I Could Write a Book

At this moment, I’m smiling. That’s amazing considering that one hour ago I came home from a meeting in a rank mood. Really rank mood. Why am I smiling ? Well, I’m smiling because someone asked me about my true love. My true love does not equal dh. Hmm, to be fair, I should say, "I’m speaking of that young true love." For all I know if I was around this person today I might think he was a complete ass.

Memories sure are a funny thing. There are places I’ve been I can’t even remember the name of but I can remember almost every detail of the first night I told this person that I loved him. I wonder if he remembers it ? It’s probably for the best that I do not ask him that because I know I’d be disappointed with the answer. I remember standing in the kitchen and telling his mother the names that we had picked out if we had sons. Good grief.

Speaking of his mother, she deserves a special star for putting up with me. I wasn’t mean to her or anything but she sure spoiled me. I went through this one stage where I wouldn’t eat fish. (Ironic now that all I want is raw fish.) She would always cook me some other meat. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it ? Well, not till I tell you that she did all this other meat cooking for me at their fishing camp. LOL. I think I’d beat my daughter if she did that to her boyfriend’s mother.

We had some great days at that camp. I loved going crabbing, running trout lines, gigging and especially riding the jet ski. Taking the big boat out alone was a lot of fun, too. Ah, to be young again. It would be so neat to look into a crystal ball that could show me what my life would have been like if I had taken that road. I know I’d be digging in a garden a lot.

Happy Spring, Y’all. I hope you have fun thinking back on your young loves.  

Today is the "Saban Bowl" here in Lousiana. Yes, that’s what everyone is calling it here. I can say that before today I really wasn’t excited at all to attend this game. However, I am now. Even if LSU gets creamed by a very good team this year it will still be fun to be there.

I can’t wait to be on campus and to feel the excitment in the air. The tailgaters are going to have a blast today. I love it that the air is a little crisp today. Hopefully, I won’t sweat to death in the stands.

Well, I’m off to an enjoyable game. One of these years, and I hope it’s sooner than later, I want to attend this game with my dear Bama friend. That would be a blast.

Peace out and Geauxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tigers ! (Roll Tide, too) 

I’m still in Memphis because there is no power where I live. From what I hear there is no food in the grocery stores, either. They are hoping to have power restored by Saturday. I can not wait.

I am bored completely out of my mind in this hotel room. Memphis has been receiving the wonderful Gustav weather. Storms, soggy , blowing wind and tornado watches. It’s a lot of fun being stuck in a hotel room with 3 restless children.

Gustav treated us much better than Katrina did. I am very happy for that. We lost one car and part of my deck on my house. I have no idea if it wiped out my grill or not. I know this is one of the reasons why I’m dying to go home. I also want to check on my little dog. I am so worried about him. My neighbors said they would watch him and that they weren’t going to evacuate and then they did. They left when our city started evacuating my subdivision because the river was rising so fast. sighs. Lesson learned - park cars somewhere else when leaving and bring dog.

I’m in a bit of a funk. I think I’ve seen everything "touristy" there is to see in Memphis and I’ve eaten enough BBQ to feed an army. No telling how much weight I’ve gained. LOL. Of all the things to worry about. See, I’m still pretty normal.

I’m praying for power to come back quickly. Can you imagine what it’s going to be like to clean out my rotting freezer ??? Ewwwwwwww. Nasty. Gas mask material.

I’m so tempted to leave and go home before power but have to remind myself of the 120 degree weather inside my house with the one million mosquitos. I think I’ll stay in my boring little hotel room watching more TV in this week than I have in the past year. Yeehaw.

I am proud that LSU got its head out of its butt and postponed the game this coming weekend. Woohoo. I might be able to catch that one and it should be cooler in November ! See, there are silver linings in the clouds.

Peace out everyone !! I’m glad you all made it through the storm. I’m glad my children made it through this one without any psychological damage.  Don’t forget to say ~I love you~. 

Tomorrow I’m off to Alabama. Going to go see my wonderful "Bama" friend.  I’m hoping to have a very "chill" weekend. I hope I come back a little more whole. I’m a tad nervous about the trip, but I think it will do me a ton of good. I really need to get away from here. I really need to be there. I plan on coming back with a little bit of Bama in me. 

