This is one of my favorite away games since the OSU fans are friendly. And the tailgate before the game is fun. The announcer for OSU always calls the visiting team "Visitors" instead of by their name. That is unless the other team is doing bad. (foreshadowing comment, that was.) So the last time we visited and this year, I made up buttons with the word "Vistor" in burnt orange. A fun way to poke at their announcer. I have to give the announcer credit for being very enthusastic. The only time it is annoying is when Texas is not playing good. (another foreshadowing comment, that was.)

So on to the game with full expectations to beat OSU. But it was not so. Going into half time OSU had 28 points and we only had 11. It should have been the other way around. OSU was playing hard and we seemed to just be on the field. But after half time Texas came back and the final score was 47 to 28 with Texas winning. They did not allow OSU to score the whole second half and could have done it easily the first if they had tried.

Quoted from the Fort Worth Star Telegram:

"Mack Brown credited the slow start against Oklahoma State to the fact that players "expected a blowout" after watching the Cowboys struggle in recent games. He said the same mentality will not prevail against Baylor."

If we had played Baylor this week instead of OSU, we may have lost the game. So if it was to happen, it was a good time for it. I just hope next Saturday is not as stressfull.

Yesterday I got my new crown to replace my broken tooth. They fit me in since I was on vacation and since I had swallowed the temporary cap on Saturday. They did not have to numb my tooth, but I am amazed! They sent a picture of my tooth to the place that made the crown. And they matched my other teeth and coloring. It looks good for being a fake. And the way they put it in, it does not stick out as much. They could not make it all the way straight. Braces will have to do that. The only bad thing is now I am stuck with that color since over the counter whitners will not work on it. I have thought about putting before, broken, and fixed pictures up, but my teeth are not anything to brag about. They are kinda yellow and uneven. Nothing hideous, but, well.. you will just have to trust me, they did a GREAT job.

It is 8:21pm but feels like 10:21pm. Bleh.

Presenting this week's PreGame Summary for the Novices. Texas plays Baylor in Waco, TX.

Mascot: Bears

Colors: Green and Gold

Location: Waco, TX.

Main Rival: A&M? Baylor is not known for having a good football team and large fan base (related to football). This does not make for any rivalry.

Unique Tradions/Misc: "In 1960, Baylor's yell leaders introduced the "Bear Claw" hand signal - made by slightly curving all five fingers inward to form a claw - and the "Sic 'Em Bears" yell. The initial reaction to the new traditions from students and faculty was mixed.

The issue was a topic of heated debate on campus, and the use of both the hand signal and yell was sporadic until Grant Teaff arrived as Baylor's head football coach in 1972. Teaff initiated a new era of Baylor football, and the "Bear Claw" and "Sic 'Em Bears" yell came to symbolize pride in Baylor athletics.

In addition to being used during the yell, the "Bear Claw" is held up during the performance of Baylor's school song, "That Good Old Baylor Line." Football players traditionally hold up their helmets during the playing of the school song."

Misc: Baylor is known for being good in other sports like Baseball, Tennis, and Women's Basketball.

And this story may bring a tear to your eye.

Famous Players: They have a pretty good receiver, Dominique Zeigler: "He is one of three 2005 Big 12 returnees who averaged at least 5.00 receptions per contest a year ago. "

Spread:-28.5 (If you bet with a spread on Texas, they have beat Baylor by 28.5 points for you to win.)

How they have been playing: Baylor has won 4 games and lost 4 games. They are doing pretty good for Baylor. And that is not meant to be a jab. Baylor usually does not have a good football team.

What we have to watch for: We can not play them like we played OSU in the first quarter or Baylor could beat us.

Note: Baylor's University website had pop up ads. How cheesy is that?

This was a fun game in Waco. We took the girls with us and it was Youngest's first game. They had a blast and would like to go again. We like to take them to this game since the group we tailgate with rents a guys yard with a nice fence. So the girls can play and we are very close to the stadium. So after the bands played at half time, we went back to hang out in the shade until the game was over. It was very hot.

The game itself was not very interesting since we did so well, but Baylor played hard. I am surprised that they did not even get a field goal. Kinda sad.

Two more games this season and Texas is still undefeated. We were not sure if we would make it to the National Championship game this year, but now the Virginia Tech lost a game, there is a good chance we will make it. We are still ranked #2 with a nice spread between us and #3. My husband says that the only way we will not make it is if Texas loses. I hope that does not happen.

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A post worthy of reading with a video worthy of watching.

This made me laugh out loud:

More random thoughts here.

