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Football Nation

I don’t watch football. I have little interest in it. I don’t even care to watch the Super Bowl, even for just the commercials. I was also probably one of very few people I know who wasn’t watching the Raiders vs. Chargers game tonight. I never knew, but apparently the husband is a Raider fan. Being born & raised in LA, generally that’s the default team to cheer for. Me, if anything, I’d be a Rams fan. My dad’s family were season ticket holders when they still were in LA and I just don’t see myself as a cheesehead like my mom.

As much as I don’t care about football, I did feel like a pariah seeing all the Facebook postings about the game. It didn’t help that I’m sitting home alone catching up on America’s Next Top Model, Dexter and working away and season 7 of Charmed. I live the exciting life, oh yes I do!

Are there any events/activities/interests that you aren’t or haven’t been interested in and felt like you were the only one?

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[Guest Post] My First USC Football Game

This guest post from Josue Nichols.

Last year I had an opportunity to attend a University of Southern California football game. I was extremely excited because I have watched USC play numerous times while watching college football on TV from Direct tv, but now I was actually going to be seeing them play live.

The stadium that USC played in was awesome. The amount of fans walking around with branded sports apparel surprised me. When I first walked into the stadium I recognized it and felt as if I had been there before because I have seen so many of their games before but this was the first time seeing one of their football games in person.

As much as I like attending college football games, my favorite aspect of the games is the food. I can eat nachos and hot dogs all day long. Prices tend to be high for the concessions stands at the games, but nothing beats eating some nachos while watching a live football game in person.

The USC game I attended had me extremely excited. The intensity of the loyal fans of USC was contagious. You cannot watch a USC football game at their home stadium without feeling the excitement.

If I was lucky enough to live in Southern California then I would attend USC games much more often.

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Sports & Music Play Together

I’ve been to my share of sporting events, predominantly baseball, with a couple of hockey games thrown in for good measure. I absolutely love going to baseball games and really, the only team I’ve seen at home are the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s a little rough being a Dodger fan in San Diego since we’re the only team Padres fans can really hate on. We usually have other, bigger fish to fry like the San Francisco Giants.

Apparently it’s totally okay, however, for San Diegans to root for the Los Angeles Lakers come basketball season. I’d say they should be rooting for the Clippers since they originally were based out of San Diego, but I can’t fault them for not caring since few people care about the Clippers. Now that all L.A. basketball teams are playing out of the Staples Center, I wonder how many of my peers managed to get Great Western Forum tickets to see at least the Lakers play? I’m not sure how many would have since we were all around the age of starting high school. I know guys can be pretty into sports, but just how much at that age?

My mom, surprisingly, is a real big sports fan. She predominantly watches basketball and football. She’s originally from Madison, WI so she’s a huge Cheese Head. As in, she’s a huge Green Bay Packers fan. She gets a lot of crap for it, I’ve observed, but like a true fan, she doesn’t waver in her loyalty. One thing I’ve wondered is if she’s ever managed to score Lambeau Field tickets and see a home game of theirs. I know my dad recently got to go to St. Louis and see the Rams play (the team of which he’s a fan), so I wonder if my mom’s have the privilege of seeing her team play at home. That could make for a real awesome milestone gift for her, either 30th anniversary, retirement or one of her over-the-hill birthdays :D Maybe at some future point I’d be able to give that to her… She certainly deserves it.

There was actually a time when my sporting event attendance dwarfed to my attendance to music events, including having Hollywood Bowl tickets to Cher’s finale show to her Farewell Tour, the Righteous Brothers shortly before one of them passed away and Weird Al Yankovic. Would you believe that I’ve seen Cher in concert twice? I’ve been able to take a friend to each concert and they’re still my best friends from school, so I’ve joked that you’re not my best friend until you’ve seen Cher in concert with me ;)

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Better To Play It Downhill

My husband loves to golf. He’s only been golfing for a little over a year, but since then, he’s become very knowledgeable about the sport and a pretty decent player. He beats out my dad, even! Most of my family members are golfers, actually, including my mom. My grandfather, my dad and his older brother, my mom and even my brother – they all have their own golf clubs and play. It’s a shame that my dad never made it out to visit us when we lived in South Carolina because I’m sure a weekend trip to one of the Myrtle Beach golf courses would’ve been amazing!

It’s also a shame that the husband didn’t get into golf until we moved back to Southern California. If my dad had made it out and the husband was actually into golf, I would’ve suggested they go out for one of the Myrtle Beach golf packages together. They love golfing together, even if my dad gets beat by somebody who’s only been golfing a year and half! They keep up with their scores and handicaps online and use sites like http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net/ to set up tee times and find out green fees. We never did make it out to Myrtle Beach during the 3 years we lived out there. :(

Maybe I should also give in and pick up golf like the rest of my family? What do you think? Have you ever actually played golf?

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Mechanics & Technology – How Conveniently Inconvenient

I’m back home in SD. The husband was out all day before our drive home with friends at a pub watching the damn World Cup. That’s cool, whatever floats his boat, but I thought we’d be headed back down earlier than 2pm! I mean, having to be at work by 4:30pm is kind of crunch and the later it got, the more likely it was we’d hit some sort of traffic. We hit patches of it and there were idiots in the fast & carpool lanes going slower than 60MPH which was ridiculous. Slow traffic stay RIGHT, assholes! Luckily I got home with enough time to hit the toilet, change quickly and head the 5 minutes down the freeway to work with a few minutes to spare.

We’ll be needing some maintenance to the car SOON. The brakes sound AWFUL and while we haven’t hit the average mileage for the first brake job, we’ve driven this car through a lot of LA traffic, cross-country and through all sorts of up & down terrain coming up & down between LA & SD. Not to mention some of the belts need to be replaced since they’re looking aged and cracked. We definitely don’t want something more expensive to occur because we neglected to change that shit out.

I’ve had my new laptop since, I think, March? Somehow the power adapter cord has melted itself through (or maybe it got under some other hot running electronic) and tonight the laptop wouldn’t acknowledge that fact that it was plugged in. Lo-behold, it’s melted enough through that it’s fricken smoking through the melted rubber/plastic on the cord. *sigh* Looks like I’ll be making a trip to Fry’s tomorrow morning since I’ll be wanting to use my laptop while I’m on vacation (hello movies!). Though it’ll only be half useful without Internet access, having a dead battery with no way to charge it would render it useless. It’d make for a great weight for when it gets windy, though!

So now I’m currently using a little battery power as possible (dim screen, no fancy desktop effects, as few open programs as needed). After I take care of some online business, I’ll be off to take a shower, get some clothes put together for my vacation and head to bed to wake up early for a doctor’s appointment. I have no hope of doing laundry efficiently here since our all-in-one machine takes forever with ONE small load! I’ll have to lug a bunch of dirty (though some clean!) to my parents’ house when my brother comes to pick me up. Thankfully they’ve got the family-sized efficient machines that are only a few years old (at least, the washer’s pretty damn new) ;)

PS: I have a new theme up. I’ve made some personalized adjustments to it but I’m still working on it as a whole! I need to make changes to have it reflect a personal blog and not a “magazine” style website, since that’s what the theme was meant for. I can do this! It’s not like I’m making a theme from scratch and no experience *lol*

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