There is always something new going on around us. I was reading this site before I started writing on here. While reading Carrie's blog, I read something about a new book series called The Twilight Saga. Apparently, it is already a best seller. Shortly after reading Carrie's blog, I was on the phone with my postal friend Barry talking about today's Denver Broncos game.

During our conversation, I asked Barry if his wife Brittany had ever heard of The Twilight series. Barry didn't need to ask. Apparently, these books were one of the birthday presents that he bought for her last July!! I could hear Brittany talking in the background, "What rock has Mark been hiding under!" Okay, I'm sold! - I am going to buy The Twilight series after work tomorrow because I like to read good books. I will have to add "reading good books" on my updated profile when I finish this blog.

After reading Carrie's blog, I am also picturing a postmaster who would get upset if someone removed a mouse corpse from the breakroom. Does her drunken boyfriend  smell like this and she has grown accustomed to the stench? Sometimes you can put lipstick on a postmaster but........I forgot about this one! That line has already been used.

I am sure everyone on this site heard about the flack Obama received over using the line "you can put lipstick on a pig - but it is still a pig."

I am not an Obama fan, but I truly don't believe he made that remark as an insult to Sarah Palin. However, given that Obama has made other remarks that some people think were poorly thought out, - (such as when he said if one of his daughters made a mistake and got pregnant out of wedlock, he wouldn't want her to be punished with a child) -  I do think he should have realized that such a comment would be taken as an insult to Palin... simply because of the timing and coincidence with the comment she made during her speech at the GOP convention.

For me, I'm not up in arms thinking he insulted her, I'm bothered that he repeatedly shows poor judgement in choosing his words and seems to speak without thinking things through and he has a knack for not admitting his mistakes. This sounds like someone else we all know - George W. Bush.

If Obama is about change... then perhaps he should give us something to believe in by doing something very simple..........to think before he speaks and admitting his mistakes.

Perhaps this why I am missing out on the fun things out in the world. I am too focused on the wrong things. Someone will ask me if I have the latest song by "so-and-so." I have to reply back that I never heard of that singer or group. I know of Leona Lewis, Jason Mraz, Jordin Sparks and all of the Waynes - Lil Wayne, Jimmy Wayne, John Wayne (how'd he get in there?) Last week, someone asked me if I liked the new Kardinal Offishall song.

Um, no......who is that?

When they told me what song it was, I recognized the song but I thought it was by Akon. I was close! Apparently the song features Akon. I am a child of the 1980s. We didn't have all of these songs performed by a group featuring someone else. 80s group either excelled on their own God given talent or were caught in lip synching scandals like Milli Vannili. Of course, now you can lip synch in big auditoriums. I remember listening to those fun '80's songs in my first car. It was a 1968 Mercury Cougar (an 18 year old klunker at that time.). After saving my money from after school jobs, I bought my own 16th birthday present for the large sum of $300!! After putting a $500 stereo inside my ride was good to go.

Being an eccentric postal clerk living in the foothills, I still have that car 22 years later. I normally keep it garaged and rarely drive it to work. When I first bought that car, it had cancer (Louisiana rust) on the fenders, a torn-up driver's seat and a front quarterpanel that had a slighly different color. Over time, I have spent a large chunk of change painting and restoring "My Cat."

Last winter, one of my co-workers asked me if I still had my Cougar. Of course, I told him "yes" and that I keep it stashed at home during the wintertime. Someone else chimed in, "No wonder Mark looks so tired this morning, he has a Cougar stashed up in his house during the winter." My co-workers started laughing.

Um........I missed something there. What was so funny?

I was told that a "Cougar" is an older woman that dates younger men. Once again, I have been living under that darn rock too long.

I'm going to crawl back in my cave now to watch the Broncos kick the Chargers ass. Maybe I just enjoy living under this rock with my dogs and enjoying the simpler things. I will just relax and take life as it comes.

Unless, of course,  there is a knock on my door from a Cougar.