Two of my favorite things... JT & golf... could it be true?

" He's got a six-stroke handicap now, but pop star Justin Timberlake is reportedly determined to qualify for and play in a PGA event by the time he's 30 years old."

 Yesterday was a pretty big day. My nephew Jackson asked me to be his godmother. Needless to say I was very excited.  I think, though, that this should entitle me to some kind of bonus responsibilities and benefits. For example, I think his godmother should be the one to decide where he and his parents should live. Another should be that he needs to be babysat by me at least once every few weeks so that I have adequate time to impart all the necessary knowledge that is my duty to bestow upon him. There are some things such as my phenomenal lego house building skills that it would just be a shame to not share.

Then last night, after Jackson asked me to be his godmother, Jason's brother and sister-in-law asked us to be his nephew Liam's godparents as well. Lucky him! :) I love the idea, so I'm very happy. The same rules should apply there. I think a regular babysitting schedule is mandatory. I don't have any photos of Liam yet, but I'm sure there will be plenty in the future.

Easter has come and gone. If it weren't for the bosca it would almost start turning into just another Sunday. My brother & sister were back a couple of weeks ago so they weren't here for this particular holiday. What fun is that? I didn't even go to church. That is the first time in my whole entire life that I have ever missed church on Easter Sunday. Even when I went to school at Vanderbilt I went to a crazy Baptist church on Easter. It was a good run.

Oh, and to top it all off Tiger didn't even win the Masters. If he hadn't won me a scrumptious DQ blizzard I might have decided to pick someone else to win the next one. Okay, that's a lie. The Tiger bandwagon is way too cozy for that.

Well, tonight is it- last game of the season. The Napoleon boys made it to Regionals, won their first game of the tournament, but lost their second so they will play for third place tonight and then that's it.

I know I might not be the most objective person since I'm a huge fan of Jason but I have to say, he did an amazing job with that team this year and I had a great time watching them. It is a completely different team than it was back in December. And, as always, the end of the season is kind of a relief but I definitely could have waited for it to be done until next weekend- after State.

They graduate four guys so next year will be a completely different story. As a senior gift for the four who are graduating, we made each of them a collage. You can check those out at www.gametimephotographs.com.

Now that he'll be done with basketball and no longer has a good excuse, Jason can start helping with.... wedding planning!! 

I haven't given in completely yet. Jason's request for me to "watch college hoops on ESPN" still hasn't happened. Last night he watched the Duke/North Carolina game and wanted me to watch it with him. I played Guitar Hero instead. I haven't held my ground as much as I had hoped, though. I have been reading basketball message boards. I am so disappointed in myself. I used to read the Wizards message board, which makes a little more sense, but now I am reading about kids from places like Wells County and Steele and Powers Lake for goodness sake! As a matter of fact I just read something on one of the message boards a couple minutes ago and then promptly called Jason (and woke him up- he's at home sick today) and asked him why he didn't tell me that one of the kids we've watched a couple of times has signed with Mary. Enough! To make up for it the only site I'm going to only look at for the rest of the day is weddings.com.

I would like to extend an apology to anyone who was offended by my Napoleon stories. While the stories were true, I was joking; it was all in fun on my part. I don't by any means think everyone in the town is stupid. And I can understand why someone could take offense to what I wrote. I am from Mandan, trust me, I hear that kind of stuff all the time. Speaking of which, I just noticed that my sweater is on backwards.

Oh, and two things just for future reference: 1: I am aware that my sense of humor is at times a little odd. If you don't think something is funny when I do, that's fine with me. I'm used to that too. And if you can't figure out if I am kidding or not, assume that I am. Because more than likely that is the case. And 2: I am opinionated. You may not agree with everything I have to say, but it's okay to be wrong sometimes.... ;)

Here is my response to Jason's recent post about me and basketball. It's a defense mechanism. If I don't have anything to say about basketball I get ignored. Well, I get ignored by Jason regardless, but at least other people talk to me. Besides, even if I wanted to know absolutely nothing about basketball it would be impossible due to the sheer volume of it that I am subjected to. Just ask me about the day of four games a couple of weeks ago.

Whatever, though. I admit it, I like basketball. If he has to coach something I'm glad that's it. Football is during golf season, hockey is too cold, baseball is too boring, wrestling is too dangerous (with the herpes and all). And I will watch players like Justin Belohlavek and Tate Kick all day long (okay, confession: one big reason I like to watch Tate Kick is because I like his name and it makes me giggle when his teammates call him Tater. Oh yeah, and he's good). Class B is proving to not be my favorite. Everyone says it's so great and so intense, but those must be the people who don't watch any class A. Not that I don't like watching Nap-town and all that, but I have already told him that I would prefer it if he'd coach at a class A school.

Oh, and about the watching college basketball on ESPN. I don't know when that would even happen. I hardly get to watch What Not to Wear anymore let alone anything else because I'm always at stupid basketball games. Speaking of which... since Jason's staying in Napoleon I might go watch the Mandan/Century boys game tonight. Just cause it's my alma mater, not because I like basketball.