February 4th, 2010 / 13 Comments » / by Greis
I’m not afraid of much…
- I love flying.
- I really love roller coasters (the higher/faster the better)!
- I have no problems with needles.
- Most bugs I can handle
Wanna know what I’m absolutely terrified of?
Scary Movies
Yes, you read that right. I’m afraid of scary movies. It’s not just I’ll go to one and close my eyes afraid. It’s I won’t (not even for a MILLION dollars) ever.ever.EVER go to one EVER! If a movie looks even somewhat scary there’s no way in hell that you’ll get me to go. Poltergeist, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street I’ve never seen any of them and I likely NEVER will.
Haunted Houses
This goes right along with scary movies. You will NEVER EVER get me to walk through a haunted house. It just won’t ever happen, believe me people have tried. I’m just as happy and content escorting your ass to the haunted house and waiting for you outside, because that’s the kind of friend I am. This phobia may stem from the fact that my parents took me to a haunted house when I was 5. There were clowns and scary goblins jumping out of every crevice of that house and grabbing at my legs. I was scared out of my skin and have never entered a haunted house since. So, yeah, you can thank my parents for that!
What are you afraid of?
Posted in: Girl Talk
Tags: Afraid, Girl Talk Thursday
January 28th, 2010 / 7 Comments » / by Greis
When two very real, but different, life events happen on the same day how do you keep your emotions in check?
Part 1 can be found HERE.
After getting the news about sweet Layla Grace, and crying for what seemed like hours, I laid down to rest. I was beyond tired after a long week of work and life. I was in bed for about 45 minutes when I received a text from my friend Amy. The text said, “Have you checked Twitter? Heather Spohr is having her baby!!” The second line was enough to get me up and on-line.
For those of you that follow my blog, or my Twitter stream, you have likely heard of Heather, her husband Mike and their daughter Maddie. Heather’s pregnancy has been well documented on her blog and we, as a blogging/Twitter community, had been anticipating the event for 9 months.
I immediately logged on to Twitter to see this:
The news of baby Binky’s impending birth was enough to make me smile, A LOT! For the next hour or so I was glued to Twitter waiting to hear the news that so many of us had become so excited about. When finally there was this:
My heart was over joyed with the news.
I read that tweet over and over again with pride.
There were tears.
Tears of happiness.
Tears for Maddie.
Annabel Violet Spohr was born and the Internetz could not have been happier!
It’s always amazing to me how life can change from minute to minute, hour to hour. How in one day you can experience every emotion imaginable, and the next day you have to fight to set your emotions free. One hour my heart was shattered in to a million tiny pieces and the next it was back together again.
On Friday, January 22, 2010 one friend had a baby and another friend was given the most devastating news about her “baby”. I cried for both friends that day.
Emotions can be a tricky thing.
There are people out there that think emotions should be hidden from the world.
I think a world without emotions would be a hard world to live in.
You may not show emotion, but please don’t judge me for wearing mine on my sleeve.
Posted in: Friends, Real Life
Tags: Annabel, bloggy friends, Layla Grace, Maddie, Real Life
January 26th, 2010 / 10 Comments » / by Greis
When two very real, but different, life events happen on the same day how do you keep your emotions in check?
Friday night was a very emotional night.
There were tears of happiness, tears of sadness and whole lot of in between.
My emotions were at both ends of the spectrum, and all in a 2 hour span of time.
This is Part 1*.
My evening started with the news that nobody should ever have to hear. Layla, the 2 year old daughter of my high school friend Shanna, was given a medical prognosis that they had been fighting to avoid.
Layla was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma in May. For 8 months she has been undergoing treatments to kill the cancer. For 8 months her fragile little body has been poked, prodded and poisoned in hopes that the cancer would die. It all seemed to be moving in the right direction, that is, until Friday. Layla, and her mother, went in for follow up scans to check the progress of the chemo/radiation. What they discovered was their worst nightmare, the worst case scenario. The cancer was winning. Not only were her bones being affected, but her one remaining “good” kidney was being attacked as well.
