This is my favorite time of the year. The leaves are getting ready to change and the temps are cooling off. Football is well underway, and hockey is about to start back up after a year hiatus! It’s time to sit back and watch some football on the weekends!

For once, I’m actually more excited about the Detroit Lions than the Michigan Wolverines this year! The last couple of years I’ve thought the Lions would have better seasons, but they always led to disappointment. This year seems different. It feels like there’s more of a buzz and more excitement with the Lions this year. I think the players have higher expectations, so they won’t settle for disappointments. At least I hope so.

Mo’s new site called Rate the Stuff, has real, unbiased reviews about several different kinds of products with many more to come. He’ll honestly tell what he thinks about the products he tries. Plus, if you’d like, you can send him your review for a product and he’ll list it for you. What a great idea, real reviews by real people. He rolls out yet another great site!

Every Labor Day weekend my dad and stepmom invite a bunch of friends and relatives to their cabin in Caseville, MI. It’s always a fun and relaxing time, mostly spent sitting around, catching up with everyone. My stepmom’s old high school friend was able to come up from Tennessee, and my dad’s old high school buddy also stopped by. We hadn’t seen him in at least 5 or 6 years. I thought it was kind of neat that my dad and stepmom both had their best friends from school around at the same time.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older, but I really appreciate being able to spend time with friends and family. It wasn’t too long ago that I’d almost dread catching up with others, but only because I didn’t want to talk about myself. I hated explaining that I was still looking for a job. I could only say that so many times before it got old and repetitive, and it seemed to be such a downer of a conversation. It was nice this time to be able to tell everyone about my new job when they’d ask how things were going.

Well, it was a great weekend. I just wish this was the beginning of the summer, not the end. Oh well, I can always look forward to next year’s Labor Day weekend!