Ichigo Usagi's Place

For most teams, this would not warrent an entry, but with the Lions, its monumental!

Lions lost again...

Yea! Championship game Monday night! Go MSU!

MSU is Final Four bound again! Gotta go shopping for a new Final Four T-shirt!

MSU Mens Basketball is the Big Ten Champions! Woo hoo!

Happy New Year Everyone!

And to celebrate the new year, I went shopping and found the cheapest winter coat I have ever seen. It was $5.99 at Steve & Barry's since they were going out of business. The only thing I don't like is that it can't be washed (like machine washed or dry cleaned). But at that price, I guess I can't complain...

It snowed and snowed and snowed yesterday. I had to dig out the car from two snowdrifts (one on each side) and the bank of snow that was behind it from the plow. Now it's snowing again...joy. I do not want a repeat of yesterday.

Whoever thought that having a sale start at 4AM was a good idea was smoking crack! That is just too early. I still plan to go, but at the more reasonable hour of...well, I don't know that yet, but it likely isn't 4!

Yesterday, I had the sad task of going to a cousin's funeral. She died unexpectedly as a direct result of refusing to see a doctor in many years and being in denial that she was diabetic (and knowing two of her close relatives had diabetes as well) which she finally had to face (and accept) in the ER when gangrene (and sepsis) set in. Afterwards, I stopped off at an sick elderly cousin's house (and happened to arrive just before the cousin's almost daughter-in-law) to see how he was doing since he is over 90 years old only to discover there was an electrical fire in his house (his wife was so busy seeing about him that she ignored the smoke). Fortunately the fire department determined that the fire burned itself out in the dryer, before anything bad happened (other than smoke). It was a long day...

The election is over, the bad people in the office I work in are now hopefully gone and how I feel can be summed up in the old Sam Cooke lyrics...

"There's been times that I thought
I wouldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it will"

A new era is coming! (I am optimistic it will be better)

The Lions lost again...will someone feel sorry for them and let them win a game?

As I stood watching the fireworks show last night, a group of idiots decided to get setup nearby and start their own 4th of July concert. If the idiots could sing it wouldn't be so bad. However, these guys looked like they took singing lessons from the people who were rejected in the early rounds of American Idol. Even when the crowd started telling them they were terrible (or starting laughing) they kept going on. Whatever they had before coming to the fireworks show, it wasn't the good stuff.

My goodness! These past three days have been filled with one storm after another! I literally made it home about 1 minute before the storm hit Friday. Today I went to the computer lab to enjoy the air conditioning. I found out later, the building was nearly soundproof when mom calls and says, "Don't you hear the sirens? What's going on?" (no one in the room heard anything and two of us were sitting right next to windows) I check on the computer (apparently, turning on the Weather Channel, or any local channel was a lot harder than calling me) and I see it's a tornado warning for our area as the skies turn darker and darker. Needless to say, I told her to take shelter, while I did the same. Here's the kicker. The shelter was the first floor hallway. The other people in the building included three idiots who went outside two different doors in the hallway to look for damage/tornadoes/flying objects/lightening (I guess they had hidden storm chaser ambitions). Fortunately, the tornado decided to go to another community.

I looked at this today and realized I hadn't posted anything in ages. So I'm here to remedy that with some thoughts & questions.

1. The Rasheed Wallace of the Pistons is a whiny baby. For his own benefit, he needs to grow up in the off season. Perhaps he should watch a few Red Wings games to see how veteran professional athletes in Detroit should act.

2. Go Lakers! (as an aside, Kobe Bryant, you should do the same as Rasheed in #1 because you've had some classic moments too)

3. Do the oil companies really need all that profit they make every single year? What are they going to spend it on?

4. Is it too much to expect baby boomer co-workers to actually be sanitary in a restroom? You'd be amazed at the really gross things they do in there.

5. Why is it that parents will wait until late at night to suddenly decide to want to have long conversations with you when they KNOW you have to get up the next morning (and they don't)? If you say anything to them, then you're wrong because you're the selfish child who won't listen (and before anyone asks, no it's not me, it's a cousin of mine and his parents).

Sigh. I thought the issue was simple. Three weeks ago, mom noticed a tire was continuoutsly loosing air. I said "take the car and have the tire checked out." Mom instead adds air to the tire three times and then complains that air is leaking out of the tire and refuses to go have the tire checked out saying it would "be too expensive." So today we end up going to Sam's auto center to have them check the tire out since I got sick of hearing "the tire is loosing air." Turns out the tire is fine. FINE! It just needed new beads. The cost? FREE! As a bonus, Mom finally shut up. But still, why did it have to be this difficult?

I just saw on Letterman that Demi is a leech girl. Jay Leno had a guy that once drew a pic of a horse (and his "equipment") for a catholic school art project. I guess you can never tell what will show up on late night TV.

MSU Won! We beat Pitt! Take that Seth Davis (who thought we'd lose to Temple, of all people)!

Now I feel better.

You know, nearly 5" of snow is not a good way to start out spring. It's not fun trying to walk down snow covered icy sidewalks when you know the calendar says that you're in Holy Week and Easter is 2 days away. I highly doubt that anyone will be wearing any spring-like outfits in church when it's supposed to snow.

I just spent 3 hours baking cupcakes and cookies for a charity bake/booksale tomorrow (for the people who aren't in the bars) and I'm tired. All I got to say is that these people better like this stuff or else I'm going to be really disappointed.

Due to the high gas prices, I (along with a whole lot of other people!) an riding the bus more. 10,000,000+ riders/year can't be wrong. The buses become more crowded with each year. However, the bus riders can be strange or ignorant. Take for instance the many people who have yet to realize that when you are standing at a bus stop that is serviced by multiple bus routes, not every bus that shows up is going to be the one you are waiting for. You'd be amazed at how many people get on the wrong bus and only realize it when it starts going in the opposite direction that they want. One guy realized this after the bus got two blocks away from the bus stop and acually asked to get off the bus in the middle of a 4 lane road. The bus driver actually raised an eyebrow in disbelief at that one before explaining that letting people off in the middle of the road was not a good idea for all involved.

However, the best adventure I've had to date was when a man who was missing fingers and teeth got on the bus with a long tree pruner and decided to talk to me about a deer leg that was in the trash (yes, there was just a leg dangling from the trash can) at the local Meijer's store. But that's a tale for another day.

Strange...