How many t-shirts are too many t-shirts?

OK my main purpose in life this week is to resurrect the wreck that is my bedroom and closet.  My closet is so bad that I have two hanging rack things outside taking up space in my room because there is so much crap in my closet.  So I figure that if it is on the floor of the closet, chances are I'll never wear it or miss it again.  Riiighht.  I found 25 year old Topsiders that look really good, so I wear them out to dinner tonight.  OK that's all, most everything else has gone to the trash bags headed for MARVA or Salvation Army.

Everything but the t-shirts...

Some people collet rare wines, other people collect fine art.  I collect t-shirts.  I have shirts from vacation spots like Mesa Verde and Wall, SD.  I have shirts from TECH.  I have shirts from every Homecoming Lamar has had since I arrived there, that makes 20.  I have shirts I have designed for a soccer tournament and shirts to commemorate the RHS After Proms of 1999 and 2002.  Shirts from soccer tournaments, basketball tournaments, Razorback shirts, cheer shirts and school colors shirts from Adam to Izard.  I figure that I can wear a different shirt everyday from tomorrow until probably sometime in August or  maybe even September.

Yes, there are that many.  I have this huge chest of drawers that has this one long, deep drawer.  I rolled and deposited 50 shirts in it. 50.  there's 2 1/2 months right there.

So does this mean I will never buy another t-shirt?  Certainly not!  New cheer shirts are in order for the summer.  I figure I'll go SOMEWHERE where a t-shirt will be purchased for memories.  Probably by the end of summer I will have acquired another 10 or 12. 

Do they have rehab for t-shirt addiction?  HHMMMM....

Love and Basketball

Blue and You Challenge is rolling along.  I have become the Log-in Nazi and am after my team to log their exercise times .  So far so good.

So what's this got to do with basketball?  PLENTY!  The overall instigator of getting all of us on board sent out an all-call to anybody who wanted to play basketball after school to come on out last Thursday.  SAWEET! So I enlist my pal Chris to join in the fun.  She breaks her neck to get back to school and here we are- a couple of one-time six on six ballers hangin out with a bunch of women who do this regularly!  So we stand around and shoot around a bit and talk about graduation caps and gowns and prom dresses!  Then we choose up sides and get with it!  Chris is not guarding me but a really scrappy teacher is.  She schools me and I hook shot her.  She gets a rebound, and I almost pack her.  At the end of 20 minutes, when we stopped for air and water- I had 10 points and Chris had 8.  Neither of us broke a hip or turned an ankle or anything.  It was a lot of fun.  Heck, I wasn't even sore until two days later!  Thank goodness no one had a hidden camera and snapped incriminating photos!

I flipping love basketball!  March Madness is the greatest thing except for a RED SOX appearance in the World Series.  On Selection Sunday, I am armed with paper and pencil to get the brackets right, fill out my brackets and join a probability study (read pool!) 

I root for the locals, it they're in it, or sentimental favorites- Duke, Syracuse.  On the women's side- love them Lady Vols all the time!

Right now- I am all over my Golden Suns!  Gulf South Conference Champs, South Region Champs and beat the Okras from Delta State three times this year!!!  Next stop- the ELite Eight in 10 days!  Fight on Arkansas Tech, fight on to victory.  The finals tonight was one of the best games I have ever been to, except maybe the 2002 Women's National Championship game when UConn went 39-0. I go through serious withdrawal when the last buzzer sounds in the championship game, until baseball season....

I love spring.  There, I said it and I mean it.  I want to get outside and work in the yard, ride a bike, walk the dog (or let the dog walk me, more like it) and just be.

However, this is more difficult than it looks.  Case in point, Sunday afternoon, after the obligatory nap, I was watching the GSC Women's championship game and couldn't stand it any longer after the second overtime.  So I go outside to work in the flower bed.  Rake and water bottle in hand, I rake and listen to the game, chase the neighbor dogs out of the flower bed and get everything prepared for flowers and tomatoes and peppers next week.

Monday morning- eyes itching, nose running, and sneezing abounds.  Yep- the elm and cedar are in blossom and now I can't breathe. Ahh spring.

Anyway, it's 60 degrees as I write this at 5:30AM.  Supposed to be 70 this afternoon.  High of 65 tomorrow, then, frost the rest of the week.  So much for putting the flowers in, or tomatoes, or anything else.

The photo was from last spring when I created the bed.

2 point 2

Blue and You Challenge started yesterday.  I got my 30 minutes of exercise in today and weighed in as well.  2 point 2 down, no paying in yet!  Maybe this thing is possible.  

BLue and You is pretty cool- with a bit of work, I'll be working out across America.  Start out in Little Rock, next stop Baton Rouge (calling Baton Rouge!)