Pregnancy

Last night I found out that one of my best friends and his girlfriend are having a baby. I know plenty of people that have kids, but this is the first one of my friends that is local and I consider one of my best friends. It through me off at first, but the more I think about it, the more happy I am for them. I guess because of some of things I have been through and some the place I live, I am not around happy couples that are ready to have kids.

Hearing this news about them, made me not only very happy for them, but also very happy for me. It showed me, that just because I have been through some tough times, and other people have been through tough times, that if you find the right person, true love and kids are a def. possibility.

My Party

Another year, another Christmas party. As we get older, this party seems to get bigger and better. The theme for the party every year is to bring a toy(that I give to charity) and a bottle of liquor/wine for the party, and I get the keg and cook all the food. I am not sure if it is because we are older and more mature, have more money, like to party more, etc.., but either way every aspect of the party is better.
The most important thing is the toy aspect. When I first started doing the party, the majority of the toys were from the $1 store, or cvs and were all very small and little. The thought was still there, and the charity still loved them, but over time, the presents have become bigger and more expensive and are very, very nice. I don't know the exact reason why it is happening like that, but I think it is great. I am very grateful for everyone that brings a toy to my house, and I know the kids that are receiving the toys are also very, very grateful.
As far as the party itself goes, it seems to get bigger, louder, drunker, every year. I think part of it is, people are partying like that less and less, so they look at this as one night to let it all go. The majority of the party contacted me the next day and told me what a great time they had, and also how bad they felt.
When I cleaned up the next day, I found at least 20 bottles of liqour, 25 bottles of wine, 5 empty 30 packs, and the empty keg. That is a ton of booze for a holiday party. I hope everyone had a great time, and I can't wait for next year.

Our Daily Bread

Every year after my Christmas party, I have a ton of toys to give to charity. This year, I went to Our daily bread, and had about $1500 worth of brand new toys( thanks to everyone from my party that brought toys).
Once I got there, I talked to the manager inside, then drove around back and had 4-5 people help me unload my car. After emptying my trunk, backseat, and front seat, these guys all went back to their job, and not one person said anything like thank you, have a nice holiday, etc...
It's not like I wanted a hug and a trophy for dropping the toys off, but you would think at least one person would have said thank you. It makes me very dissapointed at the whole staff there, and makes me not want to donate to that company ever again.

typical email

This is just a small example of a random email chain from my friends. I use this example because this is a great example of most email chains when a sports topic is talked about. Jeff starts out with some comment which is a mix of 90% stuff he heard on tv, and 10% his own opinion. Chris then puts him in his place with something that is all opinion but normally right. Tj makes little comments, but always tries to turn it to something about himself, Brandon chimes in with little, stupid comments that no one listens to, Mikey comes in with random one liners somewhat relevant to the convo, and the cycle repeats itself....
Jeff:
I know there is still 2 weeks left but what does the BCS do about Ball St.,boise st., and Utah. I can see Utah being able to hang with some of the#5-10 teams but no where beyond that. We've all see that Boise can play andBall St. just is kinda screwed, yeah they are undefeated but I'm pretty sureevery team in the top 25 would beat them. If the BCS wants to stay to theirword, "if you're not in a major conference just go undefeated and you'll endup in the BCS," would they let them in as at-larges to play against whoevercomes from the Big East and ACC? They really should just have no setconference affiliation to any BCS game (except the rose bowl). Grantedevery week is basically a playoff game but if I see crappy bowl match ups,especially BCS games, (i.e. Georgia vs. Hawaii) I'll be extremelydisappointed. Teams I think that will be screwed over by this...the big 3in the big 12, 2 of them are getting left out. USC, the 3 other undefeatedteams, and I hate to say it Penn St. I know there is still a week left andChampionship weekend so there is still a lot that can happen. With all thatbeing said I still like my prediction from August that Florida will be theNational Champion.
And I know the game was moved to 815 on the 7th but I still might come up onthe 6th to watch that fight. I have a good feeling the fight will possiblygo the distance ending up with a little Philippine guy beating across-dressing Mexican....and yes CR what you saw on HIMYM the other nightis exactly how it works.

