A Season for Everything

I haven’t mentioned the Steelers for a couple of days and hits here have dropped, so I thought it was time to mention the Steelers again.

Are you still wanting to go to the Super Bowl to watch the Steelers? This site claims to have quite a few tickets available, ranging in price from $3255 for the “worst” seats in the house, to $205, 000 for a 42-person suite on the 10-yard line. How bad do you want to see this game? How trusting are you that the tickets are real? Me, I have a plan for future Super Bowls. I live in the town where the Steelers have their summer training camp. It’s not impossible that one day down the road my daughter could meet, fall in love with and marry a Steeler. Then, providing the team goes to the Super Bowl I’d surely get tickets. How could you not take your mother-in-law who bleeds black and gold? (I’M KIDDING, PEOPLE!!)

Ah well, if you can’t get to Detroit you can still get your Steeler fix and order great merchandise at SteelersFever.com.

Don’t forget the music to get you psyched for the Steelers victory. Check out Steelersongs.com for the lyrics and the chance to buy my favorite Steelers song, “One for the Thumb” by Michael O’Brien. It is hilarious!

End of terribly unsubtle bid for visitors.

UPDATE: If I wasn’t already rooting for the Steelers, I would be now. I just heard Martha Stewart wish the Seahawks well in the Super Bowl. (Thank goodness she didn’t come out as a Pittsburgh fan.)

I’ve been wanting to start a blog of interest to women for a long time. I finally got it set up and started over the weekend. Please visit Stacy’s House for recipes, tips, ideas and information to help make life easier.

Just in case you haven’t had enough of the boys in Black ‘n’ Gold (I haven’t) here’s a link to Pittsburgh’s official NFL website. You can see video of last night’s ginormous pep rally at Heinz Field, order Steeler gear, take part in polls and lots more good stuff.

Cervical cancer. Two words that scare women half to death. Two words women don’t have to hear…if they do the right things, like having regular PAP tests done and keeping themselves educated on and practicing safe sex.

This past summer I had a cone biopsy done to remove cervical tissue showing severe cell change. Now I have to endure a PAP test every 3 months. I hate it, but I wouldn’t dream of skipping even one test. Those few moments of discomfort are well worth the peace of mind they give me.

Make the Connection has a great site with all kinds of information about cervical cancer and the HPV link. If you are a woman or have women in your life that you love, you owe it to yourself and them to take a look.

Make the Connection also is giving away, that’s right free, Make the Connection cancer awareness bracelet kits. Even better? If you oder now, you will get two free kits instead of one. Click here to order your kit now.

Here’s that picture of the kids on my bus I promised.

And for you purists, the link I gave yesterday for the Steeler song was last year’s version. Here is the link for this year’s.

And if you feel like singing along, click here. Just be sure to turn the volume down if you’re at work.

Nasty weather we’re having. It started around supper time last night with a highly unusual “thunder snow.” It started with thunder and lightening, then the wind started blowing (hard) and the freezing rain sandblasted the house….then the snow started. And it hasn’t stopped yet. Once every hour or so we get hit with a squall that dumps a half inch of snow (or more) in a very short amount of time. The wind is still an issue, too. It’s January. In the mountains of SW Pennsylvania. So, why is this weather such a surprise to everyone?

Today, two of our buses were in accidents. The first got hit from behind by a coal truck. There were 25 kids on board. Only one broken bone. It could have been worse. There were no injuries in the second incident, but it tied up one side of town for hours.

A new driver (first day driving on her own) had two brothers on her elementary run bring in a bottle of prescription pills and take some on the bus. Welcome to the public school system.

The high school and middle school were locked down this morning. An alternative education student (a student who is so “bad” that he/she is removed from the general school population, but isn’t quite bad enough to warrant going to juvenile) threatened another student. That’s about all that’s clear. Depending on who you hear the story from he either told the other student he had a gun in his locker and would shoot him or he had the gun on him or there never was a gun or they found one in his locker and he was arrested, or not. I watched the news, but nothing was on.

Is it the weather? Is it the full moon tonight?

I’ve been watching American Idol every night it’s on. I do enjoy these audition shows. You have to wonder if there are really this many people in the world who honestly believe they are fabulously talented singers (when they actually couldn’t carry a tune across the road in a bucket) or do they know they aren’t and just do the most amazingly hideous auditions ever to get their 30 seconds of fame? Is fame so desirable that even bad fame is better than no fame?

Only a week and a half until the Super Bowl. I’m letting the kids on my elementary run decorate the bus with Steeler signs they make. They’ve got quite a lot of spirit. Friday they are wearing their black and gold and I’m going to take pictures to send to the local television stations (they’ve been showing lots of fan pictures) and the paper. I’ll post one on here for you to see.

I skipped Weight Watchers tonight because of the weather. Okay, so I probably could have gotten there. I was out driving in this crap all day, but that’s exactly why I didn’t feel like dealing with it tonight. But I’ve been good. Honest.

SEE YOU IN DETROIT!

This is Megan and Scooby. Cute, aren’t they?

As a Weight Watcher, I suck. I’m not following either the Core or Flex plan at all. I don’t admit that to my leader at the weekly meetings. I don’t see the need to when I’m losing weight. 6.6 pounds in two weeks, thank you very much!

So, what am I doing? I’m trying to avoid processed foods as much as I can, which is sort of the Core plan but I’m not eliminating them totally. I switched to diet pop, which I hate (I really miss Pepsi), but diet cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper and black cherry vanilla diet Coke are less gross than most and I still get caffeine….though I’m trying to cut back on that, too. I’m eating more fruits and veggies and only whole wheat breads and pastas. Oh, the rice must be brown. More water. Smaller portions. Less snacking. Since the weather has been unnaturally nice for January in Pennsylvania I’ve been walking.

Whatever it is I’m doing, it’s working so far but I’m not suffering any delusions. I know that pretty soon I’m going to have to get serious about following one of the plans if the weight’s going to keep coming off.

Anyway, just reporting in and keeping myself accountable.