Arapahoe Basin? Check.

What a fun day of skiing!! 13,000 foot altitude kinda gets to me though.

I know- I am a wimp!

Why am I at the office?

I am sitting here wondering why I am such a L-O-S-E-R and am at the office on Memorial Day.

Well...I am prepping for a big week of software demos and conference sessions out in Vancouver. Oh yeah, and I totally sucked on the golf course today so my plans of joining the LPGA are not going to be realized... luckily I think I am a fairly decent Sales Engineer.

Wait! Make that... Lead Sales Engineer after my recent promotion.

BOOO YEAH!

Pics from Wrigley

What a beautiful day! Of course the Cubs lost- to the Pirates. Brownie should be happy with that. The first pic is the view from my seat- 20 rows up directly behind home plate. My client from Phoenix totally hooked us up- she rocks!! And yes, I am a southern woman that did not pack for baseball games... I am the one wearing the black jersey dress :)

White Sox-Yankees game this weekend? You know it.... That would bring me to four MLB games in 11 days in 4 different stadiums!

The story about why I didn’t run last night…

It all started when I volunteered to sell raffle tickets yesterday at work for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. We are sponsoring 5 or 6 corporate teams and were hosting a happy hour yesterday (at the bar next to the soccer stadium across our parking lot- easy access) to raise money.

So, I walked around and sold $1 raffle tickets…. Almost $200 worth! I then was talked into attending the happy hour. Hard sell, right? Happy hour…drinks…live music…a little gambling…

I had a ton of fun, took pictures, and raffled off prizes. We ended up raising almost $1500!! Yipppee!! I then sweet talked someone into giving me their 7 tickets to the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament right on the island last night. Serena Williams was playing the first match of the night….and more importantly… they sell booze. I rounded up a random group and we trekked over to the Daniel Island Tennis Center… woohoo!

Suddenly, it is 10:00 PM and I am flirting with the cute ushers and ball boys with a Bloody Mary in each hand.

And THAT is why I did not run last night.

And yeah- and Serena dropped out in the middle of her match… ironically losing at the time 5-2 in the first set.

Kayaking…. do you think I can do it?

I consider myself a novice to intermediate kayaker. Do you think I will be ready to do an 8 mile cross country run/12 mile kayak adventure race on May 12th? The race description used the word “grueling” at least 6 times in the paragraph of four lines.

So…I have never measured the distance I have kayaked… how long should I expect to take if I go at a moderate pace?

I might just go for it and start training now... luckily I have PLENTY of water to practice on here in Charleston!!!

Who's $300 RICHER?!?!

ME! ME! ME!! I won my work NCAA pool and it feels GOOD. Not only did I win with Florida... I also beat all the bloggers' butts and won the BlogLand pool- despite me picking Ohio State in that pool.

Damn, I am good.

Bee-yotch.

Get your brackets ready, kids! Join my online bracket group... unless you are scared...

Today is a day of much excitement- the release of the 2007 NCAA basketball tournament brackets! Time to round up a couple pieces of posterboard to draw up my own bracket and start filling out my Sportsline pool brackets.

Just for kicks- I created an online bracket contest for all of us in BlogLand. Any and all of you are invited to join in... Click here to join 2007 BlogLand Brackets and see if you can beat Tiff at her own game :) The password to join is basketball. CBS Sportsline is really cool- you can to fill out up to 3 different brackets and it keeps real-time track of who is winning. One side note: trash talking is essential. Don't just sing it, BRING it!

Oh yeah- registration is FREE which means there is no prize money. I would love to personally fund the prize pool but I need to keep my cash for more important things- like race registration fees, bourbon, parking tickets, and blackjack.

For the true fans out there.... March Madness brings back the good ole' memories... like Christian Laettner's last-second jumper to give Duke a 104-103 OT win over Kentucky in the 1992 East Regional Final in Philly.



Wooohoooooo!!!

Do I smell... REPEAT?!?

I woke up this morning while praying all night for a freak snow/ice storm to hit Charleston so I don’t have to go to work today. Why? Because it sounds like more fun to watch skanky TV and shop online.

Plan detoured. It is 65 degrees outside...damnnnn...

I check my email a couple minutes ago. Friends need a fifth player tonight for their basketball game.

Am I in? Am I in? Am I in?

OH... hiizzzzell yes I am.

