Gator Attack

I wasn't going to post anything about this game. It was the worst game I may have ever been to in my UT Football life. But there were some positives..like the tailgating before the game. Plus I had some cute pictures I wanted to post. Tony and I were so excited to go to this game. Its one of the biggest of the year and we just knew our Vols were going to hang in there. We got up at 3:30am Saturday morning to drive up and make it for the 3:30 pm kickoff. We tailgated with Robin and got to meet her fiance Ryan. It was great to see her an catch up. From there we tailgated in 9a with Kevin and Jody. There were tons of people at their tailgate! Lots of random FL fans too that wanted a big group picture, of course I complied and got in the picture. All so far so good. We even had the best seats I've had since being a student. 40 yard line 20 rows up. So far so good until kickoff. I will end here and leave things positive. We actually left a little early. And I NEVER do this!! I took a picture of the stadium and everyone was leaving. Heck there was a stupid email joke going around about how "Fulmer is quitting as UT's coach so he could direct FEMA because he could get 100,000 people to exit quickly" Stupid joke if you ask me!  After the game I was dying for a burger. I used to live on 14th and Clinch and we parked a block from there. So the former Vic and Bill's now Campus Deli was my choice. Had a delicious Vol Burger, or whatever they call it in there now.  I

 might as well of thrown on a bellydance costume and did a show.  They had everything you would find in a middle eastern restaurant, gyros, hummus, falafel, kabobs and burgers and fries. We drove back to Farragut and called it a night.  So, not my favorite weekend of all time. I will say that Fulmer must have ready my blog on Sunday! Stephens is getting a shot this weekend!!! And how the heck did FL lose to Ole Miss this past weekend!? 

Memphis BBQ Tour Part Three

Our third stop on our Memphis BBQ tour was Cozy Corner. Cozy corner is off Danny Thomas at the corner of Parkway.  I will start off by saying the service and friendliness of the staff was excellent. 

Reviews for September 5, 2008

Randy and Diane: The bbq sandwich was more like a pork roast sandwich with sauce. Diane like the Cornish Game hens. Randy liked the

corn cooked with bbq. The slaw and beans were good, but did not compare to Interstate. 

Courtney: Loved the Cornish Game Hen, moist and seasoned perfectly. I thought the park sandwich and their version of bbq spaghetti were both really bad. Their sauce had too much vinegar in it for my taste and pork was sliced instead of pulled and

not tender at all. 

Kembree: I too had the Cornish Game Hen and absolutely loved it. Probably some of the best chicken I had ever had. I love the bbq corn as well. Now, the sauce was too sour tasting for me. It was in the bbq spaghetti and it was just too soury and the noodles were kinda undercooked. The sandwich was ok, but the sauce messed it up for me. I took a bologna sandwich home and ate it the next day. It was a huge thick cut of bologna. I liked it but would have rather had a thinner crisper slice. I ate half of it and felt like I gained 5 lbs. 

Regina: I had the bologna sandwich. I wound up using my fork to eat it which was fine. I like the sauce and the slaw. I think I would have liked the meat in a few smaller slices instead of a slab. Smaller pieces would give more surface area for the charred taste. Diane gave me a rib which was pretty much what the ribs of my dreams are. I would order ribs next time. Didn't like the pork sandwich, "What was that!?"

Tony: Best spot so far. Loved the ribs. Smoked perfectly and were not boiled! I took the sweet potato pie home and it was delicious. 

I've Been Tagged

I was tagged by Laura and Erin. But I'm only doing this once :)

7 random/weird facts about me...

1. I'm having either some obsessive compulsive or Alzheimer's traits lately. Everytime I get in the car, I can't remember if I turned something off or even if I locked the door. I have gone back in the house almost everytime for second guessing myself. It's almost like this weird fear the dogs will get hurt by my hair straightener, or open the door and run around the neighborhood, or worse invite people in the house. 

2. I get really irritated when I send out an evite or email and invite people to do things and they don't respond. People are always complaining they don't have things to do or we don't get together enough, then they don't respond at all. I'm not going to cry if you don't want to come! And on evite it shows every time you have looked at it! Just respond! So annoying!! 

