Mighty Gamecocks

Last night, Matt and me and the Williams (Matt and Hannah) drove down to Columbia for the season-opener for college football, South Carolina vs. NC State.
We were so fired up to watch 2008 Gamecocks at home, to see some college friends, family and to show our friends WHY we went to USC. Our plans were not a disappointment.
The 34-0 drubbing was great fun. Although, I don't know a Gamecock fan that wasn't disappointed with our first half effort.
Nonetheless, we had a great time-until it was time to go.
We finished our visit in the sauna called Williams Brice Stadium with Matt's family, met Chris Fowler from SportsCenter and then the Gamecock fans showed just how classy they were to our friends from NC State.

The entire way back to our car, Matt and Hannah were yelled at, cursed out and it was terrible. Not frightening, just embarrassing. I mean we just beat them 34-0, don't you think that you could have just said, "Good game" in a really sarcastic manner?

Anyway, we got back to our car and we noticed that not a single car was moving along Shop Road. For over an hour. It was a parking lot with everyone sitting in their cars with the cars running. There was a throw-down between a guy Matt knew and truck driver...where the guy was threatening to beat the driver's a** and his passenger laid down in her dress on the pavement to make a point. It was ridiculous.

But finally, traffic got moving and we were on our way at 1am back to Asheville.
Around 2:55am we were about an hour from home when we came across two police cars crawling along the highway outside of Saluda. We were the first cars to see this sight. If you need a visual, think of the boardgame Parcheesi. We had no option but to stay behind them and see what was going to happen. An hour and three miles later, we came across the accident that caused us to sit in the dark and barely moving for an hour in the middle of the night. A mobile home split in half across the two northbound lanes of I-26.
We quickly got past it and pulled into our driveway at 4:30am. Wanna know what time I saw Asher's face? 5:55am.
Fantastic night.

Sorry for the bad follow-up

I guess that the last post took so much work, I haven't had much energy to put towards the blog. Not really. I have had a major project for work that has taken up all my free time...and that pays the bills if you know what I mean. Also, Matt was out of town all last week. Both kids got ear infections while he was gone (of course) and so I was a little busier than usual.

This past weekend was women's weekend at Windy Gap and my favorite YL women were all here: Dana Martin, Brandi Kellett, Shelly Kaiser, Lindsay Hancock and of course, my sister-in-law Buffy. I pretty much want to be around these women at all times. How can I get an invite to be on the planning committee for next year. Anybody???

It was a great weekend and I loved getting to be around these fun ladies. But what I loved even more than a great weekend with girlfriends was that the Gamecocks beat that slovenly team known as Georgia. AT GEORGIA. Between the freakin' hedges. And USC Women's Soccer is off to the best start in school history at 4-0 and are ranked in the top 25. Incredible.

Oh! And I got my haircut! I took six inches off and I am having a few regrets. I really liked my longer hair, but it was looking ratty and I made a spur of the moment decision to chop it off and I think that I have a mom haircut now. Thoughts?

Being Proud Doesn't Even Describe

Carolina Women's Soccer Beats North Carolina, 1-0 in Season Opener

This weekend, USC Women's Soccer started off their season right by beating #1 in the country, North Carolina AT North Carolina. This was the first time in North Carolina history (27 years) that they have lost their season opener at home. When Matt and I heard the news on Saturday, I actually teared up in the car. I mean, do you understand what an accomplishment that is? North Carolina has also only lost ten times in their programs history at home. TEN TIMES. And South Carolina did it. That is just awesome.

EDIT: Now I forgot to mention that people are talking about how App. State's win over Michigan in football on Saturday is the biggest upset of all time in collegiate athletics, but I would offer this win by South Carolina up as a possible second. It is really sad that this story got buried due to all of the football covereage over the weekend. But as a proud alumnus of South Carolina AND its women's soccer team, I have to stand by this result being the largest upset. Sorry App fans!


Now the bigger challenge is going to be not sucking at the rest of the season because you accomplished one of your major goals right out of the gates!

But thanfully, USC already had to play another game against ETSU on Monday night and won, 5-2. I am sure I am going to have to head to Columbia a few times this season to watch the Gamecocks as they embark on the first ever SEC Championship. Go Cocks!