Well, that was fun. So I had been looking forward to this weekend for months. I love when the SEC Tournament is in Nashville. Downtown is coated in a sea of blue and every person you meet is your new best friend. I was especially excited because this year the tournament did not fall during Daylight Savings Time weekend. This poses a problem when time springs forward when you are not expecting it to, causing you to make out with a boy in your car until you are positive all alcohol has left your system and you are sober enough to drive, since the bar where you had planned to sober up closed an hour early. The things we do for safety...or maybe it's just me.
Anyway, I walked around downtown yesterday during my lunch break and met a lot of new friends. There was Tom from Versailles who tried to buy me a shot of bourbon on the street. Now, there were no bourbon vendors on the street, nor would have I accepted a shot since it was 11 a.m. and I had to go back to work, but Tom seemed undeterred. His wife just kept shaking her head and mumbling something about him thinking he was still 30 or something. I also met four year old Kayla who was decked out in her UK cheerleading finest. She proceeded to tell me that I was a lot older than she thought but she guessed I still looked okay. But my favorite new friend was Sandra. Sandra is 88 years old and was visitng Nashville for her 6th SEC tournament. She got so excited when she told me she was here for the last one and got to sing Happy Birthday to Patrick Patterson. I hope that's me one day.
I even ended up scoring a spot in a suite (for FREE) at the last minute so I was even more excited. Free food, free alcohol, good company...what more could you want?
Well, it would have been nice if my team had won. Now I'm not going to get down on my team because I don't do that. I love them no matter what and I can't stand when people rant about how done they are with a team. I'd like to see you do half of what those 18 year olds down on the court are doing. I hope we make the NCAA but if we don't, we don't. I still bleed blue no matter what.
So, my weekend has freed up a bit since I had planned on spending part of today downtown. But, I have other exciting things to do, such as get ready to celebrate the birthday of one of my best friends in Nashville tonight! Perfect way to get over one disappointment is to move onto something that you know will be epic.
I also had time to finish up an article I'm submitting to ThoughtCatalog. It's about Yankee Candles. Trust me. It's a good one. Keep an eye out for it...hopefully it will be shared with the world. I just hope the person it's about never reads it because I doubt we'd continue to email four times a week. Fingers crossed.
Enjoy this lovely Saturday, and as always, GO CATS!
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