3. I HATE TAN LINES.  I lay out in my backyard in just a thong sometimes. We have a six foot fence in the back yard and in between the fence and the house right behind us is a bunch of green foliage. I pretend those people can't see me. And if they can, I really don't care. It looks so bad going to a wedding or event and a woman is wearing a gorgeous dress and they have huge white halter stripes around their neck. I HATE TAN LINES.

4. I still have every AX party tshirt and every 5k race tshirt in clear plastic containers in my garage. I actually just went through all of them and got rid of (having a garage sale on Saturday) some random tshirts.. like the XL hip hop tshirts that I wore in some phase in college, and the free tshirts that are thrown into the crowd at basketball games. Sorority girls, you know you cant put those shirts in your garage sales or give them to the Salvation Army. Not just anyone can wear those! So they will stay in those containers in my garage until I make a quilt or something. 

5. I love milk. I can drink a 1 gallon jug of skim milk in about a week by myself. 

6. I cant get rid of magazines. I subscribe to Elle, Vibe, Harper's Bazaar, Self, W, Vogue, Traveler, and Playboy. (oooh, that's one within one! Bonus! Yes I subscribe to Playboy. I got an offer in the mail for like $12 for the year and I subscribed. So its in my name not Tony's. I like the articles and the pictures. It's not raunchy at all and its good motivation at times.) Anyway, I don't throw the magazine's away. I have a collection on one of my shelves in my garage. Its getting out of hand and Tony and I argue about it all the time! 

7. I talk to Lennox and Lane like they are people. Well, babies actually. I baby talk them, kiss them on their foreheads, rub their ears. They are my family. When Tony was in Seattle and I was alone a lot, Lennox was my buddy. I couldn't have done it with out him. I don't understand how people can live alone and not have a pet! We don't revolve our lives around them, but they are a major part of it. Tony gave me the best gift almost 5 years ago in Lennox. Now I have such an immense appreciation for their breed and their struggle. I may not have known how wonderful Pit Bulls are unless he didn't surprise me with Lennox! 

I am going to tag....Brooke, Angelia, Jessica, Ashley, Teshia, Neisha, and Andrea.

Nick Stephens

Let's give him a shot..

Jonathan Crompton's backup, he completed a 42 yard pass in the UAB game. 

WHY NOT!?!?!?!

Ahmadinejad

Just saw him address the UN. I didn't really follow it. I was actually picking out the words I knew in Farsi. Its so strange to be Persian in the United States sometimes..growing up no one (mostly) never even knew what "Persian" was. I would always be asked, and sometimes still now..Now where is Persia? But now that Iran is one of the most hated countries of the United States, not to mention the Ahmadinejad saying stuff to piss everyone off. I'm very proud of where my dad was born, and not to mention what he and his family have accomplished. I just hate always hearing negative things about Iran....

Update: He's about to answer questions from reporters...Last year during this exchange he claimed there are no gay people in Iran...Ugh...I can't wait to hear what he's gonna say now..

Update: Too boring to pay attention too..really

Larry King Live

Kinda the same ol same ol questions..Larry asked him if he wanted to meet Sarah Palin. I mean who the heck overseas gives a crap about her!? Larry kept saying you have a lot in common, you were both mayors. Ok, he was really reaching there.  Larry also asked him where he would want to travel in the US if he could, he said Los Angeles. I guess he wants to tour the star's homes or something. Larry was kissing his butt at the end saying, you look too young to have two children that are married..??..

Ok, so maybe not so newsworthy or even Persian Pit Bull blog worthy...

SATC Movie Review by Tony...

So last night after starting to watch Dancing with the Stars, Tony decides we should watch SATC movie that I just bought. He didn't get to see it when all the girls and I went opening weekend.  I thought you might enjoy some of his comments..

"That Samantha is looking Hella old now"

When they were at Vogue, "I didn't know Martha Stewart was in this." Carrie's Vogue editor, played by Candice Bergin.

Jennifer Hudson, "Couldn't she have gotten a better role, didn't she win an Oscar?"

