dihenry's Journal

Yes the Iowa Hawkeyes won and the ISU Cyclones lost.

Today was the big interstate rivalry game.  Given how history has gone since I got here as a freshman, the home team has won every year.  Well...

Times have changed...

The game was here and the hawks won...

Gene Chizik ruined the football program here....  Pollard is a douche.

Now Paul Rhoads is back in Iowa trying to pick up the pieces.

and mostly.....

If this were a normal year right now I would be on the phone with my father heckling him over a cyclone victory.  It was fun!  He whined like a girly baby which made it even better.  However....

Nowdays even if the cyclones would have won those days of calling and heckling dad or vice versa are done.  I honestly dont care about the game persay.  I mean I am a cyclone fan, but working for the idiots doing the traffic thing for so many years puts a sour taste in your mouth!  Even before I worked traffic, it was just fun having the back and forth heckling with Dad. 

I miss the heckling most of all.  I like sports, but I was always the girl who worked on superbowl sunday back in D-town at the Pizza ranch because you can make a killing in tips delivering to drunk Luther Students.

Dad's cadasil is progressed significantly.  He still remembers things but his vocabulary and judgement are out the window.  I would feel bad even trying to heckle him.  I wouldn't get the same rise out of him.  He wouldn't understand....

Times have changed.  I never imagined myself in a wheelchair at 26 ... h6wever the intention is to get out of the wheelchair eventually.  I never imagined that my dad would go into a nursing home at 58....  He is 60 now.  Dad was supposed to be working...  I was supposed to be a 26 year old pain in the ass juvenile hall officer or other fill in the blank normal title. 

The heckling is one of those grand moments that I cherished.  I will never get those moments back with my father.  I want my father back the way he was.  I want to be back the way I was.  I want the cyclones to be competitive again...  It doesnt matter anymore though...  Dad's mind is gone....

ITS NOT THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!