Who Dey? Dey da ones who lost to the BROWNIES :)

Once again, my weekend highlight was tailgating! It is one of my happy places, have I mentioned that? 

Backing up to Friday, I FINALLY got called for my first day of substitute teaching! Such a relief to finally be getting calls! I slept through my first phone call (due to my phone being on silent from waitressing the night before! :( I have changed my ringer to a loud obnoxious one and make sure it's on full blast each night) and I chickened out my second time getting called (because it was for seniors in high school and, let's face it, I still look 16...BUT I have vowed to accept any and all jobs that I get called for in the future, scary high school seniors included!) All this glory was almost ruined when I got a flat tire half way to the school... I held back tears and called my mom who came to my rescue! I made it to the school on time and had an awesome first day of subbing for first grade! It reminded me why I want to be a teacher and how wonderful it is to be in the classroom as opposed to a jobless post grad. I'm hoping that since I have gotten 3 calls in the past week and a half that this is a good sign!

Saturday most of the bridesmaids met with our bride-to-be (one of my best friends, Kay) and her mom to finish up some last minute shower planning, and to discuss the bachelorette party and wedding plans as well. The shower is next weekend, the bachelotette party is in 3 weeks and the wedding is now less than 3 months away on December 11! 

After our wedding planning sesh, the tailgating crew (including our husband-to-be's parents which was a fun surprise!) cuddled up and watched Paranormal Activity. I love a good scary movie, but this one was terrifying! For me anyways. If you're into scary movies I would recommend it just because it seems real and should give you a good scare, although some of us complained that it was a little slow, and I would have to agree. I think I would have had nightmares but luckily we had one big giant sleepover so I felt safe, even when Kay and Brandon's apartment was making scary noises all through the night :) 

We got up bright and early at 5 AM again to tailgate and we are now 3 for 3 for having an awesome time tailgating! We watched the game at the Blind Pig, and what made the day even more amazing was that we beat the Bengals! It's about time the Browns won a game! I'm not going to complain (much) because we won...BUT my question is where is Eric Wright's head at?! Every team we play knows damn well to cover Cribbs and their defense is on him instantly, yet Wright showed poor effort to cover T.O. when he knows (or should know) damn well that's who to cover. Imagine if Wright would actually do his job well? I mean you're only getting paid millions of dollars....you could at least pretend to try and do your homework before you hit the playing field sheesh.

Lindsay, Kay and me! Best friends :)

Cuddled up like grannies!

Love my Lindsay!

Most of the girls!

Girls flip cup team!

Pictures by the FREE stamp...Always necessary!

 Good Times! Had to borrow some of Lindsay's pictures! I wasn't the best paparazzi this time around!

"I love this city because of the hard working people that are here. It's a blue-collar town. When I think of Cleveland, I think of myself. They accept their football players with open arms and they show up every Sunday win, lose, or draw"
- Peyton Hillis {my boyfriend} ;)

Lebron who? Hillis is the man! How refreshing to have a professional sports player on a Cleveland team NOT trash talking this great city of ours and who appreciates their fans (Ahem, EDWARDS & LeBRON!)

 

Browns vs. Ravens

As for today's game....I will say 17-24 is respectable against the Ravens- At least we weren't completely dominated! We were the first team to score a TD against Baltimore this year! And we scored not one but TWO! My question is WHY did Wright stay in that game? If I were the GM I would have pulled his ass out after the second touchdown against us! He looked like he was in LaLa Land the whole game and couldn't keep up to save his life! I'd say he definitely cost us that game although there were definitely other reasons such as our apparent lack of communication. We could have had that game if he would have intercepted that that last touchdown by the Ravens, or blocked it at the very least...hell we were winning! He should have been psyched! Not to mention we got pretty lucky on the penalty front, we definitely got away with pass interference TWICE...not sure where the ref was on that but hey I'll take it. I find it hilarious that Rob Ryan stated that the Browns defense felt confident knowing where their offensive opponents stood, because they definitely did NOT show it. All in all it could have been worse. At the end of the day I am always a Browns fan. Oh and Hillis...NICE! He stepped it up today's game (and he is such a BABE!!) and he is one of my favorite Browns players (along with Cribbs), but they can't carry the team... apparently! Maybe if they put Cribbs in as QB? Hmmm....thoughts?

Peyton Hillis, Cleveland Browns Running Back, #40

Better late than never...Highlights from LAST weekend!

Up before the sun! 5 AM wake up call...arrive at 7AM! My two best friends!

All of us!

Well third times a charm I guess! The first two times I tried to blog about my tailgating experience from last weekend I got so frustrated trying to upload pictures that I quit. They wouldn't go in the order I wanted them in! GRR! So I decided not to be a quitter and let the big bad blog win and settled for just these two, although I took almost 100 pics!  Paparazzi much?

Tailgating has recently become a new happy place for me! Such a positive atmosphere and so far I'm 2 for 2 for an awesome time! We're planning on continuing to tailgate until the weather gets too brutally cold. 

We learned that tailgating is like camping, seriously. I made a checklist after our first attempt and we are constantly adding to it. We gave ourselves a D- grade for our first attempt....basically only getting points for showing up. Last weekend I'd say we moved up to B+ range! Lindsay and I found some good deals on browns gear for tailgating such as a browns folding chair for $20 at Target, reusable browns bags,  a mesh browns satchel, and tattoos all for under $5 each at Five Below, and t-shirts for around $6 at Marc's. We're set! :)