It was well worth it...but I thought the link said you could only download it for so many hours...which were over on I think Wednesday.

I have lost all respect for Oprah, esp. after her talk of there not being just one God... but let's not go there because we'll get in trouble. It's her right to choose what to believe in and my right to turn her off! Tom Cruise, who the heck knows... a little weird maybe? Yrs. ago, I lived in Miami, and while shopping in Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, was approached by a couple of people doing a "personality" questionnaire. They were very pushy. My friend took the test, which, btw, was about 1 1/2 hrs. long! When she finished, they walked us over to a an office they had set up nearby and proceeded to tell her all kinds of s--- regarding what the test showed about her and how, if she joined this group, she would find happiness, etc... Their pitch went on forever and they wouldn't give up. They went as far as grabbing her arm when she tried to leave. I was getting scared because they were so aggressive. They were Scientologists. When they saw they couldn't recruit her, they gave her one of Hubbards books and then pestered her at home for wks.! My friend was, and still is a Christian, so you can imagine how well this all went over. They never told her they were Scientologists until they had us in that room. Things might be different now but they sure went about recruiting in a frightening way. No, thanks. Weird...

During Oprah's "Cargate" episode, Pontiac ended up paying the sales tax, but yeah, state/federal taxes were the audience members' responsibility if they chose to keep the car. I'm sure that Pontiac (is that a GM brand?) was able to find a way to deduct the cost of all the cars during tax season-- giving to the less-fortunate! This time, it's being reported that Oprah is paying the taxes related to the Australia trip. Don't know if she's also going to pay for the cruise taxes. There were some nice things on Friday's show, but if I had to balance them with the tax repercussions, well, I might have said "thanks, but no thanks." I liked the 5-year Netflix subscription, the Nikon SLR digital camera, the big TV,. That was pretty much it. The brownie/lasagne pan that kind of zigzags around to give you more servings that are "edge" servings? It's like $25 in so many catalogs and stores now. Not anything unusual. The watches, bag and shoes that have patterns created especially for Oprah's 25th anniversary? Pass. (OH! But I love the Container Store Elfa closet organizers. I have one hall closet Elfa'd, so that $1000 could do all my closets!) But I'll be watching Monday to see what else she has in store!

For those of you who had trouble AND ONLY IF you had signed up for this by yesterday... there is an extension on making your book till the 22nd. You should have got an email, so check your junk/spam folder if you didn't get one.