The Democratic Primary for Virginia is Tuesday. Today I got a call from the Dean camp reminding me to vote for Dean on Tuesday. Now, I’ve been following the primaries lately and it seems as though Dean will be out come Tuesday. I’ve been a Dean supporter since I went to his rally in Falls Church in the summer (see photo below). But I’ve thought for awhile secretly that John Edwards would eventually get the nomination. The question is, do I vote for Dean because I’ve been a supporter of his for awhile, do I vote for John Edwards because I think he’ll get the nomination or do I go with the trend and vote for John Kerry simply because he’s been winning so many of the primaries? I wouldn’t vote for Kerry JUST because he’s been winning the primaries but I wouldn’t want to waste a vote on a guy who doesn’t have a chance of getting the nomination. Why not make Kerry’s win even stronger by giving him my vote? It’s only a primary after all. I’d really like to see John Edwards get the nomination. There’s something about him. He’s got a Clinton (circa 1992) air about him. And I like that about him. I’m sure like many people who will vote on Tuesday, I’ll make up my mind right in the booth. In the long run I don’t think it matters who I vote for in the primary. I’m a democrat and always vote the party line in the general election. I’m so sick of what Bush and his administration has done to our country that I don’t care who wins the primary as long as the nominee wins in November and beats Bush.
On a different note, in the photo above you will see the Dean rally I attended in August. I went with my then boyfriend Shawn. At the time I was happy with Shawn and wasn’t looking at guys or anything. Little did I know that other guys were looking at me. See the guy standing close to the camera on the left with the black t-shirt with white writing on it? Well, that is Brad, sweet Brad, the guy I’m currently dating. I find it amazing that I would take pictures of a future boyfriend at the rally. Of the hundreds of people there, HE had to be standing right in front of me. He tells me now that we locked eyes at one point. I don’t remember that but he says he does. Pretty cool.
Oh, one more thing. Happy 94th Birthday to the homophobic Boy Scouts of America. On this date in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America filed incorporation papers in DC.
Sweet Brad and I got together early this morning to go shopping. We went to Costco (The Price Club). We started going up and down the isles and Brad kept picking up items and putting them in the cart. Now, I’m different. I make a list of what I want to get before I go. When Brad sees something on the shelf he remembered that he needed it, so he put it in the cart. We did this isle after isle. Then we checked out. The bill was $212! I couldn’t believe it. I never spend more then $75 at The Price Club and I only go about once every 2 months. So we loaded it all in the back of my car and went on to Target.
There we did about the same thing. Isle after isle, putting things in the cart. At one point Brad picked up a box of tall kitchen garbage bags. I quickly reminded him that he just bought 200 tall kitchen garbage bags at Costco and we wouldn’t be needed another 200 at almost twice the price. I thought it was funny that he didn’t remember he just got trash bags at Costco. Brad said he doesn’t go shopping very often and doesn’t keep a list of the things he needs. As I observed earlier at Costco, Brad remembers he needs things when he sees them at the store. I’ll have to teach him how to keep a running list of the items he needs to buy the next time he’s in a store. We checked out but this time I didn’t spend nearly as much as I had at Costco. We loaded everything on top of the Costco items in the back of my car and came home.
After shopping, Brad and I decided we would go to a movie and to dinner. I suggested we see “Girl With A Pearl Earring”. We decided we would go to a matinee and have dinner after the movie. So Brad picked me up and drove us to the movie. We got there just in time to get tickets and get our seats. I thought we might be late but Brad assured me we would only miss the ads and maybe the trailers. Unlike most people, I like seeing the trailers and was hoping we wouldn’t miss them. We didn’t. Brad was right. We only missed the ads. He’s so smart. So we watched the movie. I thought it was a great movie. It was basically about a maid working for Vermeer and how she became the object of one of his famous paintings. I thought it was beautifully shot and captured 1665 very well. I thought it was amazing how the movie was filmed to show the emotion and interaction of Vermeer and Grete (the maid) with very few spoken words. The visual images were wonderful. The ending actually showed the original artwork by Vermeer. Scarlett Johansson looks very much like the original painting. This film should win the Oscar for Art Direction. And if you haven’t seen it yet, you should. You would enjoy it. Oh, and all through the movie Brad held my hand. I thought it was sweet.