Family Feud

Sometimes when I have the day off I turn the TV on to Family Feud. You know the show, right? Two teams of two families play against each other trying to guess the most popular answers to a survey question. Sometimes I wonder where they find these contestants, you know, when I'm screaming the answers at the screen. My favorite part of the show is the "Lightening Round." It's when the winning team picks two members that try to accumulate 200 points. One of them goes off the stage, while the other tries to get the most popular answer to 5 survey questions, and then the other one comes out and tries the same thing. This is really the only fun part of the show. I would totally kill on the "Lightening Round." I would probably even try to get on the show (I am so confident in my speedy answering abilities) except for two problems...

#1. The host is a creep. I can remember three different hosts on this show, and they have all been total creeps. There was that comedian guy Louie Anderson, ick. Then the guy who played Al from Home Improvement, ick. Now the host is John Hurley (he was Elaine's boss on Seinfeld, and did Dancing with the Stars). The problem with this creep is he is super touchy feely. He always kisses the women's hands and then holds on to them while they are answering. And then during the "Lightening Round" he puts his arm around them. Ick. This stuff would totally throw me and ruin my game because I'd just be thinking, "STOP TOUCHING ME YOU SLIME BALL!!!"

#2. Who would I have on my team? There are 5 people on a team, and I have 7 people in my family, some of them I actually am in a real FEUD with. So that probably wouldn't work. I thought maybe I could put a winning team together with Ben's family, but that probably wouldn't work either because he has more than 5 family members and we're not married. I think if I could put my Family Feud Dream Team together it would consist of me and four of my all time favorite girls (who are all sisters) but the fact that they are blonde/red headed/ blue eyed probably wouldn't help when I introduced them all as my "cousins."

Death and Taxes

Yesterday when Ben sat down to do his taxes, he told me I should be surprised he was doing them so early. He said a teacher from Prairie once told him, "Why should I give the government my money any sooner than I have to." What an excellent point. Of course I overpaid the government all year, so when I filed in January I got a pretty awesome refund. Ben knew he might have to pay, so he ordered some comfort food to ease the pain. I ate two cheesy, saucy slices of comfort last night. It was sooo good, and I wanted more but the guilt stopped me. And I just got back from the little gym at my apartment where I killed myself for an hour. And probably only burned off half a slice of pizza.

On a side note: I'm watching the NBC Nightly News right now, and I think Brian Williams has become my new favorite news anchor over Peter Jennings and local boy Jeff Granola (Gianola).

Presents...

I sent these little boxes off to my San Diego cousins the other day and I can't wait to hear if they like the charm bracelets I made them!

Diploma

It's nice to finally have this. Is it tacky to frame it? After all the crap I went through to get it, I'm actually considering sewing it to the back of a shirt and wearing it around for all the world to see.

I admit it.

I'm a risk taker. I push things to the limit. I think to myself, "I can't wait to get home. There's enough gas. It's only a mile home from here." I drive back and forth the three miles from the hospital to my apartment, over and over again. Yeah, I drive a couple blocks more to the Post Office and then to Albertson's, and scoff at the Circle K.

So, yesterday when my little car slowly sputtered to a stop, I was embarrassed and frustrated but I was most certainly not surprised. Even though I totally should have had at least another 10 miles in that tank. Stupid Arizona heat messing with my mileage.

Luckily I was at a light, across the street from the Circle K.