I live-blogged President Obama’s State of the Union Address (video or transcript) in a casual way with my friend. However, here were my main favorite and surprising points:
Ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Bringing home the troops from Iraq by the end of August
Ending tax breaks to companies that send our jobs overseas (NAFTA devastated NC when our jobs slipped away to foreign shores)
Graduates wouldn’t pay more than 10% of their income towards their school loans per year
The smackdown on health care reform being dragged out. We NEED health care in this country!
I first heard of Maggie Mason from ABCNews talking about women bloggers. I quickly fell in love with her blog (though it’s been a bit on the outs lately) and was inspired by her to keep chipping away at my own blog (what you’re reading now). For a good discussion about Maggie’s Mighty Life List, click here. In short, it’s a list of things you want to do before you die. I’ve been having trouble building mine but I’ll update this post with new items as I think of them:
1) Write a completed novel
2) Take Dad to Hatteras Point, NC
3) Carry a child to term/be a mother
4) Learn how to watercolor
Last night, I convinced Shiver to share with me her coloring technique via Livestream and it was amazing! She brought Adramuth to life beautifully from the original sketch to have a well-rounded face that was both mischievous and promising of his future self.
Filmed from a bridge that crossed over I-26 near downtown Asheville. This is a last burst of the fireworks show. Towards the end the camera refocuses and that distant small red fireworks are from Lake Julian. We also saw the ones from McCormick field from our location so in effect we got all three major shows in Buncombe county!