Tonya and PQBON's WebLog

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

Parts of our weekend sucked and other parts were great.

Sucky parts:
1) We brought furniture and dishes ect...with us to give to Will's sisters and a set of bunk beds to give back to his parents so we spent the morning loading up the back of the truck. We left a couple hours later than we wanted to and sat in traffic for 5 hours. About 2.5 hours longer than normal due to sucky holiday traffic.

2) Will got the flu Thanksgiving night...... He felt awful :-( but I'm nursing him back to health. He's still not great but at least his fever is gone.

3) Friday and Saturday he spent all day in bed. I spent most of Friday with him, except a trip to Blockbuster and a yummy dinner with Will parents and sister, Liz.

Cool parts:
1) I got to meet his Aunt and Uncle and Cousins from San Francisco....its always nice to get to meet family members. Food was yummy.

2) I watched Calender Girls with Will's mom and sister, Liz. It was good movie, I'm glad I watched it.

3) On Saturday I went wedding dress shopping with Will's mom and my friend Kristin. I tried on so many dresses that I lost count and at the end they started blurring together. But I did find an amazing dress. Its fairly simple...which I like and looks great on. It's nice to walk out of the dressing room and hear everyone say "wow." So thats my dress....I don't want to give too much away.....it's supposed to be a surprise.

4) After dress shopping, Will's mom and I had a very nice lunch together. :-)

5) I got pictures from our wedding on Nov. 6th. :-)

Still one day left of my 4 day weekend. We are home now. I drove sick Will back in the truck tonight. Tomorrow will consist of Will staying in bed and me cleaning and packing the house. Our new lease starts on dec. 1 and the movers come on Sunday the 5th. Maybe I'll finally get a little settled this time. And hopefully the Christmas Holiday will be better than Thanksgiving. No one's allowed to get sick!!! I'm hoping that the flu Will has was included in the flu shot that I had this year. I don't want to be sick.....I have too much to do. And so far I feel fine.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

We Eloped!!!

We had planned on keeping this a secret but considering we are both wearing our wedding rings I don't think that will work so well. We got married early for several reasons.....insurance and other legal reasons. Also it will be nice to already be married in May when we do the big wedding.....one less thing I have to take care of then and I can change my name now. We considered this more as a legal formality. A process and piece of paper that the state requires so that we can have the rights of a married couple. To us we were already committed as though we were married.

We only invited parents and close friends. We were trying to keep it very small.....especially since we are having another wedding in May that everyone will be invited to. And while this was very special and I was very happy that people could join us, its more important (at least to me) that everyone invited in May can make it to that wedding.

We got married at sunset on top of a dune at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. You couldn't tell it was sunset because of the clouds. After the ceremony we went to dinner at Aziza, a Moroccan restaurant in San Francisco. We had a four course dinner that was amazing. We even had entertainment (a belly dancer that everyone seemed to be impressed by). The staff was great and was very accomodating to our youngest guest, a 15 month old who will be our flower girl in May. I would highly recommend them for dinner if you're in San Francisco.

Thanks to everyone that joined us. We had a great time.

A new country...

If you live in New England or the Mid-atlantic, or the far west (the coast) welcome to the revolution.

We are a new country called Notinsania. Notinsania is based on one simple premise. We don't want our leaders to show clear signs of clinical insanity or progressive mental failure.

This is being written while listening to Eminem's Mosh...

Tonya and I are doing our sample ballot... Here is what we think and why...

