I’m kind of depressed that my Huskers didn’t win the Big 12 Championship last night, but they didn’t do too bad.  They did give the #3 team in the nation a run for their money, and only lost by a single point.  And, we do get to go to a bowl game:  The Holiday Bowl.  Not one of the more impressive bowl games, but a bowl game none the less.

Well, I need to get back to work on my quilts.  I’m hoping to have a few done before Christmas, to give as gifts to a few special people.  Plus, the new “Alice” movie starts on Sci-Fi tonight and I’ve been waiting a long time to see this one.  Hope it’s half as good as “Tin Man” was.  Until tomorrow. 

Tom Osborne was one of the last great coaches for Nebraska (football).  After he retired, things kind of went downhill.  It wasn’t until Bill Calahan took over as head coach that our boys saw their worst games ever.  Calahan was a former professional football coach and decided to completely throw the old playbook out the window and created his own thing.  That thing sucked so bad that he and the athletic director at that time were both asked to leave.  Nobody in the state of Nebraska had anything nice to say about either one of them.

But, times have changed and Nebraska is making a huge comeback.  Out of 12 games, we only lost 3.  That’s not bad compared to what we’d done in the past 5 years.  And, tonight we go up against the #3 team in the nation, the Texas Longhorns.  It’s the Big 12 Championship, and our chance to once again make it to a bowl game.  Even if we lose, we still have a chance to get to a bowl game, but not one of the more well-known games.  I just want to see our boys be the big team they were in the glory days.  I miss watching other teams run in fear because the Nebraska Black Shirts were coming onto the field.  Our Black Shirts are back, and in a big way.  Now, I just hope our offense plays as well as they did last week against Colorado.

But, no matter what the end result, I’ll be thrilled that I got to watch my boys play one more time.  I’ve been a fan of Nebraska football since I was a little kid, and I’ll be a fan till I die.  So, let’s get this party started and Go Big Red!!!!!

Actually, I’ve enjoyed having an artificial tree these past few years.  I think of it as my part for the Go Green movement.  I try to be ecologically minded, but it’s not always as easy as it sounds.  With an artificial tree, I know that somewhere out there is a live tree that will get to see another year because I didn’t want to have it cut down just so I could have a real tree in my home for a few weeks.  Although I do miss the smell of a fresh Christmas tree, I don’t miss having to vacuum up all the dropped needles from my carpets.

I am hoping to have my tree up and ready to go in the next few days.  It will all depend on how energetic my hubby feels and whether I can convince him to dig the tree out of storage.  Not his favorite job, but once he’s got the tree set up, his job is over.  The kids and I will do all the decorating.  Even though they’re both teenagers now, they still enjoy putting the decorations on the tree.  At least now they can reach all the way to the top.  LOL

I’d also love to go to Malta.  I remember when I was a kid, my grandmother was a big fan of the movie “The Maltese Falcon”.  Honestly, to this day I’ve never seen the movie.  But I was shocked to find out that the island of Malta is thought to have been one of the first bases of civilization in Europe.  Some of the ruins they’ve found on the island date back to more than 5,000 years BC.  They’ve also found tons of little statutettes that resemble a woman’s figure.  Because of this, many scholars have thought that it was a matriarchal society.  In other words, women ran the show in those days, but this is just a hypothosis.

While looking for more information on ancient “stuff”, I did run across a pretty cool new site.  It’s called the Virtual Museum, and it’s filled with pictures and information about hundreds of societies that flurished across Europe since the dawn of time.  Some of the objects are deemed to be more than 40,000 years old.  However, the site is rather new and there is still alot of work being done.  But it’s still a pretty cool place to check out.  Especially if you’re like me and don’t see yourself getting to Europe anytime soon.  So, for now I’ll just bookmark this site and live vicariously though it.  I have no life. 

Being a mom, I’ve been subjected to kids movies for most of the past 20 years.  But, my kids have gotten to a point where they’ve kind of grown out of this movie niche, but I still love them.  I remember when the movie “James and the Giant Peach” first came out on VHS.  My son had gotten it for his birthday or Christmas, or something like that.  He and his little sister watched that movie over and over again.  I can still almost recite the entire thing by heart.  It was a great movie, though.

Ironically, I’m not the only one in our family who enjoys these computer animated, made-for-kids type movies.  My mother-in-law is the same way.  Whenever another of these types of movies comes out, she always asks my kids if they want to see it.  Not because she wants to be the sweet grandmotherly type (which she is anyway), but because she doens’t want to look silly going to see the movie by herself.  I’ve told her more than once that I’d be more than happy to go with her, but she just thinks we’d both look weird.  LOL

My theory?  When you stop enjoying the sillier things in life, it’s time to give up the ghost.

Anyway, that’s not really what I wanted to write about here today.  I wanted to talk about the little challenge that I’m taking on this month.  I joined the NaNoWriMo challenge last month, but didn’t get very far.  Then, I found a site that is dedicated to NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month.  Although this usually takes place in the month of November, they also have it set up so that you can work the challenge on any given month of the year.  I’m going to try and complete the challenge for the month of December.  Like I don’t have enough other things to do this month.  LOL

Why did I choose December?  Mainly to see if I can do this in the busiest month of the year.  Not only am I in the process of getting things ready for Christmas, a couple friends and I are in the process of opening up our own store.  Not only will it be online, but it will be a real shop right here in our little town.  The name of the shop is Calico Acres Thrifts and Gifts.  It’s going to be a classy thrift shop and a place for us to sell our handmade craft items.  I personally do quilts and quilt pillows.  Once we get our poop in a group, I’ll post the link to the site.  We already own the domain name, but I haven’t done anything with it yet.

Then, on top of all that, I’m still ghost writing for another blogger.  As of right now, there’s only one client, but that’s ok.  Sometimes, it’s better to only work for one person than a bunch of people.  You don’t get quite as confused with the orders.  LOL.  With all of this, I’m really hoping that I’ll have enough fodder to gab about for the whole month of December.  I don’t know how it will work out, but let’s all go along for the ride.  If nothing else, someone is sure to get a good laugh out of all this at my expense.  LOL

Ciao for Now,
Christine