I like football. I like baseball and basketball and golf too, but they play so much, I lose a lot of interest during the regular seasons. Football is like a 4 month long post season that leads to an uber exciting post post season. I like the injuries, I like underdogs taking down BCS #1s. I like the drama of 1-3 Cowboys and Vikings playing for their lives (not that either will make it to the post season anyway). I like that Boise and TCU are making a case for a national title berth. I love Oregon's hurry-up. Cam Newton's impressiveness. Troy Polamalu's power (and hair). I love rivalries. USC and UCLA. Auburn and Bama. Bowl games and Superbowl commercials. I love it all.
I don't like Halloween. Frankly, I dislike October because of it. I don't like Halloween because I hate dressing up. Thinking of a costume. Putting it together. Actually having to wear it around other people who look equally ridiculous. Its all terrible. Don't even get me started on face paint. But its more than just the day itself. I hate Halloween movies. I hate any talking skeleton. Why does there have to be a horror movie on every channel? Even more importantly, who in the world enjoys these Saw movies? I watched about 2 minutes of one on TV (no less) and had to change the channel because it was so awful. I have no desire, (because I'm a normal, well rounded human being) to see a guy, have to take a shotgun to the face, while trying to retrieve a key, to stop another guy, who apparently killed his kid, from being twisted to death. Thanks, not interested. I can't wait for it all to be over so Christmas Vacation can be on 8 times a day.
Well, not being a fan of Halloween either, I LOVE the month of October for many reasons. Some of the absolute BEST weather in Southern California, esp at the beach, which is where I'd always like to be....and 2 of the most AWESOME people I've ever known in my life are born in October...my most amazing Mom and human that ever lived (besides her dad, my grandpa John Thompson), birthday, October 24.1916 and one of my most AMAZING sons, Jesse Thompson (that's right, named after the most amazing grandpa EVER to have lived) born October 30th 1983....if I could RE-pick a month to get married in it would be October...in fact that's the month I did pick but as usual Jon Meramble got his way and we were married in May....it's all good...but don't HATE ON OCTOBER because of creepy clowns.
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