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10 things I learned at the Liberty Bowl

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So the Arkansas Razorbacks played in the Liberty Bowl this weekend and I was one of the 62,000 fools who attended.

It was farking cold.

Here are a list of things I learned from our trip this weekend:

  1. Bud Light with Lime tastes like Kool-Aid.
  2. If you drink a few Bud Light with Limes while traveling to Memphis, you will have to stop to pee 5 times.
  3. There are NOT ENOUGH LAYERS IN THE WORLD to keep you warm when the wind chill is -100.
  4. You will stop partaking in adult beverages after you use the port-o-potty.
  5. If you’re walking to the port-o-potties and every person along the way warns you away from potty #3–you listen.
  6. It’s okay to leave the game early.
  7. Sometimes GPS systems are stupid.
  8. Nothing brings white boys to the dance floor faster than Vanilla Ice.
  9. Guys today think that “dancing” is the same as “leg humping.”
  10. McDonald’s for breakfast tastes really, really, really good after freezing at a football game and being leg humped on Beale Street.

We had a great time. The Hogs won (finally) and it only took me two days to thaw out. Now we have snow here in little Rock…school didn’t start back today. But I still have to go to work. How uncool is that?

brrrrr

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I’ll be at the Liberty Bowl today and taking Memphis hostage tonight. It’s gonna be c-c-c-c-c-c-c-cold! The high is only 34 degrees, so Ima gonna be bundling up with lotsa layers and a blanket. I may be a fool for sitting outside watching foozball in dis here weather, but I ain’t stupid.

GO HOGS!

Woo Pig Sooie!

and one last time: Shirley Q Liquor’s Razorback Fight Song

let it snow (flurry)

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Here in central Arkansas, we rarely get snow. Sometimes we’ll get a couple of inches and it will literally be 50 degress the next day, so it melts. Immediately. If we get anything, it’s usually ice. And given the fact that I live on a hill and that my driveway is at an 85 degree angle, ice is never, EVER, my friend.

So when there’s even a remote chance of snow, we (okay I) get a little excited. I mean, it’s SNOW! Which means SNOWBALL FIGHTS. and SNOWMEN. and SNOW ANGELS! Stuff we never get to do, see, or play in…

Last night, there was a 50% chance of snow. There was a little thrum of excitement pulsing through the heart of the city. Could it be? Would we see…actual snow?

Around 11 pm, I was driving my friend home from the airport and that’s when I saw them. Snowflakes. They were wind surfing in the night sky and I was totally mesmerized. And disappointed. They were little flakes. Nothing to be excited about. Even when they began to fall a little faster, it wasn’t worth getting worked up over. There would be no blanket of snow when I woke in the morning.

I wish I could tell you at this point that I woke up surprised. But nope. The temperature actually climbed overnight and I woke to rain. Miserable, cold, yucky, depressing RAIN. (and we NEVER get rain around here… /sarcasm)

I don’t wanna live where it snows all the time. I like being in an area that actually gets shut down at the mere threat of snow. I like the fact that sometimes we’re stuck at home for 3 days because of weather. I can’t imagine ever having to take the kids to school when there is more than an inch of snow on the ground. And as irritating as it is, I like that every grocery store sells out of bread, milk, and velveeta when snow is predicted.

I just hope we actually get a little of the white stuff this season.

technical difficulties and other stuff

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Yeah, we’re not really sure what’s up with the blog formatting. We added an Events tab and for whatever reason, my blog decided to go wonky. Hopefully we’ll get it fixed soon.

Meanwhile, I’m hanging out in my cube, staring out the window waiting on the sun that THEY PROMISED we’d see today. I don’t see nuttin’ but gray. How do you folks in the Northwest handle all this gloom? It’s seriously messing with my sparkle.

Tomorrow is the Race for the Cure. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to all who donated! My goal was $150 and as of yesterday, I’ve raised $250! You guys are awesome! (It’s not too late to donate…just puttin’ it out there…) I’ll be decorating a porta-potty tonight (will be wearing rubber gloves) and then first thing in the morning, I’ll be joining 41,000 other participants in the race. Will take lots of pics.

Okay, since I need some sparkle, I’m posting a pic that makes me happy. You guys have a great weekend!


