Well as many of you know MLK weekend was the yearly DGSC weekend which was held here in sunny Wilmington, NC. Maybe I'm biased but I believe it was the best one yet. My wonderful friend Sarah Clark deserves a shout out for allowing us to invade her apartment to accommodate my 9 guests - you are fantastic! We nick named ourselves DGSC - hawks for the weekend which was often followed by a "caw" sound by Makesha.

My dear friends also came out and supported my YMCA basketball team in our second victory of the season (we have since gone on to win our 3rd). Let me tell you, you think the NCAA tournament is intense, come to the Wilmington YMCA on a Saturday at 11 and you'll see intense. We have won our last two games in the final 5 seconds by one point. It has been incredibly intense and if it continues I may or may not need blood pressure medicine. My team is awesome, what can I say? I've got some rockstar players, one in particular who scores on average 16 of our 20 points in a game, Amani. She is a machine. I also have a player that is literally bite sized who has been lifted up when a player has tried to steal the ball: Ella aka sidepony. Overall I am really enjoying the team and coaching and would like to give a shout out to my friends who are teachers. I'm not quite sure how you do it every day. 2 hours a week is plenty for this girl.

This may or may not be when I told them they needed to play the best defense of their lives!

Overall it was an amazing weekend with the girls. They have decided I need to start identifying a DGSC girl of the month so I will start with the one who suggested it, Miss Angela Damiano:

Name: Angela Damiano
Birthdate: August 9th
Vocation: rockstart at ITT (are you with me?)
College: JMU (go Dukes)

Top 5 things I love about her:
5. She claps and laughs when I make an idiot of myself in public
4. She is always hooking a sister up ;)
3. She stays up late to have life talks with me on school nights
2. She comes from a loud obnoxious family like mine so she gets the guid in me
1. OBVIOUSLY  her love for changing the words to songs and performing. (Have you seen the latest DGSC performance "Plus Sized Dream"

I have nothing but love for Ms. Angela Damiano. Here are some of my favorite pics :)



Dancing at the No Doubt concert - summer 09

 




visiting this summer :)





being obnoxious at a DGSC dinner. Summer 07

Final thoughts....I am currently watching my family's favorite TV show on  Netflicks: American Dreams

For those of you who weren't captivated by this show in 2002 on NBC it's a show about a family in the 60s. The daughter Meg (who the late Peter Mancuso may or may not have had an infatuation with) dancing on American Bandstand (each episode a contemporary artist **including NICK CARTER** stars a a 60s music act). Basically the family experiences life in the 1960s. The show is one of my all time favorites but also reminds me of some great memories with the Mancuso clan. For those of you who knew my dad, you know how into using movies/tv shows to teach Peter, myself and whoever would listen about history and society and American Dreams allowed for that, some good music and overall a good hour show a week with my family.This tradition continued into Tabb Hall when I got to Longwood freshman year with my girl Lauren Kennedy who also had a love for the show.

I did however in researching come across some devestating news...NBC only released the first season on DVD, therefore after I get through this first season (I am on disc 4 of 7 right now) I will be unable to watch the show. So this is my cry for help...does anyone have any idea how I could potentially find episodes online somewhere or, if you work for NBC please put me out of my misery and release the other seasons. Thank you. Peace and Blessings.

Time for shout outs?

- Happy late birthday Mr. Adam Tate ... thanks for always checkin' my blog

-Happy early birthday to Mr. Sam Brown who probably doesn't read my blog but is clearly a celeb in my life

-Shout out to the Shanleys- thinking about Gram this week xoxo

-Good luck to Petey and PKT with spring recruitment

-Congrats to Adam Best and other Steelers fans excited about the superbowl

-Congrats to my big and Brian on building a house in Fredericksburg!

-Thank you Sarah Sunde for always being available for my student affairs freak outs