Could this be a repeat of The Comeback?

The Comeback

I had resorted to spending my day chilling out after a long night of Ring of Fire sake shots… until I got the call. The call that would make the beginning of the Tiffany Dynasty Comeback. My friends needed a fifth player for their rec basketball game today or they would have to forfeit and miss their chance of playing in the playoffs. Would I play for their team? HELL YEAH!! I had not joined their team full-time this year due to my hectic travel schedule but would drop anything and everything to hoop it up.

I set the plan for the team. No subs. We were going to press, full-court. I mocked up a couple plays on the back of a bill I had in my purse with a purple Sharpie. If all else fails, I told them, just give me the damn ball. We have to REFUSE to LOSE. My friends look at my half-crazed face with a sense of fear in their eyes. They knew I meant biz-nass today.

It was beautiful. Jumpshots. Rebounds and put-backs. Three pointers. My signature up-and-under move. Draining free throws. Even my left-handed hook shot came back. At the end of the game, I had scored 38 points and had 16 rebounds (according to my personal scorekeeper in the stands).

Funny thing is- back in the diz-ay, my high school high score was only 37 points. That means I set a personal record today, hungover and wooping up on some innocent ladies in a middle school gym.

I think I might need to contact an agent- this officially makes me the hottest free agent recruit for the Charleston County women’s basketball rec league.

**As a followup to this... for those of you dying to know if the Lagerhead Tavern team won today... we won by 3 points!!! Hurray!!!!

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen!

The Notre Dame Flowchart...






Surprisingly, my sister-in-law and good friend co-worker (both ND grads) were not as amused as I was!

Let's just hope they beat LSU tomorrow or it will be a sad, sad day for all involved :)

HA!

Charleston Area Woman Reportedly has, “The Best Day of Her Life”

AP- CHARLESTON, South Carolina

A local 26 year old woman, known to her friends as “T-FAN", reportedly had the best day of her life on Friday, December 29, 2006. Said T-FAN, “I usually just assume that Fridays are going to be pretty damn good, but I just had a special feeling this morning… like the sun was shining a little brighter, birds chirping with more gusto, that this might be the day I hit the Tiffany Trifecta.”

For those unfamiliar with the Tiffany Trifecta, it includes a USC Gamecocks win, a Clemson loss, and Tiffany beating everyone at the Bimimi Ring game out by the beach. The ring game is just that, you hook a ring on a string on a hook by swinging it. T-FAN has spent many hours perfecting her form at home and training with professionals.

Lo and behold, T-FAN got her Trifecta on Friday. She excitedly watched Clemson fall to Kentucky, the Gamecocks beat Houston, and got her ring game title, earning the name Mutha of the Ringmaster among the locals. T-FAN quipped, “I was not sure I could beat that last opponent, those 7 year olds really have the height advantage for the ring game. Good thing I practiced those extra hours before the competition. Can I get another beer, please?”

Eyewitnesses state that T-FAN was spotted jumping into the ocean later in the evening and then apparently she took a short recess to shower and appeared downtown at Tommy Condon’s, dancing the shag with a man in a kilt and then buying the entire bar a round of $1 PBRs at Big John’s. Her final stops of the evening included Henry’s and the bar at Oak Steakhouse for a Woodford Reserve Manhattan.

Sources say that traditionally, someone’s best day of their life is often followed by a not-so-good day.

In an effort to follow up on T-FAN’s wonderful day, we caught up with her this morning at Martha’s Beauty Salon. Vickie, T-FAN’s regular stylist, spent several hours this morning with the local celebrity. Said Vickie, “For some reason, T-FAN is especially quiet when she has early Saturday morning appointments. This morning was the worst we have ever seen. She worn an eye mask the entire time, sunglasses on top of that, and chugged several bottles of Gatorade. When I asked what she wanted done to her hair, she just murmured, ‘Jetaukuninckkoffff’. I could not comprehend what she was saying and she just waved her hand at me when I asked her to clarify. Oh well. Hopefully she will appreciate the new sideswept bang I gave her.”

And there you have it, folks.

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C...A...R...O...L...I...N...A...

Less than four hours til the GAMECOCKS play- I am pumped! GOOOOO GAMECOCKS!!!!!!!!

