In the elements for the gridiron

I saw two football games this week. Fortunately, though both involved some nasty cold and one involved relentless rain, both of my favored teams were victorious.

Thursday night (because of a lack of high school stadium space) my son played an away game against a very evenly matched team. It started out as a cool and crisp night. I was on the sidelines taking pictures as usual. Then a fine mist begin trickling down. At first I could keep my camera out, but soon the fine mist became insistent.and it had to hibernate under my jacket. The game was more exciting than a parent would want. It went into overtime (in the cold and the rain). We held them to a field goal on their attempt, and we scored a touchdown, thus ending with the win. There are a lot more details exciting only to me and the rest of our team, but I will spare you the motherly bragging.

Yesterday was a girls at the gridiron day with my friend Laura M. Her husband is works for the Corp of Engineers, and is currently serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Yesterday she invited me to use the second of their two season tickets to our beloved KU game. She is an alumni, and someday (knock on wood) I will be too. We bundled up, but not enough, and were extra chilly when it was over. The brisk walk back, with one good uphill stage really helped get the blood pumping.

So I like football. Not crazy-like, but really enjoy like. I don't spend hours on stats or armchair quarterbacking. I can tell when the teams are doing well, and when they're not. And since my son plays, I've made a concerted effort to understand more about the positions. All of which should help me to be a lifetime fan.

Ok so that was pretty boring. Hope you stayed awake enough to find an NFL game on your TV. I am aff to the library to write a paper for next week. Ugh.

Ugh...

Today at work we celebrated ugh. Our boss will be travelling during the Hallmark Bosses Day holiday, so we celebrated early. In honor of her love of the word "Ugh," we got her a stamp that said same. She can't wait to use it. Oh, joy. So in honor of my boss, things that could be awarded the word ugh:

• Barak Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. (Obviously I'm having a tough time getting over this.)
• People who are too proud to admit they made a mistake.
• Lima beans
• Baby barf
• Garage band screamers
• Teenagers with low blood sugar
• Whining
• Really, whining
• Passive aggressive people
• Mucus

You get the picture, don't you?

Really? Seriously?

Barak Obama won the Nobel Prize for peace.  Seriously? After just nine months in office? One newscast I heard today said that he was barely in office when the nominations were due. I've never been interested in how a Nobel laureate was nominated, but I've totally lost respect for the Nobel Prize institution.