Can you believe the Gators played all those games against top level teams with immense physical specimens lined up across from them and who do they lose TWO D-linemen to? The Citadel!!! A bad 1AA team without the big, strong, fast guys teams like Georgia and LSU have. Good grief.
The store is starting to get busy for Thanksgiving. We won't be able to walk down the front speedway tommorrow because, despite having every single register open, the customers will be lined up back into the aisles. The day before Thanksgiving is always fun, if hectic, because it isn't often one gets to witness that kind of business. It is always the single busiest day of the year for us. The day after is the slowest. Every one has leftovers and is shopping the deals at the mall.
I don't understand the people who say that "Mansions over the Hilltop" sounds selfish. Even if you are to disagree with the songs description of heaven, the point still is that we have something great waiting for us and I want to go. Do you want to go to heaven? I do, and that doesn't make me selfish. "I've got a mansion, just over the hilltop" is a declaration of faith in the promises of God. "I want a gold one, that's silver lined" is just a silly description of the wondrous nature of what is waiting for us and a declaration of wanting to go. (And when you read Rev 21 and 22 that description seems less silly. Really, when compared to pearls so big they are hollowed out to make gates for the city?) God has promised us great things; there is nothing wrong with wanting those things. And we are told to have confidence in our salvation, so a declaration that I'm going is not wrong either. It is an expression of faith. A faith that God wants us to have. Read Hebrews.
And yes, I'm grateful that my father, while teaching us the need for proper respect, also allowed a sense of fun and cameraderie. Our insults just express our love for each other. (Mostly)
I often think I don't have enough time. I work a 50 hour a week job that regularly stretches to 55 or more. I do all my own houswork, though not as much as I should. I try to check email and Pleo twice a week, and spend as much as 12 hours a week getting ready for bible class. I'd like to start exercising again, but when?
Wait, last week I picked up a favorite novel and spent about 8 hours reading it, watched 5 hour long TV shows, the new Bond movie, and some college football, and slept in on my day off until 11.
Hmmm, if I cut out three TV shows that would leave me three hour long periods to get back on my bike. Cut the reading down to six hours and I'd have two more to be even more prepared and relaxed for class. Get out my dumbbells and do some weight training while watching the other two TV shows. Get up at nine instead of 11 on my day off and have two hours to do a better job of keeping my apartment neat.
It isn't I don't have enough time, it is using that time wisely and realizing that I DO have enough time when I BARELY have enough time.
Of course, I have a lot more free time than you saps out there with kids. :)
I learned in a sermon 15 years ago, titled "You do what you really want to do." I've remembered that all of these years, and it really is true. Sometimes it's hard to admit, but it is true.
All day today I was working to keep myself from hurling things across the store! Nothing really went bad. On the whole, it was a good day, yet if any small thing didn't go right this very powerful rage bubbled up from inside. Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed! I was taking deep breaths and counting to ten all day. I don't know what was going on, but I'm blaming Dad. He passed on the bad genes!
On the plus side, I did control my impulses all day, didn't take anything out on my associates, and behaved the way Christ would have wanted, but it wasn't easy.
I'll have a day like this every so often, maybe a couple of times a year, and the main thing I've learned is being mad all day wears you out. Really, I'm going to bed early.
Hi I'm Paula and I stumbled across your blog. I grew up hearing lots about you and your family. My mom and your mom went to FC. I think that you may have met dad and mom when they were down to Florida in August.
Gee, Lucas, I remember days like that. I had 2 or 3 little kids at the time and I, too, counted it a good day if I didn't take it out on anyone else (and if I had the same # of kids I started the day with). Generally meant I needed to take a quiet day.
I get it. Sometimes we just need to be mad. I think it helps us know we are still human. I am sure the legal team is glad you didn't start launching canned goods across the aisles!!
LOL...sorry about that! Controlling impulses is something I know something about...some days I just start out in a cranky mood (I have a tendency towards that anyway), like when the paper is not here when I first wake up. There is truth to: She's out of hormones and she has a gun! Hope you are feeling brighter!
I'm not really deathly ill, but just don't feel good. Everytime I get going at something, I start to feel icky. If I was alone today I'd push through, like I said I don't feel THAT bad, but Santos (my boss) is there and we got all the important things done, so I told him I was going home early since I felt lousy, and he said, "Sure, go." I'll probably nap a little and then study some for Wed. Class. Supposed to take M&D on a walk through San Felasco tommorrow, so I want to rest up for that.
I do feel bad for Paterno, though I'm happy the Gators' chances are improving. Can't have everything.
First I had an idea to rant against Obama and his bad ideas and how can anyone vote for that anti-American socialist? Then I thought, "Why bother? He's already won and no matter what I say will change that."
So then I thought of a post based on Rom. 13 and all authority coming from God and my basic calmness about this tradgedy because of my faith that God is truly running things, but several others have posted similar ideas on pleo -- his is really good -- and I can't do better. So scratch that.
So now I will turn to truly important issues: the Gator's chances of making the BCS title game. He commented on his post that the Gators basically didn't have a chance. Bologna!!! Texas Tech will almost certainly lose to either Oklahoma St. or Oklahoma and if they don't could easily trip up in the Big 12 title game. If UF wins out and goes to Atlanta to play an undefeated #1 ranked Alabama -- and yes, they need to win out for us to have a real shot -- and wins convincingly and there is only one other unbeaten team -- very likely -- then UF should vault into the title game. They are already being called by several commentators the best one loss team in the country. And Penn State could still be upset. True, they don't have a tough schedule in front of them, but Iowa and Michigan St. are solid teams and could pull the upset. It is still possible that chaos could reign complete and we could have Penn St., Alabama, UF, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and USC all with only one loss. Of those Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, UF and Alabama have all played schedules that are tough to very tough. If that happens, who do you pick as #1 and #2? Still, UF's chances are really good, though we do need help. And, know what, if we finish 13-1, SEC champs, bowl game winners and in the top five in the country, it was a great year. If Texas Tech and Penn St. both go undefeated then good for them. Go JoePa!
What makes you think that TT is almost certainly going to lose? Because they're Texas Tech? OSU was beaten by the team that TT just beat and Oklahoma has a history of falling apart in big games. They very well could lose, but I'd hardly put an "almost certainly" on it—any more than I'd put an "almost certainly" on UF's chances of losing again.
And I'm pretty sure that he just said that they'd need a lot of help to get there. If you were to look that phrase up in the dictionary, you'd find something quite similar to the situation you describe above!
And remember, to get into the game, the school also has to have won its conference. So, if Oregon State wins out, they get the Pac 10 and USC doesn't have a chance to get in the game. If TT wins out, then Texas doesn't have a chance to get in.
UF's best case scenario is for Texas Tech and Oregon State to win out with Penn State dropping one—and then to beat Alabama. That makes a TT/UF championship game with basically no arguments from anyone else with just one loss.
Actually, you are incorrect. A team DOES NOT have to win its conference to get in. This almost happened a couple of years ago and led to a lot of controversy. The BCS supposedly just wants the two best teams regardless of whether they won their conferences. And, yes, "almost certainly" is a bit strong, but TT does have two very difficult games ahead of it which will probably lead to at least one loss. It is very hard to go through a gauntlet like that without at least one loss. Ask Texas. Or the 2006 Gators.
Although, I think that the point still stands about that being UF's best option--a bunch of one-loss non-conference-winners. The voters would give it UF over Texas and USC who didn't win the Big 12 and Pac 10, respectively.
