"Duct tape. Gas cans."

I've been watching the Casey Anthony trial this week. I just leave it streaming and listen throughout the day. I'll admit, I actually know very little about the case, even though it happened in Orlando, where I grew up. At the time it was too sad and the news stresses me out enough as it is so I avoided it. Now that the trial has begun, I'm trying remain objective while I watch it and trying to put myself in the shoes of a member of the jury.

My thoughts so far:

• Damn, that girl went to Target a lot.

• If Caylee truly did accidentally drown, why the cover-up? Pool drownings are so common in Florida - Casey and/or George had to know that consequences for an accidental drowning are minimal and charges are rarely filed. Andplusalso why did it take so many years for the defense to claim this if it were really the case?

• I have the same Forever21 dress that she's wearing today and I'm mad that I'll think of Casey Anthony whenever I look at it now.

• Not to discredit any true victims of sexual abuse, but I'm having a hard time swallowing the defense's allegations regarding the abuse from her father and brother. It seems like a last-ditch effort to garner some pity in this case.

• Considering that Jose Baez accused George Anthony of sexually abusing his daughter and covering up his granddaughter's death in front of the whole world just days before, it's surprising that George's "You're badgering me" back and forth with Baez didn't boil over.

• Is she wearing a Bumpit?

• Baez reminds me of a Baldwin playing a lawyer role. He's obnoxious.

• Judge Perry strikes me as a no B.S. kind of guy. I like him.

• While part of me is wondering if they (they being George Anthony or Simon Birch) truly believed they were smelling a decomposing body, why didn't they call the police? Another part of me thinks that they didn't call the police because they didn't want to believe it and were trying to explain it away in their minds, especially since they saw a garbage bag in the trunk, which would be the more logical conclusion. I mean, if I smelled something really bad and then saw a garbage bag I would automatically assume that the garbage was causing the source of the odor. I've also had moments when I'd smell something and not immediately be able to place it and only later does my memory make a connection.

• Duct tape. Gas cans. Duct Tape. Gas Cans. DUCT TAPE. GAS CANS! Fucking duct tape and gas cans! Christalmighty.

• Melissa England's testimony that Casey said "Oh my god, I'm such a good liar" = WOW

• She probably bought clothes all the time because she wasn't doing laundry. Ew.

• George Anthony really seems to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand he wants justice for his dead granddaughter, on the other, his daughter is facing death.

• To Baez: Not everyone checks their mail every single fricking day. I haven't checked mine all week.

• Seems like Baez is acting as prosecutor in a different case.

• As a mother myself, I  don't see how a "good mother" as the defense is trying to make Casey out to be, could go out partying, dancing, drinking, shopping, living "the good life" if her daughter was dead, or even missing. What "good mother" wouldn't report her child missing for a month?

• Seeing and hearing all of these references to Orlando makes me homesick.

• Susan Smith cried too:

This girl is clearly a liar, appears to be at least a little bit crazy, but I don't know if she's a murderer.

The whole thing is fishy, but reasonable doubt remains at this point.