Last week

My Dad has been working on this Toledo Rocket wall art, and it looks really nice:

We had the last of our Fan Plan Rocket Shop vouchers to spend this week, so we went up to UT and I got this t-shirt (actually two of this t-shirt; I got my dad one too):

Thursday, our sports devastation weekend started in earnest.

AWHS was defeated by Rogers at Savage. I spent approximately 97% of my time at AWHS wishing people thought it was fun to support the sports teams. (The other 3% of the time, I was wishing the sports teams would not be terrible.) This year, Anthony Wayne has a pretty tall dude, who is going to play basketball at Michigan, and AWHS sort of managed to put that to work for them in games against the other white kid schools of the NLL. Then they played Rogers in the Regional Semifinal.

Here’s a picture of the color-coordinated student section (look, every other row is blue and white! Bennett said one game they all started with blue shirts, and after they made the first 3-pointer, they all took their blue shirts off to reveal white shirts underneath. Slick.)

Here’s another picture:

A better part of Thursday was when I got the frame for my jersey. After we got home from the game, I ironed the jersey a little bit and put it in the frame:

I still have to figure out where to put it and have my Dad hang it.

Friday, Brian and I got up and headed to Cleveland for the Lady Rocket’s first MAC tournament game. We had overnight bags packed and my heart was full of optimism (and anxiety). Over 850 people bought the presale tickets for the game through UT, and many more UT fans bought tickets at the game. Approximately 50 CMU fans were there. We wised up this year and sat opposite the bench, to avoid the most shrill and unpleasant of the usual fans.

Here’s a picture from the start of the game, before my heart started to break:

Not much good happened from there…lots of CMU threes and some other badness. The Ladies were behind, but they didn’t give up, and ultimately they had a shot…but it was not to be.

I cried at the Q.

We were going to go to some men’s games if we needed to stay the night, and Brian had semi-tentative plans to hang out with his Cleveland friends. He said he wanted to go home after the Ladies lost, probably because I cried at the Q. Since we were home early, we just played Sim City and lolled about.

At some point, I ran some errands. I took our recycling to the township building, where I spied this lone Christmas tree under a “Christmas Tree” street sign:

My BFF sent me this super cute picture of her as a koalahead:

I got a high-res version of this picture from the Independent Collegian photographer because my dad and I liked it so much…I had 2 copies printed and bought some frames for my dad and I:

This evening, the Women’s NCAA bracket was revealed, and as expected the Lady Rockets were not selected:

#WNITbound