Dad's surprise retirement party!

It's been quite an eventful summer! :)

Mom Update.

A few years ago my mom had breast cancer and has been clean for a few years, but on Monday at her annual check up they found another lump and now she has surgery oct 20th. Keep her and our family in your prayers.

Blast from the past

This blog was written in September of 2006 concerning the mixture of Sports and Music concerts....opening night of the NFL season inspired the same feelings three years later,

Enjoy

This post has a couple different purposes. Both of equal importance(not very)

For several years now, for reasons i cant quite figure out, the world of sports and music have sorta been mushed together. I dare you to try to partake of a sporting event on the television and encounter what usually is a really really really poor attempt at a concert. Its definitely at its worst on opening weekends, or highly anticipated, widely viewed match ups. A lot of the time, these performances are hyped up as a reason to actually tune in to the game. It may be just me, it also may be that im not a 15 year old girl who would only watch a game if Beyonce was doing the opening, but i really dont like this music and sports crap. I dont want to see the Backstreet Boys gay up a football game, and i really dont want to see Big and Rich and that idiot rapping cowboy embarrass themselves during the half time of a basketball game. This combination baffles me. True, sports are entertaining. Music, on the same hand is equally entertaining. but c'mon folks, they dont mix well. I'm not gonna go to a concert to watch Reggie Miller shoot free throws between bands, how weird would that be? So why why why why why why is it that the big wigs in the entertainment bizz feel that pre game, mid game, end game concerts would enhance the view ability of a sporting event. i hate it, i really do. No matter what band, its always really bad. For example: tonight is one of the biggest nights of the last couple years in the NFL. Probably will be one of the highest rated shows in the history of the world. The city of New Orleans takes center stage, for a good reason, for the first time in quite a while. The Saints are playing their first home game in a year and a half in an arena that housed tens of thousands of people who lost everything in the most devastating storm in U.S. history. The opening of this show could have been a tear jerker. I wont lie, i actually tuned in early to catch U2 play the opening. I have to admit, i was hoping that u2 would be so awesome that my opinion of the whole sports and music mix, but it didnt. it actually made me more angry. Im not a big fan of green day, dont really get in to their music, its not good. i thought maybe having u2 playing with them would bring them up a couple notches. it didnt. Green day actually managed to take U2 down a couple notches. I was prepared to shed a tear or two, i really wanted to feel something. It could have been great. Instead, it was nothing short of disappointing. It should have been U2 playing "Beautiful Day" with pictures of the devastation of the storm intertwined with pictures of the re-birth of the city. Something to remind the people of the progress that has been made. Instead it was garbage and will, no doubt, be used one day as one of many examples of why musical performances and sporting events dont mix. Its bad enough that we are forced to watch scantly clad, often times overweight cheerleaders prance in front of the camera and pretend that they care about whats going on. We're not gonna get rid of them anytime soon, so lets start with the live music. Whose with me?

I love sports. I love a good concert. I love them separated from each other. I also love lamp.

Fast forward three years and my feelings havent changed.