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Excellent. What a nail biter. (Actually, as I was typing this, ready to give up on the game, Oakland blocked the kick and ran it in. Wow, that’s some excellent football. I guess this means I can’t change the channel yet.)

Too bad Shania had to go with the lip synching…Even my father was saying “Gee, that blond is running all over the place and SHE can sing live, and Shania can’t even do it standing still.

Seriously, if you can’t sing live, don’t go. It’s not going to help you (except maybe Shania’s outfit will make the point moot). It can only hurt you.

Dixie Chicks? FREAKING BEST version of the national anthem EVER! I had big doubts, and they took my breath away.

Bud Lite? Why does anyone else bother to advertise. My vote for 3 best commercials (I feel safe voting now, because I can’t imagine anything better than these.

1. Bud Lite “The Referee is a jackass” just barely edges out

2. Bud Lite Clown “I don’t think so.”

3. H&R Block w/WIllie Nelson

Honorable Mentions:

Osbournes Pepsi (needed a better writer, but any commercial with Ozzie and Donny and Marie is gold, baby)

Trident (why the 5th dentist voted no)

Bud Lite shell stuck to his ear.

I’m headed out, big bag of Ruffles in hand. Someone tells me there’s some kind of football game going on this evening…

Got my plans for tonight. This year is going to be much less exciting than last year, I mean, last year WE WON. That really improves the game boatloads.

My contribution to the party at my sister’s house is chips and dip. Can you believe that until I called there might not have been any at this shindig? And she calls herself an American!

It’s going to be 30 today, so I’m going to look for some shorts and a t-shirt. Actually, I’m only half kidding. Yesterday I went to get the mail without a coat on for the first time in 2-3 weeks. (I normally do this. If nothing else, it wakes me up.) You just cannot understand what it does for your mood to have it be any warmer at all after the past couple of weeks. To be happy about 30 degrees is just too funny.

Zoinks, that virus/worm thingy really did a number on my DSL service earlier this morning. I think I’m back…at least for a little while, right? Sheesh, that was unpleasant. Oh, the angst!

More angst, you say? Um, the only bottle of Diet Pepsi in the house is flat. FLAT I TELL YOU! I have a caffeine headache because I’m out of half and half, and the cup of tea didn’t cut it. So I just drank a glass of flat diet soda (which had an expiration date of 5 days ago.) ANGST! I should have used the soda to wash down some Tylenol, actually.

So why don’t I just buy some half and half, you ask? Well, because I’m “between cash” right now. I’ve got two checks due in from BirchBark work I completed last week, and I know one got mailed today. But even when it gets here it won’t be available to me for what, 2 days? Anyway, my new unemployment claim still hasn’t been processed. It’s been two weeks, and I haven’t heard from anyone as to whether or not I a)qualify, b) what the benefits will be. I’m actually very very nervous about this. I wasn’t going to lay any REAL angst on you guys, but right now I’m completely consumed with trying to figure out little things like how to pay for a refill on my thyroid medication. Ahhh, I remember the good old days when I was employed full-time and being worried about something like this was inconceivable.

Next thing that gets cut from the budget is going to have to be my DSL service. You don’t even want to be here when that happens, let me tell you. The day I do that, I’ll have to turn this page black in mourning.

Other than that, it’s a blue sky day, the birds are ACTUALLY eating from my birdfeeder…first time in weeks I’ve seen them do that. I don’t think they like the seed I have in there, they seem to waste a LOT of it. But replacing it with something they like is very very low on the list of priorities. Silly birds.

Here’s the note from the maker of my dish scrubby sponge:

“Please be advised that the product you described has been discontinued and

is no longer available for purchase. We are sorry for any inconvenience

that this causes you.”

Time to drink myself into a stupor. I can’t live without these scrubbies! DO YOU UNDERSTAND??!!!