this marks the second day i've stayed home sick with the flu, so therefore the second day i've been unable to make my own sales. i should be back in action tomorrow, and for those who care, so should the rest of casa de thedamned.

not that i've been actively political for a while, but gthedamned hopes to be voting for barack obama. i realize that he's actually the more conservative (by a slim margin) of the two democratic candidates, and feel that clinton would be a fine choice as well, but i have to go with my instincts here and vote for the one who hasn't been there for years (don't call it a comeback). ah, for a day that there is a candidate who believes what i do, but it's hard to find someone as liberal as i can be who still believes in the death penalty. actually, as i think i have stated before, i am in favor of corporal punishments as well, but that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.

short post, just flexing my long underused blogging muscles.

siouxs! and i went for a run together last night for the first time in over a year. it was only about a mile, but it felt good. due to jack's probable dairy allergy, siouxs! had been unable to eat cheese and such while still breastfeeding the boy, so i've been cooking without dairy for a few weeks. i've been drinking less on the whole, not by design exactly, but i just have. i'm going to bed earlier on a regular basis than has been my custom in the past. i've lost fifteen pounds since he was born.

this upswing in healthy behavior is all pretty well attributable to jack. i want to be healthy enough to play with him. i want to be able to run around with him for hours, or walk around with him on my shoulders all over the zoo. he loves being outside, and i want it to stay that way. oh, i do love my video games, but i don't want jack to be a playstation zombie, so i rarely play anymore, if only not to set a bad example.

i do love that boy so. how is it that he makes me feel simultaneously old and young?