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OSUtes!

The age-old question... am I a Ute or a Beaver?

The age-old answer... I am a Ute!

Last night the Utes played the Oregon State Beavers. Since Mom and JoAnne are OSU alums, they wanted to go, so we got tickets and had great time. Mom, JoAnne and Holly all wore orange... I was the lone red-woman in the group. Fortunately, I had about 46,000 other red people surrounding me once we got to the stadium!


The game was crazy... the Utes were down most of the time. With 2 minutes remaining in the game, OSU scored a touchdown, making the score 28-20 for OSU. (I texted Dad at this point, he texts back "That sucks". Yeah it does!) We then put together an amazing run and scored a touchdown of our own with about a minute and a half left. We went for 2, OSU got pass interference (I could see it from where I was sitting! I'm glad the ref saw it too!), we tried again and the QB ran it into the endzone! Tied!

OSU got the ball back and had to punt it away. We got back down the field pretty quickly, and ran down the clock to 2 seconds for a shot at the last play. Dad called then to see if it was over, and so he got to hear the yells and shouts that only come from a successful field-goal attempt at the end of the game for a win!

What a great game! Makes me so reminiscent of so many seasons when we had season tickets and all the fun: hot dogs (yum-o), the kid-tunnel, sitting on the blacktop at the north end zone, witnessing a few defeats of BYU, heartbreaking shanked kicks off the goal posts, snow, Davis, the first-down section, dancing tubas, and more...

A UTAH GIRL AM I!!!

"We're the Deerfield _____ and we're swoopin' along!"

The kids today had to choose a different mascot for our school - the Deerfield Eagles. Some of the responses:
The Deerfield...
Hippos
Sugar Gliders
Wild Boars
Deer
Cougars
Bees
Flying Squirrels
Flamingos
Clock Watchers (wow! I didn't know school was so bad!)

Radio Celebrity

One of my morning commute (guilty?) pleasures is listening to the Chunga show on 101.9 The End. They started a new segment a few weeks ago - Battle of the Bad Seventies Bands. They play two songs, and you vote... no one really knows if you're voting for the one you like or the one you don't, but the winner gets played the next day along with a challenger, so I guess you're ultimately voting for the one you want to hear the next morning. They've had some pretty bad songs, and interesting winners... It started with a really bad country song - I'm not even sure of the name, but the lyrics were something like "I like... puppies in the spring... flowers in the yard... and onions..." Pretty bad. Other infamous winners have been Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Candy Man", "Convoy", and "Kung Foo Fighting". (Among the losers is "Muskrat Love"!) The current champ is "The Devil went down to Georgia".

I've been dropping off Holly in AF the past little bit (maybe because she wants to hear the Battle? Hmmm...). She's tried calling to vote a few mornings, but hasn't been able to get in... until this morning! She got in on-air to vote for "Devil"! (The contender was a Kenny Rogers' song... no contest at all!)

Here's how her on-air time went:
Ringing... ringing... ringing (had to wait for them to start taking callers)
Chunga: "Hello, 101-9 The End. Who's this?"
Holly: "This is Holly!"
Chunga: "What's your vote, Holly?"
Holly: "Devil went down to Georgia!"
Chunga: "Ok, thanks."
Holly: "Thank you!"

My part in all this... when she started talking to Chunga, I turned down the radio so that she wouldn't be one of those people who they have to say "Turn down your radio!" to. A very important job! Ta-da!

September 22 is National Diary Day!

Write a diary entry... what else would I do here? :)

Today was school pictures. It always rains on Deerfield's school picture day. When I left my house, it was raining a bit, but it stopped once we got on the freeway. It was so gusty down here at school - why'd we spend so much time doing our hair? Got my hair re-fixed, took our picture (I hate the funny one - I can never think of something really funny to do! We'll see how this one turns out.). The kids got their pictures taken - then the rain started. Good thing most of them were at school before it started really raining bad. It stopped by the time our lunch recess came around (thank goodness - I would not have wanted to have kids in for inside recess today!), and it's looking to be a fairly blah evening now.

Journal prompts

My 5th graders write in their journals every day, usually to a prompt. I've been thinking that my responses to some of the prompts would be fun to put here as well. I'm going to back-date a few, then try to keep current with one every now and then.