Maybe Next Year

Happy Super bowl Sunday, all. Hope everyone is enjoyed their evening of deliciously guilty bite-sized food and “the best” commercials of the year. I, for one, will be looking forward to the parade later this week.

While I don’t claim to be a big Giants fan, I think Boston has had their fair share of sports victories this season (the Red Sox winning the World Series and the Celtics who have the best record in the NBA).

I took a gander over to the East side this afternoon and all the Maclaren strollers were out in the sunshine in full-force, touting small children decked out in Giants paraphernalia. Little do their parents know they will one day grow up and decide to attend the rival of their parents’ Alma Mater. THEN they’ll get ambitious and decide they want to strike out on their own and move thousands of miles away to be “independent”, all the while keeping their Dad’s Mastercard number, security code and expiration date memorized for safe-keeping.

No? Maybe that’s just me.

KR and AV are now in their room, cooing over something on Animal Planet called the “Puppy Bowl”, which is basically a bunch of tiny mutts running around on a mini football field, wagging their tails and trying to look as precious as possible. Did the SPCA sponsor this or what? I think if I gave any indication of being okay with having a dog in our apartment, we would have one here by the end of the day. My main problem is leaving one alone all day, along with the cost of keeping dogs in general and the ever-present lack of grass in Manhattan. Not to mention I won’t let myself love anything enough to follow it around multiple times a day with a plastic bag.

Just call me Cruella DeVille.


Mike Ditka: [to the Tigers team] This is gonna be the hardest thing you've ever done in your whole lives. But when it's over…
Phil Weston: Don't get emotional.
Mike Ditka: When it's over…
Phil Weston: When it's over...
Mike Ditka: You guys are gonna be champions!
Phil Weston: Champions!
Mike Ditka: Now let's get out there and kick some butt!
Phil Weston: On three, 'let's have fun'
The Tigers: One, two, three, Let's Have Fun!
Mike Ditka: ‘Let’s have fun’? What’s THAT?
- Will Ferrell and Mike Ditka, “Kicking and Screaming”