Flowers, Game Day, and Stupidity.

First, Happy Valentine's Day! (or if you are anti-V-day, then happy Sunday! haha)

Yesterday was quite an interesting day. You already know about the reception site, so I won't get into that again. After we got home, Matthew started acting weird and he kept asking me how long I was going to be home. About a half hour later, I figured out why.


The florist he ordered these from doesn't deliver on Sundays, so I got them yesterday. Aren't they beautiful! I LOVE these flowers together. I usually get them every year either for V-day or our Anniversary. The entire apartment smells like lillies :)
After he left for work, I went to Frankfort to hang out with my mom and get my nails done for next weekend. I got french tips, and my fingers are sooo sore cause the girl who did them was very rough. Ouch! But anyway, we didn't do much else.

The really interesting part comes from the game last night. UK played Tennessee last night (and won, of course!) and I had a ticket. I went with the Bestie, her bf, and a friend from class. Our seats were in the nosebleeds. Just to prove it, I took pictures.
You know you are in the nosebleeds when there are little tv screens in front of you so you can see the game...

Anywho, the entertaining part was the group of drunk guys behind us. Yep. We had to deal with that crap. There were two main encounters of which I MUST tell you, because they were pretty bad.

1. They had alcohol with them. Someone told on them and the security people threatened to call the cops on them. The guy behind me was particularly drunk (of course) so during halftime he leaned up to ask the bestie and me if we told on them. This would not have been bad, but we hadn't moved from our seats since arriving. She brought that to his attention, and he said "I know. Did you tell on us?" She asked how we could have done that without moving, and he said "I don't know. Did you tell on us?" We just turned around and laughed. His friend was telling him to shut up. Even they knew...
2. A little later, he asked us if we were twins. Now, I take that as a compliment since my bestie is very pretty, but we are obviously not twins. She asked him if he was a freshman, and he said no then asked if we were. She said we were grad students, and he -get this- asked us what school. C'mon! We couldn't believe that. We said UK, and he didn't believe us (or that wasn't the question he meant to ask.) I then overheard him telling his friends that we were full of crap because grad students can't get student tickets. Seriously? When they left after the game, he shouted over to us "Good luck at technical" It was so stupid.

Sorry for the long post! I guess I really had a lot to say! I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the weekend and a great start to the week :)

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Registry, Games, and Memory-Loss

You may be wondering why I didn't update with THE plan yesterday. Welp, here's why. I forgot about the ww meeting last night. I guess I wrote it off due to the holiday and just assumed there would not be a meeting. I was wrong. I will probably go tomorrow, so I'll let you know then :)

On to more positive news, Matthew and I started our registry yesterday. Now, I am NOT one of those brides obsessed with the gifts. I would actually prefer to not do a registry at all, but it makes things easier on the guests. I hate asking for things, etc, and I'm not marrying him for the gifts. Regardless, it was kind of fun. We went to Bed Bath and Beyond to start it off. Our "guide" for the afternoon was really fun. He is as gay as they come, but super nice, friendly, and helpful. When he released us to do our scanning, he would randomly pop up and say stuff like "I noticed you went with the sterling silver cookware, not that I'm stalking your registry." It was great, because he was totally stalking our registry haha I didn't mind though, he was just doing his job and he had great recommendations for us!

I have so much to do today (like laundry, dropping off and picking up prescriptions for Matthew for his surgery this week (wisdom teeth), cooking dinner, finishing my syllabus, just to name a few) but I'm really looking forward to going to the basketball lottery tonight. My cats are #1 right now and undefeated (18-0 I believe)! This is the first lottery of the season I'm going to and I hope we get really good seats. I'll let you know!

*update*

No tickets for us :(

Memorial Hall was packed with students. Every student gets a number, and there are 50 of each number. They randomly list the numbers, and that is the order students are called to buy tickets. There were five columns with roughly 30 groups in each column. We were towards the end of the second column, so we figured we still had a chance. Unfortunately, the announced there were no more lower-level tickets when they were still calling numbers from the first column! We knew we would get nose-bleed tickets if we stayed, so we just left. Oh well.

On a brighter note, I got a phone call today from one of the vendors at a bridal show I went to a few weeks ago. It was a DJ service that I really liked, and I was a winner of their drawing! I get $100 off if I decide to go with them. Since I was seriously considering them before I found out I won, I think I have definitely decided. I'm so excited, and every bit of money saved helps!!

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New coach

Just in case you are interested, UK has a new basketball coach. I know you all were just waiting at your computer screens dying to know :) I didn't want to keep you waiting any longer than I had to haha

John Calipari will replace Billy Gillespie as head coach for the men's basketball team at UK. You can read about it here.... I really hope what they are saying is true :)

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Fairwell

It was released today that the University of Kentucky is "dismissing" head basketball coach Billy Gillespie. I honestly was not sure which way they would go. We had a HORRIBLE season, but it was only his second year. I thought they might give him another year or so... but I was wrong. Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset. It just was not what I expected.

