I've had a couple or incidents with the women's bathroom lately.
You wouldn't believe the nasty looks and words women give me when I take Aubrey to the restroom. Where else I supposed to take her? The men's? Are you kidding me? Do you know how nasty and dirty men's restroom are? Do you realize that if a man has used the toilet in a public restroom he has either peed all over the seat or blown the place up. I might as well as take her the port-a-potty at the nearest construction site.
FYI the women's bathroom at Zaxby's in Summerville near the Target (every female knows where that is) is straight back and the men's restroom is on the right. If you want to get a strange look from a couple of women (because we all know women go to the restroom in pairs), open the door and take a step in side. About the time I took the first step and was looking for the urinal, my eyes caught the eyes of to visions of beauty standing at the mirror, laughing which stopped and turned into a shocked looked like they were about to be attacked by animal. I quickly realized I was in enemy territory and retreated say "opps" and started laughing as I turned around and found the door to the men's restroom. The rest of the story is that fortunately for me the two lovely women starring at me with the "what are you doing in here look" was Ashley and LA.
Welcome to the 21st Century, LA
I don't know how this story slipped past me but LA put her Motorola Razr away a couple of weeks ago and joined everyone else in the Inerd revolution that has swept the nation and now has an Iphone 4s. I am pretty sure that Danny and LA were the last two people in the US to join the smartphone revolution. Welcome aboard the mobile information super highway.
More updates towards the bottom.
Baby Update
Everyone is wanting to know what is going on with LA and the baby. Nothing much to report except that LA is still tired from being pregnant and work. Not sure it LA knows for sure but I am not sure exactly how far long she is. I am estimating about 17 weeks. We have an ultrasound coming up in about 3 weeks (1st of December). As soon as I am certain, I will start a calendar on the blog to keep me and everyone updated how far along LA is. We are still debating about finding out the sex. LA doesn't want to find out and I would like to find out since it is number 3 and we didn't find out on the first two.
Aubrey has named the "baby in mommy's belly" Kelly regardless of it being a boy or girl. I am going to let LA break the news to her that Kelly is not on the short list (or actually any length of list) for names for baby 3.
Clemson Lake Weekend 2
Wesley, Karissa, Wes, Garrett, Mike, Heather, Hayes, Emmy, LA, Aubrey, Wyatt and me headed out last Friday afternoon for a weekend at Lake Hartwell and a Clemson football game (more on the game later). LA and I wanted to get to downtown Clemson before the stores closed to do a little shopping so we didn't have to worry about it on Saturday when it is crazy downtown. I was shocked at how many people were shopping downtown. I was pretty sure that we were the only one that would have that idea since when I have drive up on a Saturday, I am in traffic with all 78,000 of my closest friends. Since it is now daylight savings time and get dark at 5:30pm, we had to find the house in the dark but how hard can that be, we have GPS and we found Gregg's family lake house in the dark with GPS and find driving skills navigating a curvy, hilly road. It's actually more difficult that I thought, since evidently Harbor is a popular street name in that area and there is a pretty big difference between Harbor Lane and Harbor Drive both are on Lake Hartwell. We found Harbor Drive pretty easy. Harbor Lane was a little more difficult since it was in Townville BFE. We were fortunate that Wesley arrived first and left a bread crumb trail for us to follow...since at this point I was skeptical about the GPS and after about 5 turns on back country roads it felt like we were on some wild goose chase and like we were about 2 turns from sleeping in Mr. O'Leary's barn with the cows. We found the house and 6500 square feet was just barely enough room for us. The house has a lot of potential but wasn't as nice as I had expected. It has some flaws but it was better than sleeping in a hotel, motel, Holiday Inn. We gave the kids (except Aubrey and Wyatt) the bottom floor
Clemson vs Wake Forest
The Good
1. ACC Atlantic Division Champions (Goal 1 accomplished)
2. The Chad (without him, we are 6-4 - loses to V Tech, G Tech, MD, and WF and maybe worse)
3. Andre Ellington (98 yards the hard way - translated very little blocking)
4. 4th quarter Tajh
5. WF's defensive inability to catch balls thrown by Tajh directly to them
