Le sigh

Malachai just told me Mxxx in his class said black people should vote for a black president and white people should vote for a white president.

First of all, I bet Mxxx is hispanic, so WTF and second of all, why are six year olds worried about the colour of our presidents skin? Why are their parents pushing that bullshit on them?

I told Malachai we should vote based on who believes what we believe (and I explained about taxes, the war and same-sex marriage, albeit briefly) and not based on the colour of thei skin. It shouldn’t matter at all, and I pointed out that my skin is all sorts of different colours. He looked confused for half a second, and then told me my skin is lots of colours because I have tattoos. I said that’s right, and just because I have tattoos doesn’t mean I have to vote for a president that has them too.

I’ve been tagged by the meme fairy

THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog post of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

Here is a list of 71 things about me.

But six weird things? I have no clue.

  1. I have lived in Maryland (in five different cities), Virginia (one city), West Virginia (one city) and Florida (three cities), this is throughout my entire life, but they’ve all been in the past decade.
  2. I learned to SCUBA dive when I was twelve. I haven’t been since I was fifteen. I’d really like to go again.
  3. When I was pregnant with all three of my kids I had (HAD!) to have a Dunkin Donuts large iced coffee, extra light, extra sweet every night. It’s gone up in price over the past six years from 1.45$ for a large to over 2$
  4. My head is approximately the same circumferace as my six year olds.
  5. I used to be fluent enough in French to carry on a functional conversation, but I couldn’t read it when it was written on paper. I passed my finals verbally.
  6. When I was in tenth grade I almost flunked out due to excessive absence (that year was my really, heinously bad year), but they let me take my finals and I passed.

I’m a meme-pooper, and I am not tagging anyone. Feel free to repost, and if you do, let me know!