babysitting and stuff

Cassie and Vinnie Christopher stayed over last night so Josh and Alex could go to Tulsa for Valentine's Day. I was very excited about them coming over. Vinnie sat on my lap every chance he could but Cassie pretty much parked herself at the front door waiting for their return. For most of the time Ozzy seemed to be kinda depressed. If the three of them went outside, the other two would come in and he would be sitting outside at the door and I would have to ask him if he wanted to come in before he would. 

However, something must have clicked in this afternoon because he was wild and wooly and ready to play. He got up and was trying to coax me into the living room. I wanted to take a shower first but it always takes me a bit to motivate myself first. As I was sitting there he started biting and picking on Cassie, then reached over and stole the blue squeaky elephant from Vinnie!! Talk about feeling your oats! I threw the squeaky for Vinnie and let Ozzy continue to believe he had Cassie right where he wanted her.

My other big news this week is that I won a trivia contest on CNN's Headline News on Wednesday. I drank a mocha frappuccino in the evening the night before and was good to go when Morning Express came on at 5 a.m. I decided to try the Challenge game that they are always talking about, since I was up anyway. They play from 7-9. It's a jump in and play when you want to, but you only get the questions as they come up and they're only asked once. Anyway, I ended up in third place, which I thought was pretty good. There were some pretty hard questions in there, and some predictions like "Will she say "Morning Sunshine" when she comes back in?" or "What was the first newspaper that she read the headlines from?" I was tired but attentive. Did I mention that I had another mocha frappuccino somewhere along the line? I got some I wasn't even aware I knew. The other people in the blog room said that getting into the top ten is pretty hard.

They pick a random winner and the top winner every day, and then there's a grand prize winner. I got an e-mail later that day that said I was a winner in the game. My first thought was that I was the random winner. After all, I finished in third place. So I filled out the information they wanted and sent it back to them and set my alarm for just before 7 am this morning. This was the same night I had three dogs going in and out and up and down off the bed and not enough sleep from the night before. But I woke up and played again, listening for Robin to say my name. 

I didn't do as well in the game today. I seemed to have used up my trivia juju on my winning day. The reason I wanted to play again was thinking that the grand prize (a trip to Atlanta) might be accumulated points. But I still tried but didn't end up in the Top Ten, even though I was within ten or twenty points of it. Listening to the news, Robin announced that HLNfanatic (I think) was the random winner. Hmmm, I thought that was what I had won. I must now keep watching. So I did. I watched and played, not well, very sleepy, and then it happened. Robin said that Vickilea was the winner of the Challenge game and had won a t-shirt and an autographed photo. Hoooooray!!! I'm a winnner!!!! Never have had anything like that happen to me before. She not only said it that one time, she said it one other time, too. I'm guessing the two people that were in first and second place had already won before and were ineligible. Fine by me. I like being the winner. And the people in the chat room congratulated me as I left yesterday, and again this morning. I thought that was very nice.

I had fun doing it both days and think I'll keep the alarm set. Maybe even try setting the coffee on automatic. Today, though, there was an idiot in the chatroom that was annoying everyone. I'm not sure there was a moderator in there cause he was insulting, even though an automatic warning about the blogging rules comes up every now and then.

So, those are my two big days for this week. And then today I got my WWE mag in the mail today, so I can come down slowly (nah I read it already). Ahhh. Life is good.