Sad and Beautiful World (Original Blog 2004-2008)

PLEASE COME VISIT ME AT MY NEW ADDRESS!

I finally did it!!

All that talk.

All that procrastination.

Please come see me at my brand new home:

www.sadandbeautiful.com

This blog will remain as a history, but I will disable much of the sidebar activity. I have to totally recreate a list of blog and website links for the new site, so bear with me until that is done. My blogroll here has been sadly out of date for a while.

Please change your feeds and come subscribe to the new site...don't forget or I'll be so lonely there!

I'm really happy with how it looks...simple and elegant, I hope. And a nice fresh start.

Relaunch. Rebirth. Learning to be comfortable describing myself as Sarah the Artist.

Thank you for being on this journey with me.

xo

PROUD

(screenshot from www.nytimes.com)

I cannot find the right words.

Awe.

Inspired.

Hopeful.

Grateful.

Amazed.

So proud of America. Aware we still have far to go. Helloooo amendments banning gay marriage...I'm talking to YOUR SUPPORTERS.

President-Elect Barack Obama, I am proud of you and what you have accomplished! Keep making us proud, ok?

There is so much more to say, but I don't know how to say it. I'm still in shock this morning. I had hope, but I guess I really didn't have faith that enough people in this country wanted change badly enough.

I am in a daze.

I am so proud of us.

VOTE!!!

For my fellow Americans:

I believe that voting is not just a right.

I believe that voting is a CIVIC DUTY.

I vote even when I'm not thrilled with candidates because there is always one I can live with a little better than the other.

I just happen to be extremely fortunate that THIS YEAR I am psyched to vote for my candidate. Like, really really really really REALLY psyched. :-)

Whether you are excited or not, please vote. Whether you are voting for who I support or not, please vote.

It matters.

How to be a Jackass

1.Promote a Giant Pinata that will be in the Guinness Book of World Records.

2.Tell us a giant wrecking ball will be smashing the pinata at around 1:30 this afternoon.

3. Set this all up on PAVEMENT with no barricades or even ropes to keep people back.

4. Look around at the crowd and decide to lock the gates so that those of us inside can't get out, and those outside can't get in.

5. Make us wait for two hours.

6. Tell us to go home because the pinata will not be broken due to "technical failure."

7. Then blame the cops.

Any idiot with eyes in their head could survey the scene for ten seconds and realize it was a BAD idea with little to no real planning.

I just want to know, Carnival, what the hell did you actually think would happen here?

Reports I'm seeing now say that there was never any intent for the pinata to be smashed...the wrecking ball was a foam prop (I have no confirmation of this). Instead, the candy was just going to be 'released' from the bottom of the pinata (again, this is just one of many stories I've heard...no official report from Carnival themselves).