February must be a bad month for blogging.

I am absolutely swamped. I'm way in over my head at school. I need to take time off work to study more, but I'm actually already not working enough to pay the bills. I'm under a ton of stress, and it's affecting me both mentally and physically now. I'm a step slow at work, I'm not getting the studying done that I need to, and even when I do I could do better. I can't afford to get through this semester with C's, and if I keep taking things to give me energy and/or keep me awake, my head is going to explode. I'm experiencing tightness in my chest on occasion, I'm sometimes short of breathe, I get these sharp pains at the bottom of ribs on either side, my back hurts, my neck hurts, my shoulders hurt, and the Saturday before Valentine's Day I couldn't really carry anything with my left arm for about 3 hours. I'm getting too old for this shit.

We can, and we just might.

This Old House

Some pros and cons of buying a "fixer-upper":

Pros: Cheaper, and there is some amount of satisfaction to doing the work yourself.

Cons: Sometimes you get 4 Roto Rooter service men in 2 vans digging a 500 cubic-foot hole in your front yard with a backhoe. I need to get a picture of this.........

A Giant Win

Steve Spagnuolo had Tom Brady's kryptonite last night.

For everyone who doesn't follow football much and has only been listening to the media talk about New England's invincibility and what a monumental upset the Giants 17-14 win in Super Bowl XLII was, don't believe the hype. The best football team won last night, and I don't mean the Giants were the best team because they won this one game. All throughout the playoffs, the Giants were the best team. When the Patriots and Giants met during week 17, the Giants were the better team then, too. Whatever clicked inside Eli Manning during that game is all the Giants needed. The defense did the rest. Whether or not Manning translates this into further development into the player so many think he is or can be remains to seen, but he had a hell of a 5 game stretch beginning with the Week 17 loss to the Patriots.

I can't say I'm necessarily happy the Giants won, being a Redskins fan, but I'm becoming more and more a fan of Michael Strahan. I also can't help but be happy for Plax, someone I saw not given much of a chance by those who didn't understand him when we were kids and tolerated by the rest because of his immense physical talent.

What is truely great about it, though, is the chink in Tom Brady's armor. He's not invincible, folks, so let it go. Maybe now Boston will be a little more realistic about the Celtics.