This entry's green tip: When you bring your lunch to work with you, use a grocery bag that you can re-use, and bring silverware instead of that plastic stuff.  Reduce, re-use, people!!!

So, there's  no denying that our country is going through a very special time in history.  When the previous presidential election occured, I was too young to vote.  I was only 17.  When this one came around, I wasn't going to pass up the chance to be a part of history.  I voted, and it made me feel like I created a wrinkle in time.  I felt like even though my vote was single and solitary in power, it had power nonetheless.  And I was excited.  I did a lot of thinking about what voting meant for everyone who voted.  This election meant something to everyone.  People turned out to the polls in record numbers. 

President Obama has a lot to live up to.  He's taking office at a time of political turmoil in our country.  Not only does he have to shoulder the problems of a nation, he has to shoulder the political importance of being our nation's first African-American president.  That would take a special kind of person.  And, in addition to all of this, he still has a family to raise.  And from the looks of things, he's as active a parent as possible given his line of work.  To me, that's beautiful.  It's beautiful to me how the First Lady is a stand-by-her-man kind of woman.  I can't count the number of time I've seen Michelle Obama mouth to her man, "I'm so proud of you."  It gives me hope.  I hope to be that kind of wife when I fall in love and get married one day.  Way to set an example for love...

That's all I could think of to say for now.  I know I haven't been writing in this thing on the regular basis.  But I just got a laptop (WOOP WOOP!!!)<<that's the official "I got a laptop" cheer.  So regular updates are a must.  Peace and Jah Bless