
My mother's retired now, and in her newfound ton of time on her hands, she's been watching a lot of TV. Most notably
"American Idol." This is all fine and well and good, but she has somehow taken it into her head to become David Cook's biggest fan EVAR.
The other day I got this email from my Mom:
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Hello favorite sons Jay and David,
Do me this special favor and humor me seriously by downloading (uploading?) DAVID COOK's new single LIGHT ON from iTunes. I am working on downloading it too but I do not have an IPOD.
Even if I find out how to download it to my PC, I still want you two to separately download it from iTunes. It is very important to me. If you can finnagle Rick to do the same, I will be eternally grateful. I know you are aware that is will cost each of you 99cents- WOW what a bargain when you will be making your MOM's day very happy. Please email me back.
MOM :-D------------
So I deleted that email, but a few hours later, I received an iTunes gift in my inbox:

And moments later, J'Net told me she received the same gift. You'll notice that it's addressed to "Rex Perez," who is my cousin, so you can deduce that she's sent a David Cook iTunes single AT THE VERY LEAST to me, my brother Jay, Rex, and J'Net. Maybe there's a way I can talk my mother into going back to work...