Tonight was the continuation of T’s baseball tournament. They lost by one run and boy were there some crying little boys. Yes, 9 & 10 year old boys still cry when they lose a game. Personally, I think losing the games teaches a much better life lesson than if they had won the game. They came in 3rd place , which I think is awesome, and they will have their picture in the paper. Woohoo. Good job A’s.

I’ve got more bug bites and zits on me than a teenager whose been making out in the woods for a month. Good grief. Oh, the joys of being in the woods with the Cub Scouts this week. Even though I now look like "big foot" (and I have the actual feet to match) I think they will still let me in the state of Alabama. Roll Tide !  If my LSU friends could hear me say that right now they would probably tar me. LOL.
 

I’ll be back home on Sunday evening, maybe. If for some reason you never hear back from me again - you know I’ve stayed. Lol.   I’m truly looking forward to my time in Bama. I hope you all have a great weekend ! Happy Father’s Day to all the father’s out there. Remember - everyone dies, but not everyone truly lives. Make all your days count.

Peace out. Tell the one(s) you love that you love them.

    LSU beat Ohio 38-24. I was actually nervous there a couple of times, but truly pulling for my team. I am so excited that we won. I’m proud of all the players, Les Miles and for all the fans who support the team during the season. LSU won. LSU won. LSU beat Ohio.

     For all those games that I sweated my butt off, for the games that I was overseas and getting the scores through text messages, for the game that I literally froze my behind off, for walking (hiking) up to the top of the nosebleed section to watch the games week after week - thank you LSU football players !!! It has been worth it. Every single second. Oh, those last seconds in the games where we thought we might lose - I love you for winning.

    For all the wonderful memories I have from the 2007 season - I am so thankful to all of you. God Bless the LSU football team and coaches and parents and families and tailgaters and everyone else. I almost forgot my friends who text me during the games, one in particular - Tiff - thanks. You definitely made my games more fun, including tonight. Thank you for being such a great friend and sticking with your end of our bet, too. (love ya)

    I bleed purple and gold. I’m floating on a purple and gold cloud right now. We are the champions !!! 

      <<<<— The #1 LSU fan !! 

I have had one of the most marvelous mornings I can remember since school started I think. I woke up with a tiny, warm body snuggled next to mine. The first words out of his mouth were "mommy, I love you." I don’t think there is a more perfect way to start your day than by hearing one of your children tell you that they love you.

The children were all pleasant today. They seemed excited to go to school and things were very relaxed. I’m sitting here wondering if it was because my stress level was so low this morning. I’m sure that has something to do with it. Also, we are all excited that it is the weekend again. Jumping up and down for joy on that one. School wears me out. Lol. I’m not even in school but I feel like I’m learning 3rd grade all over again.

I made myself breakfast this morning. I can not remember the last time I did that. What did I make ? Coffee that could replace the oil in my car, easily. Would someone please explain to me what happens to all the water that I put in the coffee pot to begin with ? I put 8 cups of water and it ended up being maybe 6 1/2. What the heck ? It was still drinkable. I just had to add a lot of cream to it. Yum. Yum. I warmed myself up a couple of biscquits. And I cooked some bacon. Can you just imagine what my kitchen smelled like this morning ? Picture walking into your grandma’s house on a early morning when she just finished cooking. Pure heaven. At least it is that way if you live in the South.

I poured my coffee into my best "girl" coffee cup.  It has a hand-painted pic of a Southern girl on it. Big hair, big makeup, etc. Cute, cute, cute. I put my biscquits and bacon on my pink plate with the big red heart in the middle. I was all set. I walked outside in my pjs and big fuzzy slippers and I set down on my deck, listening to the birds (and dogs whining) and ate one of the best breakfast in history. Why don’t I do this more often ? Is it because I’ve made myself "too busy" ? Self-inflicted a friend of mine likes to tell me when I start complaining about how busy I am. Anyways, I have just enjoyed one of the most peaceful mornings I can remember in forever. As the saying goes "stop and take time to smell the roses" or coffee and bacon in my case.

<<<– Where I just ate my breakfast.

Enjoy your morning, happy weekend and Geaux Tigers. I’m taking my mother to her first ever college football game tomorrow. Should be interesting  - in more ways than one.  

    A historical football game took place last night. LSU beat the Florida gators.  It will be a game that 92,910 ticket holders will never forget.  LSU Tigers vs Florida Gators. I was there. I wish that I could have video-taped the entire game from my seat. Words truly do an injustice in describing the game last night. I get chill bumps everytime I think of it.

