Author: The Jody

I know I say this kind of stuff often, and you’re thinking “Didn’t you already have a best CD of 2003?” Well no, I don’t think I did, and if I did I was wrong because this is the best CD of 2003. You’re going to have to trust me on this. Annie Lennox’s Bare.

Mr. Dump says he doesn’t like her voice but I’m thinking the songs, the arrangements (oh my God, the arrangements), etc., can make a fan out of anyone. It’s got that whole hot summer night jazzy eel to it. I think it would make a lovely background CD for a romantic dinner too. I’m just not enough of a music reviewer to give you brilliant insights as to exactly why this is such an amazing CD, I can only say that I bought it because someone on a mailing list I’m on said it was incredible, and I saw it on sale and decided to buy it. Holy Cow. I wish I could write songs like this.

And yes, there are songs I’m not as crazy about. The last one could have been cut, but the first 7 are so fantastic you can forgive her. I just wanted to be honest about it.

“He’s like the George Hamilton of admin assistants.”

Dad, you can just scroll right past this entry. I wouldn’t want to be the cause of your blood pressure increase.

Just checked my account balance….hooooboy, a whole 98 cents! What the hell? Boy, all those checks came in on the same day, didn’t they? Actually, according to my calculations there should have been more than 98 cents in there, so I guess it’s time to pull up a chair and a pencil and balance my checkbook.

Good think I looked before heading over to the grocery store. Now THAT would have been embarrassing.

I am also glad I paid for my gas with cash today. Do they make you siphon it out if you can’t pay for it, or just arrest you? (See, this is why I never pump first if I’m paying by debit/credit card).

I get paid tomorrow, supposedly by direct deposit, so it’s not a crisis, just a little surprising.

Okay, I finished the book I was re-reading, and tonight when I took Junior to Barnes and Noble I picked up Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything for almost half off the cover price. WOOO! Of course, I had to buy Junior like five books, cause that’s what you do, of course. Not five for me, noooooo.

Hey, and here’s my complaint. They have a summer reading program – if your child reads 8 books, writes down what they liked best and you sign off that they read the book, they get a free book (from a list of 25). My issue? It’s for grades 1-6. So Junior, who is actually in the early stages of learning to read and probably has the skills of a first-grader, can’t participate. I think that stinks. Will fill out the form anyway, and if they say he doesn’t qualify, *I* will buy him a book. Sheesh.