Thanks to Jen @ Stuff Jen Says for posting this. It made my day.

So did these:

Obama’s Acceptance Speech & McCain’s Concession Speech

Anyone who hasn’t seen them yet – do it now! I’m not posting the videos directly because I loved watching them directly on the New York Times‘ website with complete transcripts and topic outlines right there to follow along with. Both speeches were very moving and brought tears to my eyes. Some of you might have read my previous post about immigrating to Canada and I hope you all realize I was mostly kidding about that. I’m proud of my decision and that of the majority of America and have a lot of hope for the future. But, last night my husband was feeling cranky cause he had to drive to New York with his boss and blah blah blah and kept talking about the Gestapo and even though I don’t know what that means, he seemed concerned and I told him, “Hey, if this all goes South, we’ll go north, to Canada.” You know, in a teasing way because it’s clichéd and unlikely.

But then the nerds that we are, we had to research all the ins and outs of doing such a thing because we’re laaaaame and needed to know. Then it got exciting, because we really want to move and suddenly it seemed cool because it involved moving and the enormity of the concept awed us and we were like, “and when the world is about to explode (because by now in our silliness, this was an issue), we can find all our favorite family and friends and be like, come with us to Canada,” and we joked about the people that we accidentally on purpose wouldn’t tell. And it was great. But then I got all quiet and serious and was like, “I don’t want to move to Canada. I want to move to Pennsylvania,” and he was like, “Me, too.” And that was pretty much the end of it.

And so we’re now totally professionals on immigration to Canada (okay, not really, but I was impressed with our research) but still planning to move to Pennyslvania instead, like we’d already planned. Really, guys, we just want to move. I don’t really care where. But this whole Obama thing? Heck, y’all, I voted for the man so you know I’m excited and hopeful and that his speech moved me beyond words and brought tears to my eyes and it was beautiful man. I can’t help it that my husband is a paranoid little Republican wanna be. Blame him. But don’t tell him I said that, cause if he really does move to Canada, sorry but I’m going with him. I’m romantic like that.

But seriously, did you check out that fist bumping awesomeness at the top of this post. Awesome.