Tossin' the Pigskin

It's that time of year again!

Football season!

I just love it, don't you?

I especially love all of the tailgating food. But, I love food in general so that's probably not a good enough reason for loving football. Ha!

This year, my team, The Oklahoma State University Cowboys, are sporting new uniforms, and boy are they ever fabulous!

My favorite are still the orange jerseys with white pants, but they have enough different colors of everything this year to make 48 different uniform combinations! Is that not crazy? I don't even have that many outfits in my closet. Maybe I should start playing football?

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I love me some ORANGE!

And our quarterback, Brandon Weeden!

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You can't play the game without DEFENSE and we have a fantastic defensive line!

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This one makes me laugh. It's just so...foreboding. Haha!

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These are my favorites from the last couple of years, but I think the new uniforms are going to be just as great. Plus, with 48 different possible combinations we'll be able to predict the uniform combo along with the score. More ways to win a contest is always a good thing in my book. :-)


I can't wait till our game against Tulsa on Saturday!

GO POKES!

Photo Challenge Week 7 : What I Wore Today

The Pokes are on ESPN tonight so I HAD to wear my orange and black today to represent!



Can I just say my shadow looks super sassy back there? Ha!




My shoes are orange too. That’s just how I roll.




In case you needed a close-up of my O-State action. I’m here to please, after all.



Next week: Black and White!

I…plunge?

Have you ever seen one of these?



I cracked up when I saw it with my dad’s birthday card from his co-workers. I’m one of his co-workers so of course, I tested it out for him. The cute little thing actually works!


As I was playing with this silly little plunger I was thinking about the time I gave myself a um…uh…a…hickey... That’s right. I said hickey. On my forehead.

What? You want to know how I not only gave myself a hickey, but I gave it to myself on my forehead? I assure you I am not a contortionist.

It all began with one of these…



Imagine me as a 13ish year old girl home alone with my little brother (who was basically a hermit and never came out of his bedroom) on a school night. I was standing in the kitchen doing great things or perhaps just staring into the fridge when I spotted a rubber half circle thing on the counter. I began to play with the half sphere. Rolling it inside out, sticking it to the counter, watching it POP up into the air, trying to catch it, and then doing it all over again, but then, oh, but then...I thought "what would happen if I stick this to my forehead? Will it still POP?"

The answer is NO.

I rolled that half circle popper thing inside out, stuck it to my forehead, and proceeded to wait for what felt like hours. I'm sure it was more like 2.7 minutes. Finally, after accepting defeat I pried that bit of silicone rubber off my forehead, laid it back on the counter, and went out to watch TV until my parents came home.

When they returned home I followed them into the kitchen where they turned to look at me and just stared. After a few seconds my dad said, "what the heck is on your forehead?! Is that a hickey?! How did you get a HICKEY on your FOREHEAD?! Hahahahahahahaha!!!" I looked at him like a crazy person and then ran to the bathroom. Sure enough, there was a perfect, circle shaped purple bruise right smack in the middle of my forehead.

That ugly thing was there for a whole day. A whole day of school.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you shouldn't stick suctiony circly things to your forehead.

I haven't tried it with the iPlunge so let me know how that one goes. :-)

The 411…or 410

After a year of living in my “new” house I thought perhaps it was time to post some house numbers. Plus, I’m a little tired of having to deliver mail to my neighbors since having a numberless house obviously means you’re all the numbers.

I didn’t want plain old numbers nailed to the porch posts like all of my neighbors so I made a sign.




Hobby Lobby was kind enough to provide me with this clearance marked metal sign, I already had the tile from a previous house number, and the numbers and paint came from Lowe’s. I <3 Hobby Lobby and Lowe’s. I could live at either one.



A little magic…snap, snap…one, two, three…and now we have this!





Maybe I’ll stop coming home to cribs and other strange deliveries on my porch? I sure hope so!



Have a great Labor Day, everyone!



Oh, and Go Pokes!!

Photography Challenge Week 6 : Low Angle

 I love old buildings. Especially the old buildings in small towns. The other day I was visiting my grandma in her small town so I took some shots of this old drugstore. I’ve always loved it.










If only I hadn’t completely blown out the sky in the first two pictures… Oh well, that’s what practice is for, right?





Next Week: What You Wore Today