Thursday Thoughts: NCAA edition

I’m joining Jen at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for her Thursday Thoughts linkup, so here are some thoughts currently in my head.

• Apparently Reese’s Cups came out with fan-edition printed cups in honor of the NCAA tourney.

They’re calling them “Reese’s Fan Edition Printed Cups” and there are 10 designs in all.  The designs are printed in edible white ink onto each cup (like M&M’s). Images in the designs include jerseys, basketball brackers, and basketball jargon like “Double Team,” “Nothing But Net,” and “Dual Threat.”

Ok, I played basketball for years, so I know all of the terminology…  But am I the only one who doesn’t think of basketball when I hear the phrase “double team”?  I know that’s incredibly inappropriate of me, but I can’t help it – it just doesn’t make me think of basketball and I think there were probably better prints they could have used.

So these have words and/or pictures on them…does the double team one have a picture? What is it?!  It is actually the second one from the left in the picture above with the cheerleader girl and the two cheerleader guys?  This idea is disastrous.  So is this chain of thought.  Moving on….

• I did a bracket for the first time this year – I figured it’d be stupid not to play the $1 billion bracket.  I made my picks pretty randomly and ended up with Louisville as the winner.  Mostly because Jenson has a Louisville bib he can wear.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t put Ohio State making it past the 2nd round.  I wish they would, but they just aren’t very good this year.

• Except Aaron Craft.  I know he makes some big mistakes sometimes, but you guys, he’s carrying this team on his shoulders.  Sadly, its the end of the Aaron Craft era and this city is going to mourn him.  Everyone loves him.  Even other men.  It’s not even a physical attraction thing.  He’s just awesome to watch.  And he’s not a jerk or full of himself.  I think everyone could imagine themselves having a beer with him or cheating off him on a test (he’s super-smart).  And this video?  As terrible as the song itself is, I love that these guys did this with no shame.

• It kind of feels similar to the end of the David Lighty era.  Again, not a physical attraction thing, but I loved watching him play.  He was the hardest working player on the team (Craft filled his spot quite well).  David Lighty played for the Buckeyes for about 12 years, or so it seemed.  During his last year, I realized that he’d been playing for OSU as long as I’d been dating Lo, and I told Lo that David Lighty is the glue that holds our relationship together.  Luckily I was wrong.

•  It’s going to be winter forever.  Sure, we have warmish weather (60’s) occasionally, but then the next day it’s like 10 degrees.  It feels like it’s been winter ever since Jenson was born.

• My hip seems to be healed/healing.  But I haven’t been working out because something has come up every day over lunch…or I did my pt exercises in my office…or whatever.  I didn’t suck so bad at volleyball this week though – I played well enough.

That’s all for this week…I’m tired and I need to get to switching the cloth diaper laundry and pumping.