We are going to go to Omaha for Thanksgiving this year. This day in fact. Going to spend a few days with Katie girl! whooot whooot! Mayhaps we will go shopping on Black Friday. I never have before…not sure if I will like it or not. I’m a great online shopper but REAL LIVE SHOPPING…? Not so much. I will do my best people. Katie is doind pies. A pumpkin and a caramel apple one she says. yum! I’m bringing ham and going to put pineapple, brown sugar and a 7-up on it. I don’t know the recipe, just the ingreedients. It will cook over night and be fantastical I hope…crossing fingers. The only bad thing about going is we had to take Pissin’ Petie to the vet for boarding. In fact I just got back from there…wiping tear away. How sad. I wish I didn’t have to do it. He’s in a “run” with cold metal and the place smells like dog shit..serious dog shit…gag. He looked SO FREAKING SAD !! Too bad I couldn’t have found someone to take him. Too bad he is so moody and such and likes to piss on peoples boots and things. Dang you Petie! Snoogie is going to someones home. He will be babied there I’m sure. There is NO WAY I would leave him in a cold metal cage…aghhhhh I feel terrible about Petie. He will hate me forever and ever now!!! Last time he was there he went on a food strike…heyyyyyyy maybe I should have them lock me in there after the Thanskgiving meal! yes! New Diet Spa!
November 18, 2009
They played their heart out! We are proud of our boys!
Cedar Catholic stuns Cambridge in semi
By the Sioux City Journal | Posted: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:10 pm
HARTINGTON — Hartington Cedar Catholic scored two touchdowns in the final 2 minutes, 16 seconds, including the game-winning score with 0.6 seconds left, as the fourth-ranked Trojans rallied to beat Cambridge 26-20 in the Class C-2 semifinals on Tuesday.
Senior quarterback Justin Leise hit classmate Cody Klug seven times for a C-2 state playoff record 208 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner. The previous record was 206 yards set by Matt Davison of Tecumseh in 1996 against Hebron.
Klug broke free from a would-be tackler at the 20-yard-line and raced to the end zone, completing a play that covered 39 yards.
“He made a great spin move and got around the defenders,” Leise said.
Cedar Catholic senior Chad Koch was limited to 97 yards on 29 carries but did score from the 2 with 2:16 to play, capping a 16-play, 73-yard drive aided by a pass interference penalty.
After the Trojans tied the game on Koch’s two-point conversion scamper, Cedar Catholic (10-2) forced a three-and-out and took possession at its 34 with 30.8 seconds left.
Koch gained 11 yards on first down before Leise hooked up with Klug for 16 more, setting Cedar Catholic up for the last-second heroics.
Unranked Cambridge (8-4) dominated the first half, taking a 13-0 lead while outgaining Cedar Catholic 203-58. But the Trojans rolled up 270 yards of offense in the second half.
Leise passed for a season-high 230 yards. Gus Peterson rushed for 148 to lead Cambridge.
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Alec "beans" Cambridge Trojans Football Semi Finals against HHC
November 17, 2009
Game On!
Football playoff game tomorrow. Our high school semi final game…5 hours away. ugh This will be a hard one as the boys have to get up and leave at 6:30 am and play at 3 pm. The other teams field no less. If we win we go to Memorial Stadium (Husker HOme)to play State Football!! Exciting! I bet there are a lot of butterflies in the stomach tonight.
November 11, 2009
Bawls and Blueberry Poptarts!
Bawls
And I’m watching a documentary on bird migration called, oddly, Winged Migration. Doesn’t
Blueberry Poptarts
that just sound like the total package? I mean lets talk health spa breakfast here. I just saw a grouse and holy moses I didn’t know they spread out their tails like a turkey and made such a weird popping noise when they battled. I mean…did you? They are awesome. Haven’t you always wanted to know about birds that fly hundreds and thousands of miles. Seriously…what’s up with that? And also, why can’t our parrot take up migrating? He needs to expand his horizons. Live a little. In other words…GET OUT! Maybe I should open the window and see if he gets an urge. The guy who is narrating this show sounds a little like Ricardo Montalban. Remember Fantasy Island? That just adds to the general mystic of the show. I’m waiting for a “little people” person to run out and point up at the sky and warble “Le Plane, Le Plane” and maybe he would then say, once he saw what he was really eyealling, “Le Arctic Tern, Le Arctic Tern”, instead.
October 26, 2009
Movie Reviews
I was able to watch two very good movies lately, of course at home, haven’t been to the theatre in YEARS. Slumdog Millionaire and 7 pounds. They were right up my alley. I love sad and weird and they definitely had that going for them. I’ve watched both of them more than once now. I’m kind of crushing on Slumdog right now. So sad and soul wrenching. I highly recommend you go watch these movies. Hopefully YOU can go out and enjoy yourself OR if you are like me…stay home and watch them while you do laundry, vacuum and match socks…well…I haven’t matched the socks yet. ugh
We have our first football playoff game on Thursday. Wednesday is supposed to be snowy. Good, great, yayyyyy. No matter. The boys love to play in “weather”. Getting dirty is all part of the game. I’ve learned how to dress in layers and take a blanket and THIS time I’m going to remember to bring good hot black coffee in a Shirley K’s Coffee travel mug. And maybe a little sumthin sumthin in it too. 8)
October 16, 2009
Fall into Fall, or falling
We’ve had a hectic few weeks. Andrew ended up having another knee injury…yes…football related. He had his knee scope done a day after my Mom had her left hip replaced.
