9th Annual Golf Outing

The 9th Annual Golf Outing for Mr.U's dad was this past weekend.

A bunch of people came into town for the event

and all the guys who golfed brought their girlfriends to hang out.

We had mimosa's while the boys played then picked them up for the banquet.

After a day of drinking on the course, they were pretty silly.

Overall, it was a great weekend in memory of a great man.

Last Wings Game

It was the Red Wings last regular season home game and Scott wanted to get a bunch of people together to attend, so he bought tickets for Joe&I, himself&Linds, his parents, his cousin&boyfriend, and another college friend and we all headed down last night after work. Linds met Joe&I at the MGM Parking Structure where the 3 of us had a few beers before walking toward Joe Louis. We stopped at Cobo Joe's for a tequila shot before heading through the Cobo center (with a quick stop in the men's bathroom - yep, all 3 of us) and onto the arena for a tour of the press box compliments of Joe's fellow track coach. Linds&I got to put on the official Fox Sports Detroit headphones and stand in the DJ booth. We got to talk to the guy who does play reviews and even listened to him call Toronto to check in. It was honestly very cool and really neat to see before the Red Wings officially move to the new arena and Joe Louis is no more. The game wasn't as good as the pre-game considering we lost, but the beer was good and the company even better and the walk through Detroit was excellent.

USA vs. Russia Breakfast

Joe was really excited for the United States vs. Russia Olympic hockey game,

so he wanted to invite people over for breakfast to watch it.

(though no one showed up until very late and the basement-dwellers only emerged to eat&leave.)

We made a Breakfast Burrito Bar & had Beermosas.

And the U.S. won in an incredible shoot-out!

Coach Horv

Joe's buddy Horv is a varsity boy's basketball coach for a neighboring town, so we went to support him when they came to play Joe's alma mater. Horv was completely in the zone throughout the entire game. We cheered&yelled his name from behind him, but he focused intensely on his players - who seemed relatively impressive from what I remember of high school students. In the end, his team won (which we wanted) and it was very nostalgic&fun to wander back into a high school gym for an evening. It made me feel really old, which kind of sucked ...all at once it feels like 1-year-ago and 100-years-ago to be an excited high school student screaming for the cute basketball players. I guess I hadn't thought too hard about my age till I found myself in bleachers full of 16-year-old with painted faces and youthful giggles. Makes me remember (like most things do these days) to live every day to the fullest, because life is flying by me.

Misc Fall

Fire place & candle in the master

Tryna strip that dark outa my hair

knee high boots & leggings for cold weather

knocking one football out of the tree with another football

trying some local beers with joe

flowers from my mr. before a long weekend

pretty mug i eyed for weeks before purchasing

gel manicure and a glass of wine

...if only it was that easy.

Wild Things

Empty storefront in Royal oak

Season tickets

pen that only gets my hopes up

beer for buddy bachelor party

RedWingsNails

My fingernails are ready

for a Red Wings Win.

Birthday Playoffs

I bought Joe&I Red Wings Playoff Tickets

for his birthday

...on my birthday.

I'm so pumped to go!

TicketText

So there’s a lot of debate going on about building a new arena downtown Detroit for the Pistons and the Wings to play in. The Pistons currently play in Auburn Hills, which is a pretty far drive out of the city – making going to their games pretty unappealing for me (and more-than-likely most people living anywhere downtown&downriver). So the idea of moving them downtown is very exciting to me. I’d love love love to be able to see Pistons games more easily&often. They were discussing this concept on 97.1 the Ticket this evening on our commute home from work and I don’t think any callers have fired me up more than today. Two men in particular – Gabe&Greg – made me especially angry, claiming downtown hasn’t done anything to “deserve” a new arena and that the suburbs have “done too much” for downtown already – obviously, actually driving down there (in the multiple cars Greg insisted on pointing out owning) to support the local economy is above them. They both called in and bashed downtown, discussing how much they didn’t want to encounter the “un-cut lawns” and “abandoned buildings” blocks away from the proposed new arena. I personally feel these men don’t know anything about downtown, though. Anyone who knows the proposed location knows there aren’t even houses in that “neighborhood” so lawns are out of the question. And that area (where all the athletics would be located) is at most 2 blocks from the highway, so passing anything unpleasant is unnecessary. I’m sure people are scared of downtown … and I can completely understand why … but trying to ignore downtown and abandon the concept of fixing it up or adding to it is completely pointless&ignorant. I couldn’t help but send in a Ticket Text to voice my opinion about these arrogant men and their obnoxious opinions.
“Gabe & Greg are pompous assholes. The longer we neglect downtown, the more likely those un-kept-lawn-residents will creep into their perfectly-manicured-suburban-neighborhoods. I’m a petite, 24-year-old Lions Season Ticket holding female and I LOVE going downtown.”
I don’t know if it was read on-air or not, since I got home and stopped listening, but sending the message made me feel better anyway. I have hope for this city … long-term hope, obviously, since it’ll take time to bring this city back … but I support downtown and long to see it flourish someday.

Love&Loss

Welp, we didn’t win the World Series.

(we actually got swept)

…Stupid Giants…

But it was fun to be downtown with the buzz&excitement in the air. The streets were crawling with orange&blue clad fans – tailgating in the freezing cold weather. Unfortunately, all those fans who’d paid over $400 on World Series tickets only got the opportunity to see 2 offense-less games, which was an incredibly disappointing let-down ... for the entire city of Detroit.

But I’m still a fan – and still anticipating next season. Maybe we’ll even get a season-ticket-package if we’re around next summer. World Series win-or-lose, I’ve found a new love in this team.

TailgateTent

This Saturday was the Michigan vs. Michigan State game, so Mr.U&I tailgated at the KofC with all the old men like last year. (only last year was better because VPBF&bofo were there…) The weather was freezing&wet, but after a couple beers, it wasn’t so bad. And the crowd of people is always fun to hang outside with, watch some football, and eat some warm-tailgate-treats.

Music&Baseball

Last Saturday night was another concert of the HandGrenade at a grungy-hipster-bar in Hamtramck called New Dodge. All the bands were great, but the I’ll admit that I was more interested in watching the Tiger’s game from our perch in the balcony. The TVs above the bar were in perfect view and the game was too good to take my eyes off with a suspenseful tie-up in the 9th inning. We finally won in extra innings – around 1am – then danced the rest of the night away with the bandmates to silly juke box music. The perfect end to an evening of good music&baseball.

City Connections

It’s good to know people.

.a great tailgating spot for baseball..excellent deals at the bar..major discounts on hotels..free movie tickets.

.plenty of friends to enjoy.

Breakfast&Baseball

This past weekend, Mr.U&I were finally able to make it back to Chicago for a reunion with my favorite Mr&Mrs.Jones. After an incredibly early morning drive from our city to theirs, we taxied it out to their new town house for breakfast&drinks before a baseball game.

.Baseball&Skylines..Chocolate Chip Waffles..Veggie Omelets..Mimosas..Cubs&Rockies.

Friday's Season

Mr.U had a softball game tonight

– Oldies vs. Youngins –

a fundraiser for the KofC

held at the high school softball field.

I took a book I’ve been looking forward to reading since I didn’t figure the game would entertain me too much. The night was surprisingly lovely, though, – crisp fall air and the cheers of high school football fans just across the lawn.

I love this season.

FridayNight Games

Mr.U had some of his guy friends over for darts before the street fair tonight.
They didn’t play for too long before Mr.U’sMom & her BF came back from the bar and got us all in on some card games. I’m glad we switched up the playing field – that’s for sure – because darts was way too confusing to me.