So, the madness begins again.  I am pretty much good for 1, maybe 2 weekends of all this basketball.  But by the time Sunday rolls around on the 2nd weekend, I just can’t take it anymore.  I am going to have to find something for me and the kids to do outside of the house, because I know Royal will be in front of the tv most of the time and he’s not gonna be very happy about kids jumping all over him.  Really though, to me, it’s not that big of deal.  Royal is really good about not insisting he gets to watch sports every weekend, most of the time he misses the games he wants to watch so he can play with the kiddos.  So, I guess once a year I can be okay with him wanting to watch sports all day.  :)

However, even though I really don’t care that much about college basketball, I’ve still filled out a bracket again this year.  Every year Royal and I bet a quarter on our brackets, and every year I’ve lost.  No big deal, whatever, I can part with a quarter.   But Royal came home yesterday and told me he bet a friend of his lunch over the outcome of one game.  One game!  Are you kidding me?  And I get a quarter if I win the whole thing????  So, I’ve upped the stakes for Royal.  I have been wanting to get a travel trailer for our family for a couple years now, and we’ve been saving for it.  We actually have been out shopping the past couple of weekends trying to figure out what we want.  Then we got some notice saying because our house is no longer in a development that is building houses, we’ve been bumped to a different tax bracket and we owe a bunch of money.  Have I ever mentioned that Kansas has the most taxes ever??? I hate it!!!  So, that pretty much squashed me getting my trailer anytime soon.  That is, unless I win my bracket.  If I win, I get to get my trailer anyway.  If I lose, well, I’ll wait until we’ve saved up the money again.

So, for my brilliant bracketology this year, I think I’ve done some good reasoning.  If any of you have been following this blog for awhile now, you’ll know from 2009’s post, and 2008’s post that I pick based off of seeding, school colors, the ferocity of school mascots, if the school is in a town I might want to visit someday, things like that.  And I always lose, but whatever, no need to change my methodology now!  Here are some of my most creative picks this year.  I have put #5Butler and #4Vanderbilt to meet up in the second round, and I’ve picked Butler to win that game because I think it would be really nice if I had butler around here (or a maid, but there’s no school playing this year with that name)  I have #10Florida picked to beat #7BYU in the first round because Florida sounds really nice this time of year AND I like orange juice.  I have Syracuse making it to the final 4 because, if you’ve read 2009 post, I really dig cream-sicles and their colors are orange the white.  This year in the final I’ve got Kansas (sorry Tonya, please don’t punish me on Monday for letting Syracuse beat K-State, I promise to share some cream-sicles with you) and Duke.  I had Duke picked to win it last year.  Why?  Because of my favorite Duke sweatshirt.  Obviously it’s a sweatshirt I really like.

And really who would win in a real life fight?

A blue devil    or a Jayhawk ?

I’m sorry, but the Jayhawk pretty much just looks like a parrot with tennis shoes on, and my parents have had a couple of those, well minus the shoes of course, and boy are they annoying.  The blue devil’s name came from French soldiers in WW1, and soldiers have guns and to win all they’d have to do is shoot the made up bird (combo of blue jay and sparrow hawk) down!