Today feels so much like New Year's Eve to me...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Tomorrow is the start of a brand new year for all of us...

We're done wandering in the wilderness...

Time to take back being the adults in charge...

What a great day!

What a great country too...

Not saying we don't have big problems to fix.

We do.

But everything is possible now, with our administration there on our side instead of against us...

Come, take my hand...

Into the future for all of us...

[firedupdem]

1. Yes it does, great post!

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you...

:hug:

[mwb970]

44. Inauguration Day greetings to all the Freepers who read this thread!

Hi Freepers -

I saw that this thread is posted on your site so that bitter right-wing wackos can mock the nation's celebration of its exciting new president (and the blessed departure of its awful previous one). It's quite a picture: millions upon millions of cheering, jubilant citizens, with a few bitter old men standing off to the side stamping their feet and muttering about socialism.

You're out of step and out of touch, and now you're out of time. It's our day. Go ahead and mock this thread and this post on your little board, since it's all you can do. We Americans will be busy greeting the Dawning of a New Day. (Now I'm sure you'll mock this post!)

Cheers and a big Ha-Ha-Ha to you all,
mwb970

PS. Please, please keep posting crazy nonsense about The Communist Messiah, Obama's birth certificate, etc. on your site! With bush and his gang of fools gone, we will be depending on you more than ever before as a source of fresh right-wing idiocy. Keep it coming!

[Road Scholar]

3. Tommorow will be a good day. I think some folks finally get it.

:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Yes, tomorrow will be good...

It just hit me, really hit me, today...:hug:

:toast:

[trayfoot]

5. It does for me, too!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Isn't it amazing?

:hi:

[azmouse]

6. Me too!

I'll probably be up very late tonight because I won't be able to sleep from excitement.
It'll be a good time to finish The Audacity of Hope.

Party on, CaliforniaPeggy!! :party:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear azmouse!

Isn't it something?

A truly historical moment...

DEF party on!

:party:

[UrbScotty]

7. Sing it with me, my dear CaliforniaPeggy!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csf1Q9aSR7A

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I will sing it with you, my dear ih8thegop...

:hug:

[Gregorian]

8. Someone just shook my hand in the grocery store!

:)

I am wearing my Obama sweatshirt. And the man stocking the bakery shelves looked at me and asked if I was going to watch the inauguration. There was a brilliance in our exchange. A relief. I said it felt as though we have been repressed. And how there is so much optimism among the American people that seems to have been bottled up. He gleamed and held out his hand in a gesture that said, yes this is the dawning of a new era. And we shook hands.

I actually started to cry. Haha.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. I've been crying in my thread too...

Blessings on you ...

:hug:

[Olney Blue]

12. my dear Peggy....

Kicked and recommended!
:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Thank you so much, my dear Olney Blue!

:hug:

[roguevalley]

15. My darling California Peggy, you and me both, my friend. Today is

my birthday, me and my longtime personal hero, Martin Luther King. What a day, what a day of reckoning. I love to be alive now, even after a lot of personal heartache and fear. I love ya, CP. I love all people today.

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Happy Birthday, my dear roguevalley!

May this coming year see all your impossible dreams come true!

What a great day to have a birthday!

Yes, today is making up for many ysterdays of sorrow, pain, fear...

:hug:


:party:

[Number23]

18. Your birthday; Martin's b-day; Michelle's b-day; Obama's swearing in; and my wedding anniversary

Wow, January 15-20 is one HELL of a week! :)

[Number23]

17. I like this post. What a nice thing to say

Come, take my hand... Into the future for all of us...

Lovely...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My dear Number23...

Ah, it's just the poet in me...

Thank you!

The words thrash and bang until I let them out...

[Lionel Mandrake]

20. hi cp (nt)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Hi, LM!

:hi:

[DevonRex]

22. I was just thinking that I wish I still had my Christmas tree up and all the

lights outside. I would have loved to plug everything back in for tonight and tomorrow night and light this republican neighborhood of mine right up. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. I'm betting that your radiant smile will do the trick!

[DevonRex]

29. You are SO sweet! And you might just be right. I can't wait to dance

the first dance with my husband tomorrow night, along with Barack and Michelle. I'm going to wear black velvet and spikey shoes. Heh, I'm tempted to dance all around the 'hood. :hi:

[blaze]

24. Oh gosh!!

That's almost worth pulling the lights out for!!

I could still string a couple up inside here.....

hmmmmm

[DevonRex]

30. I was thinking the same thing! Lights are so easy to string up, so why not?

[blaze]

40. LOL! My front porch light just burned out!

I think it's a sign!! :rofl:

I'll be pulling out a couple strings to light up tomorrow!!

[kenfrequed]

25. Me too..

And this is despite the fact I have misgivings about his CoS and a lot of his cabinet picks. I still feel a strange surge of hope. Totally weird.

Then again I had a dream that he worked for a month with the DLC dipshits and then demanded all of their resignations and replaced them for fighting him on healthcare. By doing this he knocked all of the DLC scum out of their various congressional seats and offices and then opened the door for progressive replacements.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. It IS a time for dreams....

Dream yours!

Hope is not a strange thing...

It is a good thing, maybe the best of things...And no good thing ever dies...

From the Shawshank Redemption.

[Patsy Stone]

27. Me too

The anticipation is just amazing.

Here's to future days. :toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. To future days!

And they start tomorrow!

:toast:

[Patsy Stone]

39. Woo Hoo!

:woohoo:

I can't believe it.

[bertman]

31. We're all so FULL OF HOPE that it's overflowing all over the place. Thanks for a lovely

post, CaliforniaPeggy.

I raise my glass to you, our new President, and a new America!!

Happy New Year

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. Thank you so much, my dear bertman!

:toast: back atcha!

[H2O Man]

32. Very nice!

Thank you. Well said.

Nominated.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Ah, my dear H2O Man...

I was feeling a bit poetic...

And this thread was the result...

I appreciate your very kind words!

:hug:

[ZombieHorde]

35. I personally don't believe a new calander compares to our new President.

Don't get me wrong, calendars are cool, but Obama will hopefully be much, much cooler.

[Clio the Leo]

36. I've been saying "Merry Christmas" to all of my friends....

.... it even snowed here today.

I dont think Santa will be stopping by until noon tomorrow, but I've a feeling he's gonna bring me just what I wanted!

[RichGirl]

37. It feels like New Year's Eve 1999

[babylonsister]

38. It feels that way for me, too! And seeing those happy, happy crowds

on the tube, they are celebrating like it's 1999! :toast: We all made it!

[proud patriot]

41. Here comes the sun , little darling.. Here comes the sun

:grouphug:

[firedupdem]

42. kick!

[stillcool]

43. It's frigging infectious!!

I'm even watching TV! Like all night. I hope. I hope. I hope...I hope I find my way to contribute in a more meaningful way.

[SeattleGirl]

45. My darlin' Peggy!

I am so with you!

It's nearly 3:30 am our time, and I just can't sleep, I'm so excited!

Here's to a turn for the better for all of us! :toast: :bounce: :toast: