I’ve let the content slip right off the page! My apologies to anyone who saw a blank page for the past few days. Sigh!
It’s been busy. I had a totally fun time in Las Vegas visiting Sheesh, and work has been positively insane.
So don’t take my absence as an insult. I will be back with pictures and detail soon.
And I mean it. It’s just that, oh, 13 hours on computers so far today is enough, really. I’m pooped! 
Mangoes and I do not get along. I forevermore refuse to in any way, cook or prepare things that require cutting mango. No way. I can show war wounds if you are interested.
I’m facing a bout of insomnia lately. Could be the 15 naps that I took over the weekend, but that’s still TBD. I haven’t had caffeine after 3pm, I haven’t taken any naps, I think happy thoughts – oh, whatever! At least I have the flex time to work around this problem… getting up at 5 or 6am would be a much more horrid situation.
Maybe I should blame that on the mangoes as well.
For an entertaining moment (as I return to my weblog roots) – visit this site about really bad senior portaits. This and this are particularly disturbing. And yes, it’s quite possible that some of my portaits are gallery-worthy. Damn.
I am hyped up on iced tea from Mama Fu’s (come to Mama!). Out of boredom and procrastination on sleep, I decided to look at my senior year yearbook.
It’s especially interesting reveling in bad fashion and hair choices. Tapered jeans? Baggy shirts? Long, limp hair? Geez, what was I thinking. If I wore those things nowadays I’d surely be a candidate on “What Not to Wear.” Luckily Shira and Joanna were the editors-in-chief of the senior year yearbook so all photos were pre-approved for entry. Thank goodness. The LeRoy Jr/Sr high school class of 1999 can revel in the only decent pictures that were taken and not the heinous fashion choices. The most fabu photos were featured, and that’s the way it ought to be! One of my favorites is this one of Shira and me in the senior section (Though, really, Shira is stealing the show here, let’s face it .. I appear to be sleeping and have a neon beer sign growing out of my head – but still, at least the hair is under control! yes.):
At the time the “Cool Funk Glasses” were more of a joke, worn at fabu off-campus school events and shared by all (Shira, especially, has about 10 pictures of different people in this same pair of glasses). Now I actually wear glasses like this on a daily basis. So, it has me thinking, were we extremely fashion forward back then or will I be regretting the choice of donning “Cool funks” for 4+ years of my life when I look back 5 years from now?
Luckily I won’t be showing up in any school yearbooks any time soon. Phew.
You might have noticed that here on carrievision.com, there is rarely talk of current events or politics.
This, being an election year, I have decided to make a change and become an active citizen. But while investigating the current presidential candidates I thought to myself, “What do I have in common with these politicians?” Apparently, not much. I mean, other than the fact that they might have some daughters that are around my age, the crusty old middle aged white man that is slimy with politician’s residue is not appealing at all! I don’t golf! Or smoke cigars! 
Or jog through Washington DC, as Presidents do to promote health (while we know they are just jogging to get some Chicken McNuggets, but that’s beside the fact)… even the Democrats introducing a young John Edwards to up their “sex” appeal (LOL!) does not make me want to vote.
That’s why I’ve decided that, depsite my registration as an independent, I am going to join the Cosmopolitan party. The power of a good pair of shoes is far underestimated by the other parties. And screw the Republican convention. I’m going to watch New York Fashion week coverage!
