5 posts tagged “football”

Talk about neglect!
My gosh...

So Thanksgiving was FANTASTIC. Aside from the stupid bridge I had to drive over to get to and from Saco, Maine, it was awesome. And there was a minor issue in the morning that left me crying at my dining room table, but I got over it and the day went fantastic!

We went to my mother's cousin's house. (Are those apostrophe s's right? I am so bad with those...) I have met her maybe once in my life. lol. But all my family went...me, Zak and Thing 1 and Thing 2, my sister, Gabby and Trevor (Rick had to work..) Billiejo, Mikey and their kids, and my Auntie Phyillis. So it was not an awkward I-have-no-idea-who-these-people-are thing. It was wonderful. We ate, watched football, played football in the street....me and my 3.5 inch heel boots felt that the next day, but I can't resist throwing a ball around....we visited and drank and I got to say grace! Until my cousin Billiejo said to me from across the table...."Jo, it's grace, not a sermon." Ha!! And I really wasn't even going on and on....yet. LOL Totally cracked me up. I love that girl.

But I was so very thankful and I couldn't say it enough. Thankful to be part of my family's Thanksgiving. Thankful that my kids were so excited about Thanksgiving. Thankful for the beautiful sunshine. Thankful that I could drive 2 hours and go to another state! (aside from the bridge....) Just thankful and happy to be where I have wanted to be. It was a wonderful holiday and I already can't wait until next year. Yeah, it was that good!

I wound up not taking pics with my camera but we took a bunch with Billiejo's and I'll get some posted a little later.
My mom has them and she is getting them to me today.

:-)

Zak is upstairs reading to Thing 1 and Thing 2 and now is the only chance I'll get to sit down to blog. :-)

It was a good weekend.
Gabby spent both Friday and Saturday and that was cool. I love when the girls have sleepovers.

And as I anticipated...Friday was not a mellow night.
It was fun, mind you...very fun, indeed....but not what one would call "mellow".
I am actually adjusting a bit to the 2-2:30am Friday night bedtime and I still managed to get up at a decent time on Saturday. I needed a nap later, but I was functional all day. yay! On the ride home on Friday I had wanted to give Alaska Kim a call but it gets real easy to speed when you are talking on the phone and on Friday nights, the cops are just itching to pull you over on the back roads that I take home. So you really have to pay attention to your driving so you don't go 45 in a 40 mph zone. <rolling eyes> Because they will pull you over for that on a Friday night. And at 2am, I don't want to deal with the hassle of getting pulled over. ya know? For some reason it takes them like 20 friggin' minutes to run your information and, depending on the situation, write you a ticket and send you on your way. And I don't particularly feel like sitting on the side of the stupid road at 2am.....so, needless to say, I did not call Kim.

But on Saturday morning, she called me! Yay!! So we got to talk for a bit and that was, as always, nice. :-)

Saturday I got a bunch of stuff done around the house and tried to fix my paypal stuff for my website.
That was unsuccessful but I think I'll get it fixed Monday. I got a bunch of needed to get done stuff, done, around the house and that's always a good feeling. I went shopping with my sister and my mommy and then Shelly came over at around 8ish. We hung out and talked and then we went over to my sister's to see if she had any soda cause Shell wanted a soda and we didn't have any at my house.  We wound up hanging out over at my sister's for awhile with my sister, Rick, my mom and Zak came by for a few minutes. That was really fun and my mom was actually very nice to Shelly. My mom does not like nor has she ever liked Shelly. It's a long story and it has frustrated me for years. Like everyone on the planet, Shelly has made mistakes in her life...well, my mom being my mom has hung on to those mistakes for close to 20 years and won't accept the fact that people grow up and change and can actually be forgiven <gasp> for the mistakes of their youth. But my mom, over the years, has gotten to where she will be civil to Shelly. And Saturday, she was actually beyond civil, she was downright nice. So that was a cool feeling.

And today was football and we WON. Whoo-hooo!!
Could've lived without Matt Light punching someone in the head and getting ejected from the game....(the other guy got ejected too....) but we won!!
Awesome!!!!
We so needed to beat Miami after the humilating loss we suffered at their hands in the beginning of the season.

And tonight is more football and I'm truly torn.
I loathe the Chargers. Mostly it's just LT. I actually dig Philip Rivers. But I cannot STAND LT.  and a couple of the other guys on the team.
But the Colts.
I always want them to lose because they are rivals of my team. But I don't hate them the way I hate the Chargers and the Giants.
I have no idea which team I want to lose more.
Probably the Colts.....
Or maybe the Chargers.
See??
Totally torn.
Have no freakin' clue who the hell to root for or against.

I'll just drink my beer, yell at my t.v. and hope for a good football game.

Ooooh!!
I figured something out today.
I was on the phone with Zak and I was finding the station for football so I could put it on pause until Zak made it home. I found the channel and before I could press pause, the "football" music played a little. I did my little I'm so stinkin'' happy I could jump up and down giggle and Zak laughed at me and says "You are so funny..."
In that second, a thought crossed my mind and I said to him...
"That's it. I know what I want at my funeral when I die."
Zak. "What's that, babe?"
Me: "As my ashes are coming into the service, I want football music played."
Zak: laughing says "Ahhh..no babe. You can't do that."
Me. "Oh come on...wouldn't that make people laugh? Wouldn't that totally crack everyone up?"
Zak: "yeah, I don't know babe...."
Me: "Nope, I think it's awesome and that's what I want, you have to promise me you'll do that."
Zak: blah, blah, blah...and he wouldn't say "I promise".

Whatever. He's no fun. 

We kind of left it at that, but I am telling everyone about it because I am so dead serious.
If I die, when I should say..it's not like I think I'm immortal.....that is so what I want!!
And there...now it is in writing.
Would a blog entry hold up in court, you think?
hmmm....  
 

last night was a spectacular game....it really was an awesome game of good, clean football.
long drives, good defense, good offenses..nice mix of running and passing, hardly any penalties....

oh wait.

Until someone on OUR team decides to friggin' keep blocking once the play was OVER and THAT nice little mistake cost us a 15 YARD PENALTY, which brought up 3rd and 16!!!! Did we convert? OF COURSE NOT.
We WERE in field goal range, which would've tied the game!

Soooo utterly annoying!!!

But other than that....it really was a good, good game and our team looked really good out there!
I'm happy about that...would've liked to have won the game or at least not lost to a stupid mistake, but oh well....looking at the bright side...we may have lost but hey...we looked good doing it!

Happy Monday!

As I'm sure everyone who doesn't live under a rock has heard, Tom Brady got injured yesterday.
So bad that he was out the rest of the game.
And there are reports (none official, yet) that he will be out for the season.

Unbelievable!

I was poking around online last night, trying to find out how serious the injury was and I went to a couple of different message boards and had to shut them down.

People were joyous...gleeful....happy....at the news of Tom Brady's injury.
And then I see this today......they cheered.
I know it's the haters. And they will keep on hating and they are reveling in this....
But it made me so sad.
As much as I despise...no loathe...the Giants because I simply do not believe they were a Super Bowl caliber team and yet they beat MY team....I would never, ever wish an injury on one of the players. No friggin' way. Nor would I revel in it, if someone vital to the team did get injured. Frankly, I'd rather have them all healthy and playing their best and then beat the crap out of them. That would be way more rewarding.

As soon as he didn't come back in the game, I knew it. I just knew the haters would revel in it.
I guess I'm just sad to see it actually came true.

<giggling>
This is great!