Is It Friday Yet?

It is!

Huge congrats to Johnny Manziel for winning the O'Brien Award (first freshman and first Aggie ever) and to Luke Joeckel for winning the Outland Trophy (first Aggie ever) at the Home Depot College Football Awards last night! Waiting, waiting, waiting for the Heisman announcement on Saturday night. Go JFF!

Still wondering when they'll do a Home Depot Tool of the Year award, so it can to go to one of those irritable, pop-a-gasket coaches.

Tool... Home Depot...

I'm sure going to miss making that joke every week, now that football season is over.

I hate to say it, but the whole awards show was just odd, from the awkward skits to the long silences to the mostly misread teleprompter. (The winner is... Joel Joeckel from The University of Texas A&M? Oy. Big moment bombed.) I think the problem was that the event needs to choose a personality. Is it solemn and meaningful or is it fun and celebratory? Here are all these stars of college football in one room, with somber presenters and little levity... and they jarringly throw in randomness like a DJ and goofy skits.

I'm more a DJ & goofy skit girl myself, so I wish they would have run with that and kept the presenters more smiley and casual, except for perhaps the more personal Disney Spirit Award honoring UT's Nate Boyer and the Contribution to College Football Award honoring former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian.

They also tried to do several impromptu "bits" that really require some sort of rehearsal, like having the first three winners throw the football around the room. Everyone was unsure what the heck they were supposed to do. You could almost see the cuing from behind the camera. I think they should have had more pre-recorded segments, like the golf game and Disney thing, to feature the players. The Te'o skit could have been pre-recorded, too. Cute, but the timing was off.

The only thing that could have made the event more uncomfortable and weird would have been comedian Richard Lewis hosting.


I said here yesterday that I thought the twenty minutes we saw during season 1 of AHS were from the pilot. It turns out it was from episode 10 of 12. I guess we jumped in later than I thought. Heh. And it was Tate and Violet in Violet's room with a chess board (Colonel Mustard in the Study with a Candlestick *gigglesnort*), not in the attic with a Ouija board.

Details, details.

Either way, we're watching the final two episodes of season 1 today!


Friday Five: Themeless

1. You know those delicatessens that name sandwiches after famous people? What would be the ingredients of the sandwich named after you?
a hot panini made with Fontina, genoa salami, roasted red peppers, caramelized onions and banana peppers on ciabatta

2. What’s your favorite part of staying in a hotel?
a king size bed and a fabulous shower

3. What was the last book you read, and how was it?
Skinnydipping by Bethenny Frankel. It was good!

4. What’s something super-unhealthy you’ve recently eaten?
Hello Dolly bars I made at Thanksgiving-- so worth it

5. What do you do with all those Christmas cards with photos of friends and their kids?
I put them in albums. They're the only things I've put in albums in the past ten years.