Presenting this week's PreGame Summary for the Novices. Texas plays Kansas at home in Austin, TX.

Mascot: Jayhawks - "During the Civil War, the word Jayhawk became associated with the spirit of comradeship and the courageous fighting qualities associated with the efforts to keep Kansas a free state. Following the war, most Kansans were proud to be called Jayhawkers." Full history here.

Colors: Blue and Red: "The University of Kansas colors, crimson and blue, used since the early 1890s, are not the colors originally adopted by the university Board of Regents in the 1860s. The regents had decided to adopt the Michigan colors, maize and sky blue.

Maize and blue were used at early oratorical meets, and they may have been used when Kansas competed in rowing in the middle 1880s. However, when football came upon the scene in 1890, the student backers wanted to use Harvard crimson as the athletic color in honor of Col. John J. McCook, a Harvard man, who had given money for an athletic field at KU. That field ran east and west in the proximity of where the north bowl of Memorial Stadium stands on the Kansas campus today.

Until that time, Kansas football games were played at Central Park on Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence. Some Yale men were on the faculty, and they demanded that Yale blue be included. The rooters rallied forth to follow crimson and blue on their team. No one fought to retain the original colors, and the vivid deeper tone crimson and blue became generally used. Finally, in May 1896, the KU Athletic Board adopted crimson and blue as the official team colors for the university. "

Location: Lawrence, Kansas.

Main Rival: Missouri. They are even keeping track.

Unique Tradions/Misc: Rock Chalk Chant - "The Rock Chalk Chant has been the battle cry of KU fans for over 100 years. This strange, traditional chant, which is among the most famous of all college cheers, was started by E.H.S. Bailey, a professor of chemistry.

Bailey wanted a cheer for his Science Club. Returning from a convention in Wichita, Bailey and some associates patterned the yell after the rhythmic cadence of their train rolling along the tracks. On May 21, 1886, Bailey submitted the cheer to his club. Originally, the chant was "Ray, Rah, Jay Hawk, K.U." repeating the words three times. This yell was used by the science club the next year and there were frequent allusions to "The Science Club Yell" in the student newspapers

An English professor suggested that "Rock Chalk" be substituted for "Rah, Rah" because it rhymed with Jayhawk and because it would be symbolic of the chalky limestone formations found on Mount Oread.

The chant was adopted as the college yell after the state oratorical contest in Topeka in 1886 because KU student yells for the their winners were enthusiatic, but unorganized. By the Fall of 1887 the yell was know as the offical yell of the school as the student newspaper reported on November 4, 1887,

"Every college of importance in this country has a college cry. In every town in which a college is situated, the midnight air resounds with the hideous yells of the student, symbolic of victory, defeat, or devilment. The students of the University of Kansas use their yell but little and it is only admidst great victory that "Rock-chalk-Jay-Hawk, K-U-U-U floats throught the midnight air reminding one of a band of Apache Indians."

By 1889 the form of the cheer had changed to the drawn-out cadence repeated twice, followed by three staccato repetitions. "

Misc: Kanas is way more into basketball.

Famous Players: Nick Reid: Senior Linebacker, as a junior he: "Earned first-team All-Big 12 honors by the Associated Press, Kansas City Star, Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesman ... Received second-team All-Big 12 honors from the league's coaches ... Received the Willie Pless Award for most tackles in a season at the team's annual awards banquet ... Named the team's defensive player of the week after the games against Toledo and Northwestern ... Played in all 11 games and made 10 starts ... Led the team with 109 total tackles, including 52 solo stops ... Was one of just three Big 12 players to finish the season with more than 100 tackles ... Was the team leader and finished fifth in the Big 12 with 15 tackles behind the line of scrimmage ... Tied for third on the team with three quarterback sacks ... Had one interception and forced a fumble ... Collected 10 or more tackles in six different contests ... Had a season-high 15 tackles in KU's win over Kansas State ... Posted a season-best three tackles behind the line of scrimmage vs. No. 6 Texas ... Had 10 tackles, forced a fumble and picked off a pass against Toledo."

Click on his name above to see his accomplishements in previous years.

Spread:-33.5 (If you bet with a spread on Texas, they have beat Kansas by 33.5 points for you to win.)

How they have been playing: Decent defense. Offense sucks. Kansas has won 5 games and lost 4.

What we have to watch for: Be patient, wear out their defense, don't give them a short field. (Short field means we want them to start as far away from the goal line as possible. If they start out closer, it will be harder to stop them. But you could say this is a goal for every game, not just Kansas.)

