Today, October 9, is my last day of freedom. The 'rents come back around 6:00pm this evening. Ah, it was so good while it lasted. I'll miss it, I love when they go out of town, it's just so peaceful. It's mostly my mother, because when she goes to Alabama by herself, it's still pretty good around here, as well.

4-1 going into the bye week is oh so sweet! It wasn't exactly the Super Bowl XL rematch most people were looking for. Although the Steelers did their part by putting up the 21 points, someone forgot to tell Seattle they were supposed to put up 10, instead we had a SHUT OUT! Yeah, it was so good. The greatest thing is that the Steelers played a dominating game without Troy and Casey on the defense. The offense was great too, the time-of-possession was 40 minutes to 20, advantage Pittsburgh! Ben went 18/22 1 TD 0 INT. Pretty good. I still don't know what happened last week, but I'm glad they were able to learn from it and let it go. I don't know what I'll do next week with the Steelers not playing.

I guess I'll have to see who I'm going to root for in the New England vs. Dallas game. Ugh, could there be a worse match-up? Both of those teams tout some of the most obnoxious fans in the NFL. What's even worse, I don't think, I KNOW there will be analysts who say "We could be looking at a preview of the Super Bowl!" That would be one of the worst games ever. The only Super Bowl match-up that would be worse is Colts vs. Giants. I would drown in the "Manning vs. Manning" over-hype. It's a bit early to say anything about the Giants at the moment, but I'm not sure they'll make the playoffs, let alone the Super Bowl this season. But they could get hot later on, so you never know.

I'm not even sure what to say about the race on Sunday. Tony's still fourth in the standings, but now he's like 156 points back of Jeff Gordon (who won, by the by). He was in such a great position to win, I'm not even sure what happened (I was flipping back and forth between race and a football game), but I think he finished in eighth place. No more fooling around, I need Tony to get really hot, and Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson (ugh) to have engine failures of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. proportions (he had his sixth engine failure of the season on Sunday). I'm just bloody tired of Hendrick Motor Sports; even though it will most likely get worse because Jr. (I like him, though) is going there next season, so he probably tripled their merchandise sales and JGR is going to Toyota and that's a crap-shoot at the moment.

I know I said I wasn't ready to declare anything for Tony Reali or against Ben, but I've got it so bad for Reali. I don't know why. But I'm still not going against Ben, I can't. If I do, I don't feel right. It does border on guilt, even though it's not like I'm abandoning him for another team or anything of that nature. I'm just going to let this play out, although it does make the wait for 5:00 take FOREVER to get here, because I miss Tony. The thing is in reality, I can't have either one of them, so what is there really to feel guilty about? Maybe it's because I feel that anyone else would deter the time I spend devoting to the Steelers (but mostly talking about Ben). Ben is still my boy (my boo, even). As long as he's in the Black and Gold, and doesn't do too many stupid things (on or off the field), I'll defend him until my hands fall off (none of my acquaintances watches football, so there's nothing to waste my voice over).

Speaking of acquaintances, Marcus text-messaged me yesterday at 11:30 when I was cleaning the house. From what he said in his second message, he was bored at work. No mention of what was supposed to happen last month. Whatever. I also forgot to mention that Ashley is back in town, but I e-mailed and said I wouldn't be back until today. Mostly because if something happened to me, and my parents weren't here, I'd be screwed. I may try to see her, but I'm not too sure. I'll really have to see who else is supposed to be coming. Since she's not too well (emotionally, mostly), I know she doesn't want to see Lisa's boyfriend. Let's just hope Lisa can actually do something without him. Speaking of Lisa, she's been blowing up my mobile (which is the greatest thing since I got the memory stick). She finally just left a message saying her daycare was hiring and they needed leaders with experience. Womp-womp. That is so not me. I sent her a text message back basically saying "thanks, but no thanks." I told her that I wasn't a leader, if it weren't for my mother, I would have never even worked in that stupid place. Plus, I can't handle kids; whoever was acting up, I just sent them to my mother. As for the leader thing, she's still thinking back to high school. That was so long ago (that fact is so depressing to me). It's kind of like the Linkin Park song Lying Away From You, you pretend up a person you think everyone wants you to be, and they think that's who you are. I mean, in some respects that was me, but it wasn't who I was totally, and it's barely who I am now. If it was, I might not be complaining so much about how they don't really know me and how I have nothing in common with the people I spent so much time with. Only in rare cases, but high school friends aren't really much, you're young, you think you know everything at the time, and the relationships aren't really based on anything solid. I mean, the reason Lisa and I became friends was because we both liked a certain boy band (and the same member). The next year, she kind of got into wrestling, not as much as I did, then it's been more miss than hit. There's just nothing to talk about anymore, we don't listen to the same music, we don't watch the same shows, I've already stated that nobody I know really watches football (Marcus kind of does, but he's wishy-washy; he has "too many" teams, you only get one). I know those are very shallow things, but it gets so old talking about high school. It's also just getting really old of being the odd one out (numerically and belonging wise).

I'm gonna jet, I'm starting to get hungry. I'm not yet at the point of where I want to start posting photos of Tony, so I'll do one of Ben.