Ahhhhh. I can feel the heat of the missing sun on my legs RIGHT NOW.

getting ready

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I’m not sure what’s up here lately, but fall has definitely been in the air here in The Rock. And that’s just not right for August in Arkansas. Usually, it’s 110 degrees with 120% humidity right now.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not complaining. I’ve really enjoyed sleeping with the windows open and the cool mornings on my back porch with my cup of coffee. It’s been very nice.

And it’s also making me VERY ready for football.

Now I know y’all all know I love me some soccer. Both my boys play, and seriously, the grown up soccer players are just fun to look at. This is a soccer household no question.

However, I’m a football girl at heart. Especially college, though I love to watch high school as well and will watch professional, but I think of most of them as spoiled rotten overpaid babies who have stopped playing for the love of the game. Plus why hasn’t Matt Jones been picked up yet? I’m seriously bent out of shape about that. He was one of my favorite Razorbacks…

I’ve decided I’m going to some games this year, come hell or high water. I talked about it last year, but never really made it to any. Sure I love to watch them on TV, but there’s nothing better than being in the stadium…Have you heard a Hog Call live? It will bring you chills.
Click here to listen…then pretend you’re in a filled stadium and hearing it live.

and just for fun, here’s my favorite Arkansas fight song…performed by Shirley Q. Liquor.
“The Razorbackses is up in here, YES LAWD!”

Woo Pig Sooie!

so tired

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And today’s rain doesn’t help! It’s dark and stormy outside and all I wanna do is stay snuggled up in bed.

But that’s not in the cards today. I’m headed to the office until 3:00 and then hopefully back home where I’ll start catching up on those much neglected chores: you know, laundry, cleaning the house, doing something about the pig sty that is my desk.

Or maybe I’ll just come home and go back to bed. Guess it depends on if it’s still dark and stormy.

This has been a fantastic week. I’ve been blessed with such great friends and wonderful support. I can’t properly express my gratitude. I have fabulous friends.

Thank you guys. I’m a very lucky girl.

ugh

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it’s currently 2:30 a.m. and I’m awake because of a storm that has descended upon the house. It is crazy mad!

My flight for DC leaves in 4 hours. That sucks because I hate being tired and flying. Oh well, what can I do?

The good news is, I officially have packed a carry on bag only for the conference. Go ahead, be in awe. You should be. I know I am.

I’ll be very busy this week but I promise to update the blog as much as possible. And I’ll be twittering. I promise.

I’m going to try to sleep now.

G/N (or would that be G/M?) blogosphere. Sweet dreams.

depreshun–i haz it

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RAIN RAIN GO AWAY.

Kthxbai.

Seriously, it’s raining again. I don’t even know if I have the energy to sing my way through it.

Y’all need to cheer me up. Tell me something funny. Anything. Just make me laugh because otherwise, I might start crying and I promise, nobody wants to see that…

singing in the rain

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It’s still raining here. It has pretty much rained everyday for two weeks. Happiness this does not make.

But I’m still singing. Because that’s what I do.

I love to sing. I suck at it, but I love to do it. I can’t help myself. I think it drives the family nuts, but whatever, they’ll eventually get over it or get used to it. Right?

I’m not the only ‘singer’ in my family though. Rader is constantly singing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a commercial, or a TV theme song, or a real song. He pretty much only has to hear it once and then he’s singing it. Word for word.

His favorites are the FREE CREDIT REPORT commercials. All of them. And for the record, I sing along with commercials, too.

It makes me smile every time he sings because deep down inside I know he inherited it from me. LOL

surviving an intergalactic space battle

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War was waged above my house three different times last night.

Do you know how hard it is to dream about pool boys and hot tubs when an intergalactic battle is being fought in the sky above you?

Damn hard. I still somehow managed though–that’s how good I am.

Some ugly-ass storms made their way through Little Rock. After bed, the first one hit around 12:30. It was so loud and bright that the house shook and it woke my oldest up from the dead.

The next round hit about 3:30. Wow. It was another angry storm, but not nearly as war-like as the first.

It’s still raining this morning. It’s been raining pretty much straight since Saturday. I need some vitamin D–I got way too spoiled in Florida with all the sunshine. Although I’m pretty sure they’re gonna be getting this weather now, so if I go back, it’s gonna be AFTER this front passes.

I’m in an all day conference today. Everyone at work has been telling me these are fun, but I’m not so sure I believe them. But that’s okay. I won’t be in my cubicle today, so there’s a silver lining.

Did you buy Maria Geraci’s book BUNCO BABES TELL ALL yesterday? [picking up my bat] You’re doing it today, right?