Nearly "Official Aggies"

Michelle, Taylor, and I are failures. We are not "Official Aggies." Mallory made it. Shananaba made it. And pretty much every other person I know made it. We...did not. We did not attend a single Aggie Basketball game all year! And now our chances are shot until the basketball season comes around again.

But I'm here to post that we were THIS CLOSE to fulfilling our roles as students of Utah State (and thus cannot and should not be counted against us).

It was the last game of the season. I had it marked on my calendar for weeks, for it was actually a game that would work into each of our schedules. We were going to go! No matter what! Hands down! No backing out!

Can't say that I even put much thought into it besides that. I was going and that was that. It didn't even occur to me that this was the last game and that it might very well be a championship game of great significance and that there was an enormous likelihood that the Spectrum would be filled to maximum capacity and that the times for the Saturday evening session of stake conference was specifically moved to an earlier time so that more students would hopefully attend the meeting. Huh. Didn't even cross my mind. Should have thought a little bit harder.

But that's exactly what happened. We arrived fifteen minutes after the game started -fashionably late as usual- and they were no longer admitting students. The Spectrum was filled to maximum capacity. Whoa. That was a shocker to my one-track mind! Oh darn. I didn't really care anyway - I'm not all that interested in basketball. I just simply wanted the pleasure and satisfaction of saying I made it to an Aggie game. If it wasn't going to happen, it wasn't going to happen.

So we took pictures documenting our near-success while listening to the roar of the crowds exude from the walls of the building. Meh. Close enough. :)

So close...and yet so far...

Michelle, Me, Shananaba 

Shananaba, Michelle, and Taylor - Sense the Awesomeness?

Now you know what we were going for. ;)

Apollo Ohno - he's my hero.

So after our not getting into the game, we decided to make a Dollar Store/Pizza Run (because we had a coupon for free crazy bread and were absolutely STARVING).

I needed picture frames for a silly little project that I'm doing (I'm paying homage to the the Winter Games - I'm having severe withdrawals). But we also discovered the miraculousness of the Dollar Store. We wandered that place for probably half hour...what else would you expect us to do? And as we wandered up and down each aisle, Taylor happened upon the greatest mugs. They were robin eggshell blue and fit perfectly into your hand. They were so little. We couldn't resist the perfect mug! So we splurged and each bought one to have and call our own.

I was a little attached to say the least. (Haha. Oh Taylor...what are we going to do with me?)

That mug brings me much joy and happiness. I'm convinced that it makes my orange juice taste better in the mornings.

So alas, we aren't "Official Aggies," but we are Olympic imitators and proud mug owners. Who needs a title like "Official Aggie" when you can have a title like "Official Nerd"? ;)