Birthday and basketball

As most of you are probably aware, my Memphis Tigers didn't pull out a win last night against Kansas in the National Championship game. I was disappointed in the lost, but besides a few mistakes here and there, I think the Tigers played one heck of a game! They were winning by 3 points with 10 seconds left in the game when Kansas came and tied it up. That, of course, sent it into overtime and the Tigers just couldn't hold it together after that. Not only would a National Title been incredible for Memphis to have, but it would have been great for this city. Well, there's always next year boys! (I say that like they read this.... ha)

Besides a disappointing loss from the Tigers, yesterday was a great day. It was my birthday! Thanks so much for all of you that called, sent cards, emails or wrote on my facebook wall. That really meant a lot and made the day very special. My wonderful boyfriend took me out to dinner last night, then for dessert - yes I splurged and had a piece of delicious ooey-gooey-caramel pie. (Thanks to Caroline I have been dreaming about it for months.) We ended the night at a friends watching the game, then back to Ben's to open gifts. I don't feel any older, but I never do on birthdays. I am excited that my insurance goes down now! whoo hoo!

Now it's back to the grind.... have a great Tuesday!

Um, yeah

I'm back! I had great intentions of posting sooner than today but obviously that didn't happen! I'm sure you are just dying to know every little detail that has been going on in my life in the past 10 days or so, well let me fill you in!

The weekend of the Memphis/UT game turned out to be a lot of fun. Ben and I went down to Tunica Friday night and met up with a group of friends. I'm not much of a gambler, but I was up $1.50 on the penny machines at one time...I ended up losing it all in the end. I knew I should have cashed in while I was ahead! ;-) Saturday everyone met up at Ben's apartment before heading downtown. I had purchased the most amazing shirt to wear, and I knew it was gonna be a big hit. (HA!) Everyone decided that buying tickets was a no-go so we went to Jillian's Sports Bar and hung out/watched the game at the UT Alumni Party. It was a SEA of orange. Gross. My friend Becky came down and hung out with me so I wouldn't have to be the lone Tiger fan in the mass of UT fans. Bruce Pearl, the UT coach came and gave a little pep-talk/speech. You would have thought God entered the room the way these ppl just went nuts! Becky and I were looking at each other like "are you serious?" The game was very exciting, non-stop action and scoring the whole game. But with the ref's on the Vols side, and them playing a little better than the Tigers, UT pulled out a victory. The score was 66-62. very close game.

My Awesome T-Shirt!

I'm trying to think of what else has been going on...this past weekend Ben and I went to Lebanon, TN to visit his grandparents. His uncle was in town from DC so it was a lot of fun getting to meet him. The weekend was very relaxing. We napped, ate, and enjoyed the beautiful weather.... it was great! Other than that life has been pretty much the same ole' same ole' - work, hanging out with friends, etc. I'll be keeping you posted!

anticipating

I've been looking forward to this weekend for a few weeks now. Tomorrow is the big Memphis vs. Tennessee basketball game. Memphis is #1 and UT is #2. If that weren't reason enough for this to be a big game, it's huge here in Memphis because U of M considers UT to be a huge rival. Whether UT feels that way or not, I do not know - but I have a hunch they don't really care. I'm not really looking forward to the game per-say because we don't have tickets and I really just don't care about basketball. But my bf is a HUGE (and when I say HUGE, I mean HUGE) UT fan. He has a group of friends coming in town for the game. None of them have tickets - and since the going price is an average of $1000 (some WAY more than that) I don't think any of the guys are actually going to be AT the game. But we will be downtown all day enjoying the festivities and then finding a nice cozy (probably loud) place to watch the game. I will be proudly sporting my Tiger Blue while the rest of the crew will be in their obnoxious orange. You tell me who will be the more fashionable of the group?
Tonight we're heading down to Tunica. I will be playing it safe at the penny and nickel slots. If I get really adventurous I might moozy over to the quarter slots, but that's about as wild as I get! I'm sure this weekend will be fun and exhausting weekend! I'll let ya know how it all went, on Monday!

Have a great weekend kiddos!