Curses

Well, it's official I believe my Purdue Boilermaker Mens Basketball team is cursed. I am sure of it, lets examine some of the evidence. A couple years ago Purdue was off to a great start, including a win over national powerhouse Duke in the Great Alaskan Shooutout. Everyone had Purdue in the field of 64 come March, uhh not so fast my friend. After a few shockers we were still doing good but then the curse started our best player Kenny Lowe goes down hurt can't really play much the rest of the season, and it was hello NIT, goodbye NCAA, and so the curse began. Last year was just plain miserable, first off we had Gene Keady in his last season coaching, he is a true legend no matter what anyone says. Second the team flat out sucked I don't know why. It was so sad to see Keady go out with a 7-20 team, and to make matters worse mister curse happened again the last game of the regular season. We had started to play better and our best player Carl Landry tears his ACL. Fast forward to summer all people around Purdue can talk about is the best recruiting class in the big ten and how things are going to change, and months before school starts our projected starting point guard gets drunk, and about kills a person, gets community service(bull if you ask me should have been a worse punishment) and suspended all year by Coach Painter. 1 starter down. Then all over the Purdue message boards the rumor was going around the another starter David Teague had torn his acl, well it was true 2 starters down. After 3 games Carl Landry realizes his ACL hasn't healed properly and takes a medical redshirt 3 starters down. First game of the big ten season freshman starter Nate Minnoy tears his ACL 4 starters down!! Finally problem child since day one and one of two point guards Kory Spates is kicked off the team down to 8 scholarship players and currently at 7-11. Like I said we are cursed DAMN IT! I am going to start sacrificing chickens or something to reverse this trend. This is sad we are so use to winning in Boilermaker country, we are the team that won three straight big ten titles 94-96 called it the "three pete" Ho Hum, I am sure we have about 12 more losses to come this year.

I HATE LOSING

Mark my words we will be back! The good news is the women's team is rocking mackey arena once again, and with first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament at Mackey have a great shot at the sweet 16 or better. They are currently #8 in the nation, 16-2, (8-0) going into their game tomorrow, BOILER UP LADIES!

Lets see, what else oh yes Saturday was the 20 year anniversary of the challenger explosion, what a tragedy. I actually was watching a special on it on National Geographic tonight, such a sad thing that happened. For those of you who don't remember that was the spacecraft with the teacher in space program, the teacher being Christa McCaulliff. Lots of fingerpointing came out of this, and nothing really happened as a result of it. Supposedly the people who manufactured the shuttle had an inkling something might happen, but NASA didn't see enough proof to stop the mission. I actually remember this happening, we had a teacher in our elementary that had made like the final 130 cut to be the teacher. Sad times for those family members, keep them in your thoughts.

I hung out with the nut tonight, we went to wallyworld, and Hacienda mmm Hacienda. I also received my Canada made smarties from Cher, THANKS CHER you rock big comet! Haven't tried them yet, but soon I promise. The HS sectional draw comes out tomorrow kind of exciting hopefully the Lady Kats will make it to Conseco this year, so close last year. It would be nice to get the bye game on Friday.

That's all I got, in tribute of her great return to tennis, I give you the Swiss Miss. Lost in the Quarters to Clijsters in womens singles and WON the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open, way to go Martina Hingis, it's great to have you back.


She is so cute!

In need of your help...

So this weekend, I'm going to be a mom. Yeah I'm taking the plung and I'm going to get a dog!! I'm really excited and she is so cute. I've never had a dog before, but all my dog friends said they would be there for me!! So we'll see.

So I need a name for her. Can anyone come up with anything??? She is a boxer/german shepard mix.

Phat Tuesday's.... Cher Style

Ahh welcome back Phat Tuesday's, the happiest day of the week. So, for those of you who don't know I had a blog tournament, and the one and only blogger Cher won defeating Mr Shife in the finals. For her reward she got to pick a topic for the first Phat Tuesday of 2006. Although it took awhile, this is the first entry of 06. Her other reward was getting to tie up the runner up Mr Shife, and make out with him for at least 30 seconds, but Mrs. Shife said no. Sorry Cher. On to her topic for this post.

Yes, Cher decided to go the dirty route, so if you have a small child usher them away from the computer now. Her topic of choice, a question she wants you all to answer centers around masturbation. She would like to know, do you remember the first time you did it, and have you ever been caught in the act. Alright folks lets hear it, I am a little scared to hear some of your answers to be truthful, of the 3 people still reading this hahaha!


In other news I want to say WELCOME BACK to one of my all time favorite pro tennis players Martina Hingis. She retired a few years ago due to injuries, but I think mental fatigue played a part as well, and she decided to make her return this year. She has made it to the final 8 at the aussie open and plays Kim Clijster's tomorrow. It should also be noted that I have had a crush on the swiss miss since her first go around on the tour, I would play mixed doubles with her ANYDAY! Thanks for the smarties Cher, Nutty and I are gonna hopefully hang this weekend and she will give them to me, if she doesn't eat them first. Nutty we gonna cruise the strip?? HA

That's all folks, have a great Tuesday. Congrats again to cher! Now that your entry has been posted, don't you think you should untie shife? Oh i got married.

THANKS CHER!!!!

