IMUA! (and get that corn out of my face!)

In my own defense, for those of you who called social services on me for letting my son wear shoes with no soul, I DID have a pair of brand new shoes on the sidelines which I finally got him to change into during half-time.

Here is the evidence I presented in court:

Speaking of court, I got 100% on my first traffic school test. (Well, technically I wasn't at traffic school, I was at the DMV getting my Utah drivers license, but same diff.)

I also passed my eye test with 20/20 vision!

(Soooo thankful I'm back in Utah where perfection is attainable.)


Okay, so I've had the Red Raiders on my mind this past weekend. Partly because Kute Kasey is getting married in less than two weeks and then she'll do her student teaching at Kahuku high school, which means she'll officially be a Red Raider for life (unless she moves away, in which case she won't be allowed back on the campus.) (See this post if you don't get that inside joke.)

So anyways, I found the perfect wedding present for KK at D.I.

It's a Kahuku-For-Life t-shirt.

Actually I'm not the one who found the t-shirt at D.I, my Rock Star brother and his wife found it, but what KK doesn't know won't hurt her, right? (until the honeymoon.) hee hee (SORRY peeps, I should have warned you to cover your ears.)

Not judging or anything, but ain't giving a Red Raider FOR LIFE t-shirt to D.I. a bit oxymoronic? D.I. is a second hand store. It's for people who want to divorce their clothing.

FOR LIFE is TILL DEATH DO US PART, right? (Unless you move away).

Isn't giving a FOR LIFE t-shirt to D.I. like casting your pearls before the swine flu?

Speaking of t-shirts, last week I got this design in an email from a good friend in Laie who made t-shirts for the Kahuku fans to wear at the state championship football game against Kamehameha.

I lub this t-shirt because the back made me laugh. (oops, sorry, can't see it. It says "Don't be a HATER, cause you ain't a RED RAIDER for life.")

But the front made me think.

IMUA!

Or as the Robinson's would say: KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Great advice!

Unless you are a red raider for life and you just lost the state championship game to your rival school.

Am I right, or am I right?

I don't think my friend thought about the Robinson's when he made his IMUA Kahuku t-shirt, but I did cuz I'm just a dumb haole.

I thought about how if the Robinson's traveled through time to meet the Red Raiders after the game last Friday, they would probably sing that Rob Thomas song about letting things go and letting things slide and letting things roll right off your shoulders.

And then the Red Raiders would probably do a few little animated Kung Fu Panda kick-offs with their little animated heads.

Because fo' reals, shouldn't great advice come with a warning?

WARNING: Do not give the KEEP MOVING FORWARD advice within 30 days of serious disappointment, anger or pain.

Great advice is all about great timing. Otherwise ain't it kinda like saying there are other fish in the sea to someone who just got left at the alter, or you'll have other children to someone who just had a miscarriage?

It's redundant, like the doctor who keeps telling you to PUSH HARDER while you're in labor.

There is a time and a season for every purpose. A time to push harder and a time to keep moving forward.

And a time to put on your stretchy pants and scream GET THAT CORN OUT OF MY FACE!

Maybe great advice is less about great timing and more about great delivery.

For instance, it might be more effective if Rocky Balboa traveled through time to tell the Red Raiders IMUA.

Ya get me?

But what do I know? I'm Just a dumb haole.