Hey everyone, its that time of the year again. I know its valentines day but that's not what I'm talking about. Yes, I love Lila and she loves me. Okay that's enough valentines day talk. What I really wanted to talk about is one of the funnest times of the year for me and Lila is getting ramped up as well. Gentlemen...START YOUR ENGINES!!! Its almost time for NASCAR season! This Saturday kicks off the season with the Budweiser shootout and then next week the Daytona 500! They call this the great American race because well, it is! Forty three cars going 190mph, paired up like the skinny friend pushing the fat friend around the track during P.E.. Oh man I can't wait. For those of you who didn't know, back when I was about 23 or so, I almost went to NASCAR mechanics school in North Carolina. I was already talking with the school admissions via UTI and wanted to get my hands greasy working with the one of the fastest teams in NASCAR. But after careful thought and deliberation. That 50,000 school loan to be paid off when I'm 45 didn't sound too fun. And... mom and dad said no, moving on..Edison it is! LOL. I didn't always like it. At first I was like, " I don't want to see NASCAR! It's a bunch of rednecks watching cars go around and around for 3 hours. Dumb." I was dragged to my first race about 6 years ago and man I was hooked! I didn't eat, I didn't drink, I didn't get up to go to the bathroom until the race was over. The sound, the power, the speed, is just overwhelming awesome. With time I got to learn the strategy and the terminology to now see much more than cars going in circles. Last year I took Lila to the race in Fontana. This was her first time. We showed up bright and early and it was raining!!! Those that know racing know rain is never good. We walked around the festivities as it was raining and were like, "Oh no, they are going to postpone the race." Luckily, the skies became clear and gave us a great race. So great it made Lila cry (that's not hard to do by the way). Kyle Busch (everyone hates him except Kyle Busch fans) was leading the race with less than 10 laps to go. Then, here comes Lila's favorite driver, Jimmy Johnson. The five time champion catches Kyle with only 3 laps to go and passes him. The crowd went crazy. With just a couple laps to go everyone is on their feet watching Jimmy (who's from California) take the checkard flag, but wait here comes Kevin Harvick who has been stalking Jimmy for the past couple laps. We all looked at each other like "Where did he come from?". Kevin catches Jimmy on the back stretch of the final lap and our seats could not have been any better as we watched Kevin Harvick pass Jimmy Johnson coming off of turn 4 for the win. Lila was heart broken. I could see it in her face. It was like someone took away her cotton candy or something. It was a great race. To make her feel better I took her to Hooters. She needed a pick me up. As we sat down to have our wings guess what's playing on all the big screens. That's right the final turn of Jimmy getting passed. And guess who walks in to Hooters, (not Jimmy,lol) about 7 Kevin Harvick fans yelling at the screen as if they were watching it for the first time. "Go Kevin! Go Kevin! Ya baby! Woo hoo!" Lila was going to kill them! Looking forward to some great racing this year.