Shanna was told, by one of the best Neuroblastoma specialists in the country, that there was not much more that could be done. Layla’s kidney is only functioning at 59%, therefore surgery was out of the question. They were told Layla will likely only live for 2 months. 2 MONTHS!
Upon hearing the news my heart broke into a million pieces for the Marsh family. For Shanna and her husband Ryan who have stayed strong through out this battle and who have put their heart and soul into curing their youngest daughter of this devastating disease. For Jenna (9) and Claire (3), Layla’s older sisters, they love her so much. The past 8 months has taken its toll on them too.
How can a little girl who was so healthy and “normal” one month be on the verge of dying 9 months later? It’s incomprehensible. How do you continue to believe, how do you continue to have faith when something so life changing, so devastating becomes your reality?
On Friday night I cried for Layla, for Shanna, for the entire Marsh family.
The hope I had in my heart had come crashing down;
shattering to pieces after being hit with the harsh reality that is cancer.
Layla needs a miracle.
Luckily, I believe in miracles.
I will continue to pray for Layla and her miracle.
I will continue to ask HIM to watch over one of the sweetest 2 year olds that the world has ever known.
Layla, you are loved by so many. We’re all praying for you and your miracle.
Keep fighting baby girl, because we BELIEVE!
*Part 2 will be posted later today.
Posted in: Friends, Real Life
Tags: Friends, Layla Grace, Real Life
January 14th, 2010 / 11 Comments » / by Greis
Yes, you!
I’ve just been informed that today is a very important day.
It’s National Delurker Day.
The day that all of you incognito blog lurkers have to take off your identity hiding glasses and mustache and come out and say hello.
So, leave me a comment and let me know that you’re here.
I love hearing from you all, even if I’ve never heard from you before.
P.S. – I promise that there will be more substantial and interesting content on this here blog soon. I’ve got some posts started, and guess what, they have nothing to do with football!!
Posted in: Uncategorized
Tags: Delurker Day
January 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Greis
It’s game day and my HORNS are up and ready for a TEXAS win!!!
- The eyes of Texas are upon you,
- All the live long day.
- The eyes of Texas are upon you,
- You cannot get away.
- Do not think you can escape them,
- At night, or early in the morn’.
- The eyes of Texas are upon you,
- Till Gabriel blows his horn.
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Posted in: Sports
Tags: Texas Longhorns
January 6th, 2010 / 6 Comments » / by Greis
Longhorns are BCS Championship bound.
It will rain ROSES tomorrow night!!!
Hook’em baby!!!
Posted in: Photos, Sports
Tags: Texas Longhorns, Wordless Wednesday
January 2nd, 2010 / 3 Comments » / by Greis
Week 15 in the BFL was another nail biter. It came down to the points in the final game on Monday night, and with 12 correct picks I was the weeks winner. Yaye me, 2 wins this season!!! Who’d a thunk that could EVER happen?!?
Week 16 (week 17 in the NFL) brings the season to an end, and what an exciting season it was! A lot of teams have nothing to play for this week, they’re either out of the play-off picture or they’re already in. And then, there are those few teams whose games this week will be a deciding factor in their play-off chances. Did I mention that the Texans are still in the hunt? Crazy right?!?!? I mean, they have to win and 2 of 3 teams would have to lose, but there’s still a chance and that makes me happy.
Here are my picks for week 16 in the BFL (NFL week 17).
Sunday
Indianapolis @ Buffalo
New Orleans @ Carolina
Jacksonville @ Cleveland
Philadelphia @ Dallas
Chicago @ Detroit
New England @ Houston
Pittsburgh @ Miami
NY Giants @ Minnesota
San Francisco @ St. Louis
Atlanta @ Tampa Bay
Green Bay @ Arizona
Kansas City @ Denver
Baltimore @ Oakland
Washington @ San Diego
Tennessee @ Seattle
Cincinnati @ NY Jets
Combined Score of the Cincy/PHL game = 45
You can find all the details on the league HERE.
