Oh my aching stomach!

I think I have an ulcer.

I also think 9/10 of the fun of NASCAR isn't so much in having a guy to cheer on, but in having guys that your like or don't like. If there is variety, then it's easier to be happy with whoever wins or happy with whoever doesn't win. LOL

Although I have to admit, the most fun I've ever had with a NASCAR race was the first one, where a Gordon fan and I were having good natured fun by picking on each other's guys. It comes from the fact that while I may not like Gordon (he gave an excellent speech after the race though - very dignified and much better than last week), I recognize that he's a great driver.

I still wasn't rooting for him to win though. Where's the fun in that? *g*

Those last 40 laps though. Gah! Between screaming at Kurt to keep up and rocking back and forth clutching my stomach, I'm pretty sure I got some sort of weird workout. Kurt has a ways to go before garnering a fanbase, but the thing about him is that he did make a turn this year. He publically admitted he was stupid for feuding with Jimmy Spencer, he promised to shape up and behave right (which he has), and he's raced clean. He also came on at the right time. Honestly, he and Jimmie Johnson both deserved the win, and it was only right that they were first and second. I can respect the effort they put in.

My only gripes of the race?

Lap cars shouldn't try and race the lead lap cars, especially those that are contending for the chase. But if you're on the lead lap? Race damn it! All those cars on the lead lap just letting Jimmie go at the beginning annoyed me. Stupids.

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Dear NASCAR drivers:

Next year, please do me a favor. Please, one of you go into the Chase and dominate. Close is fun one year, but I can't take it two years in a row. Alternate. Next year, someone can dominate, and the year after that it can be close again.

Thanks.

Maveness's Stomach

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Now I have to figure out how to spend my Sundays until February 22.

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Help please!

I have decided to overhaul my LJ. Gonna personalize the background (because I'm in a mood - to be blamed on Keith Urban's "Tonight I Wanna Cry" and a strong southern penchant of late). So my question is...how do I go about doing a custom background? I have Paint Shop Pro 9 for 14 more days before the trial is over (and I don't use it enough to warrant buying it).

So...help! I will love you immensely! (Even if I don't get to use the background immediately, since I'm too broke right now to reup for my paid account on LJ. Stupid transmission.)

Oh, and I'm having visions of weeping willows. Weeping willows and country songs about crying. Yeah. Can you feel the ennui in the air? Which is weird, because I'm in a pretty good mood.

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Gacked from musesfool

The avatar is like a Rorschach inkblot, or the Draw-a-House/Person/Tree Test, or any work of art. It is selected from personal imagination. Consciously or unconsciously, people condense a multitude of meaning into it. They project their personality into it - who they are, who they wish to be, what they fear, what moves them.

Choose one of your icons, and post it up in your journal. Then ask people to comment with the first thing that comes to mind when they see that icon -- whether it's associated with the image, the text, or with the identity/mood they project on you when you're using it, whatever. Free association. See if anything fits.

I'm trying to be good and not overthink it. Which isn't really possible. LOL

Which is why I'm cheating. *g* I'm choosing two, and y'all just have to deal and go with it. (I rarely stick to the rules. If I have to in my day to day life, why stick to rules on something so trivial?)



So...what do you have to say?