Moving forward

Last night I closed the laptop after surfing presidential polls and went into the bedroom.

“Let’s watch Bewitched before heading off to sleep.”

I gave Mike a back massage while we watched Uncle Arthur switch Samantha and Darrin’s voices. To great comic effect, of course, and we both laughed ourselves silly as I rubbed out the knots in Mike’s hamstrings and glutes.

When the episode was over, I said, “All right, one episode’s worth of a massage, that’s all.”

“Another episode, let’s have another episode!” Mike said, hoping I’d forget and keep on doing the massage.

We both fell asleep during the next episode … something about Mrs. Stevens forcing Samantha to hire a housekeeper so that Samantha could join social committees. I could never understand why Samantha called her mother-in-law Mrs. Stevens, but maybe that was the era.

I don’t remember how the episode ended, but I did wake up early – 4:30. Might be due to the time change, might be the early hour I went to sleep. But I really think it’s the election. I went straight for my laptop and checked out the polls. Obama’s moved forward in the past few days … good news for a Democrat like me. Washington Post had a summary of the talking heads’ predictions – 12 for an Obama win, 7 for a Romney win. Twelve for progress, seven for the reverse.

I’ll bet I know how Mrs. Stevens would’ve voted, but thank goodness – she was a fictional character. And even so, she lived in a blue state. And I’ll bet I know how Darrin would’ve voted. He’d have been a Romney man, always trying to get Samantha to conform to his way of life. But Samantha … there’s an Obama voter if ever there were one.

Now if only she could twitch her nose and settle the whole thing …