I had this idea for a charm. I thought it was going to be perfect. It was going to be on shrink plastic – the only possible detriment. I have a problem determining how large things need to be in shrink plastic, prior to shrinking, to get them the size I want to start. Well, the charm above is too big. I am going to work a bit more – maybe even making another this size as my 13 year old swears this is perfect for my earrings.
I spent a good portion of the time prior to the 3:30 kickoff in the WVU-UConn game working on Christmas crafts. I have to finish up some ornaments for a swap and charms for a swap so was looking to add some pizzazz!
I also wanted to get some door hangers done. The ones above are the start. There are four of the Ho, Ho, Ho ones that are going back to Niagara University with my daughter. She and her three RA friends are going to have them on their doors for the time being.
Okay, so I am a Mountaineer fanatic! This is not something that is taken lightly or liked by many in the area of upstate NY I live in as we are less then 80 miles from Big East team Syracuse. I just could not put a real adjective in front of Syracuse this year.
As much as I love my Mountaineers, I have never professed the same love for the actual state of WV. I would like to go back and visit and will some day but I have never, until yesterday, wanted to live there.
I am safely ensconced in the recliner at my house, in front of what is termed the “big” tv as it is the largest one in the house. I have forewarned the kids that tonight’s dinner is leftovers and they are all more than capable of heating up their own as I am sitting down at 3:30-ish and watching WV and UConn. The game, of more significance than Coach Rod wants to let on, is being televised on ABC. For being in Syracuse territory, I have faired well this year in getting Mountaineer games on TV.
I am settled in with my Saranac winter sampler and a Winter Wassail whatever beer. I have some chips and dip. The game starts and I start acting like I am back in the student section. Only thing I am missing is my yellow – which I will find and wear before that bowl game. The broadcasters are being nice. They are talking National Championship – finally. They are also talking more about last night’s LSU loss and the upcoming Missouri-Kansas fiasco than the Mountaineers. No respect even when you are on the field.
The Mountaineers are up by a bit at half time so, rather than listen to more dripple about LSU and Missouri and Kansas, I turn to the Kentucky-Tennessee game. It goes into quadruple OT and I flip back and forth between it and the Mountaineers – watch the Vols and Wildcats when UConn has the ball. Suddenly, the fourth OT ends with a Vols victory and I go back to my Mountaineers full time.
I am watching and suddenly, as if the WVU-UConn game has no importance at all, ABC decides to go to the Georgia-Georgia Tech game. What is ESPN2 – where this game is suppose to be? The same flipping game! I am getting overridden for Georgia football that, because Tennessee took that game in four OTs, is useless also.
This just wouldn’t happen in WV. In WV, I would not be sitting in front of a TV that has Syracuse getting beat for the upteenth time, a TV that has Georgia-Georgia Tech on two channels. This is the northeast so at least I can understand the Syracuse game – winning or losing season. BUT – two teams from Georgia! Someone in sports programming needs to get a grip!
