March 17, 2008 | If It's For Free It's For Me, Other Bloggers, Sports

If you weren’t at the Caps/Bruins game yesterday, not only did you miss a great ending (there was a shoot out and Semin and Kozlov scored winning goals for the home team) but you missed fleece helmet day!

Nancy and I totally rocked the hats, didn’t we?

*sigh*

We really should have asked someone else to take the picture. Whenever I take a picture of myself my head looks huge. Of course Nancy looks adorable.

We had a great time and drank some non-green beer.

Proof:

If you look very carefully you can see the Capitals logo on my shirt.

You know, you would think a city that closed down half of its streets for a St. Patrick’s Day parade would at least have green beer at a hockey game. Come on! We played the Bruins. The Boston Bruins.

Speaking of beer, I would like to apologize to anyone who saw the picture of the twins’ sonogram yesterday and thought I was pregnant. I am not and I never plan on being in the future. We have had that surgically taken care of. YOU can have as many children as you want, but we’re sticking with two. When the twins were infants I had a recurring nightmare that I found out I was pregnant with triplets and we were going to have five children under the age of two.

Okay, this post is going nowhere. Tune in later when I make more sense.

Have a great St. Patrick’s Day everyone!

February 8, 2008 | Confessions, Sports, TV

I don’t do this a lot, but I wanted to cross post my piece from BlogHer this morning. It explains in greater detail why I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year.

Fear not. I have it on my DVR and I plan on watching the third and fourth quarters sometime this weekend.

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I have a confession to make to you guys. Even though this year’s Super Bowl was the most watched game ever, with about 97.5 million viewers, I was not one of those people watching.

I know. I can’t believe it either. I LOVE the Super Bowl. I love Super Bowl parties. I even had one planned. Ack! I even called my buddy Beth un-American for scheduling her twins birthday party during the game. In fact, I am still in favor of making Super Bowl Monday a national holiday.

So you probably want to know what earth shattering event caused me to miss the big game.

Well, first my husband got sick. He was so sick that on Sunday morning I contacted all of the people that were supposed to come over for the party and I told them it was off. There obviously no way he would be in any shape to have anyone over. At about 2:00 I went to the store to get him some orange juice and soup.

By the time I got home from the grocery store I felt so bad that I had to lay on the floor for an hour. By six o’clock my eyeballs hurt individually.

You know what I think happened? I think I kissed that boy and got cooties.

So here I am with cooties or the plague or bird flu or whatever you want to call it, and the Super Bowl is starting, and as much as I love the NFL and the Super Bowl and the commercials, I just can’t bring myself to care.

Oh, I tried anyway. I even opened (read as, opened and didn’t actually drink) a beer in the spirit of things.

By 8:00 (somewhere after the two minute warning to end the first half and Tom Petty and his halftime show) I just gave up. I hit “record” on my DVR and I went to bed.

I am so ashamed.

Of course the underdogs won in an exciting comeback in the last minute, and from what I understand even the half-time show was worth watching this year.

Fortunately for you, me, the NFL, FOX and all of the advertisers some people (like I said before, about 97 million of them) did watch the game.

Amie from Mamma Loves live blogged the commercials (starting here).

Heather from No Pasa Nada gloated.

And Kay - well, she credits the New York Win to her troll and super natural powers. You never know.

December 7, 2007 | I Just Logged On My Internet, Other Bloggers, Sports

… and I’m not even Jewish.

In honor of Chanukah this year, Devra celebrated by showing me The Jesus of the Week on her Blackberry at the Redskins/Bears Game last night.

In all fairness she was looking for Cheesus Christ and the Peep Jesus both of which were funny enough to risk eternal damnation and missing three minutes of the game. 

Cheers.

October 8, 2007 | Sports

So Gidge and I had this bet on the Bucs/Colts game. The person who supports the losing team has to write a post in praise of the winner.

Actually we both had to write a post. The person who is a fan of the winning team will post their essay inserting the name of a random person (chosen by Lumpyhead’s Mom who came up with the idea) where the losers name should appear.

I grew up in Tampa and I am a huge Bucs fan and Gidge is from Indianapolis.

If you watched the game you can see where this is going. I’ll be saying several nice things about Gidge starting now:

1) Gidge looks great in a Bucs jersey. Here is a picture that someone took of us at a preseason game two years ago. She scored sweet suite (you like that?) tickets from her old job and she invited me so,

2) Gidge has cool friends.

3) If it weren’t for Gidge and Becky. I honestly don’t think I would have stayed sane in my first year having twins. I needed their friendship more than you could even imagine. Just having friends that are going through the same thing that you are can make all of the difference in the world.

4) This is more of a list than an essay, isn’t it?

5) Gidge makes terribly handsome (and tall) children.

6) Okay, in all honesty, I love her in real life. She is really fun to hang out with. If you ever get the chance I highly recommend going drinking with Gidge.

So yeah, that game sucked.

October 4, 2007 | Friends, Other Bloggers, Sports

Two days ago I got an e-mail from my friend, fellow twin parents and mommyblogger Gidge.

It said this:

So since our respective beloved teams are playing this weekend………wanna make it interesting?
I’m suggesting that whomever loses has to write a post about how great the other one is …BLOG CHALLENGE? UP TO IT?

So of course I jumped on it.

The problem? Her team is the reigning Super Bowl champions The Indianapolis Colts and my team is The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Her starting quarterback is Peyton Manning. Mine is Jeff Garcia.

Her starting running back is Joseph Addai. Mine is out for the season.

And the game will be played in the RCA Dome. The Colts ALWAYS win at home.

Anyway - Go Bucs!

I’ll be over here writing my essay about how rad Gidge is. But I’ll be writing it with my fingers crossed.

And I’ll be happy to never have to use it.

Stranger things have happened. I mean - I accidentally made two people at the same time. I lost a contact on my cat. Harlequin NASCAR romance novels exist. The Bucs could win.

But I won’t be holding my breath.