While I'm on the subject of OSU

And yes, I know they are down at the half. Anyway, last year I came to work one day and got a phone call from Jordan. She asked me if I anyone else had called about what appeared to be Script Ohio on the pond on the back of our property. She couldn't tell for sure but she was pretty sure that it looked like someone had been able to do Script Ohio on the pond, which was frozen and snow covered at the time. We called a few people we knew with upstairs apartments facing the right direction to see if someone cared if we came into their home to go on the balcony and see. Sure enough, Jordan was right. The "i" was even dotted! Turns out a few of our residents went out there with shovels and did it. If you click on the picture and enlarge it you can see the detail. I have to say it was AWESOME! (And unsafe so we are all on the same page here, we have no fishing, swimming or skating signs posted around the water) Also, since a few wives were willing to fess up to their husbands late night antics, Jeff and Jared, Jessica and Gretchen- You may have moved but you will always be Buckeyes! We miss you!

Go Bucks!

Tonight we had Katerina, Maria and Gywnn come over to have an impromptu dance party. We decided to play some OSU songs and have some fun. Maria who is only 2 is quite good at
O-H-I-O. I was pretty impressed. Caroline was not impressed. She was really, really worried that Brutus Buckeye was going to come over again and as you may know, she does not like it when Brutus comes over. I let her know that it is not possible for Brutus to come over, because he is at the game in New Orleans with Brian. Anyway, it has become a big thing at bedtime to come up with any and all reasons to stay awake and talk about things, life, whatever. So tonight I got called into Caroline's room so she could let me know that she is not scared of Brutus anymore. I was pretty interested in the change of heart so I asked her what changed her mind. She told me "Well, he's a nice guy." So there you go. Also, she wants me to call him tomorrow to tell him.

Poor Brook. About a month ago she was diagnosed with liver cancer. The cancer is the bad news obviously but the good news is that they were able to operate and remove the tumor. (After the success of the surgery we were finally able to joke around and say "It WAS a tumor" in our best Arnold Schwarzenegger voices.) Anyway, she has had this lampshade on her head for a few weeks now. Thankfully the lampshade comes off on Tuesday.

I think Caroline is taking the sleep mask thing pretty seriously. She has worn it all day. She wore it to our neighbors house this afternoon and told them it is in case her eye hurts. Then tonight I was longing for a Pepsi and went to the gas station to get one. Caroline wore her rubber rain boots, her OSU cheerleading outfit and her sleep mask. This man walked in and just started laughing at her. She made quite a few friends in there tonight.

Another great purchase from the Target $1 section

Pink leopard print sleep mask for Caroline. (Don't worry, I took it off as soon as she fell asleep.)

Oops he did it again!

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- In his 899th win, Bob Knight was as feisty as ever.
With about 7 1/2 minutes remaining in the first half of Texas Tech's 75-68 win over UTEP on Saturday, Knight lost his right shoe when he kicked the front of the scorer's table.
The coach was upset about a charging call against Esmir Rizvic. Shortly after replacing his shoe, he strode the length of table during a timeout and apparently told a Big 12 and NCAA official seated there to keep an eye on the officiating.
Less than a minute later, he got a technical for arguing with officials about a call on Charlie Burgess on Randy Culpepper's breakaway attempt.
While Stefon Jackson and Culpepper made free throws, Knight continued to stand and talk to the referee as his son, head coach designate Pat Knight, tried to encourage his father to return to the bench.
After the game, Knight used a more playful approach with another of his longtime nemeses, the media.
Knight lifted 21-month-old grandson Will Knight up onto the table and faced the standing toddler toward the media. Knight then brought him back into his lap and addressed him.
"You see, they ask a question and you don't answer it, and they ask another and you don't answer it, either," Knight said at the end of his postgame comments. "You're going to be a good coach. Yes, sir."

Our new year so far

I'm sure almost everyone has heard (and is tired of) this story, but a couple of years ago on New Years Eve Brian and I put a toilet in our neighbors (Marty and Lisa) yard. We had a water leak and our toilet cracked and we had to get a new one, so we had an old toilet in the garage. It was pretty funny, and we had a lot of fun with it. Brian was laughing so hard that he dropped the toilet in our yard on the way over to their place. So this year I thought it would be pretty funny to put another toilet in their yard. We had an old toilet at work, so I had it loaded up into my Volvo and drove around with it for a couple of days just waiting for New Years Eve. After midnight we took the toilet to their yard. Turns out Marty must have been waiting for us to do something because he was standing in the window watching us. (We also put our old sofa in his yard once) We left the toilet in their yard anyway and came home. Sure enough around 1 a.m. Marty brings the toilet back to our yard. So my first prank of the year was foiled. But that's OK, we are still in possession of the toilet so who knows where it may wind up or when. The biggest accomplishment of the year so far is that Brian replaced the water filter in our fridge after talking about it for 2 and 1/2 years. He was also pretty excited because when he called to order the water filter the lady on the phone also sold him a meat thermometer so now according to Brian I can be a better cook. Lastly, speaking of people in our family getting busted for doing things... Tessa had a friend spend the night the other night and they spent the evening hanging out in the basement. Tessa asked me for the digital camera. Well, I'm not sure if she didn't realize I would SEE the pictures they took but I am pretty sure the picture I found was not an activity I approved...