So Thanksgiving was actually a lot of fun...the family was all together (we had a big haul of 24 folks at my family's house for lunch!) and everything was pleasant. There were no "I'm gay now" or "I'm having a baby" announcements or anything like that to stir the calm waters.

Football watching was also awesome over the weekend...Ole Miss beat Mississippi State, LSU stomped Arkansas, and UGA beat the livin' daylights out of GA Tech!! That was a good game, too...and then later that evening, Florida State ELIMINATED Florida from any distant hopes of being in the SEC Championship game this Saturday (Dec. 6th). On Sunday, it was announced that UGA was officially declared the winner of the 3-way SEC East tie between Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. So this Saturday, I'll be watching a REMATCH between UGA and LSU. They beat us once this season, so now we can turn it around on 'em. Crazy thing though...since they already played each other, LSU has quality win points for beating UGA. If they beat us again, they lose quality win points (UGA will drop in the polls) AND they lose strength of schedule points (UGA would have another loss). If UGA wins, we automatically move up a spot (LSU is ahead of us and would drop below us). That will give us an automatic bowl bid to one of the big bowl games on New Year's Day 2004. My bets are on the Rose Bowl if we win, in which case we'll probably play against Michigan.

It's been a crazy football season this year, and a "helluva" lot of fun (stealing from the GA Tech fight song...put that in your pipe and smoke it). UGA has a glorious 10-win season, with the possibility of 12 wins. If we beat LSU, that will certainly take the sting out of one of our two losses this year, the only other one being to %!&^*%^*$! Florida, AGAIN. Oh well.

Now I'm knee-deep into Christmas spirit, and all the gift shopping that goes with that. Tonight, Hilary and I are going to go see the Duluth tree lighting ceremony. Should be a "helluva" lot of fun!

Sorry to all those who read this...I haven't posted in a while. I'll try to keep it to at least once a week, but hopefully twice. So that means you gotta check back often. Have a "helluva" good day.