Note: Just like Baylor's University website, Kansas also has pop up ads. Mucho cheesy!

When we were walking to the stadium last Saturday, my girls were taking in all the sites of Baylor's stadium. As we got in line at the gate, my youngest pointed to the Baylor flags.

Youngest: "Look, look, it's Baylor flags!"
Oldest: "Don't look at those Baylor flags. We don't care about Baylor. Don't look at them."

Of course Oldest did not say this quietly and she even got some chuckles from Baylor fans.

Luckily I had to check my work email tonight. Why is it lucky? I very rarely check it, but had to get some work done tonight and the data I needed was in an email. Ya, but why is that lucky? I had expected to be up until after 10 pm to check some servers after a patch install by a co-worker. Since it is a critical system, I need to make sure it is working. But since I check my mail, I notice one from him letting me know he was already done and I could do my part.

Do you think that made me happy?

Nope.

But I would have been even less happy if I had called him at 10 unaware of his email. So I will let it just slide off my back and go off to bed for sweet dreams.

Ya, I wish it was easier than that. Must. Control. Fist. and Must. Calm. Down. before. morning. please.

The game itself was good, but mostly uneventful. We beat them good. But this game was fun because of all the other activities. Let's start at the beggining.

Since the 11th was Veteran's Day, we honored Veterans this game. As the Nation Anthem was sung, we had a fly by of fighter jets. It was cool, but not ver loud since the did not turn on the after burners. A picture of the fly by is here.

They also had a reunion for the Texas flag wavers, so they had 4 Texas flags on the field when the team came out. Picture here.

It was also Senior Day, so they let each of the Seniors run out after being introduced. They originally wanted them to run out and stand with their parents, but they all asked to go back and run out with the team. I can understand that since it is their last home game ever. And
running out of the tunnel is supposed to be really cool.

Even with all this stuff going on, they had time for KU's band to perform at half time. I love seeing other bands play and they had flags that the girls would have loved.

The Longhorn Band had a great performance to honor the 50th Anniversary of Big Bertha.

And the 50th Anniversary of the "Hook'em Horns". They had some cheerleaders from 50 years ago and the guy who introduced the infamous hand symbol of Texas. Full story here. I got a picture of the band in a Hook'em Horns formation with the cheerleaders. Picture here.

Not to leave the Veterans out they honored them with this and this.

This game was a prime example of one of what makes college football fun.

Check it out, she made it on Stand By Your Statue!!!

Uptown Girl's meme has been on haitus since she no longer has high speed internet. But she has decided to bring it back occasionally. I am excited since I always liked her meme's. And that is saying alot since I don't like meme's. So I bring you the one and only meme endorsed by Prochein Amy!

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It has been a long time since I posted an "It's Blogcess" and there have been a few of you who have asked me if I'd start them up again. I'm not sure that I'll be posting them every week, in fact I can say I won't – - instead I'll post them now and then.

So without further ado I present "It's Blogcess – 26" – - Let's make it an easy one to get back into the groove of things.

1) Do you use an alarm clock to wake up in the morning?

Yes.

2) What time do you set it for?

4:32 am

3) Do you hit the snooze button? If so how many times?

Yes. Only once. I have set the time to allow me one hit. Unless I have something extra to do that morning.

4) Have you ever abused an alarm clock?

No, but I gave one away. Does that count?

5) It's "time" to spread some "It's Blogcess" linky love?

Eureka Blyth
April Fool
From My Position

Want to learn more about "Blogcess":
Click here.

This week my daughter is out of Kindergarten and my husband has taken vacation. He will be staying home with both the girls. I opted to not take vaction since we went live with an application I have been working on last week. Still some loose ends.

How much variety could a vacationing hubby bring? More than usual. Since we carpool to take advantage of the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) Lane (and savings on gas), I will not be able to do so this week. And I heard blow up dolls don't work. But even if it did, I would not take that route since it is not a direct route to my office. (Trust me on this one and I don't feel like explaining it.)

So I drive a different route. And I get FULL control of the radio!!!! FULL!!!! I can listen to my CDs! Or the yacky talk show I like. Or maybe even one of the kid's music CDs!!! Wooo hoooo!

Since we don't have to get the girls to school before our trek into work, I get to sleep in!!! A whole 30 minutes. Doesn't make up for the naps that I usually take while my hubby is driving, but I will cope.

Variety, here I come!!!

For the past month or so, I tried to get a side business going. I did not put much into it and things out of my control helped it fizzle out. I am looking to make just a few extra dollars to fund getting my nails done on a regular basis and paying for Weight Watcher meetings.