It's a beautiful 71 degree day and we are gearing up to go watch the game out at Off the Hook on Sullivan's Island. Yayy...I love it out there. And OTH is right across the street from Dunleavy's Pub, the site of our Polar Plunge on New Year's Day. Amazingly, weather.com states the ocean water on our coast is about 72 degrees? Doesn't seem right... but we may have to practice our plunge today if the Cocks win!!!

And as a special bonus feature today (mostly, because I am 3 beers deep already), here are my words of wisdom:

1. Just say NO to Clemson fans, they wear orange overalls. Hell, I grew up in Kentucky and they are just as red as the best of the Clemson fans. But Clemson SUCKS. Go Cats! Come to think of it... how did UK even get a bowl game? Oh yeah. They beat Georgia! Ha!

2. Beer is good.
3. I am packing my running shoes in the case of an impromptu Sullivan's Island pub run after our victory today. Yeah, we are winning. Yeah.
4. Beer is gooder in the afternoon.

5. OMG- UK has not won a bowl game since 1984. Geeezzz
6. Beer is gooderest in the morning.

C-A-R-O-L-I-N-A....

Less than 26 hours to kickoff in the Liberty Bowl...

Gooooooooo Gamecocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(and please, please, please... let Kentucky beat Clemson)

Relaxing on vacation... a little basketball commentary!

DISCLAIMER: the thoughts, opinions, and comments expressed by Tiffany are completely true and non-debatable. Therefore, if you have a problem with her and her opinions- go ahead and shove it because you are a total amateur with no idea what you are talking about. Have a nice day! :) (Go Tiff, Go Tiff... Go Go... Go Tiff!) Muwahahhahaaaa....

So, I was just taking a look at the clusterfuck that is the Top 25 for men’s college basketball and could not help but comment.

Seriously- Ohio St. is STILL overrated at #6 in the AP and USA Today polls. Am I the only person that thinks this? And I grew UP an Ohio St. fan (mostly football though- my dad would take me to all the home games up in Columbus). I thought they were overrated right from the get-go (coming out of the gate at #1? Riiiiight) when they dropped their first loss to UNC back in late November. Yeah, yeah… the “Thad Five” or whatever they are calling them… they got schlacked by Florida! 26 points? Eeeekkk… I might be eating my words come March… but come on.

Speaking of Florida- it was interesting to see them kill a ranked team by such a margin (even if it is Ohio St.) They started off the year with a very weak schedule up to this point and have done fairly well, with the exception of their narrow loss to Florida State. I don’t see them going all the way again this year. Just don’t.

Maaaann… Wichita State is hanging on… beating LSU and Syracuse… I would have surely wrote them off for a Cinderella holdover from March Madness! Now- SHOCKER- they have lost two in a row… Fortunately (or unfortunately) for them, the rest of their schedule includes mostly middle school rec-worthy teams.

Ooohhh- those North Carolina freshmen are tough. Yes, freshmen… Wright, Lawton, and Ellington. It is always interesting to see how freshmen react come tournament time though.

Butler? They would be better suited as a 13 seed somewhere- getting their ass kicked by some crappy 4 seed that should have been a 9 seed. They also are looking down the line at a very, very weak post-New Year schedule.

Still waiting to see how Pitt comes up against an actual Big East team. They snapped that 2 game losing streak with a 30 point cake walk… now is the time to step up though! They look good…

Clemson blows. It just burns me up to see them in the top 25 for ANYTHING. Grrrrr…

Feels kinda weird to not see Kentucky or Louisville anywhere in the polls. I won’t ever forget the infamous game- the Laetner jumpshot that ended UK’s dreams of a run at the title back in 1992…East Regionals in Philly… at least my mom allowed my bro and I to stay home from school the next day because we were all mourning the loss.

Ironically, most of my friends are scared of me come March Madness time. The night before the brackets are announced, I run to the store and buy a bunch of posterboard to make my own brackets, keeping one at home on the wall, one at the office, and a couple extra pieces for any screwups. I pour over the brackets and analyze my picks. After all, it is all done electronically and I need to keep face with all the loser dudes I work with that think they know the first thing about basketball. During the day games of Round 1 and 2, I am basically worthless at work. I get ESPN live streaming for the scores and sneak down to our employee cafeteria to watch the highlights and any close games. That is what the TVs are there for, right?

Basketball is in full swing- It is gonna be a good winter!!!!!!!