Champions!

Well, U.F. did it again. We won another national championship. It's been ten years since the last one. My memories of the old championship have gotten faded, but the 2006 championship season will tide me over until the next one. It's unbelievable that we hold both the basketball and football championships together in the same season. The probabilities of that ever happening again anywhere are low.

We had a great crowd at the house. In 40+ degree weather we had people sitting outside in the courtyard to watch the game on the big media projector-fed screen. On the porch and inside we cleared out all the oversized furniture and set up stools and chairs a la theater seating to watch the four televisions we had tuned to the game. We ran out of toilet paper in the fourth quarter. We ran out of keg beer at about the same time. 40-60 people were here at any given moment throughout the night, but as soon as we won everyone took off running up 17th street to get to University Avenue. The celebration was similar to the one after the '06 NCAA basketball final. People on lamp and telephone poles, mortars fired into the air, a huge mob spilling out onto University Avenue. People were elated throughout. It was an amazing experience. It was beautiful. I'm just happy I had already taken Tuesday off work. ;)

I'm happy I live in Gainesville. I know I always said I was going to leave at some point. Some folks told me I'd stay in Gainesville. Well, I guess they might be right. It just doesn't seem as if I'm going to leave anytime soon. A friend recently bought a house and I think to myself, "if she can do it, so can I." Miguel and Kelly will be here for a while longer and I like being close to family. I've got a great group of friends up here (although I seriously miss the rest of the gang). I've got a ton of reasons to stay right now. I think I'm going to buy a house here and soon. Wish me luck.