I had to explain besides the 4 ladies there really weren't that many parts to go around! Hello! 

spoiler alert!!

During the New Year's Eve scene, mushy scene, "I know what's going to happen..She's gonna get back with Big, Miranda will get back with Steve and Samantha will break up with her dude". Tony then decides he will watch the rest later..I guess it got too emotional, serious and girly for him!

I LOVED it the second time around..you all MUST go buy it and watch it again just for the FASHION!

I got it!...

 $13.99 at Circuit City...

99

Just saw on the CNN ticker...there are 99 days left in 2008. Where did it go? Just thought it was a reason to post a picture of me and my boy Lennox!

2 Brunches..One Sunday morning..

So Sunday after all the Football Letterman stuff we went to Copper Cellar West for brunch. Now, all the Fort Sander's girls planned on giving Beth a shower at 12:30 and Stacey, Jenny, and Mary Ann wanted to meet for brunch at 10:30, so I did brunch twice that day. Same spot, so I just grazed continuously.

First brunch, met Eric, Jenny and Maddie and Stacey and Mike.Mary Ann couldn't come, I think its actually been years since I've even seen her!  Had fun catching up with my FHS girls. Heck, these are my Cedar Bluff girls! I've known them since kindergarten!  It was so good to see Maddie. She's grown up so much. She is three now and I really want her to meet Brayden, they would make such a cute couple!  She was entertainment for the morning. She totally has Jenny's charm and that camera ready smile! It was good to catch up with Jenny and Stacey, we are all spread out along the state of Tennessee. The food was good, but watch out for the OJ! They charge you $3.00 for every single glass you have. It was really good and I was wondering why our waitress was so great and attentive..I got 4 glasses. Yes $12.00 worth of 'fresh squeezed' orange juice. 

Maddie with her mommy's smile and us girls! 

After the first 'couples' brunch, the second brunch switched to a Shower for Beth and the arrival of Gus! He will be here in November. The Fort Sanders girls all got together for a great afternoon. And yes, I did eat more at that brunch too! We got to meet Evan (3 months old) and McKalie (7 months old). Since I had eaten most of my brunch already I got to hold McKalie most of the time, she is such a good girl and a lot of fun. Alane and I were doing good entertaining her, we are great Aunts. Beth got lots of adorable things for Gus too. Well until our next get together..someone get engaged or pregnant :) 

Evan and McKalie..I totally see them dating in the future..

Rebecca made Beth this adorable Cowboy Theme Diaper Cake, and here's all

the girls!! 

UT Letterman's Football Reunion Part 2

UT vs. UAB September 13, 2008

So after getting home, walking Lennox and Lane, then waking up and walking Lennox and Lane, we headed up to campus for tailgating behind the Neyland-Thompson Sports complex. Buddy's BBQ catered it, and as I am doing my Memphis BBQ tour, I will have to say it was pretty good BBQ. Buddy's is sooo Knoxville, it had been a long time since I had it last. We saw Tee Martin, Karlton Neal and Jekia. We waited on Mikki, but he didn't make it and we had to hurry. After the tailgate, we rushed to the stadium in time for kickoff..Whew! It was a very hot, hot, hot game! Dad and Kamron sat in X4, we sat in Z somewhere..great seats, but it was so dang hot! The Vols looked pretty good this week, not extraordinary, but pretty good. The halftime show was great. They brought all the football letterman on the field from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's. Tony's class of 00 guys was pretty small. I loved seeing the 80's and 90's guys because that's when I was really watching UT football. 

Football Letterman of the 1980's

Football Letterman of the 90's

Football Letterman of 2000 and beyond..

(Tony's class!)

We stayed until the end, it was so hot that I got a little sunburn, which was nice bc I need some color, as Neisha said "She's never seen me that pale" :) I just got a little unlucky this summer with our 2 beach trips getting pretty much rained out. After the game we hit up a couple tailgates then made it on our way home. That night we met with with the FHS crew and UT guys at Smokey Mountain Brewery in Turkey Creek. They boast 38 flatscreens and it is a great spot to watch a game!