catching up

so it has been about 1000 years since i have posted anything. this i realize, however it was a very busy and somewhat disheartening football season. but weeks ago nicole told me the blog needed some love, i thought i would try to give a brief summary of the football season but that seemed overwhelming so i am going to share a few videos i have taken and then start the football summary (possibly later today)...

video #1 waiting on the football team before the last home game of the year and the first home victory of the season as always go irish!!



video #2 my mom waiting on my sisters arrival at the south bend regional airport last week before thanksgiving...


video #3 possibly the funniest video ever taken in the apartment. last year we went on operation cutdown to go find the perfect tree. my dad always had very strict height restrictions but our apartment has cathedral ceilings so there were no limits. well other than the size of our living room opps!!

undefined Christmas 2006



nicole already shared these on her blog, but they are some of the best pictures i have taken on campus. something about being at the right place at the right time. enjoy..

its about the hamburger

i am not dealing with the game this week. i obviously don't understand football or qbs or touchdowns. but i do know it is all about the hamburger....thanks rocket!



also in case you need a good laugh check this out. my coworker dave sent me the link to the audio clip about a week ago it is truly a classic.



thanks to jacque and mike for hosting another unsuccessful party :)

breast cancer awareness month

i recieved this message from my friend Alisa today and thought i would pass it along...

Kim Klein, was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple months ago and has been keeping a blog on her experience as a law student, mom, and cancer patient. She has been nominated for a $10,000 blogging scholarship, and will only win if she gets enough votes. To vote, or just to check out her blog: click on the website in the attached email and click on the "Please check out every blog" link. Then you can go to "Kimberley Klein" - 7th on the list - and check out her blog. Just click on the "vote for me" picture on her page. You have to vote on the blog page itself.

Kim has done an amazing job battling cancer and she totally deserves to have her blogging efforts recognized!!

Twenty blogs have been nominated.all of them are blogs written by college students. The winner will be chosen by public vote..the blog that gets the most votes between now and October 28, 2007 wins the $10,000.

To vote, go to this website: http://www.collegescholarships.org/blog/2007/10/08/vote-for-the-winner-of-the-2007-blogging-scholarship/ Her name is 7th on the list. You can only vote once, but you can ask your friends to vote for her, too.

For those of us who have been touched by cancer, this is an marvellous way to pay tribute to our loved ones.

as you may or may not know one of my friends was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and i can't even imagine trying to juggle it all. so if clinking on a link can help somebody out in a similar way why not. i also checked out Kim's blog she seems like an amazing person. be sure to check it out!

hope you all are having a great day!

here come the irish

if you couldn't watch the game because of the great abc, you are still upset about the cubs early demise or if you just are having a case of the mondays and need some cheering up watch this video...it will turn your day around! go irish!! and yes curtis i will update the blog more frequently and more quickly when the irish win!

undefeated in california baby!!!

earlier this week i was driving in my car and heard livin' on a prayer on the radio, i thought to myself well after we go 0-6 the title of the blog is going to be "halfway there." not that i had entirely given up but i was trying to be a realist.

when the game came on this weekend i had an odd sense of calm (maybe it was because the cubs were about to be eliminated and i was glad for that to be over). throughout the game i was pretty calm (well at least the first half) the fumble recovery to the 1 yard line and we only got a field goal and i thought here we go again. but then something happened we didn't look overly lost and the penalties weren't on us...progress was made. then the field goal that made it by inches...somebody was finally on our side! after an amazing amazing amazing game by mo crum and a qb sneak by mr clausen the season turned around. it was so great to see those guys celebrating and smiling even. that is what abc get for showing the oh so interesting tOSU vs PU game, in case you were blocked out of the game you can watch a condensed version here. advice to abc never bet against the irish they just might surprise you.

i talked to robbie after the game and he said the fans in both end zones stayed after the game to celebrate with the team...i am so excited for everybody that got to be there. go irish!! 7 and 5 baby bring it on (i never knew 1-5 could feel so good)!! here are a few pics i found from the game



they haven't updated the press conference so i haven't heard anything from charlie today but i did read this great quote on espn, i am not sure if zibby got it from charlie or vice versa but either way these are some words to live by....

Clausen put the Irish ahead 13-6 when he bulled over from 1 yard out, with 1:53 left in the third quarter.

The Irish players began to celebrate a bit on the sidelines when Clausen scored, and Weis said he told them to tone it down.

