Ducks @ Oregon - University of Oregon

Homecoming Weekend

Korrin B.

November 15, 2009 - 10:02 PM

I just find it appropriate that my mother would come visit me during homecoming weekend. You know, it's like, home came to me...home...coming...to me. Yup.

My mom came up on Friday soon after I got off work. I had actually been anticipating her arrival. I think sometimes you just need some of that motherly love in your life. My mom has a way of visiting for a couple of days and magically getting my life reorganized.

My freshman year, my mother won four tickets to the UO Homecoming football game. This year, she repeated her luck and once again won four tickets to go see the Homecoming game. So, yesterday I went with my mom and two of my fabulous girlfriends to watch as the UO Ducks walked all over the ASU Sun Devils. I don't remember the exact score, but I do believe we won by around 20 points. Good stuff. Are those roses I'm starting to smell? Don't want to jinx it, so that's all I'll say for now.

As always with football games, I think that some of my favorite moments were completely unrelated to football. The four of us sat up high in Autzen, looking down on a rowdy crowd while we each enjoyed eating a Yumm Bowl. We had many conversations that brought me to tears from laughing and we nonchalantly kept finding ways to throw in far too many sexual innuendos into everything we did. We walked to Autzen from campus and then back after the game. The whole time, I kept telling my mom, "Oh, it's like roughly a ten minute walk, give or take a few." My mother and my two friends decided that I had no sense of time. I was pretty exhausted and cold by the time we made it home after the game, but my heart was so warm with love for my mom and friends that nothing else mattered.

Today has been all about shopping! My mom and I have been all around town picking up little things that I need for my place and filling my fridge with groceries. I finally have food again! A girl can only live on canned chicken noodle soup for so long before pining for something more. We ended our evening having a delicious Italian meal at the Excelsior Inn. The Excelsior Inn is an adorable, hidden little restaurant on 13th Street about a block from campus. It was delicious.

Tonight, we're baking some special treats for the kids at my work tomorrow. My mom is going to come with me to work tomorrow as my special guest! She's heading out on Tuesday, so then it will be up to me to keep everything organized and beautiful in my life. I'll probably just get back to 5:00am painting sessions.