Game Time

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WHO DEY !!!!!

Are you ready for some football?

If you are not ready, maybe my friend Terry Tate can help get you motivated. Here comes the PAIN TRAIN....WOOO WOOOOO!!!!

We had a dream....a weird dream

"To dream that you are giving birth to a non-human creature, signifies your overwhelming (and unfounded) fear in the health of your baby. You are overly concerned that your baby may have birth defects. This type of dream is common in expectant mothers in their second trimester."

I don't know how common it is for couples to have the same dream, I'm assuming it is not very common at all. The last few weeks Emily and I have had almost the exact same dream two times. In both dreams, Emily is giving birth to a cat. Yes, a kitty cat. We both found this odd and I decided to try and figure out what this dream meant. Apparently Emily and I are both worried about the health of our unborn child. Neither of us agree with that explanation, but the subconscious is a fickle mistress, my friends. The article continued to say this type of dream is very common for first time parents. I'm just glad this dream means something normal, and not that we should go out and buy some more kitty liter. I think Precious will be able to deal with a human, but another cat in the house would mean BIG trouble.

Is it a Fantasy?

This week was "Fantasy Football Week" in the Anderson household. I spent the last 5 days going over player rankings, checking preseason stats, looking at draft trends, and double checking injury reports. Emily spent the last week calling me a dork and enjoying total control of the television after work. I think it is a good compromise! Any way, we survived the insanity for another year, and I feel pretty good about the two drafts I participated in on Monday and Wednesday. I won't bore you with who I have on my two teams (Steve Smith and LaDainian Tomlinson on both, by the way). Just know that from time to time in this space you may get an update on how my teams are doing.

Here are your links for the long weekend.......

• For all you out there, like me, that love both The Simpsons and Star Wars, this one is right up our alley.
• This is one of the worst scenes ever from "Teen Witch", a movie that Coley used to watch all the time when we lived on Richwood.
• Here is what we, and pretty much everyone in Cincinnati, will be watching on Sunday night. Last year we were actually looking down on the fireworks thanks to a generous invite from the Pearce family to watch them from Highland Towers. I don't know if anything will beat that view.

Am I looking at the next 5 years?

A few years ago, Matt and I were golfing when he broke into a song about everyone making mistakes and that being OK. It was a pretty funny moment because the song was from Sesame Street which Matt had been watching with his then 1 year old daughter Jordan. Obviously this episode of Sesame Street had been on for a few days in the Williams' household, as Matt had memorized the song. The strange part for me was that I started singing this song too, all day and night, and pretty much all the next few weeks. I had not heard the song or even seen this episode or anything, yet this song was just on constant replay in my head. A scary moment for a guy, at the time, who was no where near ready to be a parent.

Well, I just ran across this video and was both fascinated and horrified..... Horified for poor Elijah Wood, just a few years ago he the lead in one of the biggest film series ever made. Now he is teaching some weird alien like animals how to dance. While I feel for Elijah, I was also fascinated that for the next 5 to 10 years these types of songs are going to become very familiar to me and Emily. They will, in effect, become our top 10. This would be yet another, "WOW" moment on my trip to fatherhood.

The Best News EVER!

It was announced earlier this week that American Gladiators is coming back. Any guy who was ages 8 - 14 in the mid to late 1980's was probably a fan of this show. How could we not be with informative health interviews like this?

The Gladiators also taught us about gender equality. I mean, both men and women participated, even though it was hard to tell the men from the women.

When the new episodes start, we can all only hope that the spandex and big hair are still a part of the wardrobe. I will be anxiously awaiting the first episode in my one piece, spandex Nitro inspired, jump suit! GLADIATORS FOREVER!

Emily's Birthday!

Emily's birthday was yesterday. I think she had a very nice day. It started with a facial, then she had lunch with her friend from high school, Peggy. After working on the bumper for our baby crib, our entire local family came over for dinner. We had some delicious New York Strip steaks, which were from the cows that the Moore's raised last year, appropriately named T-Bone and Hamburger.

This was G.G. (Gramma Gail) with Francie. Their faces say it all, "Look at the size of those steaks!"

John, Tricia, Kristy, G.G. and Francie relax after the HUGE dinner and dessert. I think everyone had a good time.