My Oscar Musings and

It's always ironic that sometimes there is nothing on TV and then.... Well Duke's game was scheduled for 6:45 tonight and with the exception of hospital visits or birthdays, Duke games always take precedence, so we sort of watched the Academy Awards backwards. And although none of you care two figs, I must mention that Duke played GREAT and we had an important win three ways: 1) Another ACC win, 2) Retribution for when they beat us in January and, 3) Defeated a higher nationally ranked team. Woot woot Go Duke!
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Every year My Sweetie and I fill out Oscar ballots and every year he kicks my ass. Except this year, and still I did not win. We tied. It almost felt like a win though. I really liked the ceremony tonight and loved all the change 'em ups they did. And I only heard the orchestra play someone off one time. That part was really nice. There was only one dress I didn't like and I think it was Reese Witherspoon. Yes, I just googled it. There was a lot of humor and Ben Stiller's take on Joaquin Phoenix was so hilarious - and I'm not even a giant Ben Stiller fan. One of the weirder moments was when Jennifer Aniston was presenting. Just as I formed the thought to say, "At least they are showing some class and not cutting to a shot of Brad and Angelina" They did! Ooof.
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I give the whole show a thumbs up though. Hugh Jackman is wonderful and they had John Legend sing, which always relaxes the hell out of me. His voice is like butter. I bet this show wins the Emmy this September for best variety special or whatever that category is.
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Saturday night my daughter came over for dinner. This is becoming more of a regular thing which I think is very nice. And she always helps in the kitchen.
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My Sweetie leaves in 12 hours to go to Arizona until Wednesday night. I'm so jealous because he gets to fly on the corporate jet. The closest I've been to a jet was when a Vegas cabbie pointed some out to me through a giant chain-link fence and said, "That's Janet Jackson's jet." At least I'll finally get to have cabbage. He doesn't like cabbage and I always fix the foods that I love that he doesn't like while he's away. And then I'll probably end up talking for hours and hours on the phone because I always seem to end up doing that when he's out of town. I'm glad I changed my phone plan to unlimited long distance. Speaking of that, if you live in the U.S. and want to talk to a crazy person drop me an e-mail and I'll give you a call. And you won't even have to worry about my cabbage breathe.

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