Chris:
I haven't been on email in a while so Im late to this email but I think it's important for fansto remember that the BCS is only set up to have the #1 and #2 teams play in a game at the end of the year. As far as any other BCS games, the member bowls have their pick of the pool of teams after the automatic qualifiers have been assigned. This year there will be 7 automatic qualifiers which will leave 3 bowls to select at-large opponents. It is, and should be, the member bowls right to select the teams that best suit that bowl. This year it looks like it will be the SEC runner-up, Ohio St. and Texas. Those are 3 great programs with tremendous followings that generate tv numbers. No one is getting screwed. Texas Tech will get go to the Cotton Bowl which is great for that program to play 3 straight New Years Bowls. Boise St. will either play a game in Boise where they're unbeatable or in San Diego which is the nicest place in America. Ball St. will play in Detroit which sucks, but that is b/c there conference hasn't negotiated a better bowl tie-in. I think sometimes people don't get what a great reward it is for teams and fans to participate in bowl games even if they aren't the Orange Bowl or the Rose Bowl. All these games are first class exhibitions and great for the entire university community.And yes I am an unabashed apologist for bowl games, but honestly no one is getting screwed.

Mead:
I'm with Obama...playoffs are the only way to go...

Jeff:
Agreed, TJ, I was telling my dad the other day when they were playing that it’s pretty much cheating, wearing all blue w/ a blue field. If these Championships go the way I think they will it’ll end up something like this, then again I’m probably wrong so you can say “face, mine, in it” Sunday before the ravens lose to my boys…Rose: USC vs. Penn St (I think that’s already set?)Orange: BC vs. Cinncy (worst automatic qualifying teams should play each other) Sugar: Alabama vs. Texas (unless Alabama gets slaughtered then I can see Utah or Boise St in there) Fiesta: Ohio St. vs. Texas Tech (although I’d like to see Utah vs. Boise St.)National Championship: Florida vs. Oklahoma…After those games I’m pretty sure like 90% of them are set with conference vs. conference by standings. Which means VT will likely go to the peach bowl again. Poor ATL, they get them to end the year this season and first game of the year next year, both vs. SEC teams which means both big losses for the Hokies. The other thing I don’t understand about the jump Oklahoma did is that they lost to texas by 10 on a neutral field, enough said. I don’t care that Oklahoma is putting up 60/game now. Even though I personally thing Oklahoma is playing better than Texas right now they still don’t deserve the right to leap frog a team that beat them in the manner that Texas did.

Tj:
Boise State unbeatable at home...more like, invisible.

Chris:
Your Fiesta bowl is wrong. Utah and Texas have automatically qualified for the BCS along w/ the 6 conference champions. The only at-large picks will be Ohio St. and the SEC runner-up.Texas Tech has pretty much been eliminated by virtue of the Big XII champion and Texas receiving automatic berths. Also no bowl game, especially not the Sugar Bowl, would ever select Boise over Alabama no matter what the score of Saturday's game is. There may be more Alabama fans than there are Boisans? Boiseans? Boiseons? Boisites?OU jumping UT in the standings shows one of the 2 major flaws in the current system. When a team loses continues to be way more important than who the team loses to (or beats), where the team loses and how the team lost. The other major flaw is that the system still doesn't explicitly disqualify non-conference champions from competing for the national championship.

Tj:
I cant believe that over almost hit last night.
What happened in the last 4 mins of the game when I was walking home?

Jeff:
Slayton ran for like a 40 yrd TD right up the middle (kinda looked exactly what he used to do at WVU) then I turned it off, no idea how jax scored)

Brandon:
of course it didn't hit..I bet on it...

jeff:
Like I said, no idea how Jax scored but I can see you yelling at your TV hoping they would of gone for 2…more importantly Mario Williams is a beast, I can’t wait until Dan Snyder buys him and then he underperforms for us.

Tj:
Maybe a good #1 draft pick after all...
Young is crazyBush dates a crazy

Mike:
Houston was the play.