Word of the Day...

trepidation [trep-i-dey-shuhn]

–noun 1. tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
2. trembling or quivering movement; tremor.

Yes, I am afraid. You can call me one of those crazy people who are afraid of change. That I'm close-minded. That's fine. I call it OCD. I like everything where it is, as it has been, and forever unchanging. I do not like things to be shaken up.

BUT - with that said.

There's nothing we can do about it now. So, we can suck it up. Hope for the best. Put all of our negative thoughts and TREPIDATION into positive energy. Who knows? Maybe this guy knows what he's doing. We will never know until we give him a chance. So here you go Obama, here is your chance.

I listened to his acceptance speech this morning. I had a tear in my eye. Not a tear of fear. A tear of hope. I looked in my rearview mirror and realized...this isn't about me. This is about her. This is about her reading in her history books that in 2008 the first African American president was elected to office. And when she comes home I'll say "Yes dear, that was the night you fell asleep on my lap watching the election results in your purple Monkey nightgown with your pink John Deere blanket." This isn't about mommy's fear of change. This is about - maybe this nation was in the crapper and it needs a change. Needs shaken up a bit. This isn't about mommy & daddy being conservatives. This is about a lesson learned that sometimes, we don't always get what we want, and we have to put trust in other people to make the right decision for us.

So - my NEW word of the day is:
anticipation [an-tis-uh-pey-shuhn]

–noun 1. the act of anticipating or the state of being anticipated.
2. realization in advance; foretaste.
3. expectation or hope.
4. previous notion; slight previous impression.
5. intuition, foreknowledge, or prescience.
6. Law. a premature withdrawal or assignment of money from a trust estate.
7. Music. a tone introduced in advance of its harmony so that it sounds against the preceding chord.