Oklahoma City

I have to admit something ... Oklahoma City isn't that bad. I don't know what I was expecting -- maybe I just hate Oklahoma -- but we really had fun last weekend. We went up to OKC for the Big XII Basketball Tournament last weekend. We skipped the first day since the Aggies didn't play until Friday. I only own one maroon shirt and I wasn't going to wear it Friday because I wanted to save it until Saturday's game when we would most likely be playing t.u. I put it on when James told me "there's no tomorrow in a tournament" so I'm pretty sure he jinxed the Aggies. That and the face-down penny he insisted on putting in his pocket earlier in the day. It was a horrible thing to lose our first game to OKLAHOMA STATE but they had quite the 'home court advantage'. I'm not a basketball fan. I've never really cared for the sport but being in that atmosphere was utterly amazing. We saw A&M play OSU and Texas almost lose to Baylor on Friday night. We thought about leaving but decided to stick it out and watch Kansas/Kansas State and t.u./OSU on Saturday. I really enjoyed the games. They were all very good - and they all proved my theory that all important basketball games are decided in the last 5 minutes. We dumped our tickets to the championship game because, let's face it, there were casinos to visit on the way home and neither of us cared that much about the championship game. Either Kansas was going to win OR we would be really pissed that we stayed late to watch t.u. win something ... again. No, we didn't win big at the casino. It was fun, even though they don't serve booze, and only about an hour from our house so we'll probably go there again.

We're taking off Thursday and Friday this week to tackle some spring projects around the house. We ordered dirt to level our lumpy bumpy lawn but it's not being delivered until Friday so we have tomorrow to clean the house ... errrr... watch basketball. More basketball. hmmmm ... maybe I am a fan? It's a little mini-spring break for the Starkes even though we're not going anywhere. We might even do some planting but I think spreading dirt is going to be more than enough work for me! Things are starting to green up so it's starting to look like the land of the living again. The flowering trees (pears/redbuds) are blooming and are so pretty but my allergies are absolutely killing me so I'm about to chop them all down!!! We had good rain yesterday and you would think that would knock the pollen out of the air ... right ... can I please breathe now? really. please?

Gig Em Aggies!