    I have a tradition with how I attend my LSU games. I pretty much park in the same lot everytime and I typically go eat at Louie’s before the game. Louie’s is very special to me because I ate there many, many times while I attended LSU. It is a typical hole-in-the-wall. Great food.  While I was sitting there waiting on my food to arrive last night, in walk 5 "Gator" fans. They were dressed for the occasion and knowing me I could not pass up a photo op.   One lone LSU fan sitting next to 5 Gator fans. We may have been outnumbered in the diner, but not in the stands. Isn’t that the cutest diner ever ?

    First off, it was ESPN Game Day at LSU. That alone added excitment and fun to the day. I will never view that "show" the same anymore. All of you TV watchers get to see the commentators sitting there in their crisp white shirts, ties and suit coats, but what you don’t know is that from behind they have on ratty shorts and tennis shoes. I was "this close" to being on TV. The camera man got to me right when they had to cut to a commercial break.

    After eating and goofing around at the ESPN Gameday hoopla, it was time to hit some "tailgating". I think most of the country knows that LSU does "tailgating" the best.   That is where I tailgate every game. Right between the cleavage. If you’re a true Tiger fan you will know that that means between the "Indian Mounds" on the LSU campus. I’m in the same spot every game. The best spot.

    The LSU stadium is commonly called  "Death Valley". When I was a child, I always thought people were saying "Deaf Valley." At times, my version of the name is more fitting. Last night was one of them. The noise level was so high at times that you could not hear what the person sitting next to you was saying. The shouting, the yelling, the stamping of the feet. It was incredible. I was listening to a radio show on the way home from the game and someone made the comment that you could actually feel the stadium shake last night. Now, for those of you who know this stadium, it is not some tiny little thing. It is massive. It is big. It is a lot of concrete. And it shook. It rattled. It rolled. It was wild.

    I will admit that when it got to the 4th quarter I was quite nervous thinking that LSU might not win. I was trying to keep up hope and keep my brave face going. I kept staring at that scoreboard thinking "something better happen quickly."   That was the score at the top of the 4th. Things got much more exciting after that. I think one of the turning points in the game last night was when it was announced that Stanford beat USC. The crowd went wild. We realized "we really are 1st in the country." Now we just had to win this game. The crowd started yelling and cheering and becoming more supportive. I’m sure the football players could feel the support from all of the fans. There was a fumble and an interception and that kept LSU in the game. We still had a chance. I think I stood up the entire 4th quarter. It was a quarter that you could not sit down and watch. It was much too intense. I’m suprised I have any finger nails left. I’m surprised I don’t have bruises on my hands from high-fiving people that I don’t know.

    All of a sudden, the score was 27-24 in LSU’s favor and the place was going nuts. I took that photo thinking at that exact moment - this time is going to be history one day. You can read it. 1:09. 1 minute and 9 agnozing seconds. I think I held my breath until the ball cleared on the goal post on the kick. 28-24. That meant that for the Gators to win they had to score a touchdown.

    Of course, then it was the Gator’s turn. Praying, yelling, stomping our feet we’re all thinking "just hold them off for a bit longer". It gets down to the 5 second mark in the game and we all knew that this was the crucial moment. Yes, I took a picture of that, too. At that point, the announcers came on the speakers and said "please stay in your seats at the end of the game." They were expecting the fans to rush the field or at least, for the student body, too. So, being the prepared little stadium they are, they brought out the calvary. Okay, it was just the state troopers. They lined up in rows at the bottom hoping that their presence alone was enough to hold back 92,910 people. It worked. 5 seconds go by and we blocked their "hail Mary" attempt and won the game. The only people to rush the field were the football players and staff. They were jumping. They were yelling. They were high-fiving. It is a blurry shot. I was jumping and yelling, too, but if you look closely, you can see the football players jumping in the air.

    The fans were cheering and shouting in their seats. Everyone was so incredibly happy. After a few minutes of composure time, the team actually kneeled on the field and prayed.   The fans stayed for what seemed like forever after the game was over. I think everyone was trying to let it sink in that we had just won and were truly # 1.

    I wasn’t the only one there last night photo documenting the game and actually had a lot of fun doing it. I think this guy did, too. 

    LSU Tigers # 1. I bleed purple and gold. I hope I was able to add a little bit of excitment. Geaux Tigers !!!