WATCHED THE INAGURATION, ...

... today is still my Mom's birthday

This event, watching a black man nervously take the oath of office of the Presidency of the United States, means sooo much. Have to leave a lot of 'what it means' to the smarter than Mark guys. As I have said before, and will continue to say, this means that it is once again time to make like CIV and 'set your goals'.

My Mom had me dream some of the wildest dreams ... and I believed in them too. Problem was in the execution my of them. When Bill Clinton rose to become President, that was when I first felt the sting of what I squandered as an adult. Coming from where he came from, I saw quite a bit of myself in him and his story.

Obama means that the govenor has been taken off, and you can once again race to your dreams. For a lot of people in the black community, it is going to be interesting how deep this goes. One of the big problems we've had is unity in purpose. Perhaps, this can help the social movement become centered and move forward in a positive fashion.

I think that is what I am going to take from today most of all, the hope that he represents, that is manifested in his taking the office of President. I have never thought that there are small dreams ... anything that you have to work hard and sacrifice to get or achieve is measured by the effort, not by its objective worth. Like Marshall and Lily's habits and traditions on last night's 'How I Met Your Mother'!

The small things that they did together, to Robin, seemed silly. They themselves had thought they would use this 'away trip' as the time they out grew the silliness of Marshall picking Lily up from the airport and being silly with each other. It was a nice show, and it made me think of how I like to find something unique to a relationship and celebrate it. It is important, IMO, to have something personal and special to share with your partner.

It made me think of what AKA 'likes' about me, and how it is different from what Tee Jay 'liked' ... and I am sure that what I found in them, especially Tee Jay, was different than what others saw in them. We had 'our' thing, and that was cool.

NO, THIS ISN'T GOING TO MAKE ANY SENSE...

... so consider this a 'stand alone episode'. So I shaved my legs and felt better yesterday ... it always makes me feel good, doing something to make myself feel 'pretty'!! Buffed out my finger nails too! All the ridges are smoothed out, and they are coming into form!

Gonna see Lexxie in April. Waiting until Feb. to get that settled out as well. That is going to be a great experience, as I think of myself as a good 'road team', even with my challenges. This also means I won't visit Nebraska until late spring, early summer. I wanted it to be the other way, because I wanted to see if I could get a deal and sneak KT down to the Atl and the three of us hang out during the summer. Que sera.

Listening to a couple of 'Sandie songs' right now. The first one is 'Dirty Epic' by Underworld. Not that it has any hidden meanings or stuff like that. But I remember a particular drive we were on, and for some reason, it began to resonate and associate itself with her.

Oasis' 'Wonderwall', is a song that she took to, and liked to listen to it when she'd visit. As time has gone by, it seems like I should have picked up on what it may have meant to her, and subsquently to us, when we were together ...

Anywho, it is going to be good to see them in 'their place'. Will have to keep my Stepmom in my head, and not say or do anything stupid while I am down there. Strange things happens to brothers from the North when they cross the Mason-Dixon line ..!

FOOTBALL THIS PAST WEEKEND

Glad for Arizona and Kurt Warner ... too bad that the Philly fans may devour Donovan McNabb. The Steelers-Ravens game was crystalized by that hit Ryan Clark put on Willis McGahee in the 4th quarter. It was mostly clean, completely unintended, if unintended is defined by not wanting to cause serious injury.

It was a football game that really, if you didn't want to get hurt, or have to 'want it to win it', you needed not to have showed up. No one was wearing skirts out there. For a moment, I thought the Ravens were going to hang around and sneak the win out in the end, but Troy Polumalu was in the right place as he has been most of the season ... so it wasn't an accident.

Not that the Steelers are 'bullies', but that is what I think they are going to do with Arizona in the Super Bowl. At least a two score win, I think, for the Steelers.

... okay, how DID you meet our Mother?

Last night's show was very cute. I liked how Marshall and Lily, agonizing over whether or not they should start being more mature, and move beyond the silliness in their relationship, ended up going to great lengths to keep alive the odd tradition of greeting each other at the airport. I have always thought that the small, unique quirks to a relationship can keep the bond strong between people.

Did not watch 'Two and a half Men', because this season of '24' is smoking! I am also excited to see the new show 'Lie to Me', featuring Tim 'Mr. Orange' Roth. One of the commercials uses a snippet of a Morrissey song, 'Glamourous Glue' ... the one with the voice singing, 'Everyone lies, everyone lies'...

Like someone can sneak Morrissey by me!

But back to 'Mother', I think about what it would be like to be a part of a couple like that ... there has been times where I thought that I was working on that with someone (kewpie doll if anyone could guess who!). Want to think that I would recognize it again if I saw it ... sorta think I have. But it could be like that cat in the Wendy's 'Fundamentals of a 3-conomy', where the one cat says, 'shh, hear that?', and the one guy says, 'yeah, that was me. Anymore fundamentals in that bag?'

Then dude goes, 'There it is again!' He could have just told him 'no'!