"It's been a while since we've been up in the second half," he said. "So I told my guys to act like they've been there before. Don't make me look an idiot."

so i am not sure how it happened but it did, we finally finished one out!! regarding the sucessful karma for the game it seems like the events of this weekend are not reproducible especially since alli and scott are pretty much refusing to not return home but i did wear my osu sucks shirt...if that is what it takes for the irish to win, i can make the sacrifice!

at the home opener as we were walking around campus i asked a question regarding the great #10, i asked how long until somebody decides to wear it again. i got my answer today in the sbt dayne christ is wearing it. it is his number in high school and he is planning on wearing it next year, talk about setting high expectations. i saw this picture in the paper and think he looks like he might just have what it takes...

random thoughts: at halftime of the nd game the espn announcers mentioned the early exit (or early demise as robbie called it) and said "teaches them to make it to the playoffs" i could do nothing but laugh i realize i am a horrible person but misery loves company and since bobby, chipper and the rest of the braves are sitting at home i couldn't handle the cubs still playing.

(oh yeah did i forget to mention that usc lost yeah!!!!!!!!)

the grill isn't the only thing that broke saturday

friday night we went on the 2nd bass pub crawl (notice it wasn't the second annual just the second). we started at cj's (home of the best burger in the bend), then went to oyster, walked to backstage grill and then ended up at the new rum runners. it was a good time, there were a lot of people there i hadn't seen in a while. the funniest part of the evening was either us relentless teasing jacque (did you know she is engaged??) or us making fun of scott for not coming and then he walked in...oppps! it was all in good fun though. jacque along with george, alisa and john all got called up on stage at rum runners i can only imagine how much we are going to torture jacque before the wedding actually happens!! love ya girl :)



ah another saturday during college football season, used to be my favorite day of the week...now it is another day. we all gathered at scott's (we returned the favor of hosting the party) to watch another ND game. we should have known it was going to go well when scotts grill fell apart. destroyed could be the understatement of the day actually at half time when the score was 23-0 we all went outside to mourn the grill and the game. but the remaining food was good (josh's meaty mexican magic that wasn't sexually spicy was the biggest hit of the day) and good people (did you know alisa was a member of the vegetarian political party) were a support group for yet another nd loss...although there were signs of brilliance (ok signs of progress is probably more accurate) in the second half the end result was the same. i don't think we quite have the right karma set up yet, although when alli left and scott was in the bathroom things started looking up...not sure YET what that means. one of these days we should have something to celebrate, and i can't wait! after i got home last night i watched charlie's press conference and drank some more koolaide and am now ready for next saturday!! go irish and go jimmy c :)

after the game i left to join alli, jacque and their mom to go look at wedding dresses (you know she is engaged right?!) ok so i arrive at david's bridal they already have a dress ready for me to try on. easiest process EVER! the dresses are adorable, no i am not *ever* going to wear it again but they are not pepito bismal pink with puffy sleeves so for that i am grateful!! we "changed" the color of the wedding to cornflower, so the dress i am wearing is the new wedding color


i also have pics of jacques dress to and if you name isn't mrm i will send them to you to look at :) otherwise they are saying in the top secret vault!!

last night after all the excitement and a trip to the martin's salad bar and opening a bottle of wine i attempted to watch some good college football i was torn between cheering against ty willi and cheering for usc...after some convincing i decided i wanted usc to lose, so they won...brilliant...love being an irish fan! there is always next week in the life of a dilusional notre dame fan.

channeling nicole

while we were tailgating with some of our friends i overheard one of the guys say that his buddy was tailgating with jeff samardjia. i paused for a second and tried to decide what to do with this information. so after about 1.5 seconds i ran to alli (she was about 2 feet away and yes i ran) and told her about this interesting piece of information. after debating for less than 30 seconds we were off. we asked ben to go with us, he agreed as long as we promised we wouldn't do anything to embarrass him. we assured him we just wanted to see him and nothing else and set off to poll #12 in the parking lot.

we got there looked around and he was nowhere to be seen. we were about to give up when we realized we were on the wrong side of the poll (being directionally challenged it is difficult to figure these things out). we crossed the road and there he was. alli calls magan to tell her what is going on and ben handed me his phone so i could take a picture (he promptly runs away so we don't embarrass him any more).


finally alli convinces me we MUST go get a picture, ben is a rock star has come out of hiding and agrees to take the picture. i told alli i would go but i would not talk. so alli goes and asks jeff if we can get a picture and he said he would love to. then i suddenly get courage to talk and said something along the lines of we left you alone the entire time you were our neighbor...then he apologized for everything that happened while they lived there. honestly we never ever heard them but if we lived in 1b we may have had a different opinion. so anyhow ben, the greatest photographer EVER, took our picture.



as we were leaving alli wished jeff luck with baseball (she is much better at this stuff than i am) and i tell him that i don't like the cubs (hey somebody in the organization should know) but that i am cheering for him to do well. so all and all i think it went amazingly well. we called about everybody we knew and nobody was as excited as we were well until nicole called but we have been through this all before. thanks alli and ben i never would have done it without you guys! below is the picture after the picture with our photographer (i wonder what jeff would have thought if we asked him to take it maybe next time!)