I'm loving this week:
1. Mike Tomlin & the boys in Black & Gold. (Though, I'm disturbed to find that coach is actually 6 months younger than me).

2. The Park Tavern -- for providing a smoke-free environment to watch football, drink beer and torment local Browns fans (again and again and again).

3. Kid Rock's newest CD -- Rock N Roll Jesus -- which is, in my personal opinion, some of his best work. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right Kid? Take that, Pam, you overinflated, overrated, underdressed "star." The best song? It's a toss-up between "All Summer Long" and "Roll on."

Things I'm hating this week:
1. Draft Labatt's -- Seriously, I know better. I've been burned by this beer before. Good thing I had Monday off.

2. Christmas shoppers -- All I wanted at Target were a few boxes of cheese crackers and granola bars for my daughters' snack days -- and there I was stuck behind people with carts and carts full of Christmas gifts. (But, then, maybe I'm just jealous because I can no longer plan beyond the next day or two ... let alone a month from now ... which would explain why I was standing at Target with a hangover and an armload of snacks yesterday afternoon).

3. Tights, which are oh, so appropriately named. I am a 5 foot 2 inch woman who wears a size 8, but I buy QUEEN size tights because I cannot stand to spend the day in bound up in a corset like a piece of sausage. To hell with skirts until spring.