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Last night, I just wanted to stand up and scream at the TV during the elimination on The Biggest Loser. As if last week’s argument with Shay didn’t make him look bad enough, he had to attack Rebecca this week when there was absolutely no reason for it. Rudy has done extremely well on this show, setting records left and right for most weight lost ever in 10 weeks and for losing 100 pounds faster than anyone ever has before. I am sure his family is proud of him for it. But I just cannot like him, no matter how…

What? A Christmas post in mid-November? Well, there’s no use saying it’s too early. There were Christmas decorations up at the local mall well before Halloween. There’s no use even complaining about it. Every year, we complain about how early the Christmas decorations go up and the music begins to play, and every year they continue to put them up earlier and earlier. My theory is that this year, they went up super early because the malls and shopowners are struggling financially. They are hoping that the wreaths and the jolly music will remind us all about the people in…

We’re officially halfway through National Novel Writing Month, and this week I made it to the magical 25,000 word mark. Basically, that means I’ve been playing with Hello Kitty markers and pencils and ribbons for the past couple of days :). By next Saturday, I should be hitting the next goal of 37,500, which sounds ridiculously close to the end! So, how do I feel about my novel so far? Truthfully, I think there are some good parts, but they are few and far between. In the first 25,000 words of my zombie apocalypse novel, there has yet to be…

Last night’s episode of Survivor completely redeemed this season in my mind. For the first several episodes, I was thinking, This season is seriously weak. Russell’s diabolical mind is the only half-interesting thing. But, as often happens on Survivor, things got interesting once the tribes merged. While most of the season has been about Galu kicking ass at challenges and Foa Foa getting kicked off one-by-one, the merge last week shook things up a bit. Eric, who sadly was my pick to win it all, went home last week in a major and honestly confusing blindside. It’s Survivor 101 that…

My cousin is leaving today to go to Iraq. I am not sure how long he’ll be there, but I think most of these types of deployments are a year, right? That sucks. Sometimes I still can’t believe we have so many soldiers in the Middle East 6 years after we started this ‘war’. More than six years even… My cousin Kevin is leaving behind a young son and his wife, and I know they are so sad to lose him when he’s overseas. I am really proud of him for enlisting in the Army and serving our country, but…

Tonight, I went to my second official NaNo write-in at the local Borders Bookstore. It was awesome. I met some great local writers and got over 2000 words written. I definitely recommend going. Even though I consider myself to be pretty outgoing, it makes me nervous to go to a coffee shop alone, not sure if I’ll meet up with people and get along with them. But, I am so happy that I got over those silly fears and just went out. It was a great experience, and I had a lot of fun. Oh, and another bonus to going…