well would you look at the time

i took the day off today so i could have a four day weekend and when i started my coffee i thought to my self "maybe i'll post to my blog" and then another thought came to me "has it been a year yet?". and it has. a week ago last year i started the experiment of blogging. yeah me!!!!! whoo hooooo!!!. even though i haven't written everyday or every week i think i have written every month. i am proud of myself.

last night brad and i went to a preseason titan's game. his name was drawn at work for free tickets. luckily our employers are football and hockey fans and tickets are given away frequently. another bonus for us was a parking pass for lot A.

i would just like to say that i don't really care for football. i prefer hockey. i don't care for the crowds and the rush of everything. or the small and uncomfortable seats. in order to avoid the bad rush you need to arrive a couple of hours early before the game. and as the time ticks before the start of the game i play a little game inside my head. as i feel the tension and uneasyness growing from not knowing what is going on and being around that much energy and also not really getting into the football stadium scene i start to contemplate if this is what hell is like. ( i do this a lot and i don't believe in hell) the cyclical movement of waiting for hours for the game to start. not really being into it. feeling anxious and wishing that there was something else to do beside drinking. and just when kick off happens. boom. you are right back where you started. feeling anxious and out of your element. hell=repetition.

once the game starts i feel a little better. at least something is happening. and the titans won. at least they were winning when we left with 6 min left in the game. and i don't remember the guys name but #17 of the titans is a fast little fucker.

however, brad loves football and i hope he enjoyed himself.

one thing i do enjoy about sporting events is the national anthem. i feel a huge amount of pride when everyone stands to honor our flag. reguardless of how i feel about the people in charge of our great nation, when the "star spangled banner" is played there is a collective energy with a focus to celebrate the land that we live in. when i was growing up everyone put their hands on their hearts. i remember that if i didn't do that my mother would have hit me and reminded where my right hand should go. i have noticed that not everyone does that now. i think it's a little sad but that's just a reflection of a different generation.

i also sing along and i can honestly say that i have never made it through without crying, the lines that really get me are

"And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave"

here's to another year!

i don't know if i have ever mentioned that i don't believe in coincidences before. but i don't. for those out there who read "man about murfreesboro"s blog, the post that he wrote on 8/14/07 talks about his encounter with the sales person at a small computer store and this person's conspiracy theory on what he thinks really happened on 9/11/01.
well last night on the history channel there was a show about conspiracy theories for 9/11. along with those theories they would give you the expert's response. it was good. i don't know if i would have watched it last night if mike hadn't of wrote about it a week before. however, i learned that within the conspiracy world on 9/11 there are 2 factions.
the below descriptions are from wiki-not the best source but the easiest found

the LIHOP's ("let it happen on purpose") - this version suggests that key individuals within the government had at least some foreknowledge of the attacks and deliberately ignored them or even actively weakened America's defenses to ensure the hijacked flights were not intercepted.

and the MIHOP ("made it happen on purpose") - the strongest version suggests that key individuals within the government planned the attacks and collaborated with al-Qaeda in carrying them out. There is a range of opinion about how this might have been achieved.

both had good selling points but i'm not completely sold on the ideas. even though i believe that a demon spawn and his minions control the government and that the attacks were the excuse for starting a war, i can't in my heart believe that all these people would let america be attacked and thousands die to get what they wanted.

one man (i can't remember his name or his position in this dog fight) said that in order for these 2 main theories to be true, the government would have had to keep it a secret. so i feel that it's only a matter of time. secret's can't be kept forever. however, if the 2 main theories are true and people in the government let it or made 9/11 happen, may GOD have mercy on their souls because they will be cast into the 9th and last circle of HELL.
just had to throw in the dante reference.


and speaking of hell. it looks like we here in the south have gotten a break from the hellish heat. this weekend the heat broke and it rained both nights. at least at my house it rained. bringing down the temps to the 90's with the long overdue rain. my yard is straw. plants and bushes are dying. it got to a point that i was beginning to sacrifice plants. there was no way that i could water everything.

it's 2 damn hot

damn it's hot down here in the south. it's breaking over 100+ during the week and backing down to the comfortable high 90's during the weekend. i love the south, goddess knows i do but enough is enough.
this deep fried weather is proof why we here in the south are known to move at a snails pace.

the crazy winkler woman who killed her preacher husband because he made her wear stripper shoes has been let loose from the mental health facility she was put into after the jury found her guilty of manslaughter. she is now fighting for custody of her children who have been in the custody of her in-laws.

apparently pacman "thug" jones had an interview with bryant gumbel the other day. he mentions that even though he has been linked to 12 criminal incidents that he is no criminal. how many incidents does it take to be a criminal? sorry pacman-you are a thug and if i cared about football and was a fan of the tennessee titans i would make a pack never to watch football again until your sorry ass was kicked out of football forever. but alas i am not a fan. so my opinion or actions don't really matter.


and finally a salute to 2 senior ladies


"A would-be Murfreesboro thief got more than he bargained for Saturday evening when he hopped into a car with two of Tullahoma's toughest senior ladies.

According to police reports, a man tried to rob 68-year-old Ellen Holt and 78-year-old Inga Schultz in Rose's parking lot on Mercury Boulevard around 8 p.m. Saturday.

"The man got into the back seat and grabbed Ms. Schultz around the neck," Officer Tim Moghaddam reported. The suspect told the women he had a gun and demanded they give him their money.

But both ladies reportedly refused to give the man anything and started to slap him until he fled the vehicle."


go go grannies.