It's Time

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

There is no whining involved in this blog post!

No really.  I'm not yanking your chain.

40 has been an incredibly strange year.  An incredibly rewarding year.  An incredibly FRUSTRATING year.  Seriously?  There is some Gamemaker out there flipping switches on my arena (body) to make my hunger game (life in general) more exciting (or frustrating!)

There has also been an epiphany during my 40th (or is it my 41st) year.  Life is fucking short.  I had a conversation with one of the basketball guys today, a senior.  You may have heard of him.  He's pretty good. Holds about a gazillion records!  He's getting ready to graduate.  And finds it weird that he won't be a student (god willing, he'll be an NBA draft).  He has his whole life ahead of him.

So do we all.

Don't take it for granted.

Facebook continues to be an amazing means for me to reconnect with those from my past, regardless of its format changes.  SOAP BOX TIME:  WHO REALLY CARES if it changes...look at the people you now have access to!.  Okay, I feel better.  Recently, my high school guidance counselor found me on there.  He's pretty much known me from birth!  ( a side note:  I distinctly remember sitting in his office talking about why guys didn't ask me out...he said I was 'intimidating'.  I think now that translates to psychotic.).  In a short week, he has been exposed to all aspects of my life:  the basketball, the radio, the ups and the downs.  And he thought enough about me to send me a link.  And I care enough about you to repost it:
http://www.godvine.com/8-Year-Old-Girl-Has-a-Voice-That-You-Won-t-Believe-1311.html

I have many miles left to travel.  Tomorrow I talk to my landlord about purchasing the house I live in.  Although not in a great town, I hope not to have to uproot my guys...my BIG MEN ON CAMPUS.

However, life is NOT guaranteed as evidenced by the extremely unfair passing of a childhood neighbor yesterday.

Please.  LIVE  YOUR LIFE the way that you want it to be lived.  Scary?  Sure as shit.

Your other option?  "Jen always wanted to travel/garden/write/act, but never found the time."

Hurling

The last time I threw up without assistance, I was pregnant.

Saturday's game against Iowa almost got me there.  My stomach hurt. My head hurt.  I was Nauseous with a capital N.

Never before have I followed a sport that got me physically sick.  And I'm an Indians, Cubs and NU football fan.  I've been well-seasoned.

My guys have the tenacity to make a run.  It will start in Indy and then go to Dayton.  The stats on this senior class don't lie.  It's the winningest senior class since...I don't know when.  John Shurna beat Billy McKinney's record for total points scored EVER that had stood for 35 years.  In addition, Johnny is the Big Ten overall scorer. This is the first time this has happened for 60 years.

Northwestern Basketball said with respect?  You betcha!!

To go from a non-basketball-watcher to...this is 3 months?  If only I could lose weight this quick.