MOCHA MORNINGS

If you're not from Kentucky you have no idea what kind of "Ky fried Hell" is about to take place.  The UK Wildcats versus the UofL Cardinals in the Final Four, Saturday, at 6:09.  This will be the most significant game between these two rivals in that this is the first time they are coming face to face in the Final Four.  This is a meeting that is just short of pure combustion.  We are talking Crips and Bloods here people! Myself, like most typical UK fans, aren't fans of North Carolina, Tennessee, Duke, Indiana and have a very strong dislike for Louisville.  It's all we know.  It's how we were raised.  It's in our blood.  We bleed UK blue! In Kentucky, basketball means more than politics and religion (some will argue that basketball is our religion), and on the days that UK plays Louisville you don't make plans, you sit and you watch.   It's tradition.  It's legendary.  It's basketball in Kentucky. Go Big Blue!   Out...

I've read the book and now I am totally stoked about the movie coming out this week!  The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is on my  2012 Reading List  and of course I had to get it read before the movie was released.  I decided to listen to this series using the audio version and once I started listening, I couldn't stop! Once I finished the first book I immediately had to get my hands on Catching Fire and then of course Mocking Jay, books one and two, respectively, in The Hunger Games series.  I absolutely fell in love with the characters and felt such sadness when they were competing in the Hunger Games and so mad at the Capital and the game makers for creating such a horrible event.  Of course, I am a hopeless romantic and absolutely adore Peeta and his love for Katniss and that he would do whatever he had to do to protect her throughout the games, even though at the end they both knew there could only be one survivor.  It truly is a wonderful ser...

It MADNESS , baby!