Blue Dawg Days

It took the better part of a week to forget about the University of Georgia’s heart breaking loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC championship.  Yes, UGA went into the game as the under dawg, but I still had hope that they could pull out a victory.  For those of you who didn’t watch the game, it was a series of ulcer causing, emotional ups and downs.  I went from standing up and cheering, to slamming my fist into the couch back to jumping around cheering many times during the game… The CFO just shook her head at me, un able to understand how I can be so “involved” in something that I am not physically involved in.  When the game clock finally hit 0:00, the dawgs were 4 yards and few seconds short of scoring a game winning touchdown.  Oh, the agony… So close, yet so far away.

Now that I have had some time to reflect on it, I am very happy that we (even though I wasn’t technically involved) gave Bama a run for the entire game.  Part of me was worried we that we were taking a knife to a gun fight, but the teams ended up being pretty equally matched.  It all came down to Bama being able to run the ball better than we did and us not capitalizing on turnovers.  We took the ball from them 3 times and only scored off of one of them, a blocked field goal that was run back for a touchdown.  I was a little shocked to see that we plummeted from 3^rd to 7^th in the final BCS poll, but that extra loss in the SEC championship hurt us.  Now I have a month to wait for the Capital One Bowl, where UGA will be facing Nebraska.  It should be another good game, too bad we can’t make the trip down to Orlando to watch it.

Illinois State, made it to the quarter finals game, but then lost… it was still a good showing for the Red Birds!

Say hello to our backyard neighbors... what a bunch of animals:

 

I am also starting to try out a new routine.  Today is day 2 of it:  I rolled out of bed at 5 am and went to the gym and exercised from 5:30 to 6:30.  Why am I doing this you might ask?  Because when I stepped onto the scale that was in the workout room on the cruise ship, I was not happy with what it told me…   Not quite "one at a time" but high for me.  I've got to get a handle on this compact spare tire that I'm carrying around before it becomes a full sized one!

Will this new routine stick?  It is way too early to tell, but I still feel pretty good this afternoon.  We’ll see how long I last in the evening, although I guess going to bed earlier wouldn’t be bad for me either. I typically go to be around 11:15-11:30, much of the evening spent plopped down in front of the TV at night.  This is why I need a new project car... to get me on my feet and away from the TV in the evenings.  Makes sense to me, however, I'm not sure the CFO will buy that reasoning...