Bulldog Blues

What a strange week – Not a whole lot going on, but I still feel drained regardless. I spent a majority of the week out of town for work, driving an hour each way every day to observe the construction of a retaining wall. Exciting stuff, right?   Perhaps all the driving is what wore me out.


The CFO’s parents came into town to celebrate her birthday, so we were busy all weekend – She loves to play games, so when there are two additional people in the house, a lot of gaming will definitely ensue. We ate way too much and didn’t do much exercising… a typical week when we have company.

Football Saturday was particularly gut wrenching, with UGA getting their tails handed to them by the S.C. gamecocks. At least I don’t have any friends/family that went to S.C. so I didn’t have to endure being harassed by them. My parents usually call and check in with me during games, but they wisely elected to not call me about this one… I am not a happy fan right now. Losing always sucks, but getting whipped and hearing the crowd chanting “over-rated” (we were rated #5 in the country, they were #6) was painful. Maybe this will wake the team up and they’ll play better from here on out. ISU’s undefeated season ended on Saturday as well, not the way they wanted to celebrate homecoming! Virginia lost as well, leaving lowly James Madison as our one winning team for the week.

My father in law and I went to see the movie “End of Watch” on Sunday. I really wanted to see it and figured Karen wouldn’t so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to go. The trailers were a little deceiving as to the depth of violence and language in the movie, so I felt a bit bad about taking him to it about 15 minutes into it. That being said, it was a great movie if you like gritty action movies and aren’t put off by the f-bomb. The cinematography was an interesting of hand held and “typical” movie shooting styles and I thought it was well put together.

The curling season starts tonight with an open practice session… it will be fun to get out on the ice again. We will be officially celebrating the CFO’s birthday this week too… even though she has opened up a majority of her gifts already.