6. WF's field goal kicker (almost as bad as ours)
The Bad
1. TURNOVERS
2. OL and Defense
3. Tackling
4. The Deuce injured (probably out for NC State but will not likely play)
5. Bye week and still looked bad
Summary
I have tired to be honest and realistic this whole football season. What is the difference between past years and this year? We have won games in the 4th quarter that we have lost in past years (see above). Currently, we have one loss, are Atlantic Division champs, and have two big games remaining. Why is the NC State game important/a big game? It will show that we can finish and put the train back on the track because after Ga Tech and WF, we don't look very good. We are 7th in the BCS and to be honest we are the weakest 1 loss team in the country. Our defense (is a strainer) cannot stop the run and when our offense is running ruff it isn't very pretty. Hopefully, we can get it figured out this week. I will give them a hint, eliminate the mistakes and tackle (knock the poop out of them). It's a big game because beating NC State will give us 10 wins, something that hasn't been done looong time. It's important because the following week we play SC in Columbia at night (night games on the road and on ESPN aren't always good experiences for us) and some momentum would be nice. This year has been fun so far because it always fun when you are winning - losing sucks. Clemson has three games left and I hope we show up each week and play up to our potential on offense and defense (at least on offense, we still have the potential to not stop you on defense but one time and still win but out scoring you).
Highlights
Trophy Presentation
Title Belt Update
Since we still have a possible title belt shop, I am going to keep you updated on what's going on with the title holder - Virginia Tech (who took it from Georgia Tech last Thursday night). Virginia Tech is on the road this week at UNC and unless they lose in Chapel Hill, Clemson will get another shot at the belt in the ACCCG in Charlotte with the belt and the ACC championship on the line against either Virginia Tech or Virginia. Virginia Tech's final game of the season is a rivalry game against Virginia.
Armstrong Atlantic Soccer Update
My niece's season has ended. In the conference final (1st wknd in November), she injured her knee(1:37 remaining - tore her ACL and MCL) making a save with about 10 minutes remaining. She gutted out the final 10 minutes and they won the conference tournament title with a goal in the final seconds. On last Sunday, they won their first game of the NCAA tournament and have advanced to the round of 16. Here's the video from the conference final and the save when she got hurt:
In an exclusive with this Ourlife reporter, she told me the following:
Penn State Scandal
I haven't commented on this blog about the Penn State scandal but I have been on top of every article written, interview, blog...etc and I HAVE read the Grand Jury report all 27 pages (which after reading, I wanted to throw up and then drive to Happy Valley and kick his @$$). If he is indeed guilty of 1 or more accounts (which after hearing his interview the other night with Bob Costas, I am even more convinced), then set up an appointment at the tattoo parlor (why are the call tattoo parlors?) and get "I Like Young Boys" tatted on his arms and send him to prison. What this has opened my eyes to is how easy it was/would be for a parent to get sucked into all the opportunities JS(or anyone) was offering (tickets to games, hanging out with football team, working out at Penn State, being a father figure to a child that might not have one in their life....etc) and not question what was going on any further. If someone what's to shower(no pun intended) those type of things on Aubrey, Wyatt or Baby 3 they better have room for one more because me or LA will be attending and watching you like a hawk. I sent an email to some friends about making sure to question me or LA about who my kids are hanging out with (adults or friends) and I would do the same for them - no hurt feelings.
It's hard to laugh about anything about this topic but Jon Stewart did a good job of summarizing pretty much everyone's thoughts after the JS (via phone) and lawyer (who is questionable at best) interview with Bob Costas on Monday night...
Hope Clemson is recruiting this sophomore from VA...Ric Flair would be proud
Just this one tackle alone should get him a scholarship to most D1 (FBS) schools. They called an unnecessary roughness penalty on the play which I think is hogwash. It's football, a contact sports not quidditch (which if you are a male playing it, please turn in your man card....oh, that's right you never had a man card).
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