Happy happy joy joy!

Today is one of my favorite days of the year. It is the Thursday before the first Sunday of another NFL season. To celebrate, I will watch the first game of the season tonight, Miami at Pittsburgh. Another NFL season means I will waste way too many hours and way too much mental energy managing my fantasy football team. It means relaxing on Sunday after church and grocery shopping, the smell of a simmering pot of chili or soup or stew wafting through the chilly, autumn air. It means passing out on my couch around the second quarter of every Lions game, only to wake up at the end of the 4th quarter with the game well out of reach. ESPN signed a deal last year that moves Monday night football to their station and Sunday night football to network television, so for the next 17 Sundays, I will be able to watch football from 1pm-11pm! It makes my heart so happy, I can hardly contain my excitment.