Make your picks and link up, we’d LOVE to have you!!!
Good Luck!!!
You can keep track of everyone’s progress HERE.
Posted in: BFL, Sports
Tags: Blogger Football League
December 30th, 2009 / 5 Comments » / by Greis
(and it’s not, totally, about football!!)
It’s the holiday season, and like so many of you I’ve been running around all crazy busy. You’d think I’d have better control over things, you know, since I’m single, have no kids and most of my friends don’t speak to me any more – yeah, so is not the case. I’m still stressed, still busy and at times I feel like I may doze off at any moment from the pure exhaustion that the holiday’s bring. Why is it that the most WONDERFUL time of the year leaves you wanting to strangle the next rude person you encounter at the mall WalMart Target. I need a holiday from the holiday’s, preferably one that consists of laying on my couch, eating bon bons and sleeping for about 3 weeks straight!!! (what diet?!?)
***sigh*** I digress…
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but I made a “LIST”!
No, not that list (because, duh, I’m not a mommy or FAMOUS)…this one.
My friend, Issa, totally included me on her list of 31 blogs you should be reading. I’m quite flattered to be included with 30 other amazing writers because, HELLO, I know these people and they are all much better writers than yours truly. And some of them even blog on a regular basis, about real things. When I read the news about my nomination making the “list” I immediately wanted to run up on stage and start thanking God and the Academy, because that’s what the famous people do, but, there was no stage and no academy. So, do you think dancing on a table will suffice?
I love Issa and am so happy that she thinks so highly of me. But, I have a feeling my being on the list is all a part of her sneaky plan to get me to blog more frequently about real things, not just football and my dog.
And apparently it worked, because here I am writing. I’m sure Issa will be so proud!!!
So, since Issa brought my lack of writing about things other than football, my dog and Christmas to the Interwebz attention I figured I should explain my whereabouts the last few days weeks months (in list form, of course):
- I’m totally addicted to Facebook.
When I’m not here I’m there. Usually tending to my Farmville Farm or playing Bejeweled (I will beat Liz’s score one day, even if it kills me!!!).
- Hi, my name is Greis and I’m addicted to my iPhone.
If I can’t do it on my iPhone, it’s probably not worth doing. (Ok, so only SOME things aren’t worth doing. **wink, wink**) And, yes, I have the Wordpress ap, but have you tried writing a post on the iPhone keyboard? Not gonna happen.
- Playing with my iPhone aps.
I mean, really, I’ve got Facebook, Bejeweled and Words with Friends (if you don’t have this ap you must get it, NOW. My screen name is AmazingGreis) with me at all times. It’s HEAVEN.
- Working.
This is the biggest keeper of my time. And, since work pays the bills I must continue to do it.
- Watching NFL football.
Did you hear the Texans are still in the play-off hunt? I know, it’s a very LONG shot, but stranger things have happened.
- Watching College football.
The Longhorns will be playing in the BCS National Championship on January 7, 2010. Need I say more? Hook’em Horns!!
- Watching Glee.
- Partaking in all of the normal holiday activities.
Mostly shopping (for others) and spending time with family.
Well, those are the only viable excuses I can come up with, though I’m sure there are more. In my opinion they are all great and my lack of real writing is absolutely excusable. I mean, who doesn’t want to watch Glee or football or play games on her iPhone at all hours of the day? Writing posts with substance should always come 2nd to all of the above, right?
I promise to be a more consistent writer in the New Year, but I’m not making it a resolution, because I always fail at those.
XOXO
Posted in: Uncategorized
Tags: Randomness
December 25th, 2009 / 4 Comments » / by Greis
Here’s hoping that your stocking, your tummy and your heart stays full all day through.
Merry Christmas, friends.
Hope you have a fabulous day.
Love ~
(and her little dog too!!)
Posted in: Holidays
Tags: Christmas
