel, which i only bought because it sounded like "cair paravel" but it does smell very delicious