What is this, a sports blog, now?

I promise I am NOT a sports writer. But the games! The GAMES! They are so exciting. Megan had a game Wed night which was a total nail biter. I wasn’t there, but I hear it was excitement times two. Megan was playing against one of her soccer buddies, too, which made it interesting. Ryan told me the whole game recap, but really, it all comes down to the score. Megan’s team won by one point. On, and I owe her $6.

Then, since they won on Tues and Wed, they had another game on Thursday. We were all there, lending our support and our mad cheering skilz. We did have some annoying fans sitting by us, though. Fans for the other team. Can’t they sit on their own side? Really, we want to be free to cheer our heads off, without worrying about offending Tall girl‘s dad, who happens to be sitting right in front of us. And let’s avoid Mr. Yell at the ref whenever you don’t like the call. Anyway, the tension was high, even before the game started. This team was the team our girls lost to last week. They are bigger and older than our girls, and they are undefeated in the tournament. Two of my friends showed up with their video cameras, because as one mom put it, “If I’m filming, I don’t yell as much. I don’t want my yelling on tape, now do I?”

Even though our girls the Sparks started out slowly, they scored the first basket. It was pretty evenly matched this time, with a close score at the half, but I think we were still ahead. Megan threw a hail Mary right AFTER the buzzer that went IN! It was absolutely beautiful, but it didn’t count. I, of course got distracted making sure John hadn’t left the gym, and where the heck was Jenna, and yes, you can have some Swedish fish, here’s a few for you, and a few for you, and …What? What just happened? Why is that guy yelling at the ref? You get the picture. But it was a tense, tense game. The score was 20-22, and our girls were ahead with 30 seconds left. And we fouled them and stopped the clock for their tall girl to shoot a free throw. Oh, NO! Not a free throw! And it went IN, bringing the score to 21-22, with the ball down at their end. But our Sparks took that ball and didn’t let them score, so our girls BEAT them by only one point.

Whew! There was all kind of celebrating and screaming going on as we left the gym. And we get to go to another game….Tonight! Because we haven’t had enough basketball this week. No, really, because this is a double elimination tournament, and this other team has now lost one game, and our team has lost one game. So, tonight’s game will determine the champion.

Cole’s also got his concert tonight, so I guess I’ll go to Megan’s game for a while, and the skip out to go to Cole’s concert.

In other blogworthy news, I made my own whole wheat bread yesterday. Really! I’m baking bread. I never thought I would be making my own wheat bread. Up until a few years ago, I had this celiac thing going on, and eating gluten would make me break out in an itchy painful rash. Well, for some reason, that has gone away, and I can now eat wheat. When I was at the Bosch store a few weeks ago buying new beaters, I picked up their bread recipes. I even bought “vital wheat gluten” for the bread. Who would have thought I would buy EXTRA gluten to put in the bread? Well, yesterday was the day. I felt like the little red hen. I ground the wheat to make the flour, I mixed the flour and other ingredients to make the bread, I let the bread rise, and I baked the bread. And I have to say, that bread is pretty darn tasty! They aren’t the prettiest loaves in town, I’ll say that much. The tops all fell in a little, but hopefully I’ll get that worked out in future batches. But still, here I am, grinding wheat and making bread (and going to basketball games)! Who would have thought?

And lastly. Does anyone out there still watch ER? I’ve been an ER watcher from the very start. It was my show to watch on Thursday nights. Since the invention of the Tivos and the DVRs, I don’t always watch it on Thursday nights anymore, and sometimes, I’ll admit, I didn’t watch it at all. But this is the last season, and they are bringing back the original characters, and I have to watch. Last night’s episode was GREAT! You had John Carter needing a kidney, and then when they go to pick up the kidney and the heart in Seattle, who should we meet as the transplant doctors, but Carol Hathaway and Doug Ross?! (only click on that link if you don’t care about spoiling the ending) And Susan Surrandon played the grandmother of the organ donor kid. And then Peter Benton just happens to work at the hospital where John Carter is having his surgery! I think it’s great. These actors got their big break on ER, and it’s nice of them to come back and do a guest appearance. Plus, it’s always nice to see hunky George Clooney on any screen.

So, if you were an ER fan and you’ve given up on the show, now’s the time to watch again.