And the Countdown Begins!

Well, I am less than 24 hours away from the adventure of a lifetime!

With the primary this week, my mind has been on all of our great local candidates and how well they have done in their primaries and what that means for the general election, until this morning.

I woke up this morning, bright and early for a Saturday and prepared for my trip. First, somewhat upset that I had not gotten my all-important text message from Barack Obama announcing his VP candidate before CNN blasted it all over the air waves. But I am pleased to say that Joe Biden is to Barack Obama what Leo McGarry was to Matt Santos in the West Wing.

I know, such a trivial comparison, but one that my generation who loves politics lives by.

Anyway, from cleaning the house to doing laundry and even dusting, it was sad to say that a trip out of town is what it took in the busy schedule I keep to get my house clean. My grandma always said - don't leave your things out of order, because God forbid something happen to you while you were away and strangers had to come into your home, what would they think of you? - and for some reason it stuck. So, all that said, I started putting items in a suitcase as they came out of the dryer and had choose between the most important.

Of course, the coveted Mark Mays for Congress shirt, along with the signed Gregoire for Governor shirt and my favorite Spokane Democrats shirt had to make it into the suitcase. With the new airline regulations about baggage, packing became somewhat of a sport. What could I take, what could I wear more than once, and who would care? More importantly, would my attire be appropriate for the convention floor. All questions to which I struggled to answer.

I have spent most of the day fiddling with video editing software and my camcorder, trying to figure out how best to tell the story of this trip to Denver in pictures, which reminded me to send out a few last important reminders about campaign events and a Nomination Party being held at Toad Hall on Thursday night.

So, when I was finally done trying to make a video that would do the introduction to this trip justice, I headed for home and uploaded to YouTube. Check it out here. I hope you like it!



See you in Denver in 24 hours.

--kristine