A Month Of Awesome: An Ode to October Part 1

I am generally a fan of October. Mostly because most of my favorite people were born in our tenth month (including my mother, my sister, my best friend, my boy best friend as well as a handful of other lovely people) but also because good things happen in October.

October of 2011 has been especially delightful to me.

My lovely mother celebrates her birthday on October 3rd. I had no ideas of what to get her (she refused an upgrade to a Smart Phone and an E-Reader) and had a big sister who bought my mother a very fancy pendant that would outshine anything I could think of.

The company that I work for loves to spoil their employees thankfully. They give out pretty awesome prizes for sales incentives, if you sell certain things you're entered into a drawing for things like DVDs, digital cameras, gas cards, even iPads. On October the third I had the very good fortune of winning two tickets to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game against the Colts.

Now, I grew up in Upper Michigan. And because of my mother, I am a very big Green Bay Packers fan. I grew up loving football and love watching games with my mom at home on Sundays. For her birthday this year I had the pleasure of taking my mom to both her and I's first NFL football game, MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, to be exact.

It was everything you'd think it would be. We drank a lot of beer, heckled, cheered, and got the pleasure of hearing the Star Spangled Banner sung by the dudes from Sister Hazel. We even got free t-shirts! It wasn't a Green Bay Packer game, but it was amazing. It was something for the memory books.

There was some disappointment, I never got to see Peyton Manning who is sidelined for an injury this season. But we had really great seats in the Colt's end zone. And the Buccaneers won! I was very proud of my mother, who didn't refer to them as the "Fuckaneers" once as she normally does.

The funny thing about watching football on tv, you don't realize how small everything actually is. On tv everything looks so enormous, when really, it's not at all. These big, lumbering men are actually not so much. But the best part about being at the live game is the surroundings. People are cheering loudly around you, people dress up, there's drunk idiots yelling silly things.

Maybe it wasn't a smart phone or shiny diamonds, but it was a pretty fantastic birthday spent with my Mama. She enjoyed every minute as much as I did, and we're even kicking around the idea of getting tickets next season (hopefully against the Packers!).

If you get the chance, definitely go see a NFL game in person! Granted, I probably wouldn't have gone if I hadn't won tickets at work, but having gone to a game now, I will look into buying tickets in the future.