Decisions and Disappointments

Life is full of decisions. Who do I marry? Where will we live? What kind of car will we drive? We've made some of those huge decisions already, but that last one is still looming over our heads. As we move to replace hubby's terminally ill car from our driveway, we believe we've narrowed down our choices. Do we go for a mid-size sedan with power sunroof and great mileage without a lot of pain to the budget? Or, do we move up to an SUV, lose the sunroof (sniff, sniff), and tighten the belt a little for the next 5 years? Decisions, decisions!

The two vehicles are tied in our minds both with pros and very few cons. We truly can't go wrong with either decision but tomorrow, I'm headed back to the dealer to test drive for sure the sedan and perhaps the SUV again. We should have a new car by the end of the week... I hope!

Speaking of the dealership, I made my way around the auto mall this morning in search of my lost cell phone. No sign of it in any of the vehicles we test drove Saturday and I have called and retraced all my steps from Thursday and Saturday (my only days out last week). Where is that silly thing? If only I'd had it on. Then at least someone, somewhere might have heard Lucy and Linus (the Snoopy theme) playing in the distance and helped me find it. Sigh. What can I do? Not much I suppose. I called the phone company today and put a block on my phone so at least if someone finds it that they can't call and text me into the poor house. If I hear nothing from all my legwork by the end of the week, I guess I'll go look for another one. Grrrr. I have to wonder... is this a case of peri-menopause brain?

While I'm thinking about brains... hee hee... I'm still working on last week's assignment that is now a week late. I've toiled for the past 4 days over my synopsis for question 1, writing my 2-3 page run-down of the book I recently read. I started to wonder if my mentor was really interested in reading my long-winded (3000+ word) rundown of the chick-lit book I so enjoyed, so I wrote him and asked him to clarify Question 1 for me. Would you believe he only needs a 750 word synopsis!! If only I asked first! Geesh! Think of all the time I would have saved. So, now I have to squeeze all that info down to 750 words before I can tackle part 2 of the question. Anyone want to do that for me? I'll be SO happy when this assignment is off in the outbox!

And now for a little t.v. talk... did anyone watch the Emmys last night? I was SOOOO thrilled when Kristen Chenoweth won "Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy" for Pushing Daisies. Someone at ABC should be fired for their poor decision making skills as this wonderful show was cancelled before it was allowed to take off. For the past 2 years it has one numerous Emmys BOTH YEARS after they'd made the decision to cancel the show. What a tragic loss, especially with so many crappy shows on out there. I'll get over it one day, I promise! Neil Patrick Harris did a pretty good job hosting and his opening number was very entertaining. Who knew he was that talented... and good looking.

DWTS premiered tonight. The judges' voting was all over the place and pretty inconsitent I thought. My votes are for Donny Osmond who I thought did a fabulous job! We'll have to PVR it tomorrow night as we have small group Bible Study.

Now how's that for an eclectic post?