Oh the weather outside is football

Greetings fellow snow-bunnies!

We have enjoyed a past couple of days enjoying the winter weather ups-and downs. Our yard looks like a strange, tumultuous ocean--or planet--with churned spots, wandering trails, odd shapes poking up out of the landscape. Upon a closer look I can make out an overturned lawn chair, an odd assortment of a dozen or so sleds, sticks, icicles and.... urp... dog leavings. (ewwww) A quick head count assures me that none of the unidentified lumps is a child left out in the cold. I could have also told that from the scum of half-dried hot chocolate leftovers smeared all over the kitchen! Gotta love January in the Northeast!

It was a football weekend in the Team-Graboski home--if you hadn't figured that out already. A nail-biting, seat clutching yet spectacular showing of football genius on Saturday with the Steelers overcoming all odds in the second half against Baltimore. Amazingly enough, not sustaining any major injuries. I woke up with a massive headache--admittedly, we did have half of the neighborhood over for a party--but not from any imbibing: just yelling! Aidan was keeping a "bad word" tally and charged everyone a fine at the end of the game. She collected about $15--I will let you ponder how much each word cost.....

Last night Scott and I went down to support all the Jet's fans that own Mario's restaurant. (in Ct--I think every decent town has a Mario's) It was a good move as the place was hopping with both Jet's and Patriot's fans. The owners/managers are a lively bunch of brothers and cousins from Montenegro. Every exciting play you could hear all kinds of shouting (presumably in Serbian, and not all of it sounded positive: Aidan could probably have picked up another $50?!) There was a lot of good natured joking from the Patriot bound natives. We left at half time, so I can only imagine how much fun was had at the end of the game when the Jets won 28-21. (As far as I can tell, no post-game crimes were committed as the morning news was quiet and I never heard any sirens or anything) THAT was a good game as well--Scott and I tried very hard not to wish horrific injuries on any of the players, but it was tempting!

Scott is on the rampage now to get tickets to the game in Pittsburgh next week. I'm not going--the last couple times I was present at a Jets/Steelers game, the Steelers lost abysmally. I will spend a nice quiet weekend with Susie and Dan....baking cookies or arranging flowers. I won't even watch the game. While Scott was on the phone with various Pittsburgh buddies, his cousin mentioned that she might have a couple of extra Super Bowl tickets available on the off/awesome chance the Steelers make it to Dallas.

I think that sounds like the makings of a fabulous honeymoon, don't you?!

;)! wink!