I was watching an episode of Clean House and eating my lunch, and before I knew it, I was picking things up during every commercial break.
It's when you look at one of your own rooms and realize it's very close to resembling one on an episode that spurs you to get moving. The last thing you want is to realize you're a 'before' picture instead of an 'after.'
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
The Lowly Lions
So I guess the Detroit Lions lost to the Saints today, dropping to 0-15. I say 'I guess' because I didn't watch it, I'm just relying on web reports. I think the game was blacked out because of poor ticket sales.
Um.....duh?
I don't want to say I've given up on the Lions forever. But I've given up on them now. Call me a fair weather fan of you want (which, I realize, makes no sense when the wind chill is -14 and it's snowing fit to beat the band) but I'm just bored with them. It's not worth watching.
See, the problem isn't that the Lions are bad. It's that they're always bad. They never show signs of life. The team is dismal, year after year after year. It's not like a good team that has to go through rebuilding phases. This team is trying to rebuild with substandard materials and getting nowhere fast, every freaking year. And I'd venture that a lot of promising players find their careers ruined by their time in Detroit. After all, if a guy can't make it in Detroit, why would anybody else take a chance on him? I'm sure the top draft pick this year is praying the Lions win the last game so that he doesn't have to go there.
I'm not saying all the players suck and it's all their fault. They've had a hand in it, sure, but the coaching is terrible and the ownership---!! There aren't enough expletives for the mess that is management of this team. Keeping Matt Millen as long as they did was bad enough, but why the NFL doesn't come in and throw William Clay Ford out is beyond me.
Until recently, Ford didn't have too much reason to worry. Lions games were still selling out, even when the team was pretty darn bad. But this season, it's gotten worse. Oh sure, I think you can also blame the country's economic woes and everything else too, but let's face it, if you're a die-hard football fan, you'll try to find the money somewhere. I just think that the fans are finally getting wise to the idea that when you keep filling the seats, nobody is under any pressure to make positive changes.
Let's look at how a bad football team has an impact. People aren't going to downtown Detroit to the games, so they're not paying for parking and food and maybe tailgating or after-game activities. That's hurting the city. People aren't buying Lions-related merchandise. That's hurting the team and the NFL. And Detroit is only getting more of the wrong kind of attention. After the Kwame Kilpatrick disaster and the Big Three's financial woes, do we really need more negative press?? That just makes us all look like morons.
Okay, granted, in the grand scheme of things, how bad a football team is, is really not life or death. I am well aware of that. I'm just speaking in the grand scheme of sports. And you might say, "Well, gee, it has to improve next year. You've only got one way to go - up." No, this is the Lions we're talking about. With their past records, its perfectly conceivable that they could go 0-16 for years on end.
Um.....duh?
I don't want to say I've given up on the Lions forever. But I've given up on them now. Call me a fair weather fan of you want (which, I realize, makes no sense when the wind chill is -14 and it's snowing fit to beat the band) but I'm just bored with them. It's not worth watching.
See, the problem isn't that the Lions are bad. It's that they're always bad. They never show signs of life. The team is dismal, year after year after year. It's not like a good team that has to go through rebuilding phases. This team is trying to rebuild with substandard materials and getting nowhere fast, every freaking year. And I'd venture that a lot of promising players find their careers ruined by their time in Detroit. After all, if a guy can't make it in Detroit, why would anybody else take a chance on him? I'm sure the top draft pick this year is praying the Lions win the last game so that he doesn't have to go there.
I'm not saying all the players suck and it's all their fault. They've had a hand in it, sure, but the coaching is terrible and the ownership---!! There aren't enough expletives for the mess that is management of this team. Keeping Matt Millen as long as they did was bad enough, but why the NFL doesn't come in and throw William Clay Ford out is beyond me.
Until recently, Ford didn't have too much reason to worry. Lions games were still selling out, even when the team was pretty darn bad. But this season, it's gotten worse. Oh sure, I think you can also blame the country's economic woes and everything else too, but let's face it, if you're a die-hard football fan, you'll try to find the money somewhere. I just think that the fans are finally getting wise to the idea that when you keep filling the seats, nobody is under any pressure to make positive changes.
Let's look at how a bad football team has an impact. People aren't going to downtown Detroit to the games, so they're not paying for parking and food and maybe tailgating or after-game activities. That's hurting the city. People aren't buying Lions-related merchandise. That's hurting the team and the NFL. And Detroit is only getting more of the wrong kind of attention. After the Kwame Kilpatrick disaster and the Big Three's financial woes, do we really need more negative press?? That just makes us all look like morons.
Okay, granted, in the grand scheme of things, how bad a football team is, is really not life or death. I am well aware of that. I'm just speaking in the grand scheme of sports. And you might say, "Well, gee, it has to improve next year. You've only got one way to go - up." No, this is the Lions we're talking about. With their past records, its perfectly conceivable that they could go 0-16 for years on end.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
My New Holiday Wish
Please, God, stop the madness! No more "Every Kiss begins with K" or "He went to Jared!" commercials! No more "beautiful diamond necklaces" and "half-carat engagement rings"! No more "Show her you love her all over again!" PLEASE, SOMEONE, MAKE IT STOP!!!
Aren't the holidays stressful enough? I have to buy presents for up to 20 people (counting friends and work), mail out well over 40 Christmas cards, put up and take down decorations, deal with my crazy great aunt (not killing her each year should earn each of us in the family a Nobel Peace Prize), travel in bad weather, cook, clean, wrap, unwrap, pack, unpack - do I need to be reminded that I am appallingly jewelry-free every time I turn on the television or the radio??
At the very least, can't there be an ad that says, "Just because you're single doesn't mean YOU don't deserve a rock the size of Gibraltar!"? How about, "Remember, her fancy new engagement ring also comes with obnoxious in-laws - buy yourself these diamond-stud earrings, free of baggage!"? Or "Wearing our diamond-drop necklace nestled right above your cleavage makes you the biggest hit at the office holiday party! Remind that obnoxious jerk in accounting exactly what he ISN'T getting for Christmas this year!"?
That does it. I'm going shopping. Dammit.
*collapses from rant exhaustion*
Aren't the holidays stressful enough? I have to buy presents for up to 20 people (counting friends and work), mail out well over 40 Christmas cards, put up and take down decorations, deal with my crazy great aunt (not killing her each year should earn each of us in the family a Nobel Peace Prize), travel in bad weather, cook, clean, wrap, unwrap, pack, unpack - do I need to be reminded that I am appallingly jewelry-free every time I turn on the television or the radio??
At the very least, can't there be an ad that says, "Just because you're single doesn't mean YOU don't deserve a rock the size of Gibraltar!"? How about, "Remember, her fancy new engagement ring also comes with obnoxious in-laws - buy yourself these diamond-stud earrings, free of baggage!"? Or "Wearing our diamond-drop necklace nestled right above your cleavage makes you the biggest hit at the office holiday party! Remind that obnoxious jerk in accounting exactly what he ISN'T getting for Christmas this year!"?
That does it. I'm going shopping. Dammit.
*collapses from rant exhaustion*
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