Today is a good day. I guess most days are good days if you want them to be but today is pretty good. I leave on Friday morning for Bristol!

Most people don't understand my excitement and love for NASCAR. I guess I don't seem the "type" --whatever that means. It's in my blood. I sincerely got excited, at the theater while we were watching Cars, when they started up the cartoon engines. (Sorry Ethel, that sentence is pathetic!) Anyway, the thrill of the crowd, the roar of the engines, the smell of the rubber--that's like a sweet, sweet Heaven to me.

Anyway, this is my little tribute to Nascar and all the folks who make it what it is. The fans, the drivers, even the sanctioning body--

Maybe John can think up a Budweiser salute to Nascar and everything it includes.

I really don't have anything to blog about except my blog is acting up and I needed to post and see if this will fix it. Kinda like when the computer freezes up and you simply reboot to fix it...I'll post and fix it.


Hopefully.

This weekend was pretty fun. Being old and married now, John and I were just going to stay home and watch the Busch and Craftsman truck races. Earlier in the week, my boss invited us to her house for karaoke. It was John and I, my boss, her husband and 3 year old daughter and the actuary where I work and his wife. It was a blast! I don't know how many songs we sang but we sang in a rotation of 6 for a solid 5 hours I think. We got there at 7 pm and left at around 2 am. It was a lot of fun and even the 3 year old got into it by singing the ABC song and dancing around. This was great fun--I'm not a drinker so going into the bar and doing karaoke is intimidating to me--however, normally it would probably take a few drinks to get me up there!

John was a surprise. He usually doesn't offer a lot of conversational input if you know what I mean so I was kinda dreading that too--you know keeping the flow going. Not so! He did GREAT! I was so proud of him and he sings really good too!

Anyway, once we got off the couch and stopped feeling sorry for ourselves we had a good time. Now what we get into THIS weekend??

Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Dad. 51!!

Food ramblings--

I just finished lunch and it got me to thinking about food and all the emotions that surround it.

For example, I brought in a Lean Cuisine Chicken and Spinach Panini sandwich. I was feeling pretty hungry so I walked to the local farmers market for a salad and fat free ranch dressing (which I hate but don't feel guilty after eating it). It was very filling and ok tasting for a low fat lunch. So, I'm full but not satisfied. Does that make sense? Now I'm wondering--did I want something additional or just something different? Why do I feel full but still want to eat? Why do emotional eaters, which I am one of, think about the emotions that are tied to food???

Oh well, I'll just eat my afternoon snack of turkey pepperoni I suppose and pretend it had dough and cheese with it so it'd be tastier. :sigh:

Deep thoughts on emotional eating:

I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Caveman the best. We called him Uncle Caveman because he lived in a cave, and because sometimes he'd eat one of us. Later on, we found out he was a bear.

I was reading the news this morning...wait. Reading the news? Why does that sound so weird? Possibly because growing up it was always "watching the news" rather than reading. But then it was always reading the paper and since I don't do that either...the actual paper that is...reading the news was appropriate however wrong it may sound. I read this excerpt from an article on msnbc.com:

"...found that given the choice, women would opt for tech items rather than luxury items like jewelry or vacations."

This is so true. Why just the other day I was lamenting the fact that John's relatively new projection TV won't break anytime soon so that I could purchase a wide-screen plasma. Don't get me wrong--I do love me some diamonds but it's plasma dude--plasma! I'm not even getting into my fascination with dvd recorders, video cameras, etc. I do love electronics!

My deep thought isn't really a deep thought but rather a question to some of you men out there--

Just how DO you get a perfectly good TV to break anyway???