So the big thing going on this week…The OSU vs. Michigan Football Game. If you don’t watch college football you probably wouldn’t understand why they call this “The BIG Game”. I’m actually just now understanding why they call it “The BIG Game”. We’re rivals. Ooooohhh aaaaahhhh.

I have just started watching college/NFL football this season on top of my learning how NASCAR works; it was either watch football, or not watch any TV at all…seeing my boyfriend is a complete sports nut.

Boyfriend Rule #1: It is absolutely necessary to the breathing of the human male race to watch football. If they are not watching football, they are dying!

Boyfriend Rule #2: Don’t argue with them about deer hunting either. There’s no changing their minds no matter how much you tell them how “cute and cuddly” the deer’s may look.

So the last race of the season is on Sunday. So if you don’t hear from me over the weekend you’ll know why. Football Saturday, NASCAR Sunday. If this was my job, I wouldn’t be in debt.

Yours truly officially has a job!

It wasn’t the career-oriented job that I was hoping for, but it’s a job and a steady paycheck. It’s with the same company that I have been working for as a temp for the past three month’s being a Receptionist. I still feel like it’s a foot in the door. There could be many other career opportunities could be open to me within the company. Most importantly, I can continue working on that Bachelor’s Degree.

Plus, my geeky self still gets to be in front of a computer when I stay at this job. I will be doing data entry and some other odds and ends here and there to start off with. It’s a Monday through Friday office job schedule, so I still get to see my family, my boyfriend’s daughter, my boyfriend, and my NASCAR on the weekends. Isn’t that the most important thing? Well in the real world I guess the most important thing is having more time to finish up my schoolwork so I can get that career-oriented job I’ve been complaining for ever since I graduated technical college.

Last night I met up with Sean, an old friend that I had not seen since my birthday party in March. We met up at the bar that the boyfriend was working at to just relax over a beverage and catch up. Ok well…actually, I just wanted to check up on him to make sure he was behaving himself at work.

Today was wonderful. I had not really sat down and relaxed with my boyfriend all weekend due to the fact that he was either working at the bar or sleeping in real late because he had been up all night working on top of his normal day job. He treated me to breakfast at Bob Evans and then we watched the race for most of the day. After the race he treated me to a movie. I insisted we watch “Cars” It seemed fitting since we just finished watching the race.

It was very sweet and romantic because we had not been out to in a while and I was very excited to see this movie. I turned to my lover and go “It’s like we’re on a real date again!” He just laughed at me and shrugged off my cheesyness. After almost 2 years in a relationship, I guess it’s a good sign that I can still make him laugh and get him to come out and pay to watch a kiddie movie with me.

Kasey Kahne, driver of the No. 9 UAW/Dodge Dealers Dodge Charger, won his second race of the season and third of his Nextel Cup career for Sunday’s Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway. Kasey turns 26 on Monday.

“I couldn’t believe we were that loose at the start and just took us a while to get going. (Team director) Kenny Francis made some great adjustments to our Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Charger,” Kahne said. “The final run there was the best the car had been all day. It was a heck of a battle with Tony (Stewart) there. I knew he wanted to hold me off because if he could beat me into the pits, he had a better shot at beating us out. The pit crew didn’t let that happen so it’s just a privilege to drive for Ray Evernham. The engines ran great, and I thank everybody at the shop. These guys do a great job.”

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I have been feeling really BLAH lately. Mostly for the fact that I havn’t been keeping up with my daily “girly” routines lately. About a year ago when I had just met my lover and just started college, I was as girly as it gets. I rubbed myself down with lotion everyday, I spent hours fixing my hair, I actually cared about what I was wearing, and I was about 10 pounds lighter!

How things have changed.

It’s been so hard to loose the weight and go back to the way things were because of all the stress from school and everything else. I am just looking forward to graduating from school this July and getting a full-time day job, something that’s steady and pays decent. I have had no luck finding a steady job with steady hours that is second shift. Either I suck, or the ecomony sucks, or the immigrants took all those jobs. WHO KNOWS?

I tried taking some diet pills for a week, but with the combination of stress, and the fact that I thought I was going to die from an anxiety attack, it didn’t work out too well. I still have some pills left that I might start taking again (I will just lessen the dosage by 1/2) just to try it again.

I have this grand plan for when I graduate. I am going to get a full time clerical/office job during the day. Then I will pay off my credit cards and get a new laptop. Then it’s off to the salon to get my hair re-colored/cut real nice and my eyebrows waxed. Next, I’m going to get my nails done with french manicure tips. By then, I will have my braces off and I will work on getting whitening done to make them pearly and shiny. My plans are so exciting! They sound so straining on anyone’s wallet but when you’ve been neglecting your physical appearance for as long as I have, this will be absolute heaven for me.

My birthday is Monday. It actually gives me a little something to look forward too. I still don’t have any solid plans for the weekend, but if things go as I had mentally planned I will be seeing my best friend Susie tomorrow night for maybe a dinner? Saturday night is open, and Sunday night is going to be spent watching my newfound hobby…NASCAR. Then it’s off to the bar to see the rest of my friends that I havn’t seen in FOREVER. I’m so excited!

One thing that I will never understand about men is how they sit on the couch for hours and watch sports and still keep their attention the entire time. I couldn’t do it. I’m lucky I keep my attention to the TV when watching Nascar. At first the concept of cars driving around in circles for hours on end didn’t excite me, but today, I might cuddle on the couch by myself with a giant, warm blanket and some Ben & Jerry’s “Cherry Garcia” and BEER!

My boyfriend has left me for the rest of the day to go fishing, catfishing none-the-less. This is another sport I will never understand. You’re sitting there for hours at a time and there’s no predicting when you will get a catch because some nights, everyone and their brother is out there doing the same thing you are. Your chances become slimmer than Nicole Ritcie. He might get lucky tonight though, seeing that he will probably be the only one out there. It’s been raining all day and the thought of me agreeing to go out in the cold, wet conditions makes me shiver. It’s not my idea of bonding a relationship. Maybe when the weather gets a little warmer and I have a lot of school work to do I will go out with him again like I did last year and catch up on schoolwork.

One of the MANY reasons that I now watch Nascar…

It’s all my friend, Brynn’s fault and with no help, or better influence from my boyfriend. I HATE YOU ALL!