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I think half of all the commercials on tv are car commercials.....

Yes, my first car was a (Levis) Gremlin....I had to have it to drive from Edinboro to Girard, PA to student teach. It was $2,000 and had blue jean seats. It was soooo cute even though a lot of people thought it was a purple car...NO, it was NOT a purple car!!!!! It was BLUE!! I had to always have cinder blocks in the back to get around in the ice and snow. I also had a shovel in the back with some sand. You have to be resourceful when you have Gremlin and lived on a hill in the north. I thought it was cute....didn't care for the Pacer though....another '70s fopah. I would have rather had a GTO or maybe a mustang, but hey.....the price was right and it had 22,000 miles.

Now I have a Camry and I wanted one before they were barely on the market. I read about the extensive engineering that went into it and thought they sounded practical. That was in 1985 0r 1986. It took me about 20 years to get a Camry, but they are everything I had hoped and I really enjoy driving it. I test drove the Highlander and I actually felt more at home in the Camry....but I am sorta thinking the next car will be the Highlander.....it will be a while tho. We pretty much use all our cars up before we get rid of them.

Ok.....American Idol (Jim is in his "stamp room" with his fingers in his ears) is back on and I just saw a good audition....Christy Lee Cook. She sang Amazing Grace and although it was a bit too country for my taste, I believe she has the raw talent to go the distance in this competition.....so write this one down. I don't know if she is the best one this season, but she is one of he better ones I have seen....she is a horse trainer from Oregon who does marshall arts and she is very pretty and has great shoulders. I always notice shoulders because I never have had any to speak of....probably lack of exercise.

Here is the secret to watching these shows. I never watched them until I had a DVR (aka Teevo.) That way I can speed through the stuff I hate and skip the commercials. It takes waaaayyyy less time. Yes, I even speed through the car commercials. Why does this show captivate me? I don't know.....real people with real aspirations and goals and some with real talent.

Okay.......have you figured out I don't have anything to say? I could talk about how I have been watching FOX on and the Michigan Caucus is going on and how disappointed I am that my guy, Fred Thompson is not even in the running. Jim and I are saying that we feel we don't really have a dog in this fight. We have never been McCain people and Alan Keyes is out.....I guess our next choice is Huckabee....but we have some reservations with him. And what is the deal with Ron Paul? If this dude pulls a Perot we are going to end up with a socialist in the White House. Maybe the Clintons are donating money to the Ron Paul campaign.....I think it might be a smart move on their part. Sorry Lora... :-)