tailgate like a champion

Ok, so after a brief hiatus from blogging (2 months) from unforseen issues with internet including vacations and moving into a new apartment where cable and internet didn't want to cooperate for a bit, I'm back in time to tell you about one of the weirdest, craziest, strangest, hottest, stormiest... you get the drift... days in ND Football History.

Because a long explanation is boring for everyone... here are the highlights:

Darty and Rage Friday

8 a.m. Pregame for Tailgate

Tailgate

100 Degree weather

ND Football

ND Playing Football Horribly

ND Stadium Evacuated Due To Weather

Game Resumes -ND Still Sucking

ND Stadium Evacuated AGAIN

Game Resumes AGAIN

ND Loses

Having 14 people crash in our 5-person apartment = epic weekend despite a shitty FB loss

southern gentlemen

Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy watching ABC's Bachelor and Bachelorette
        However.... Sweet Home Alabama is where it's at.

10 country boys and 10 city boys are competing for the girl

I must say I'm on the country boys side

Is it so hard to ask men from the city to be more gentlemen-like?

My favorite guy friends are all from the south as well... coincidence?

Seriously, check this show out, its outrageously histarical (CMT)

Currently Reading

Dead To The World

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone younger than 17.

however - in my opinion it is the perfect book series to read around twilight while eating red raspberries, if you get my drift...

Yes. I went there.

Its television version appears under the title of True Blood

Watch With Caution

It is extremely graphic and addicting... funny how that works

Also, if you are single and female (most likely), Aleksander Skarsgard's character of Eric Northman will have you begging for more.

unexpected surprises

I mean... are there any other kind of surprises?
   I must admit, I never would have guessed that I would get to meet my childhood crush

Tom Felton... or most people would know him as Draco Malfoy

"To Megan Love Tom Felton - Draco xxx"

My signed copy of Half-Blood Prince

Of course... he is going to shake off his Harry Potter character quite soon,

this month in fact

Unfortunately for me, however, within the 30 seconds I had to talk with him, my standards for men have raised significantly higher

If only all celebrities were as charming and gentlemen-like (and had british accents)

heat wave

  another day above 105 degrees

only one place to go in the midwest with these conditions

Dunes National Lakeshore

Lake Michigan

Just a 20 minute drive and I'm at the beach... one of our best kept secrets

I firmly believe that out of all the midwest folks, we in the "region"

have it best

hottest day of the century

on hot days like today, the most important thing you can do is stay hydrated

                    even my outdoor friends know how important this is

lunch consisted of crisp chicken caesar salad with raspberry lemonade

healthy and refreshing

so far this summer i have: climbed an extinct volcano, hiked to a hidden waterfall, surfed a south shore swell, hanged out with some monk seals, won a triathlon with an awesome team, & witnessed the end of my favorite childhood story Harry Potter

    bittersweet

hopefully the weather loosens up a bit