(Picks are at the bottom)
Things I’m thinking about at work today when it’s super slow and I’m counting down the minutes before I get to leave on my half-day:
What kind of guy still highlights his hair?
Thursday night’s officiating crew for the Houston/Indy game must’ve had a ton of cash on the number of penalties called. At the end, there were some legit calls, but I swear I though Peyton Manning was at the helm for the Colts with all the calls they got. Can we go back to playing football, please? It’s a violent game, folks, men will get hurt.
I saw a show on TLC called ‘Geek Love’, hilarious. $10 says half of these guys marry the first woman to touch their pecker.
While I hate this time of year, mostly because my family is discombobulated, I do enjoy certain things. I really like watching my friends’ little kids get all excited about Christmas. Some of them still don’t quite get the whole Santa thing, but they are thrilled with lights, a tree and some tinsel. And usually cookies get made. That’s fun!
Another small amount of joy I felt last Friday, when I organized my team’s holiday gathering. Well, I felt better after the one person who wanted to criticize was told politely to step up and do it herself next year. We had a potluck, white elephant exchange (known as a Yankee Swap by me up until about 10 years ago), a holiday card decorating station (construction paper, scissors, hole punch, glue, glitter, markers, crayons) and a Christmas cookie decorating station (frostings of various colors, sprinkles, candy santas). Yeah, I organized all of that. And I even felt a smile on my face. Even before I snagged my white elephant exchange gift:
I loathe the way my department does business internally. They use the term ‘escalate’ like the rest of us use the word ‘the’. No one seems to answer a proper business question unless a person in management is tied to it. It’s a wonder how anything can get done. This place runs on ‘title dictates behavior’, and since Clerks is one of my favorite movies of all time, I don’t work that way. I don’t comprehend why I have to get my management team involved to get basic business done. Am I supposed to kiss a ring or something? Baffles me.
Now for the fun part: What a cool conversation I had on Friday. I’ll be brief. It felt like catching up with an old friend. I realized a while back that I had some things that needed to be stated. Not angrily or mean or guilt-laden, just things that needed to be said. So I said them. Not out of animosity, because there is none. But more because I felt like I ought to clarify. The things that needed to be said out loud were facts. Well, at least to me they were. And so it was laid out. I was absolutely in love with that woman. I should have never put so much pressure on her for that, and for that I truly was and am sorry. That whole pedestal thing screws it all up. You can’t put a woman up on a pedestal, she’s bound to fall from grace, no matter what. Why? Because she’s human, and that makes her fallible. It’s a lose/lose proposition. I get that now. I also understand it when I see others do it, but never when it’s me. I had to hit that ‘unfriend’ button on facebook because I admitted I couldn’t watch her date someone online. No matter who that guy was in her life, no matter how well he treated her nor how much she was falling for him, in my eyes, he would have been ‘that asshole’. And I don’t want to be bitter at anyone, I’m too old for this crap. I know what I want out of life and what I don’t. I also got to listen to her tell me about her life. It sucks her roommate has turned into a dillhole. But we all have those scenarios. At the very least, she loves the people she gets to work with on a daily basis, and that goes a long way. After all the talking and listening, you part as friends and hang up. For some weird reason I felt better. I thought well before last Friday that was what’s done is done. But it wasn’t. I just felt unburdened, clearer and more in tune with what reality was for that particular situation, as opposed to all my feelings bubbling over at the surface and turning me into a crazy person. It hit me-that feeling, love, makes people do some dumb shit. That, and the feeling that instead of me being single like it’s a disease, but now it’s a choice. I’m cool with it. Better than being in a relationship and being miserable. Closure was more required than I had thought.
So here I am, 36, at the halftime of my life. God Damn I’ve been lazy at times. But no more. I feel clear. I feel sharp. I’ve bullshitted myself into thinking that I need to have a certain career, when none of my jobs, sans one, has ever truly appealed to me. Now I want a mic stand, an audience and a 2 drink minimum. Here comes the dump truck of truth…..
Last week: 8-7
Season: 100-108-8
Oakland @ Kansas City (-2 ½): Is KC for real now that they have a coach they like playing for, or was last week them blowing their collective load? I think it’s legit. Kansas City
Denver (-3) @ Buffalo: Gut feeling call here, no way the Bills can leave the faithful out in the dark losing 8 straight, I don’t think. Buffalo
Jacksonville @ Tennessee (-7): We never know which Titans team will show up, the team that can beat Baltimore or the team that loses to Indy and looks like it doesn’t care. Jacksonville
Arizona @ Cincinnati (-4 ½): Take the Cardinals out of the warmth of Glendale, AZ and put them into the jungle of Cincy. Cincinnati
Miami @ New England (-8 ½): Every time I pick the Pats to cover, they don’t. Every time I take their opponent, they win. Miami
Cleveland @ Baltimore (-11 ½): Did the oddsmakers miss that dog that laid down in San Diego last Sunday night? Baltimore, you’re a fraud, too. But the Browns, they suck. Baltimore
NY Giants @ NY Jets (-3): So everyone is in the Jets. Gut call #2, I’m going the other way. NY Giants
Minnesota @ Washington (-6 ½): Rookie QB on the road, and they can’t stop the pass? Washington
Tampa Bay @ Carolina (-7 ½): I sure hope Bucs coach Raheem Morris already has most of his shit packed, it’s going to be a loooong flight home tonight. Carolina
St. Louis @ Pittsburgh (-11): Even with Charlie Batch starting at QB? Well, Kellen Clemens is on the other side, without any real pass protection, so yes. Pittsburgh
San Diego @ Detroit (-1 ½): Who trusts either team, raise your hand. Nobody? Damn, me neither. Shootout goes to the guy I can trust more. Philip Rivers? Yikes. San Diego
San Francisco (-1) @ Seattle: Again, say it with me-“weird things happen in Seattle”. Seattle
Philadelphia @ Dallas (-1): This game could come down to the Giants/Jets game. No matter, I think Dallas has payback on their mind. But it won’t matter. Philadelphia
Chicago @ Green Bay (-11): Line seems too high. Chicago
Atlanta @ New Orleans (-7): These teams usually play it tight, and Atlanta has been throwing it well of late. Do I dare go against Breesus? Oh, what the hell. Atlanta
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