A myriad of work related issues ie very short on staff at the coffee shop and the surgeries of my Mom and Andrew put me into full over load. Anyway, they both did well and it’s three weeks now since they both got “worked on”. Mom is in her own home and though I stayed with her for a week, she has done well on her own and is gaining strength everyday. Andrew has recovered quite well and we are just biding time waiting for his rehab to be done. His senior year, football done. 8( There are worse things though. WE know this. He will be able to wrestle…the hurdles might be a bit tricky, but who knows. On a nice note…Andrew was the homecoming King. We thought that was AWESOME! Especially since he has spent the last 3 homecomings on crutches!
Work has settled a bit, though we are still a bit on the short side. I’m having to cook a bit more and it’s stressful to do that and all the rest of the things that go along with running a business.
We also got Katie moved into a new place and I LOVE IT. It’s an awesome place in the Old Market in Omaha. She still likes her school very much and she has a GREAT radio voice. We are proud of her.
We are now the proud parents of a 6 year old toy poodle. Katie couldn’t keep her dog at her new place to guess what? We are! He is nice and very easy going. Petie is kind of pissy about the whole thing but he WILL get over it!
August 30, 2009
Finally an Update
This summer flew by.
I mean, really flew by. I can’t believe it will be September soon. The air is cooler already. We’ve been invaded by swarms of little brown crickets. The locust sing non stop…it’s deafening around here. The trees aren’t changing…yet. It’s coming though. Football will start on Friday. Both boys are playing. Andrew in his two braces. Of course I worry. It wouldn’t be right for me to not worry. I so wish I could be like Mark and not worry about anything. That would be soooo nice.
Good note. Katie is back at college. Not UNO, but Western Iowa Tech. She is studying something like…Media Studies. Mostly radio, broadcasting…etc. SHE LOVES IT! She sounds so happy. I’m glad for her. She and her boyfriend are moving to a place in the old market in Omaha. That should be fun. Especially for a young couple. We are helping them move around September 19th or so.
Work has been okay. Busy, pretty steady. We have a minor catastrophe…our Island Oasis Machine broke. Has been broken for a couple of weeks now. I finally got something different ordered. I wish it were here…!!!! Using a blender does not even compare.
Mom has been having alot of pain in her left hip and we’ve been doctoring for it awhile now. Seems she needs a hip replacement. We will be scheduling that for mid September or so. We are not looking forward to it. I know she isn’t. The pain is quite bad though and she can’t sleep at night. We can’t put it off much longer.
We got Andrews senior pictures taken. That was fun. I saw him smile more in 2 hours than I had in his lifetime! ha ha Can’t belive he graduates this year.
Well…this is more writing than I’ve done in a long time. Tired me out I guess. Maybe I’ll keep updating. Who knows?
June 19, 2009
Things of Note
A bird can and will get his head stuck in a birdfeeder leading to death on occasion.
Lemonade is sticky when spilled on a ceramic tile floor.
Drunk men are stupid.
Drunk women are bitches.
I hate doing laundry.
June 14, 2009
Two Years
Well, two years today, June 14th, Dad died. Of lung cancer. It’s hard to believe that so much has happened in such an amount of time. Hard to believe he has been gone that long. Sometimes it seems not that long ago. I try not to think of Dad, as he lay in the hospital bed, trying to breathe. I try not to think of his thin frame and his lack of apetite. I try not to think of the things he had to go through as he slipped into the last few months of his life.
My oldest daughter, only daughter, graduated the same year my Dad died and headed off to college. Two years can change sooo much. I haven’t hardly seen my daughter in two years. I can count the times on my one hand. She has dropped out of college and works full time. She asks for no help. She acts like she needs no one. Yet, she needs us for our insurance for sure. She has been in several accidents and cost us several thousands of dollars in car repair. Who cares about college tuition. Try paying court costs and car repair and again and again and again and so forth. Try feeling the anxiety of knowing you have not been a very good parent. That your child does not even want to call or talk to you. You have had your child with you 18 years and then…she is off to other worlds and leaves you without a backward glance. It huts. I can tell you. I wish I could have been a different kind of parent. I wish I could have been what she needed. I don’t know what I’ve done to be excluded from her life but I feel so very sad that what I’ve done has not been enough. Sometimes I think back and I see the moments I screwed up. I was always stressed out and we didn’t have many sleep overs. I worked all the time. I was anxious. I was an impatient mother. I wish I could have been someone she admired and loved and wanted to be in her life. But somehow, I wasn’t enough for her. We never talked or shopped together. She never told me about her boyfriends or her hopes or dreams or anything. She was very much a loner child or maybe it was just me she avoided. As an only child I don’t think I was a good parent because my experience level was crap!. Katie also had to go immediately after birth into the jaundice lights and I didn’t get to feed or hold her for many days. I wonder if our bonding was effected by this?? Anyway, I feel sad on two accounts. Ifeel sad that Dad has been gone 2 years and that in the meantime I’ve lost my daughter as well….
