Monday morning recap:

Oregon Chamber Players' Saturday night performance was delightful; the Wiren piece being my favorite.Went to Denny's (artist's preference) afterwards for post-performance eats and giggles. My youngest child's double cheeseburger ended up being about the same size as her head. I'm surprised she ate half of it.

On Sunday, the kids and I happily tromped over to mom and dad's for sports and food, both being in plentiful supply.

NASCAR: Jeff Gordon won (meh) in Martinsville. Tony took second, but Jimmie Johnson took third, making me feel no better this week than I did last week. Rusty Wallace is milking every possible moment of camera time during his last Cup season by b*tching about something after every race. This week's complaint was that the lapped cars were, of all things, RACING out there, and I quote,

"Lapped cars were horrible all day long. They were just racing their brains out, man, just all trying to get that lucky dog…"

Ahem…oh yes. They should be (insert sarcasm) completely ashamed of themselves.

Bobby "Ba-bonte" Labonte, had an amazing fourth place finish, for which his reward was being completely ignored in favor of Rusty's "Whine-o'the-Week" and "SmackTalk" with your hosts Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart. Biffle finished 20th and accomplished the feat of making Stewart want to "strangle him" (which isn't hard, so it's not really an accomplishment per say). Mark Martin's brake fire (sigh-poor Mark) put him back in 34th by race end, and Wimmer and Waltrip placed 25th and 27th respectively.

NFL: Raiders won (amazing), but then so did the SeaChickens (suck). Seattle got an easy lat-minute pick-off from Bledsoe and won by kicking a huge 50-yard field goal during the last five seconds of the game. It was the only five seconds of this game worth watching. My only consolation of the Chickens winning is that this B-O-R-I-N-G game didn't go into OT. Patriots had a bye week. And Colts, well, they just suck, and by suck I mean they won again and are currently undefeated. My sweetie says it's because they haven't faced any REAL opposition yet, playing teams like Centennial High and LaPine Elementary, for which I'm sure if my brother heard him say this, there would be a slapfight.

Speaking of which, I'm already gearing up for SlapFest 2005 when we all go out to the pub on the 7th for the Monday Night Football game between the Patriots and the Colts. Funnily enough, it'll probably be the boys quietly agonizing over every move their team makes, while us girls drink and trash-talk each other's teams and probably each other. Oooo...catfight!

MLB: The White Sox won the first game of the World Series. I really don't know anything about either team, other than the Astros have never won a World Series, and the White Sox haven't won one since the pilgrims landed on the rock or something like that. The only thing I'm rooting for is the baseball season to end.