Kelli (middle) with her friends Christie (left) and Kristen (right)

Annnnnnnd now entering the ring of bloggers, politicians, friends, and anyone with access to the Internet….it’s Aaron Proctor’s First Lady in her shiny debut!

Hello! And welcome to my column. I’ve often said this website needs a woman’s touch and Aaron agreed that it was high time, so here I am. So are you pumped? Super excited? Curious? Dying to see what I’m going to write? Because I am, too. (And, no, sorry to disappoint you but there will be no talk of that Sexy Steve Haderlein here). I plan on taking this column with a great sense of humor. I will definitely touch on serious issues but I want to take this lightly and my posts will be infrequent as I have my hands full with Aaron, among many other things as I’m sure you can imagine. I would like to discuss political issues, share personal stories, possibly write things from a woman’s perspective, a behind-the-scenes perspective and also throw in some movie and book reviews.

I will start with a brief back story. You know how we met, he wrote an article about it on Valentine’s Day this year. (It’s still the best V-Day gift I’ve ever been given, thank you Honey!) There’s not much else about me I care to dispose here, as most of you already know me, or about me, and that’s not what this column is for anyway. With that said I will go into my views. When we met I was your typical political skeptic. I was like the many apathetic people who feel their vote will not count so they don’t bother to register. But the more I watched “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report”, the more I realized that news delivered with parody is so much more appealing and it became interesting.

I started to remember what it felt like to be part of a protest or a rally and how as a whole, we would make our voices heard. There is power in numbers and it really does make a difference, your vote does count! And if you never speak out, no one will be able to hear you! Also, as an advocate for women, think about the sisters of the suffragette movement. They kicked some serious ass to let our voices be heard, so we should appreciate that and not put all their efforts to waste. It’s all about equality here, for everyone. I don’t know anyone whose jaw did not drop with appalling horror when they announced that Bush had been elected again. I also don’t think that many of these people bothered to vote.

I am sad to say that at the time I met Aaron I was not registered to vote but that made it all more exciting and interesting to be able to vote for the first time in a local election for my very own boyfriend who the only opponent to current Mayor Bill Bogaard. Not many people can say their boyfriends have ran for Mayor at (then) the age of 25 in a very rich, how-to-do city and receive 11.2% of the vote. It just goes to show you can never judge a book by its cover and anything is possible if you put your mind to use. I am looking forward to voting in my first Presidential election next year. I have many issues I’d like to see addressed such as pro-same-sex marriage, pro-choice, civil rights, women’s rights, animal rights, environmental protection laws, bringing the boys overseas home to their families. I have so much interest in these things.

Of course the problem is people will say anything to get into office and then once they are, they don’t necessarily keep all of their promises. That’s the Catch-22 of politics. I knew that all along and decided to finally make a difference and let my voice be heard by vooting. If you aren’t registered to vote, there are a million links on this site to register. Please encourage anyone you know who is not registered to vote to do so. This next election is important.

Now - on to the rant. See, ladies and gentlemen of the blogging community, I have not been able to address this issue until now. I’d like to think I have a certain amount of class and would never use any names or point any fingers but when you hear so many horrible things about someone you question whether they deserve your respect or not. In this case I will make an exception and unveil the culprit. Let me paint a picture for you if I may of an exciting night at the Affordable Housing Forum at the Neighborhood Church. You see, on this night I accompanied Aaron who was running for Mayor and Jim Lomako who was running for District 2. We were in a hurry and we headed for the first door we saw (naturally) and the second I stepped foot inside some obviously disgruntled loud mouth jerk shouts “This door is for candidates only!”. To which my all too quiet response as I removed myself from his royal highness’ presence to go in the “correct door” was “Oh I’m sorry that I came in the door with my boyfriend who is running for MAYYYOORRRRR!”As it turns out I could just have easily taken my seat through the same door. Now, I am one of the most kind hearted, friendly, versatile people but let me tell you that as a Scotch/Irish redhead raised by a single mother, you do not want to mess with me. I am fierce as a Lion if I need to be. I do not appreciate being talked down to by some tempermental stranger who I found out moments later from the appropriately small typed name on his name card was none other than everyone’s best friend, Steve Madison!

From that moment on as I watched him make a completely display of himself throughout the forum, I realized something. Arrogance will get you nowhere. In order to be a servant of the people, you have to get along with the people. You have to understand the needs and wants of all walks of life and have great patience. It’s not about what kind of degree you have, who you happen to know, what kind of car you drive, or how Mommy and Daddy can put you through law school. Anyone who has ever lived paycheck to paycheck, supported themselves, or spent a night in a homeless shelter knows what I’m talking about. It’s completely unnecessary to be rude to a stranger who he probably never dreamed would take the time to write about a small contained incident. I hate people who are pretentious. People who have to strrugle to survive appreciate life so much more. I know rich, I know famous, I know mid class, I know low class, I know literally ALL kinds of people and for some reason I manage to get along with all of them. There is no boundary between us because of how much money we do or do not have. We are just simply….people. I see people for who they really are, not who they pretend to be.

From an outsider/insider’s perspective on politics, I have to say that after meeting some of the politicians, actually speaking to some of them, and watching as they quietly damage each other’s reputations and then smile and shake hands politely when they see each other, is pure entertainment. It goes to show that age and status do not matter and even grown adults can act like children if they want to. I think it’s hilarious personally and I hope that they laugh it all off the same way we do. It’s never easy being under the magnifying glass. We’re all only human after all.

I am a big movie buff and could probably have a whole column just for movie reviews. I like everything. I think I focus more on campy horror, cult, comedy, independent, drama, action…wait…I think I’ll watch anything at least once. Sometimes I will only watch a movie when I’m in the mood for it, same goes for music. Sometimes you just feel like dancing and sometimes you just feel like laughing. The most recent film I saw was Rob Zombie’s “Halloween”, his 3rd directorial installment. I give it 8 stars on a 10 star scale. I won’t go into too much detail. This epic horror film goes back to the youth of Michael Myers and shows you how he came to be the crazed serial killer. If you’re a horror fan you’ve probably already seen it.

I was also privilged enough to see a test viewing of a film titled “Trick R Treat”. 10 stars out of 10. We were the first audience to preview the film and as far as I can tell everyone absolutely loved it. It was very campy, just loaded with humor.

The storyline is a comic book setting with 4 stories going on throughout. There aren’t very many big stars in it. Anna Paquin (Rogue from X-Men) is the only one you might recognize. I don’t want to give too much away because as far as I know they don’t even have a release date yet. I can’t wait to watch it once it is released to see if they took anything out or added anything in.

Next on my list of movies to see is “Balls of Fury” because I just can’t get enough of that Christopher Walken.

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I’ll close with a few things:

1. Please feel free to leave me comments and e-mail your opinions, any ideas you might have, questions, etc. I love to hear other people’s opinions - good or bad. Hopefully not too bad.

2. Aaron has Sexy Steve Haderlein, I’ve got Victor Gordo (his wife has the same name as me - isn’t that fantastic?) I will write more about that in my next column.

3. Last but not least, thank you for reading this, my debut, and I look forward to seeing you here again soon. In the meantime please read the many posts my darling Aaron has on here.

Thank you, again.

Xoxo

Mrs. 11%