And I keep coming back to blog design. I am working on someone's site now who mentioned I should make it a business. Since I can't do it full time and would find it somewhat difficult to deal with alot of volume and hard deadlines, I was thinking of going with the "cheap pricing but you get it when it is done" business model. Not that it would take 3 months to get a design done, but if something comes up with my family and day job, it will come first.

My pricing would be something like this:

$ 25: Basic Blog: Includes graphics, section headers, basic template customization
$ 15: Graphics only: Headers and section headers
$ 10: Header Only
I would offer additional services like install plugins, major cutomization, or anything special at rates similiar to above depending on the task.

Looking at other blogs designers, their services range from $50 to $200. I also don't think I am at the level to charge those prices. Not yet! But my target is the casual blogger who just wants a nice blog that is personal.

What do you think? Would you consider it cheap? To those I have worked on before, would you have paid the prices above or just dealt with the blog you had? Any feedback would be appreciated!

Note to those bloggers I am currently helping, don't worry, I won't ask for money. Just mulling it over.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!

We are heading over to my anti-MIL with my parents to gobble, gobble, gobble! I am thankful that all my family will be together today. Even my brother and his new girlfriend. Wooo hooo!

Presenting this week's PreGame Summary for the Novices. Tomorrow, Texas plays Texas A&M in College Station, TX. Every year we play them the day after Thanksgiving.

Mascot: American Border Collie. Reveille, the first lady of Aggieland, is the official mascot of Texas A&M University. She is the highest ranking member of the Corps of Cadets, and she is a Five-Star General.

All Reveille's are buried at the north end of their stadium where they can see the score board.

Members of this school are nicknames "The Aggies", since they are know to be an agricultural school.

Colors: Maroon and White

Location: College Station, TX. The roads into this town are only two lanes. TWO. LANES.

Main Rival: Texas. They pretty much hate Texas.

Unique Tradions/Misc: Tradition should be an Aggie's middle name. Every Freshman is required to take a class be brainwashed on the school and it's tradtions. They even have a Tradions Council. All tradtions listed here.

Thumbs Up is their hand symbol.

Misc: The Head Coach, Dennis Franchione, made many enemies when he came to A&M. I found this article explaining the controversy behind his move. Text below quoted from it.

Famous Players: None of note.

Spread:-28 (If you bet with a spread on Texas, they have beat A&M by 28 points for you to win.)

How they have been playing: They are currently have 5 wins and 5 losses.

What we have to watch for: We need to avoid injuries and turn overs.

My Comments: The Aggies take their traditions very seriously. Below are stories:

The MOB

The most notorious incident involving a Corps of Cadets member and a visitor came in October 1981, when senior Greg Hood wielded his saber at an SMU cheerleader on the field after a 27-7 Aggies loss on Halloween. Picture here.

On a very sad note, there is this story.

There are many other stories, but we would be here forever. When I asked my husband what he would tell someone who did not know about A&M about the school in general, he replied with one word: cult.

When it comes to kids movies, I am very easy to please. And this one did not let me down. Great story, good adult jokes, great soundtrack, and characters that you grow to love. My Mom and Dad went with us - hubby and girls. I heard everyone laughing at some point in the movie.

I had read a review with some concern over preschoolers and a scary sceen, but my girls watch Teen Titans and few other "battle" shows, so it was not anything new to them. They were fine, but anyone under 3 may need some hand holding.

If I had the chance to go again, I would. A definate future DVD buy.

Here are some recent posts that I like:

Some Days #33

Thank you #1

Thanks you #2

You get what you ask for

Funeral Planning

Workforce Safety - not for kids or weak stomachs!

That's how many emails I had in my work email account. We had a virus get into our network and it caused many problems and multiple notifications of these problems. (There has got to be a better word than multiple.) I ended up working from home today since it came to a head around the time I should have been on the road. Can't do much in a car.

I did not have the problem figured out at 1:00 am last night so I slept for a few hours until our morning shift comes in at 3:30 am. Wooo hooo! The guy who calls has a DJ voice and can be very calming.

By the time we figured it out and had the problem under control, I would have only been in the office for 3 hours since the girls had a dentist appointment. So I worked the rest of the day at home.

Now I am off to take Youngest fufill her sleeping stuffed animal request and then slide into bed with my soft quilt on me. And sleep.

Sigh.

Oldest and Youngest may have a clue on this fall's fashion trend - layers.

What do you think?