Saddened, angry and sick to my stomach!

I can't believe we lost. I mean, I know that on any given Sunday any team in the NFL can lose, but I truly didn't expect it to be the Green Bay Packers today in a cold Lambeau Field against the New York Giants. Oh my gosh!!! My initial reaction: tears. I know. It sounds stupid. I just love my Packers so much and feel so sad for them. My next reaction: anger. They actually deserved to lose today. They looked like crap. The Giants aren't that good of a team. If my memory serves me right, they were a WILD CARD TEAM!!! I'm angry that the Packers got so many penalties for doing stupid things. I'm angry that they didn't take advantage of quite a few big plays and situations. My reaction right now: I'm sick to my stomach. Literally. I feel like I could lose my cookies right now. You can't get this close to the Superbowl and blow it like the Packers did today. UGH!!!!! Now my post football season funk will begin. I go through this every year when the Packers are done. This year it just hurts a lot more. To be so close to the big game and not make it just stings. We will be a divided house for the Superbowl. Mark is hoping the Patriots win (payback to the Giants for beating the Packers today). I'm hoping the Giants win because I dislike the Patriots as much as I dislike the Vikings and the Cowboys. I think it would be funnier than heck if their perfect season was blemished at the Superbowl by a wild card team with ELI MANNING as the quarterback (he stinks). Don't get me wrong, I think Eli is probably a really nice kid and I like his brother a lot, but he's no Brett Favre for sure. Heck, Tom "Pretty Boy" Brady is no Brett Favre either.

There are a couple of plusses about the Packers losing today. 1) The time I spent watching football can now be replaced by cleaning my house and continuing to work on Hope's scrapbook. 2) I think this makes it more likely that Brett will be back next year.

Enough about football. I had a great weekend at a scrapbooking retreat this weekend. I stayed up WAY too late both Friday and Saturday nights and then got up WAY too early in the morning. As a result, I'm exhausted. I got some good things done in Hope's book though, so it was worth the lack of sleep. Plus, I got to meet some really cool women and also spend some great time with my friend Lisa K.

Another really exciting thing happened on Thursday. My friends Andrea and Bert had their baby. Wyatt Matthew Stone was born at 7:53pm on January 17. He weighed 6 lbs, 9 oz and was 20.5 inches long. He is absolutely beautiful!! I got to see him on Friday night and Bert took a great picture of Wyatt and me. I'll post it if I get permission from Andrea.

OK...time to go pout. For those of you who see me during the week, just bear with me and let me work my way through this. It's like I'm in mourning. Again, I realize it's silly because it's just a game, but it's my team. So until the next time there's some exciting Packers news to report...See ya!!