You're the best. Thanks for taking the time to send this...I love it!!

So I ended up in Florida over the long weekend!! Spur of the moment trip and a well needed trip. Such a great weekend and great weather for January!!!

Oh what a night......

Ahhh yes I am in such a good mood I thought why not blog? So here I am blogging even though I really had no intentions of doing so. So, one might ask why so happy Phats? Well the Purdue womens basketball team won a HUGE, I mean GIGANTIC, I mean ENORMOUS, I mean yeah you get the picture, game tonight. They went to Minnesota and beat the Gophers 60-56 in OT. Why is this such a big win, well going into tonight's game Purdue and Minny were the only two teams left that were undefeated in Big Ten play with Purdue at 4-0 and Minny at 3-0. Also it's a big game because at the beginning of the year there were 4 favorites to win the big ten and they were Ohio State, Michigan State, Minnesota, and Purdue and the Boilers now own wins over both Minny and OSU!! I was on the edge of my freakin' seat during the second half of this game, which is all I got to see because I had to work. It was a physical game that kept going back and forth, and finally Aya Traore stepped up big time and hit pretty much the game winner, to which I went nuts over. Way to go ladies way to lift BOILER NATION in an otherwise drab sports year. I won't even start on the mens team. Another reason this was a huge win was because it was AT the barn(what minny calls their gym) and Purdue hasn't fared so well there as of late, and believe me we have taken some good teams there and got it handed to us. So way to go ladies, finished a three game road trip 3-0!

Now to answer a few questions, where was I and what not, even though it's not really any of your business? Well, the cliff notes version, I am busy. Not just oh I have stuff to do busy, super busy. I am transitioning right now from one sport and getting ready to start another. One season won't even be over and the other will be starting and it becomes incredibly hectic. Girls tennis season starts pretty much a month from now, and more girls are realizing hey I need to get off my duff and work. So, more private lessons are being scheduled at the center to which yours truly has to work. I also was avoiding blogging because I was a little irritated over a situation and I felt had I blogged right after it I might have said something inappropriate and this way that doesn't happen although it still irritates me. Also, I got worried that my favorite blogger, my blog hero, Mr Shife might be on life support since he said "you are sucking my will to live" in the comments of nutty's last post, so hopefully he is A okeh! I would feel really bad if he weren't. and then the worlds only "hoff" fan would be dead and it'd be all my fault!

Alright I am off to Chicago for the weekend for a high school girls basketball road trip. Oh shit I haven't even packed d'oh! See ya on the flip side kids. OH YEA

BTFU BABY!!!

So my weekend was pretty good. We had a blast at the rodeo...it was sooo much fun. Especially seeing the hot cowboys...I'm surprised I didn't lose my voice from cheering and screaming!! LoL

The rest of the weekend was pretty laid back..didn't do anything too exciting. I did end up renting a couple movies and one was Butterfly Effect...okay I know it has been out for awhile, but I finally rented it and really liked it. It was really freaky.

Well better get back to working, bleh today really sucks...just not motivated. I got this in an email and thought it was pretty neat!!! I hope you enjoy it too.... http://media.putfile.com/81waystarbursts2

It's That Damned Old Rodeo

Okay..I'm REALLY excited. Tonight some friends and I are going to the rodeo at Conseco Fieldhouse (yeah that is where the Pacers play). We're mainly just going to see the hot cowboys in tight jeans.

This summer my friend Deb & I went to the State Fair to watch some bullriding...and ever since I've been hooked. It is soo exciting!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

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Dutch Blitz Card Game

Last seen December 2, 2005 in Schererville, Indiana. After a sore loser lost, we were locked out of the house and once we regained access to the house, the game was no where in sight.

If anyone has ANY information, please contact Nuttyblonde. Or if you have played this game, let me know!!! It rocks.

My New Year's Eve Experience

It was pretty good until I was in the bathroom kneeling in front of the toilet. Yeah.

So let's see....I've been sick. Sinus related. My head has been completely congested and I have been suffering from a runny nose. This has been going on since Thursday. Friday I was allllll excited to be a loser and stay on the couch with a movie and my all-time favorite cure-all Vick's vapor rub and my Vick's vaporizer =) BUT my friend Deb kept insisting I go with her and her friend to some country bumpkin club on the south side. So I get ready and head over to her house in the pouring rain...bleh. So we get to this club....pretty fun...hot cowboy guys all around. I only bought one drink that night out of the 8 beers I had. Now after that night Deb is insisting we learn country line dancing..umm okay.

Then Saturday night woohoo...after sleeping all day with Vick I showered and picked up my friend Chrissy and her brother to head to a party. I think I had toooooooooo much vodka. I was feeling really good after the new year and continued drinking...lol along with something else I wish I refrained from. I ended up in the bathroom drenched in sweat and well throwing up. So after that incident I was ready to go for some more!! lol So overall I guess I had a pretty good time. Today I stayed home and my old roommate stopped by and we watched a couple movies and man-bashed. This guy she had been seeing said to her last night "I don't think this is working" and left. What an ass doing that on New Year's Eve!!

Tomorrow I'm off work...so nice...I'm still trying to get rid of this stupid cold. Well time to go back and relax with Vick =)

I hope everyone had a great new years eve and can't wait to read about them!!!