I am so annoyed at myself. There is something I wanted at Michael's this week and I had a 40% off coupon and I forgot all about it, until I woke up this morning, when the coupon wouldn't be any good, and remembered. Grr.

Football stuff: yes, that play was slightly controversial. But, sometimes it goes for you and sometimes it goes against you. There are angles of the replay that show his foot on the white line before he had control of the ball. Also, Bama's defense had been shutting down the LSU qb. We were going to win the ballgame. Yesterday I was much more stressed about losing the ballgame than enjoying the possibility of winning. I'm sure I'll be feeling that way next week against Mississippi State, not so much with UTChattanooga. But so already dreading the Auburn game. And then Florida in the SEC game, then possibility of a national championship. One game at a time, but we'll enjoy it when it's finished. I hope.

There was an article by Ivan Maisel on ESPN.com this week about Rolando McClain that is really good. It had a great line in it and I want to remember it - "If (Saban's) defensive playbook were a math text, it would be calculus. McClain knows it like a Tuscaloosa first-grader knows that two plus two equals 3rd-and-6. " Heh. This is so true. I learned my sevens times tables easily because it's scores in a football game - 7, 14, 21, 28, 35. Hee.

My dad saw Ivan in the press box last night and told him that I'd really liked what he wrote and had called my dad to read it to him. That tickles me that my dad did that, and that Ivan sent his thanks to me.

Are there bad things from drinking acai juice? I'm trying to decide if I want to start doing some immunity boosters as sick people season begins. People thing that it's a great idea to go paint pottery when you are sick. We spend a lot of time cloroxing the place after people leave.

Henry has learned how to set a table. Now he is obsessed. Last night (while I was trying to watch the ballgame), he decided that he MUST set the coffee table for a dinner party for ALL HIS FRIENDS. He then began to name them, while counting them off on his fingers. He named the same four kids about eight times, in a different order each time. Then he invited the cats to come to the dinner party. He made everyone hot dog bites. Now he wants to do the same this morning for breakfast.

I think in a minute we're going to go off on a walking adventure. I think that will be a good idea. Since it looks like Hurricane/TS Ida will be visiting us this week, it will be a wet one and we'll need to get all of our outdoorsness while we can.