This is scary

So....I'm always telling my friends how I think the DVR is one of the best inventions ever and how much it has changed my life. It's a major time saver when I can fast forward thru commercials and I can stop it and do dishes or take a phone call, and pick right back up where I left off. I also love how I can rewind if I miss something. I guess until this morning, I didn't realize just how much this little machine has seeped into my consciousness. Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw my cat doing something cute, and my first thought was to grab the remote and rewind it so I could catch the whole thing. Weird, huh?

Speaking of the cat, things are going okay. She still keeps to herself a lot, but she is hiding less and less. The relationship is still mostly on her terms. She has to be the one to approach me when she gets ready. If I approach her, she runs. But, the good news is that she is approaching more and more. The thing I do like is how cats are so much easier than dogs. I spend about one minute a day cleaning the cat box and I put a little food out and everything is good. This week when the gate nearly fell off my back fence, I didn't have to worry about a dog escaping. I can come home late or go away for a weekend and everything is good. I still miss having a dog and still feel a little like I've settled by getting a cat, but the cat seems to fit into my lifestyle at the moment, so I think we'll make it work. I was considering trading her in for one of my nephew's more friendly cats, but as I thought about it, I realized maybe I have bonded with Scully a little and I decided to keep her.

The Grammys

I don't usually watch the Grammys, but I did tonight because I actually had the good fortune of meeting a Grammy nominee this week, and I had to see if he made it on the show. Thru my work, I met the lead singer of DeVotchka. They are a local band who did most of the music for the movie Little Miss Sunshine. They didn't win the award, and I don't think that category even made it on the show, but I'm glad I watched anyway. I thought all of the performances were really, really good. And how about that Carrie Underwood. I'm not particularly a country fan, but she and Rascal Flats did an incredible job. Also, I learned something about a lot of R&B artists that were really good, who I really didn't know much about before.

Now, for the bad part. What was up with their acceptance speeches? I didn't hear one speech that even sounded articulate. The worst of the night had to be The Dixie Chicks. (And we had to hear them four times.) They were just plain goofy...and not in a good way. Aren't many of these people supposed to be writers? You'd think they could write a decent thirty second acceptance speech. I'm just glad that so many of the awards were awarded before the show so we weren't subjected to anymore meaningless ramblings.