Wine Please

My alma mater, Ball State University, has been having one helluva football season! We are 6-0 and I am completely beside myself (they were never that good when I was there, of course). And even after one of our top players, Dante Love, suffered a very serious spinal injury a few weeks ago, the team seems to have rallied around him and have pushed themselves to continue to do well.

I put up a button for the fund started by the Ball State athletics club to help cover any costs not covered by Dante’s insurance. This will also help cover other incidentals, like helping his family make the trip to visit him as he’s recovering. If you feel so inclined, click the button and make a small donation. While we’re all pulling for him and he seems to be doing well, as with any serious injury there will be plenty of ups and downs, we’re just hoping that finances won’t be one of them.

On a completely unrelated item…you have less than two (2) hours to get in on my bloggy giveaway!!!!

and really, that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

If any of you are Looky Daddy fans…his daughter Katheryn had what doctors believe might’ve been a seizure…very scary stuff…be sure to stop by to lend The Dad and The Mom your support and good thoughts.

And just to raise the spirits a little, this week Gavin said the following crazy things:

• “what’chu talkin’ about, Mommy?” after I replied to his query that I did not have his frog in my possession
• “what’s going on here, Mommy?” after I informed him that I needed him to sit and do his puzzle while I cooked dinner
• “look at me, Mommy, what’s going on here?” after I told him while we were at the vets office that we couldn’t leave until after the doctor saw Ginger

Apparently I need to pay attention to what I’m saying to him because that last phrase is one that I use often (since Gavin hardly ever pays attention to me unless he’s looking at me when I speak to him).  But his responses also tell me that he’s onto me and my sneaky parental ways (i.e. hiding vegetables in his meatloaf, making him pay attention to his toys while I sneak off to pee in solitude and silence)…darn.

Yep, I am the essence of cool on a Saturday night!  Nothing says “romance” like sitting two feet from your husband as you both feverishly put in a post at 11-something at night so that you can keep your goal of 31 for 21.

So I’m wondering a few things…

1. did anyone besides my equally geeky husband catch the “Zoolander” reference from yesterday’s post?
2. has everyone totally forgotten what we learned in the Great Mofo Delurk of 2007????  I mean, did we seriously only delurk for one day, just to go back in hiding, reading various blogs with nary a comment?  Did you forget that many blogs have reports letting their owners (with tedious self-esteem) know how many people were on their page on a certain day without leaving so much as a “hello”?  I am Most of us are blogging because we feel the need to talk to others, so we need to hear something back that validates our incessant, insane ramblings studious thoughts.
3. I had a third item, but completely forgot while ranting above.  Maybe I’ll come back to it.

Everyone have a great night…and GO BEARS!!!!