Monday...

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1. I hope everyone had a great weekend. At the East household, we had a soccer game Saturday morning and then church and soccer pictures Sunday. Saturday night, we all hunkered down for the Mississippi State - Auburn game. Let me tell you....I get in to my MSU games....when a game is over, I am normally exhausted.

For those of you that don't know, Auburn won the game by a score of 3-2......that's right, 3-2. Now some people don't like to watch defensive struggles, but I do. I find them much more entertaining than a 45-40 game. So, I enjoyed the game.....right up until there was about 2 minutes to go and we could not get the ball back for one more try. We had every chance to win that game. The defense played very well. Losing a game 3-2 to the #9 team in the country....that is about the most frustrated I have been in a long time.

2. In our weather, a cold front is sliding through today, and that will bring a big change to more Fall-like weather. I don't know about you, but I am ready for it. We will have a wedge set up tonight through tomorrow night, and occasional showers will pass through the Carolinas. Highs here in the Piedmont today will be in the 80s, but tomorrow, while the wedge is in place, we will struggle to make it up into the lower 70s.

The wedge should erode away Wednesday, leaving us with fantastic weather the rest of the week. I expect lots of sun Thursday through the weekend with highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 50s!

3. Our vacuum bit the dust Saturday. We have not had to buy a vacuum in about 4 years, and I was actually kind of excited to shop for a new one. Our old one had not really worked as well as it should have in quite some time, and I was ready to see what a new one could do.

So, off Julianna (our1 year old) and I went to go vacuum shopping. After a couple of stops, I settled on the Dirt Devil Ultra Vision Turbo. We took it for a spin last night, and wow.....did it do an amazing job! I didn't know our carpets were that color or that soft. So far, so good with that one....