University of Kentucky basketball is one of the prides of Kentucky. Our team use to rule the court. Even with Tubby at his worst, we still made it to the NCAA tournament. This season? This season we did not make it to the tournament, and only made it to the second round of the NIT. P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C! There is something seriously wrong when three schools from Kentucky make it the NCAA, and UK is not one of them. UofL, Morehead, and Western Kentucky University made it. Louisville is the number one seed for our division... what the heck is happening here?!? Obviously, there are serious issues that need to be addressed. All of the articles that I have read have stated that hiring Billy G. was a hasty decision. Maybe the committee has learned its lesson, and will find a proper coach for good 'ol UK Bball. History will repeat itself.... eventually. Until then, I do wish Billy G. the best of luck in whatever he pursues next. He has a rough road ahead of him....

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C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS!

I don't usually make multiple posts in one day... hmmmm

I went to the UK vs. Tennessee basketball game today. It was my last basketball game as a college undergrad! How sad! It was definitely one to remember though. Our seats were not too bad. We were in the upper level, but it was row n. The section goes to kk, so like I said, not too bad. There was one flaw though, and it had nothing to do with our seats. The girl in front of me stood up the entire time (with the exception of the time-outs). I'm serious. Even if no one was standing in front of her, she stood up completely blocking my view! How rude!

*I can't figure out the panoramic thing you are suppose to be able to do with Vista, so this will have to work until then *

Besides that, I had a blast. The cats totally rocked the game. We won, 77 to 58 :) It was awesome!

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Amazing Weekend

This past weekend was totally exhausting, but completely worth it. I have a few pictures, and I'll put them up later.

First, Saturday was the UK vs WKU football game. A group of us were volunteering for the United Way during that game to collect money. We all got matching t-shirts and yellow "volunteer" stickers (Matthew ended up wearing ALL of our stickers by the end of the night lol). The first half of the game we took up money. Our legs are killing us today from having to squat in the aisles while waiting for the bucket. If we don't squat, people yell at us for blocking their view.... Anywho, after we finished collecting the money, we dropped it off by the police section in the stadium and went to our seats. We had to hike to them! They were in the upper level and about four or five rows from the top! At least it was nice and cool up there :D We watched the bands at half time. I got to see Chelsea march, then UK's band marched. We decided to go ahead and leave, so I went over to see Chelsea first, then we went to Taco Bell (random, I know). UK ended up winning the game 41 to 3 (OUCH!). I'm excited that we won, but I feel kind of sorry for WKU for getting beat oh so badly.

Today is Matthew's birthday (happy birthday!!!!) so we spent most of the weekend celebrating. I made him an awesome (if I do say so myself ;D ) cake, and he keeps saying how much fun he has had this weekend. We went to his parents house this weekend for his birthday dinner, and today I took him out to dinner and then to the mall. It has just been a wonderful past couple of days.

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Sale!!!!

So today was actually a lot of fun. I slept in a little bit, then got up to clean off my mini-fridge for my stepbrother. Travers, T, and Kierre came to get around 11:30. T is starting as a freshman at Berea College, and it was my graduation gift to him. Anyway, after they left, I took a quick shower, then went to Hamburg with Amanda, her aunt Beth, and her Granny. Old Navy was having a huge denim sale. All adult jeans were on sale for $12 a pair. There was even a limit on how many you could buy. Amanda and I went in, swam through a denim flood, and each came out alive with two pairs :D Two pairs of jeans for $25 is not a bad deal at all, and we totally needed new pants for school (which starts on wednesday!). After that adventure, we went back to her house and went swimming. It was SO hot outside today, and the water felt great! Unfortunately, everyone else in her neighborhood thought so too. It wasn't horribly crowded, but we are use to being the only people at that pool. I actually did some swimming (I don't hardly swim anymore, I just kind of float and splash around) and it felt great! I hadn't done it in so long. I was even swimming underwater which I hadn't done in years. Too bad the pools will only be open for another month or so :( I guess I should try to get in as much swimming as possible :D Amanda brought me home, and Matthew and I went to Qdoba for dinner, then went to a party store to look for some things for Amanda's birthday party. We also went to Best Buy so he could get his schedule, and we looked around Toys-R-Us. We got some groceries, and now we are home. He is playing his PSP, and I'm typing this :D It has been a tiring, but very fun day. Tomorrow, I have a couple of errands to run, then I plan on making a trip to Frankfort. My mom is suffering from empty nest syndrome (for the third time...) so I am going to spend the day with her and make her feel better :)

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Take Me Out....

.. to the Ball Game!

Amanda was given 4 tickets to tonights Lexington Legend's baseball game, so Stefan, Amanda (of course), Matthew, and I all went. We hadn't been to a game before, so none of us knew what to expect. We had seats on the third-base side, but closer to home plate. It was great! Amanda and I were scared, though, of getting hit with a foul ball! Luckily, we didn't get hit lol Although the Legends lost, it was a lot of fun, and we got some excellent Kettle corn out of it as well (yum!)

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