AND consarn it all!
I knew I should have done the Auburn game write-up yesterday when I had the chance. I'm busier than...than...than some guy who can't think up similes!
SO--abbreviated version--Kickoff's at 6 p.m., listen on the radio, On-Field Advantage goes to the Plainsmen, Sideline Advantage goes to the Razorbacks.
Boy, how I hate to say that. But I have ridiculed the Hogs for years for their pitiful NONEXISTENT cheerleading pages, but this year it's a spectacle of great squad (two each of both cheer and pom-pom) and individual roster photos and game day candids and they've got like a whole herd of silly pig mascots. They still have a ways to go before they could compete with vaunted USC, but you have to admire the effort.
Prediction? Well, the newest Possumblog Sports Center Football Pickin' Chicken, Lil' Edward M., could barely be roused from his early afternoon stupor, but once awake, he squawked and ruffled his feathers. Suitably conscious, we placed Football Pickin' Chicken Lil' Edward M. in a small pen with a 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 shop manual, which he will peck and scratch on to indicate his choice of numbers.
And the score will be: AUBURN 38 -- ARKANSAS 21
NOW THEN, having dispensed with that, the tale of the weekend.
I have no idea.
The two older girls are going to go spend the night with a bunch of other girls from church, then go tomorrow to play with ceramics. Reba's going to go with them and take Catherine tomorrow, leaving Boy and me at the house as manly male bachelor men. I intend once and for all to install those pricey glass headlamps on the Volvo, and scratch impolite parts of myself and make rude bodily noises when the urge strikes. Well, if it strikes.
But other than that, and listening to the game, I have no other plans.
Somehow, I feel that plans will be made for me.
ANYway, all of you have a good weekend, and I'm going to get back to keeping my nose to the grindstone here in the salt mine.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 14, 2005 02:32 PMMaybe Miss Reba could make the "honey-do" list on a ceramic tablet for you.
What's this "if it strikes" nonsense? Without the wimmen-folk around, certain pieces-parts tend to get more relaxed. You have to set an example for that batchelor-in-training.
Do you really expect the Razorbacks to score 3 TD's against the vaunted Tiger D? If the Tiger 3rd stringers get on the field early in the 4th quarter, maybe.
Posted by: MarcV at October 14, 2005 02:49 PMWell, when you are bored and itchy, feel free to head on over to my blog and add some other appropriate husband ornaments to the list.
Posted by: Jordana at October 14, 2005 03:02 PMWell, Marc, you never know--I might get all civilized this weekend and those baser apelike urges might dissipate. As for the Hogs, I have a feeling they're much better than they're given credit for, but in the end, the final pick belonged to Lil' Edward M.
As for the honey-do list, no further suggestions, please.
And Jordana, I think your suggestions sound very good, but you might want to consider things like socks and shoes and pants and shirts and stuff, too. Making Justin wander around in a rep tie pushing a lawnmower whilst wearing an apron and a tool belt might get him in trouble.
Basic clothing is necessary, not ornamental.
Posted by: Jordana at October 14, 2005 08:11 PMMy wife keeps telling the same thing--I don't know why.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 17, 2005 08:12 AM