Wife Day 2013 Part 1 Plans
After much ANGAR, RAGE, and internet stupidity, we have arrived at the first of two bye weeks in the Michigan football calendar. So while you'll have a chance to redeem the mistakes you make this weekend during Wife Day II - Wife Harder, your main excuse to sit on the couch and watch football this Saturday is going back to the drawing board, working on fundamentals, and getting ready for Minnesota.
So, what are you doing this Wife Day?
(Interlude on the history of the bye week being called "wife day" around these parts:
Six Zero's coining and epic preview: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/preview-wifeday-2010
Wife day 2011 content: http://mgoblog.com/category/tags/2011-wife-day
Wife day advice for those who aren't married: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/wife-day-advice-unmarried-reader
And JamieMac's case against "wife day" as an entity: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/war-against-wife-day)
So, what's your wife day going to be? Building capital so that you can spend it in order to watch the Michigan games in future weeks? Going to a wedding from your friends who still suck because they're getting married on a fall saturday - but don't suck that much because they picked a bye week? Watching football because it's a fall saturday? Or you're not sure if you'll have enough time?
September 25th, 2013 at 8:53 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
Colts @ Jags. I think I'll be alright!
September 25th, 2013 at 8:17 PM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 8:54 AM ^
...final pieces of our new house then attend the Capital Ale House Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg.
Prost, y'all.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:38 AM ^
Remember that you want the "GROSS" not the klein
September 25th, 2013 at 9:49 AM ^
...Germany for 6 years, I'm good with the definitions, JB. And now that I live within walking distance from downtown, It's all sehr gut.
September 25th, 2013 at 11:03 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
sie hast dass gesagt (sp?)
September 25th, 2013 at 4:05 PM ^
Wer hat dass gesagt? (This is where you really really need your German pronouns and verb endings to match.)
September 25th, 2013 at 9:40 AM ^
Lol, was thinking about going to Cafe Berlin in DC for a Maß of Augustiner Weisen and hopefully a reasonable facsimile of schweinshaxe. Wearing my Bavarian drinking hat (which the wife loathes).
September 25th, 2013 at 10:59 AM ^
Lederhosen? Come on, go for the full Bavarian look.
September 25th, 2013 at 12:59 PM ^
Real deer-skin lederhosen is damn expensive.
September 26th, 2013 at 12:43 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 8:58 AM ^
Going to a wedding from your friends who still suck because they're getting married on a fall saturday - but don't suck that much because they picked a bye week?That's me. But they do "suck that much" because the wedding is in Ohio.
September 25th, 2013 at 2:43 PM ^
This weekend is the last of the 3 weddings we've had ever other week since Labor Day.
Collectively we've spent 2 days (48 hours) driving and roughly 3000 miles on the road, the majority of that, yup you guessed it, in fucking Ohio.
C'mon! Just elope people!
September 25th, 2013 at 9:00 AM ^
I think i'm being dragged to art prize..
September 25th, 2013 at 9:06 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 9:22 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 1:31 PM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 9:58 AM ^
Hopcat is a venue, Grand Rapids Brewing Company is a venue, etc. With a little planning you can turn artprize into a beer tour of Grand Rapids.
September 25th, 2013 at 3:18 PM ^
Don't forget Founders! Great place to hang out...anxious to check out the new beer garden.
September 27th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
The new renovations are jaw-droppingly gorgeous. With ArtPrize going on though, all downtown bar venues are extremely busy in on weekend evenings.
September 25th, 2013 at 1:30 PM ^
The wife is working nights at Devos Children's, so I'll be at Art Prize during the day. Impromptu bachelor party that evening. Most likely Hopcat and GRBC are on the short list for starter bars.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:08 AM ^
I'll be sleeping in and listening to the glorious sounds of the yard service I hired last week mowing and trimming my yard.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:10 AM ^
Niece's birthday party this weekend. At least the beer is free.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:11 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 9:29 AM ^
Maybe what you see as the effect is really the cause.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:38 AM ^
Have you ever considered you know, leaving your basement and trying to socialize? How old are you anyway?
September 25th, 2013 at 9:41 AM ^
You don't know how he got his White Castle. Stuff can happen when you want to get White Castle
September 25th, 2013 at 10:43 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 11:13 AM ^
Find someone who is good with the opposite sex, hang around until scraps fall on the floor, pick up scraps. Problem solved.
September 25th, 2013 at 11:05 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 1:44 PM ^
"Dont be too picky" = She should be over 200 pounds
September 25th, 2013 at 11:39 AM ^
You need to make an effort with women. They are not going to come to you. You're probably sitting there thinking it's because you aren't good looking, but I assure you, that isn't the problem.
If you're hungry, make an effort to get fed. All that "wait for the perfect girl to come along" advice never actually works.
September 25th, 2013 at 11:55 AM ^
Some people are just naturally gifted when it comes to attracting desired mates, and those people suck. Most of us have to work at it just like anything else.
And yes, the "be patient and wait for someone to come along" is a crappy platitude. No one knows what a perfect pitch looks like unless you swing at a thousand balls.
September 25th, 2013 at 12:32 PM ^
We don't really care about looks. Having a job is key. Also, be funny. Better yet, hilarious. We love that crap.
September 25th, 2013 at 3:28 PM ^
Why yes. This is how I attracted my spouse. I am making with the funny jokes all day. LOL. Ha. Ha.
Rob
September 26th, 2013 at 10:23 PM ^
I met my wife when a woman I worked with had a roomate that was in a beach house. I joined the beach house and met my wife when one of the beach house woman had a birhtday party and invited a friend she went to school who worked with my wife, who came along to the party Eighty six degrees of Kevin Bacon there.
The moral to the story: Circulation. Get out there. It's not that you will just walk out the door and meet Ms. Right. The way it works is that you will meet someone who works with someone who used to go to school with someone who knows Ms. Right.
Or just join an internet dating site and pick Ms. Right off of a shopping list.
September 25th, 2013 at 10:05 AM ^
Try harder.
September 27th, 2013 at 12:32 PM ^
Its true, just trying harder to get hard really gets them as well.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:11 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 9:33 AM ^
Hopefully he doesn't ask Elaine on a date
September 25th, 2013 at 11:18 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 1:33 PM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 9:13 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 9:13 AM ^
My fiance already got terrific lady day a few weeks ago (before the start of the season). This week she gets another bonus: I'm going to Canada to bet on other football games. She doesn't have to deal with me.
September 25th, 2013 at 9:14 AM ^
September 25th, 2013 at 10:05 AM ^