What am I?!?

I want to care! I need to care, but I hate getting in these stupid debates where there is someone who is not going to change their mind, and I am obviously not going to change their mind. I hate even years! I have come to associate the even years, election years, as a very busy time for selling balloons, but also a time when if you stick your neck out you are labeled as a hot head. Thankfully, I haven't lost any friends over this election year...yet.

The mass emails keep coming through my in-box, and I am annoyed with myself that I actually take the time to read them and then pass them along to the next person wasting time in their in-box. Some of them are so poignant and juicy, I just can't help myself! When the information is so specific to something that I am struggling with, I have to pass it along to most people that I know. It is like some sort of kissing disease.

I want to make a yard sign to show my support of the Republican candidates, but alas, I can not get Husband on board with my project. He doesn't want a sign in a yard for the world to see who we are voting for. The last time we had a "VOTE NO" to a local sales tax hike, someone drove through our yard. This election seems is a much bigger deal and who knows what could happen if we put up a McCain/Palin yard sign. I was intending on making it out of wood so that if someone drove their car into it, it would at least do some damage. I realize the wood would be an investment, but we can paint over it every even year for whatever we need to.

I want a compost bin for my backyard. I found some really cool compost turning bins that are all sealed up so we wouldn't have problems with animals (domestic or foreign) making a huge mess out of everything. I am fully prepared to have a counter top bin as well to hold things for the day and then dump out at night. With all of the egg shells, peels of vegetables and such that we have, we could be saving even more room in our garbage bin.

Very sad to miss the great show the Oprah had on yesterday about free range animals and a bill in California that they are trying to pass that would require all animals in the state of California to be free range by 2015. Compared to the horrible film footage they showed of some of these animals that are penned in for their entire life, and fed a liquid diet until they are sent to a slaughtering house it is truly inhumane and very unhealthy for us to consume these animals. Why would we want to eat a sick animal?

So what am I? I want to recycle and start my own compost bin. I want to eat free range meat and yet I am a voting Republican? Husband and I are calling ourselves "Hippie Conservatives" but many facets of our lives we feel can not be categorized. I doubt that the majority of Americans can align themselves with either candidate this even year. What we are challenged to do is support someone who is the closest to our beliefs and ideals. Some people just don't get it, and they never will. It is so disconcerting, but inevitable every four years.