{"id":177,"date":"2010-01-08T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:44:56","slug":"random-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Random things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. I&#8217;m a Dallas Stars fan. I&#8217;m a fan when they win (woo-hoo!) and I&#8217;m also a fan when they lose. There are bloggers and columnists out there who are ready to disband the team, it seems. I love going to the games (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">so much you wouldn&#8217;t believe it<\/span>) and cheering for them. I love the Pantera song they skate out to. I love standing up and applauding when they introduce the service man or woman Brad Richards bought tickets for, and then go on to thank everyone who serves. I love yelling &#8220;Stars!&#8221; twice during the national anthem. I love the whole experience. This is my team, and I&#8217;m going to continue to support them. I&#8217;m also going to be happy for each player, and the fact that they get paid (pretty well, too) to play a game. A game. That&#8217;s right, I said it. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">It&#8217;s just a game.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Get over it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. Richie&#8217;s here! This is news because he&#8217;s going to be in S.A. a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">lot<\/span> the next few months. It&#8217;s bringing back bad memories of when we had two houses and commuted back and forth; I don&#8217;t plan to go back to that life. I can stand it through March, but he&#8217;s going to have to focus on courting new clients. He may not realize that yet.<\/p>\n<p>3. Tim Sanders is smart. Between the Stars (see #1) and the UT game last night (which, frankly, was okay with me anyway, because I&#8217;m originally from Alabama), it was nice to read . Or being a good\u2014smart, effective\u2014loser. That&#8217;s a lesson from which we could all benefit.<\/p>\n<p>4. I love Stitch and Bitch! I mention it because we met last night. Despite the name, it&#8217;s a group of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">really <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">nice<\/span><\/span> women who support and encourage each other. Really and truly, they make life better! If I ever think of skipping it Rich insists that I go. He likes what it does for my disposition! You go, you fabulous bunch of women. I&#8217;ll be right there with you!<\/p>\n<p>5. My office kinda smells like feet. Since there are two litter boxes within ten feet of my desk, this could be considered a step up. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thank<\/span> you, I&#8217;ll be here all week.) Actually, since I keep the litter boxes rather clean (they&#8217;re close to my desk, after all), they&#8217;re not really an issue. So the feet thing is distracting. And puzzling. Where the heck could that smell be coming from? I&#8217;m a little alarmed that it might be connected somehow to the strawberry banana yogurt I just had. The empty container is sitting on my desk. I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re related but I keep getting a little whiff of strawberry along with the feet smell. Eeeww.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to take that yogurt container to the kitchen and rinse it out. Then I&#8217;ll call my ticket guy and add a few Stars games to our package. (So there, Brandon! Take that, Heika!)<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s back to water heaters for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. I&#8217;m a Dallas Stars fan. I&#8217;m a fan when they win (woo-hoo!) and I&#8217;m also a fan when they lose. There are bloggers and columnists out there who are ready to disband the team, it seems. I love going to the games (so much you wouldn&#8217;t believe it) and cheering for them. 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