What????

The date is what???

Would someone please tell me where the time has gone? I just blinked and here I am sitting in my bed thinking about how far behind I am at blogging. In my own defense, I will say that I've been super busy living life. Here are two major events which occurred recently. 

Going back to November and the 2012 elections. The campaign had a fairly predictable outcome, although I was hoping for a different one. President Obama was re-elected for a second term. To be honest, I still don't know how on earth it happened. He and his opponent, Mitt Romney, were running neck and neck. It seemed that people were finally beginning to see what a complete mess the country is in and how much worse things are now in comparison to four years ago. Then on election night the results started coming in. I was so disappointed. It is what it is though. It will be interesting to see what ends up happening in the next four years.

The second major event took place in late October into early November. Hurricane Sandy. It was an incredible storm, one which wreaked havoc on a the east coast. Nicknamed "Frankenstorm" due to it coming on shore around Halloween, the storm resulted in at least 147 deaths in the United States. There were more in the Caribbean. Financial loss was devastating as well. According to Live Science, "Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damage and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, making it one of the costliest natural disasters on record in the United States, according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. The New York City mayor's office in late November estimated total losses to the city to be $19 billion and asked the federal government for $9.8 billion in aid for costs not covered by insurance or FEMA." 

Here in our area we did have some flooding and high winds, however, we really dodged a bullet. All in all we did well. School was cancelled for two days and we had to detour around some roads in order to get to school once we returned, but compared to other areas, we were very fortunate. I'm not looking forward to any more serious storms anytime soon.

Obviously there are a lot more topics I will be addressing. Tomorrow will be here before I know it. Then I shall post some more. I promise.