The team had another great practice yesterday (if only my starters would stop twisting their ankles). Interestingly, I heard through the grapevine that the coach of the good team we’re playing today “isn’t really worried about (us).” May I be the first to say, “That is exceptional.”. I, of course, told my players about the opposing coach’s comments, and they, in turn, were totally fired up. Maybe we’ll give them a run for their money…or, maybe we’ll get squashed. I’ll give an update tomorrow.

Yesterday, the basketball team looked sharp: I'll bet they would have been competitive with our freshman team. Anywho, if things line up correctly, we'll probably have a down day tomorrow, when we play the best team in the league. If not, things might be interesting...

Dad said, "We have had normal rain, freezing rain, and 4 inches of snow TODAY...sunny skies tomorrow. "

Sometimes, I miss Michigan. Sometimes, I remember a little thing that I like to call weather. The two states of mind do not usually coincide. On the other hand, California's main selling point is its good weather. Tell a Californian you're visiting from any other state, get an enthusiastic, "how about this weather!" response. Tell a Californian you just moved here, get an enthusiastic, "how about this weather!" response. Tell a Californian it's Tuesday, get an enthusiastic, "how about this weather!" response. Remind a Californian there's a Northern California, get questioning, blank stare. Ahhh, the lessons we learn.

This isn’t really limited to airport bathrooms, and you ladies out there won’t completely understand what I’m talking about, but whose bright idea was it to make “urinal cakes”? First of all, they’re not really cake (you don’t want to learn that lesson the hard way, believe me). Second of all, did they really think that the smell of cheap perfume (what the cakes contain) would be IMPROVED when hundreds of men peed on it? Let’s be serious.

Alright, the picture parade is officially over, and real life begins anew. And when I say real life, I mean that Sarah has to go back to work, and I have to go back to not really doing anything. For the record, Sarah worked three days last week, so real life actually began last Wednesday, but I was so busy trying to finish my Christmas chocolate that I hardly noticed.

There was a frost advisory this morning in Orange County: it took the top spot on today’s news, superseding yesterday’s top story, wind. So little goes on here with the weather: the slightest threat to homeostasis is completely surprising. “What?!?!?!? You’re saying that WATER can FALL from the SKY!!!!????!!!??”