This Is Just My Opinion...

but I have to wonder about this game we call football. Last weekend some awesome friends(pictured above, were the coolest people of the trip) of ours asked us to join them for a Syracuse football game and charmed us into going with a pre-game meal of the best chicken wings ever!! So, I was in. But my opinion is this, I am not sure what it is about the sport of football itself that people actually enjoy...or it's the atmosphere.

Because, for Americans who have been greatly defined as having less than a stellar attention span....football and baseball seemed to have captured our hearts like no other games...and honestly - could you pick two slower sports? Now, trust me, I get why they are enjoyable. However, for every 10 seconds of action in football, there is like five minutes of nothing, throw in a few bad calls and an injury and you are looking at a three and a half hour adventure for one sport.

I loved being there, the atmosphere was fun and exciting and I think THAT is why most people go for football. That is just my psychological opinion. I mean I love Superbowl weekend, but can't remember the last time I really cared about who won. I am probably digging myself a hole with my die-hard football fan friends and I know I am creating irony as I write for a sports section (football excluded there though). I have to admit that football bores me slightly, way too much down time for me. Though that is the exact critique the sport of soccer suffers in America. "Boring". To each his own. I have yet to be at a four-hour soccer game...not sure I would want to. But anyway, going to a game was super fun, wings were awesome and so was the company and I totally got a new t-shirt - of which I have some how lost the pic..but it's on facebook- so since you have nothing else better to do than to read my blog and check out my facebook page...go for it :)

Da' WINGS!!! Seriously, so absolutely fantastic!

AND - We had pretty good seats! And randomly found people we knew from the 'burgh among 40,000 of our closest friends.

Sometimes....

Coaching soccer revolves around a little more than a ball ;)

Fallin' In love...with fall

Ok, so I have been a little slow to embrace fall...only because I just love summer so much. However, these moments make it worthwhile...and I am sure there will more to go...but slowly, yes, I will fall inlove..... with fall.

It was a great post...I had to share...

It's one of those posts from someone else's blog that I just HAD to share. Check it out- you'll love it :) Trumbo's In China

I'll Admit It...

I think many people have a fascination with other people. Some may not admit they do, but they do. I notice other people's quirks and dynamics that differ from or simulate my own. Some people, like myself, openly admit that I people watch.

So the following quote in a book I was reading made me laugh :

"Ok, the truth is, I could help it, but I am dreadfully nosy and shamelessly distracted by people dynamics." - Beth Moore

Yup. It's true...that's me. People interest me and for many reasons, but I thought that quote summed it up pretty well. :) Wanna know what I notice about you??? :D

Beautiful Messes

There are songs, sayings and poems written about life's beautiful messes. Recently it has come up in at least two different places and the thread of its appearances allowed me to thing of what beautiful messes I appreciate. Now, of course the simple phrase can be stretched to cover a multitude of various "messes" but I went with a more literal translation.

For one, a beautiful mess is the left over dishes in the sink, a few extra dirty coffee cups and a couple extra things left on the counter to put away in the morning. This mess follows having great friends over the night before. It's a mess that represents people chose to spend their time with you. It's a good mess :)

A messy counter full of papers, crayons and more markers with missing tops...because a couple of kiddos sat there for an hour making you pictures and writing "I love mom" all over them.

The Christmas morning wrapping paper massacre is another favorite. After the tornado of presents being unwrapped and you can barely see the living room floor...yea, I like that mess too.

Ice cream stained laundry - need I say more about that kind of mess :)

So, those are just a few of the beautiful messes I have come to love:) I am sure there are more - and as the day goes on maybe I'll add them. For now... I need more coffee!

My friend sent this to me...

MOTTO TO LIVE BY

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an

attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body

thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!"

gave me a little chuckle.... love it!!! It should be about the ride right? God made us to enjoy life- so whoo hoo! it is! (see how perky that was after my summer is over, fall stinks post?)

52 Degrees...

That is what it said in my car on the way to work today.  I know it's not freezing, but it was cold enough to warrant a light jacket and sweatshirts for the boys.  I am trying to be excited about the fall, but I feel summer skipped over upstate NY and thrust it right into fall.  So, now I am kinda of kicking and screaming against entering the fall season instead of embracing it with my usual gusto.  I don't want to let go of the warm days, pool-side parties, late night movies, summer mornings, tank tops and shorts, ice-cream runs, random weekend get-a-ways and spontaneous concert attendance....it all seems to be coming to an end!  SOOOOO...I try to remind myself of all the good qualities that fall has to offer...but for right now - all I see is winter looming ahead!  I know...real positive huh?  I even reminded myself of all the colorful leaves, apple-picking, pumpkins, trick-or-treating, cozy fall clothes, soccer season...but its just not quite working yet. Nope. not yet.  I still want my summer time.  So I will, for now, stomp my foot and hold on with all my might to not let it go.... I have until next Tuesday when school starts.  Then, I will relent.  I will relinquish my hold and let summer slip away.  :(  I'll close the pool and sigh...then go make myself a cup of coffee.