Spring Training continues and as always, our thoughts turn to baseball, one of our fave hobbies, even if we are a chick. (Marry me, Curtis Granderson?) Kidding, it's all about the game, not the boys.
Keeping to that theme, is there anyone else out there besides us who wishes we could bring retired Fed Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan off the bench?
While Greenspan is probably living the posh life these days, counting his money, America needs some fiscal help. Anyone have a cell number? We'd like to ring him up to chat.
Wall Street is shuddering and while we are glad Starbucks is down to $17 and some change a share, our dollar is looking ever more like the peso. Oye! And candidly, while we are hardly a financial genius, this currency crisis is starting to hit close to home. We were pondering with the better half a trip later this spring to Europe, but being fluffy metrosexuals, neither one of us can cop to staying in some two-star hotel and dining on 50 cent, er, better make that euro, croissants. We'd really like something new from Ferragamo, shoes being our jagged little pill, but in Italy, we'd be lucky for a couple of glasses of house Orvieto, let alone some fine leather goods that used to be had on the cheap when our dollar was rockin'.
Not so now. While we also pondered sunny days in Florida, a reward for completing our book contract, we are now considering places where we could drive — qu'elle domage — rather than fly, given the rising cost of airfares. It's gloomy out there in travel world. While flying has, in the past few years, become one step up — and we do mean a small step — from Greyhound travel, now it's starting to become a luxury given the flaming costs of oil. As a family with no children and intense wanderlust, we're getting a little huffy if not restless.
That Ben Bernanke dude — nothing personal — seems not to be helping so much, dontchathink? Not that the cyclical economy is entirely his fault, but his reactions to it have been less than Greenspanian. Al probably would have done something different, we bet.
In other funner news:
A headline in the UK Guardian screamed: "Why does Hillary wear such bad clothes?" And ya know what, we're glad they wrote the story because sometimes that very notion keeps us up at night. If you can't get the fashion part right, what with all that money and all those handlers, what else will you screw up? Remembering the old adage: "Our ability to accessorize is what separates us from the beasts." Yellow suits. Who can wear YELLOW besides Tyra Banks?
Funseekers: check out this short from aspiring filmmaker Adam Williamson, a student at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. It's a cutie.
If that doesn't make you laugh, we offer this link we found on the Florida Democratic Party's Web site.
Is politics a great sport or WHAT?
— Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
