Haley Makes a Snowman …
While this is the first real snow storm of the season, we got our first snow (an inch or so) earlier in the week. Haley wasn’t sure what to make of it, but she seems to have enjoyed herself (Note: Sound & Quicktime video: 6MB).
Sports-Monkey in the making…
With the Pittsburgh Steelers in the #1 seed playoff spot this year, it is time for me to reveal my ugly little secret.
It all began innocently enough: I started watching the Steelers because my husband has been a fan since his childhood, and as I’ve never followed sports, it was natural for me to align with my better half. Over the last two years, I have absorbed a little of the team’s rich history and become familiar with the players. I can’t watch just any football game, but if the Steelers are playing, I’ll be paying attention. Often, I prefer to watch with the sound turned down, or even off. The announcers of any major sporting event drive me insane. It’s like having some busybody stranger talk non-stop in your ear while you’re trying to watch. (Just try reading the closed captioning sometime; you’ll be amazed at the inane babble.)
So, the events of a few days ago took me quite by surprise. I was flipping channels when I happened to land on ESPN. There were highlights on, and since I’ve strangely acquired a taste for Chris Berman’s Fastest Three Minutes in Television halftime show (hey, why spend an entire Sunday watching 4 football games when you can catch all the big moments?), I paused to watch a few clips. Five minutes later I was thinking “well, that’s a good point but without TO I hope the Eagles have come up with some new moves to compensate for….wait a minute, what am I doing!?”
I’d been watching the shiny-suit brigade babble on about players who weren’t even on my team! And there are still 24 days until the Super Bowl.