I just have to say:

I just have to say these few things, then I'm done for tonight:

-- I'm stoked for my little sis, Jessica, and her family for their newest addition to the family, Peter Sands Mag. (last name abbreviated for alleged identity protection). This is their 3rd, the "Family"'s 13th (grandchild... oldest being 12 y/o... 10 boys, 3 girls). They live in Walmart-ville, Arkansas and we haven't been up to visit yet (they moved up there around the same time we moved up here). Anyway I'm very happy for Jessie and Ryan, I'm really wanting to make a trip to Clinton-land soon.

-- University of Alabama Football ROCKS!!!! yeah, bummer that we lost Saturday!!! I really thought we could pull it off against Florida... I knew it would be an "edge-of-your-seat" match-up, and it was, but I really thought we could take 'em. At the end of the 3rd quarter, I knew we had 'em, but we definitely didn't hold up through the 4th quarter and ultimately lost the game, the SEC championship, and our chance @ the National Championship... Dang good run though, and I'm hoping for at least as good of a year next year!!!
Looks like we'll be schooling some Mormons at the Sugar Bowl down in Katrina-ville. Can I just say that I don't like the whole BCS thing??? I'm all for changing it to a legitimate play-off championship thing... I mean come-on!!! Don't get me wrong, I think that the Florida-Oklahoma matchup will be much more intense than our bowl game, and probably more entertaining than the Texas-Ohio State game, I also think that we could take Oklahoma if we could've scooted by Florida. So there you go... yes, I just predicted Florida to beat Oklahoma to be BCS National Champs. Whoopee... I still feel that we had one heck of a year. Nick Saban is the man, J.P. Wilson is a dang good QB and a talented leader (not unlike Tebow), and you can be looking for some big plays out of our freshman from Foley, AL (Julio Jones) in the years to come!!! That being said, let me just say: ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!

-- Being sick sucks!!! I've had some kind of crud for more than a month now. It's been mutating into different incarnations each week... started off with sinus drainage, sore throat and head ache... Stanton had similar stuff going on so we went to the doc to knock it out early... we were negative for strep and flu, he got better, but the next week I no longer had the sore throat and head ache but instead had inflamed and congested sinuses, and my ears were stopped up... the really annoying kind where you can't equalize them, one is open the other closed type of thing and it swaps sides as you try to "pop" them... The following week I lost the ear thing and picked up a phlegm cough, intermittent lethargy, and maintained the sinus inflammation/congestion... but no drainage. Well, this past week I lost everything except the sinus thing, but it still sucks, in fact, I've been draining the thick, greenish, junk from my nose... still somewhat lethargic while still feeling the pressure/ache/pain in my sinuses... so I went back to the doc this past Friday and she decides it's time to try some anti-biotics... today is day #4 on antibiotics and not much change!!! Still green junk, still achy... yeah, I know... boo hoo, wah-wah... I'm just sayin', it sucks!!! I'd rather have earned my sickness from riding my mountainbike in the freezing cold and rain or something sick-worthy like that!

-- It's cool to hear from old (or long-lost) friends. Kelly Booth (now Bird I think) popped up on our radar today from whichever part of the universe she's living in. If you're reading this then "Hey Kelly". No, I'm not some weirdo (the only non-gay, male "family style" blogger around). I just picked up this whole blogging thing from my sisters as a way to communicate without having to use the phone... my family is not known for their phone and written letter tendencies, but blogging is a pretty easy and painless process that seems to fit the bill. Melinda (my wife) likes to read blogs, likes the concept, intends on blogging, but usually just gives me things to blog about or adds to my blogs in the form of creative and/or constructive suggestions, but seldomly gets around to actually blogging herself. So there you have it, somehow I got off of the original segment which is: hearing from old friends, namely Kelly.
About Kelly. She was always one of those cool "older sisters" of one of your friends, ya know. Her younger brother, Joel is about a year or so older than me and we were in Mutual (young men/young women's program) together as teenagers. We went to different high schools so we usually only hung out on Wednesday nights or weekends and usually with activities centered around church, but we did manage to get into some "typical" mischief associated with adolescence and not necessarily associated with church... that's all I'll say about that... anyway, remember how awkward you felt in your early/mid teens when you got around older teenagers? Remember how you wanted to be accepted, but really didn't know what to say or how to act the further away you got from your nucleus of similar age and like minded friends/peers? Well, Kelly and her friend Sheila, never made me feel that way... come to think of it, there was a whole gang in their age group, including Jeff (Kelly and Joel's older brother), Terry (Sheila's older brother), Skip (aka Kalvin) and Holley Johnson who were cool like that. I'm not sure that teenagers act like that towards each other anymore, you know... civil? It wasn't like I was trying to hang with the older kids either, but in our church, you tend to see a lot of each other at different events and Kelly was always one of those who would talk to me when she saw me... not one of those who would act like you weren't in the room. I always thought she was cool for that. Anyway, Kelly, thanks for being cool back then, even if you may not be anymore... just kiddin', you could've easily saw our blog, scanned through it, and kept on surfing, but you didn't, you kept true to form and said "hey"... well I think that's pretty cool. I hope all is well with your family and hope to hear from you again sometime.

-- I'm pretty much a weirdo. I can never just throw a few words on the blog and be done with it, I always end up doing this kind of thing. I really wanted to go to bed a bit earlier tonight, but screwed that up... oh well, I'm sure that there are many other husbands out there who seem a lot less weird than me who are looking at porn or something equally degrading, they probably bash guys who "blog"... ahhh, who cares? Since when did something like keeping a journal (which is kinda how I see blogging)become abnormal and being addicted to porn or "fantacy football" become accepted as "just what men do"? I'm just sayin'


Well that does it for now... I just saw Melinda quickly walk by and not even glance over at me... which translates from married sign-language to 1 or 2 things: 1. "you've angered me and now you'll have to guess how (and/or why)" or 2. "I'm trying to slip by you because I'm eating/drinking/or doing something that I don't want to share with you.... and now you'll have to guess what it is". So, I'm off for the night. We'll get back to addressing my weirdness soon... I promise.
Scott