One last thing about the Auburn-Alabama game and I will let it go until next year. This morning in church, our minister referred to the event in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as a "Medium Apocalypse". I thought, "He got that right."

War Eagle!!

War Eagle Anyway

Update: In case you didn't hear Auburn lost 36-0. I lost all respect for Nick Saban, Alabama's coach today. When Alabama was winning 29-0, he screamed at his players, "Don't let up now, I hate those guys!" And that is the censored version. That is so classless. They never showed him shaking Tommy Tuberville's hand. Not good sportmanship.

WAAAAAAR EAGLE!!!!!!!

Today's the day. If you aren't familiar with the State of Alabama football, then let me tell you. Today is the Iron Bowl - Auburn University vs. University of Alabama. If you live in Alabama, you are either an Alabama fan or an Auburn fan. Obviously, with the blue and orange, I'm an Auburn fan. That's where I went to college. Alabama is the #1 team in the nation, but that will end today. My sister has predicted an Auburn win. She said that Alabama is going to show up too confident and cocky. I hope she's right. I'm getting tired of these rabid Alabama fans that have been bragging all week about how Alabama is going to slaughter Auburn. If Auburn wins, I am going to laugh in their face. I hope I don't offend all of you Alabama fans that read my blog. I think you have felt my pain in years past. Our family knows Tommy Tuberville, Auburn's coach, and he's the epitome of class. Auburn scored when they hired him.

Our family had a good Thanksgiving. We went to my sister's house. She invites us, her in-laws and any one that doesn't have any where to go on Thanksgiving. I think everyone had a good time at her house. My brother-in-law's nephew brought his college roommate. He's from Iceland and could not figure out why we were pro-American. Go figure.

I didn't do any Black Friday shopping. I did order a sweater from Talbot's for me. Everything is 30% off and free shipping. Use code WISH at checkout. Thursday, I went to K-Mart and bought a Ipod/MP3 dock with AM/FM radio for my Ipod. It was $19.99 and I got the last one. My sister bought my brother-in-law and foster son a Wii for $249. Today, I'm going to a small gift shop here to spend a gift certificate. I want some Jody Coyote earrings.

I hope everyone enjoys the remainder of their holiday weekend. It is suppose to snow here in North Alabama tomorrow night.

Again, WAAAAAAAR Eagle!!!

P.S. When I was in college, everyone liked our cheer. It was Bodigedda Bodigedda Bodigeddi bah, Rah rah rah, sis boom bah, weagle, weagle WAR DAMN EAGLE! Kick 'em in the butt, big blue!

Today was better. We had about 1/4 as much mail as Monday. Tomorrow, I have it all by myself. All of my helpers are on vacation. I'm wearing chinos, a polo and Tretorns. I don't care if I get in trouble. I'm going to be comfortable. I can't believe how spoiled some people are. One lady came to my desk and asked if I would be coming to get her mail or did I want her to call the maintenance man. Why didn't she bring it when she came down? Maintenance man is going to be on vacation tomorrow and Friday. I guess everyone is going to have to take care of their own mail. I have other stuff to do.

There's nothing on TV tonight. I guess I'll just watch the TV Guide channel.

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving. I have to work at the store until 2:00 on Thursday but I'm off until Saturday. I may check in Thursday.

WHAT A DAY! I had to go to two post offices to get mail. I got lost going to the last one and when I got there it was the wrong post office. Luckily, they figured out which one I should go to and gave me directions. We had a ton of mail today. Queenie didn't even offer to help sort the mail. I guess she figured that she was too good. Then when she came to get the mail for her side of the floor, she only got her own mail. Tomorrow should be better. After I go to the post offices, I have to go let someone into our old operations center.

I ran all my errands tonight so that tomorrow I can come home and rest. I went to Publix to do some last minute Thanksgiving shopping. I dropped a can of cranberry sauce (yes, I eat it) and it went rolling across the floor. I chased after it. When I picked it up, this man said, "I was going to get that for you." Kind of surprised me, since he didn't seem to make an effort. I bought 5 cans of peas, 6 cans of carrots and 6 cans of tomato sauce for the Advent baskets for church. They gave me some paper bags to repack them. They are so nice there. They are a lot nicer than the Food World where my mother lives. I went in there Saturday to get some Diet Pepsi that was on sale. When I got to the register, the checker told me that I had to have a $15 additional purchase to get them on sale. I said that it had never been required before. She told me that they were cracking down. She told me to go get $7 more in groceries. I told her that I didn't want anything else. I paid for my peas and my magazine and left. You'd think that they would be eager to sell me whatever since there weren't that many cars in the parking lot in the middle of the Saturday afternoon just before Thanksgiving.

I am going to have to rest up this weekend. The bank has one mail guy. He's a one man department with no backup. He reports to my boss. Mail guy's wife is expecting a baby and it is due December 1. He was to take the first two weeks of December as vacation. My boss developed a plan on Thursday to take care of mail delivery. Well, yesterday, Mail Guy told me that his wife is having problems and they are going to take the baby this Monday. So, he'll need to take the next two weeks as vacation. My boss and I went into a panic. I am going to have to go to two post offices and get 5 P. O. Boxes of mail. When I get back, my coworkers will sort it and then everyone will come get their department's mail. The maintenance man will get the local outgoing and run it through the postage meter. I will drop it off at the post office on my way home. Wednesday, my coworkers and the maintenance man will be off on vacation, so I have to do it all by myself. Hopefully my regular work will be slow that day. I hope everything goes well. We are all team players and we have to work as a team. Of course, Queenie was suggesting that another department do the mail. That didn't go over very well with my boss.

I made it through the day at work. I wasn't going to take any cold medicine, but ended up taking some to get rid of my cough.

When I got home, I got all my things together to take to my Mother's for Thanksgiving. I have to come back here on Sunday evening and then back up there on Wednesday. I'm going to take everything tomorrow so I don't have to worry about it Wednesday. I don't have much planned for the holidays except for Thanksgiving Day. My sister is hosting dinner for us, my brother-in-law's family and any strays that don't have anywhere to go. My brother-in-law used to have an employee that is deaf, mute and developmentally slow. His elderly mother passed away a few weeks ago. My brother-in-law's family makes sure that he has all holiday meals with them. I always bake a chocolate pecan pie for Thanksgiving. This year, I'm not taking it to my sister's. There is always so many desserts. I am going to save it for us. I'm going to share it with the girl that works at the store during the day. I hate to be selfish, but last year only one piece was eaten. I think I may also make a pie that I saw on Paula Deen the other day. It's called Corrie's Kentucky Pie. I'm not going to share it either. I know, I should share with my sister's group, but like I said there is always a lot of desserts. Plus, nobody can bake pies like her sister-in-law. If you don't believe me, ask her. She always bragging about her own pies. It gets old.