Medals, Bologna and Friday Night Lights

Pretty good day today.  Got to sleep in. Awesome.  I received 3 medals today at the winter rowing corporate challenge.  One for rowing over 100,000 meters during the winter season.  One for rowing the most meters on our team and the other was a silver team medal for having the second most combined meters of all the teams in the league.  We all then ate at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill and of course I had to get the fried bologna sandwich.  It was amazing. Then I went to my soccer game and scored a couple goals.  Ended the night with a couple episodes of Friday Night Lights on the DVR.  Nice little Saturday.  No Home Depot though.

Again, 100 points for the first to recognize the reference.

Here's Something?

Here it goes again... writer's block.  It's weird how you can live your life and out of all the things that happen to you throughout any given day, any given week... nothing seems good enough to type out in a post.  I'm not sure if that is just me over-thinking this or maybe I look at this blog as always having to be about something.  It can't possibly.  I think the real me has those consecutive days where I just don't really have anything to put down.  Nothing bad happens, nothing good either.  Just those days that tend to produce a bunch of nothing.  Even as we speak, my mind is racing about things, yet from the brain to the fingertips... nothing.  It's a bit frustrating, but it doesn't have to mean something is wrong.   I guess I could talk about my wonderful dinner last Friday night at Cheever's.  Tortilla crusted Alaskan Halibut with shrimp pesto risotto in a lime sauce.  I think the correct term would be scrumdumptious.  I think it's a technical culinary term, I read it somewhere.  But my point is that dinner is the extent as to what's being syphoned from the fingertips to the laptop.  Halibut.  

So yeah, in a bit of a funk?   

Rumble In OKC

Last night at the Thunder game, "Rumble" the mascot was unveiled. I'm kind of torn here. I guess it could have been much worse... like a scissortail of some sort... or it could have been better... like a mascot that doesn't make you wonder where it's yellow headband and best friend Stiles are.

100 points if you can tell me what reference that is from.

One more hint : "Sergeant burn the fields and when you're done with that, burn the house."

WOPTSNBUIDL Volume 1

Some of you may know that just before I killed Long Sleeves, I had started a list.  Words Or Phrases That Should Never Be Used In Daily Life.  I only had the first volume done and I can't remember what most of those were.  So I am starting over.  Again, if you have any words you would like to submit, comment this post or email them to me. (the email address is at thee bottom of the page)

Volume 1

1. Moist

2. Hullabaloo

3. Maxi

4. Bouffant

5. Baby bump

6. Gush

7. Sassafrass

8. Octo-Mom

9. Kegel exercises

10. Poker players, come to meeeee....  (Oklahoma thing)

Brand New.

It took a bit to come up with this new title.  I was searching the Internet and my head all week for the next title and I started reading lyrics.  Many lyrics.  I came across 'Yellow' by Coldplay.  Then I came across an article about what that song actually means.  The article shares that Chris Martin, Coldplay frontman and writer of the song, still doesn't know what it means to this day... that yellow was a word that just seemed to fit. Also, it is joked that when he couldn't think of the word he needed, he saw the yellow pages.  Done.  It's amazing to me that 'Yellow' is their signature song by far, yet the song isn't even defined.  That is awesome.   And  it works for me.   Life for the most part is undefined.  I'm just taking my turn at it.

The Yellow Factor.

First Things First.

Long story short, I accidentally deleted my blog. I was changing my email address that was used for the blog and after I deleted my old address, I came to the realization that it was actually connected to the blog. Deleted address + Deleted blog = One frustrated week. One of my friends decided that the blog that was now...gone too soon...needed something : a eulogy. I was expecting something funny, but she decided to make it pretty heartfelt. I actually felt the blog had died. She posted it on her blog.

Here is the eulogy for Long Sleeves In The Summer.

The thing I will miss the most is that fact that the blog was my first attempt at writing about my life. I never thought I would like it as much as I did. With the sinking feeling I had after realizing I had murdered my blog, I knew I had to continue... even if it meant a new title. Hopefully it will still bring back the tens of readers that Long Sleeves had. I know what you're thinking... we've got ourselves a dreamer here.

Here's to picking up and starting over.