Game to Watch :: Week 6

First of all, I want to announce that I am the newest Staff Writer for a College Football blog, Project CFB!!!  My first article is live today, so check it out! :)

And now for my Game to Watch.

If you clicked on the link to my article above you'll see that I wrote about the match up between Michigan and Minnesota in the battle for the "Little Brown Jug", but I think the real Game to Watch this week is going to be Ohio vs Northwestern.  Ohio is a powerhouse team, no doubt about it, but I'd like to see someone shake them up a bit.  Maybe Northwestern is that team.  And if nothing else, this video they made is AWESOME!!!!

Also, If you haven't already, check out my post from Wednesday about my College Football Experiences so far this season.  Lots of tailgating and spirit going on over there! :)

Linking up with Sarah for Fan Friday! :)

Mood Changers

 We all have off/ bad days and yesterday was one for me.  I can't put my finger on what exactly it was but I literally just wanted to go home and go to bed.  Obviously I didn't do that.  I don't think I've gone to bed before 10 o'clock since l was in the 6th grade.  But here are some things that changed my mood around...

I am obsessed with Duck Dynasty.  Honestly this is new for me.  I never thought I'd loveeeee a show about rednecks with big, hairy beards, who hunt anything and everything.  But I do.  They're literally hilarious.  I don't remember what got me to start watching.  But the fact that 11.8 million some odd people watched the premier of the season is a little intriguing, regardless, I'm hooked.  Within minutes of starting any episode I am hysterically laughing.  It was a total mood changer and I was instantly laughing and happy!  :) 

Side note:  The first time I made my dad watch it he said if I don't laugh within the first 10 minutes, I'm changing it.  He laughed.  and laughed again.  He isn't as hooked as I am, but he'll watch it.  My mom is just as obsessed as I am. 

Music can usually cure anything for me... Happy, listen to music.  Sad, listen to music.  Mad, listen to music.  While listening to Pandora, Keith Urban's new single, We Were Us with Miranda Lambert came on and I found myself moving to the beat and smiling.  The beat, the contrast of Miranda and Keith, the lyrics.  It changed my mood.  I loved that song the first time I heard it and now love it even more.  I will be doing a complete review on Keith Urban's new album Fuse, very soon, so stay tuned!

 

Like I said, there was nothing in particular that put me in my little funk yesterday, maybe it was a number of things piling up.   But this morning I had a nice email from a friend complimenting and encouraging me, which was so nice!  Then, I got to the office and had a nice note from one of my bosses in my inbox.  It was random and he was just letting me know that he appreciated me.  It was extremely thoughtful of him and definitely brightened the start of today even more!

Do you watch Duck Dynasty?! What are some mood changers for you?!

5 Weeks, 4 Stadiums, 9 Teams

It's no secret how much I love College Football.  In the first 5 weeks of the 2013 College Football Season I have gone to 5 games, in 4 different stadiums and watched 9 different teams play!  This is the type of thing that makes every girl extremely happy, right?  Well it definitely is for me!  And every experience/game was so wonderful!

Week One.  Georgia Dome.  Alabama vs Virginia Tech.

I went to the Chick-fil-A Bowl Kick-off Game and watched Alabama's sub-par performance, but ultimately beat Virginia Tech.  I worked with the Communications Department in the Press Box of the game and served as the liaison to the University of Alabama Sports Information staff.  Literally, for someone who wants to work in sports, this was amazing!!!!  Read more about it here.

Week Two. High Points Solutions Stadium.  Rutgers vs Norfolk.

I went to the Rutgers home opener against Norfolk State where the Scarlet Knights blew the Spartans away 38-0.  It was so much fun to be tailgating with my friends and family again.  My family has season tickets and always does a great tailgate.  It was definitely the start of football season, fall and everything that goes along with it.  I love being back on the Rutgers campus and wish I was still there sometimes.

Week Three.  Beaver Stadium.  Penn State vs UCF.

My sister is a freshman at Penn State and great family friends of ours go there/went there/ are die hard fans.  We planned this weekend trip to State College, PA back in February.  No joke.  We had a Mega-tailgate.  The tailgate was 10 cars wide, had about 60-75 people and started at 10 a.m. for a 6 o'clock kick-off.  WE. DON'T. MESS. AROUND.  Most importantly, it was great to see my sister and spend the weekend with life-long, childhood friends.

The picture on the left is us in 1994.  My youngest sister, the freshman in college, wasn't even born yet!!

Week Four.  High Point Solutions Stadium.  Rutgers vs Arkansas.

Like I said, my family goes to every Rutgers home game and loves a good tailgate.  This tailgate was even bigger than the one for Norfolk State.  We started early, played way too many drinking games and cheered for the Scarlet Knights as they beat Arkansas, 28-24.  I know it's only Arkansas, but it's still fun that RU beat an SEC team!!

Week Five.  Sanford Stadium.  Georgia vs LSU.

OMG!!! This was the best College Football experience I have ever had & technically my first SEC game!!!  I've been to a numberrrr of college campuses over the years and this is, by far, the most beautiful one I've ever been too.  Not only that, the town of Athens is just amazing.  I was literally in awe!  And that was just Friday.  Then Saturday came and that love and infatuation from Friday just grew.  I went to the set of ESPN College GameDay and watched the hype and production of a show I've been a fan of, live!  It was so much fun being there for that.  The atmosphere in Athens on game day was unbelievable.  There was never a dull moment during the game either.  Both UGA and LSU played great offense, but the lack of defense is what made it such a high scoring, nail-biter of a game!  The Dawgs came out on top over the Tigers, 44-41, and the stadium went nuts!!!  WHAT A GAME and great win for UGA.  Go Dawgs, Sic 'Em!

I'm working on taking one more road trip this season (maybe two) on top of going to the rest of the Rutgers home games for the season!!!  So stay tuned for that!  :)

October is a New Month

Yup, it's a new month.  A new starting point.  I feel like time is literally flying by.  How is it already October?  I feel like there are so many things that I've been working on or wanting to do and just haven't dedicated the necessary time to it.  So there's a few things I hope to make time for and accomplish in October...

A Healthy Lifestyle.

I was doing so well with clean eating and exercising regularly and then summer got busy and I didn't dedicate the time to it.  That ends now.  This needs to be my top priority.  I need to be healthy for myself and for my future.  It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change.  It needs to become a habit, second nature.  Maybe I'll post some recipes or workouts?!  

Be a consistant blogger.

I was on a roll with continuously posting and engaging with readers and other bloggers.  Then work got nuts with a huge event I was planning and I was working on a few side projects.  I want to plan ahead for things like this.  I don't want to have those lulls in my blog.

Take the GRE/Apply to Grad School.

I've made a decision that I want to go to grad school.  I think it's an appropriate next step in order to see my career go in the direction I want.  So here goes nothing.  I've been studying, admittedly not as much as I probably should be, and I'm eager to take the GRE and get the application process underway!  I already know the top few schools I want to apply to, so keep your fingers crossed for me. 

Read. 

I have a ton of books I want to read.  This summer, I didn't read as much as I wanted to and the list continued to grow.  Here's to finishing the one(s) I've started, plus some!  I love hard copy books as opposed to e-books.  I love the smell and being able to hold it and turn the page.  Is this weird?  Whatever.  I hope to have a room full of all different kinds of books in my future house.  

October is my favorite month because of Fall, Football, and everything else that comes with this wonderful season!!  So here's to becoming a better me this October... :)