• 1A - Yes - 1A says that money raised by municipalities and counties stay in those counties. Currently, arnie is funding the state by taking money from municipalities. This is his way of avoiding raising state taxes. But this doesn't solve any problems. This just means that municipalities are going to have to raise more money through taxes or enforcement of local codes (read parking tickets). Municipalities generally don't have surpluses in there budget so their choice is to offer less in local services, or to more money. Why is raising local taxes better then raising state taxes?
• 59 - Yes - 59 gives access to government decisions and documents. While the federal government is working hard to become less transparent lets make it hard for the state to do that same things. Currently, the federal government is over turning the freedom of information act and passing laws whose text is not publicly available. This will stop the state from doing the same.
• 60 - Yes - 60 admittedly doesn't do much. The only real opposition to 60 are the people that want 62. However, even the proponents of 60 say that it isn't as strong as it should be. Basically is does no harm, and helps a little if 62 passes.
• 60A - Yes - 60A again doesn't do much. It says that if the state sells surplus property that money goes to pay back the bonds used to balance the state budget. This doesn't require the sale of the surplus. It would be good to start paying off arnies insane bonds to get the debit of the state under control.
• 61 - Yes - 61 gives money to children's hospitals for capitol improvements. That means new buildings, new xray machines, new radiation machines, new furniture...
• 62 - NO - Yes, there are measures we are voting against... 60 is for open primaries. This would allow incumbent parties to game the primaries. Take this year, Ca republicans could have all voted for Sharpton in the Ca primary rather then bush since bush was running basically unopposed. In a presidential election it just makes California look more crazy, however, in a gubernatorial election that would mean the final decision would come down to Sharpton or Bush. While I still don't think I would vote for Bush it would certainly chase away undecided voters.
• 63 - Yes - 63 taxes people with more then $1Million in personal income in the name of mental health. Due to lack of funding for mental health people with problems are better off getting arrested and going to jail where they will have access to mental health professionals then not. This situation is shameful and needs to be fixed.
• 64 - No - 64 places restrictions on the enforcement of the unfair business competition laws. It tries to limit people who can levy suits to those that can prove immediate financial impact. It still allows the government to use these laws for the public good but that means any case you can't get the DA to take and you can't prove the financial impact of would be illegal. This does huge damage as these laws include environmental laws. The opposition throws the boggieman of frivolous law suites around.
• 65 - Yes - This is 1As first draft hopefully at least one of these will pass.
• 66 - Yes - This brings three strikes back into reality. Being against mandatory sentencing we wish it did more. However, it does mean that a man with a troubled early life can no longer be sentenced to life in prison for getting caught with drugs 20 years later or shop lifting a few CDs.
• 67 - Yes - Well, after 911 bush praised our first responders for how much they did at ground zero to save people. Over the course of the next few years he took the federal money out of the system to pay for his wars and his tax cuts. This puts some of the money back in the system. On the personal note as one that has used the emergency medical services and will undoubtedly use it again I think it should be well funded.
• 68 - No - 68 allows gambling in non-tribal facilities. I'm against this. This is a way of putting the tribes in a vice. They are technically sovereign tribal nations however, this measure says, submit to being taxed or we will allow others to compete so we can tax them. This is a strong arm tactic that allows more gaming in Ca. I'm in general against gaming in Ca, and I'm against screwing the tribes. Weren't the blankets with small pox enough?
• 69 - NO!!!!! - This allows anyone arrested on suspicion of any crime to be added to the DNA database. It says all felonies and some other crimes compel DNA samples. This is almost as bad as the patriot act. This flies right in the face of self incrimination as as soon as someone is added to the database it is compared to unknown samples from all open crimes. Arrest != guilt. I know most people have forgotten this, but many people get arrested only to have the charges dropped. This is also most impacting of poorer people. As it doesn't appear that a failure to be convicted automatically removes your DNA from the system. This means that if you don't have a lawyer on your side with your all your interests in mind once your are arrested you are in the system for good.
• 70 - Yes - We are for 70 for a few reasons. 1) It limits gambling to tribal casinos. While it removes current restrictions as to what games are allowed this will still limit the Nevadaization of California. 2) We have shit on the tribes for 300 years of so, I think anything we can do for them is good. 3) In exchange for exclusive rights they are going to pay California some money. This will help with the current budget problems.
• 71 - Yes - We are for 71. Stem cells are cool. So far scientists in the know seem to think that they have HUGE potential. We are currently using adult stem cells for some cool things, fetal stem cells have even bigger promise. This also helps give biotech a reason not to leave California. These funds aren't for national or international work but for work based in California. This protects Ca's hold on high tech innovation.
• 72 - Yes - This gives more people health care. This is good. Until we have uniform national healthcare we need to do what ever we can for people. Too many children are born with our insurance, too many people get sick and don't get proper care because of lack of health care. This is a start.

Remember if you don't agree with us your are stupid! ;-)