What I've Found

My days are tiring. Struggling to make ends meets is just hard on a person. What I've always known, and recently again found to be the truly important thing in life is this: You have to find something every single day to smile about. You have to be happy with your surroundings, your interests, your loves.

And this is the part where I could lose two of my three readers... One of the "funnest" things I do is watch American Idol. I know it's a little over the top. I know it can get pretty stupid. But I like it, ya know? (It fills up that time while we're all waiting to find out what Brett's gonna do about being a Packer)!! I went all crazy for Taylor Hicks early on and derived great, monumental satisfaction when he won the whole damn thing. Since then, I've watched with a certain detachment. It's just too draining to put so much of yourself into another person's success. I don't regret the hours I dialed relentlessly; I'm just not doing it again.

Having said that, I gotta say this. I watched all of the auditions, and watched this first week of the Top 24. It took a few days for this epiphany to set in, but there's an amazing young talent in this year's pool. He completely escaped my radar through Hollywood Week! Enjoy, if you will, the Texas boy who has given me my smile today. He's a dark horse in the competition, but he's a worthy contender, and I believe he is going to be shining in the weeks to come.

Course, maybe I'm just lost in a daydream....but what a day to be Jason Castro starring as the dayyyyyyyyy dreamin' boyyyyyyyyy!