While we were in Puerto Rico, there was one song that we heard ALL THE TIME. In stores, every time we turned on the radio, just walking down the street. So now, of course, it’s stuck in my head, and I have no idea what it is or who sings it. Added to that, I don’t remember any of words, just that it sounded like a power ballad and has a lot of OOOOHHs in it. I’m on the case, though!
I brought my iPod on vacation so that I would have something to listen to. While we really enjoyed listening to Puerto Rican stations, sometimes we needed a break. We listened to both Rodney’s and my iPods, but mine mostly, since his only holds 1 gig of music. I quickly learned that my general inclination of alternative stuff wasn’t really anybody else’s favorite, but that R&B/hip hop and pop were usually good choices. When Jess was in the front (which was 90% of the time, since I really enjoy the solitude of the back seat), she was good at finding songs on my iPod that I’d never listened to before. One such song was “If I Never See Your Face Again” by Maroon 5. They also did a version of it with Rihanna, but I didn’t have it then.
I downloaded it as soon as I got home, and have been playing it since then. I put it on my iPod and put it in a playlist that I made this morning. The playlist seemed funny thought, because it kept playing the Maroon 5/Rihanna song, even though there were a bunch of other songs in the list. Then I looked at the screen during the fourth time the song came up, and even thought that’s what was playing, it said “Babylon – David Gray” so then I realized that there might be something wrong with that track, or my iPod. If that’s a bug, it’s pretty much the coolest bug ever, and I’m not going to kill myself to fix it.
I love Puerto Rico. The weather is nice, and I’m not really expected to do anything other than veg. Being with other people means that said vegging is a mite more coordinated than I might prefer, but we’re having a great time together. More when I get back!
I have tried several times to watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. I don’t like it. Initially, a funky internet connection was to blame for my inability to get through a minute of it. Then, we got a new router. And I still wasn’t enjoying it. I try to support Joss Whedon because he created Buffy and I will forever love him for it, but UGH. I hate this show SO MUCH.
I’m done with it for tonight, but I’ll try again to watch it some time before I go on vacation, because I know that it will soon not be available online for free anymore, and I am definitely not paying for it.
I hate spinning class so much. I enjoy knowing that I’m burning a gazillion calories, but I don’t enjoy feeling as though somebody has taken sandpaper to my crotch. Ouch. It’s not unbearable, but it’s definitely just another reason that I have to psych myself up to go at all.
Watching the Olympics has made me realize how much I miss playing a team sport. I think I should try to join a volleyball league. I know that I could ask Christine, but I think I’ll make it a personal project and see what there is around here.
What’s with the stupid China-themed commercials that everybody is doing for the Olympics? I don’t know, but it seems kind of shameless. I feel like it shouldn’t matter where you set your commercial, as long as it’s good and well-done, but these mostly aren’t. It seems as though they feel that as long as it’s set in China, the commercial can be just as stupid as they please. I started this to talk about a Crouching Tiger-themed McDonald’s commercial, but then some other stupid dragon-related hot tub commercial came on and made that one look like a masterpiece by comparison. Did innovative and smart ad people not make it out of the 60s?
So Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey believes that ‘not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.’ How convenient that Mukasey, a Republican Bush appointee, doesn’t think it necessary to prosecute other Republican Bush appointees for systemically failing to hire those suspected of being: Democrats, otherwise liberal, or -gasp- homosexual! No crime’s been committed here, folks! I’m kind of pissed off anyway about people not accepting accountability for their actions, so this just makes me angrier. The No Justice Department can go suck an egg.
I am one of those people who has always agreed with So I Married an Axe Murderer and Men in Black‘s assertions that tabloids often contain more truth than so-called respectable newspapers, so I believed the John Edwards story from the beginning. It seemed like too much of a left-field kind of story not to have some truth to it. Think about it: before this, the most damning story about Edwards was that he paid $300 for that haircut. Plus, the mental image of John Edwards running around a Beverly Hills hotel, trying to outrun The National Enquirer‘s journalist and photographers was too awesome not to be real.
There’s still so much more to this story, and I can’t see how there’s enough spin in the world to protect John Edwards from the fallout. Why would he have lied about this for weeks, only to admit it now? Why is he denying that the child is his? If he had really ended his relationship with this woman in 2006, why wouldn’t he just have owned up to it when all of this came to light? And if that is the case, why is he still visiting her in hotel rooms and playing with her baby? He’s a total moron, and his wife is such a class act. Not that anybody ever deserves to have a mate’s infidelity exposed in such a public manner, but that woman has gone through so much, you think this jerk would have considered that before cheating on her.
And how could he have run for PRESIDENT with this in his closet? What if he’d been the nominee? That is so selfish.
I now have email! If you would like to contact me, you can do so by clicking the link that appears to the right and at the bottom of my blog.
Yay! I have a new blog, and will soon have a new domain. I guess I don’t know yet what this blog will be. I already have a knitblog and a more personal one, so this might be a mixture of those, or something entirely different. Right now, I’m scouring the Internet for a new theme. After that, I’ll try to figure out how to use it! Be back soon.
If things were different, today would be exactly ten months before I got married.
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August 26, 2008 12:37 pm | 
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