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Those people with the Caribbean cruise called back. (Different person) she did use the word, "Win" versus "selected to receive." She didn't want to tell me what she wanted until after denying several times my husband was not there (which, wandering around the parking lot was not a lie).
She finally told me it was for the Imperial Majesty. To which I responded, "So, what is that? Like a four-star cruise?" After a long pause she responded with a slighyly more irritated, "When can we call Jeremy back?" (Forewarned is forearmed). She insisted that she hear from him that he be taken off the list. (How she knew for a fact that it was Jeremy saying he wanted to be taken off the list I don't know). After even more Googling, I discovered the ship the cruise line runs was built in the 50's and has to be taken out of commission in 2010 due to new regulations. How did people live before there was the internet? Before there was message boards posting about scams, and reviewing things, and Wikipedia with so much information about nearly anything/anyone worth researching! My husband believes they might have received while he was trying to "make free money just by surfing the internet" and all it costs is your contact information and demographics being sold to third parties and taking up daytime minutes. At the mall last night, we started to fill out entry forms to win an electric car (since we only have one now because his car has some computer problem that will cost more than it's worth to sink into that money pit of a crappy American car). I was startled by the question, "Spouse's name." I could hear that phone call now, "Is Amanda there? What about Jeremy?" sure enough, on the back, something abut third party information. We threw out our entries. Also while at the mall we saw Spider-Man 3. It's 2.5 hours long. Apparently, after Hollywood makes a creates a successful franchise that audiences will love it longer, with more pointless crap in it. There was too much relationship stuff in it, too many villains, too much singing and scenes that look like they were stolen from Saturday Night Fever. By the end, I was ready to shout, "OK! We get it! He's a prick!" The Hitler hair thing was corny, but not as corny as the American flag thing. (I groaned like it was a Jay Ward joke). I've also concluded Stan Lee is a shameless self-promoter. Either moviemakers assume people want more, which they dont, (and you are unlikely to walk out on an over-hyped $10 investment it doesn't matter whether you want it or not) or artists get precious about their art (which, as any artist will tell you, is death to the art). It's something I try and get over; people don't need to have an un-obscured close-up view of every little badly-painted fish in the ocean. I was really wishing Hot Fuzz was playing earlier than 10:40 so we could see it instead. Speaking of things that need to die, I didn't realize the post office would not overnight to small towns. That is the stupidest thing I've heard lately. That because Granite Bay, and surprisingly Roseville are in the shadow of their big brother Sacramento things will not arrive for two days. Apparently people who live in suburbs don't need things by the next day. What if you don't live near a big city? The new postage increase is not to get things around faster or increase customer satisfaction. Boy, that got long. I turned in my big-ass book yesterday, the cold started on Saturday night as I was starting to finish it, I'll be done officially with everything on Friday. Current Mood:  congested, this little flower doesn't look like it, but it is.
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