I think it is a little bit crazy that so many of my nieces and nephews are Michigan State fans! I got both of my bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from U of M!!! My niece, Alyssa, came over last week and it took a while for me to realize that she was wearing a Michigan State t-shirt. When I discovered this, I gasped and told her that I couldn’t believe that she was wearing that in my house!!
She told me that it was the only clean T-shirt she had and I Feel like she should have worn a dirty one! My niece, Natalie, is transferring to Michigan State for her second year of college and my nephew, Jonah, is starting college and Michigan State in the fall. What is going on?! No one is going to U of M?!
I think it was last Thanksgiving that my family had at my house where my nephew, Steven, showed up wearing a Michigan State hoodie. I told him that I hated his hoodie so he obligingly took it off to reveal and Michigan State T-shirt! I swear that it’s crazy that I am outnumbered!
My first year at Western, I learned to collect all kinds of T-shirts. I remember when I transferred to U of M (After my MS diagnosis) for my second year, my friend, Catherine, asked me if I did anything at Western other than collect T-shirts because I was ALWAYS wearing a WMU shirt! We had some classes together and we worked at DFCU together also. I collected a lot of Michigan shirts while I was an undergrad but that was 20 years ago! Many of those shirts have since died!
I pretty much live in sweatpants and T-shirts all year round! I have been collecting college shirts recently. I got two Texas Tech T-shirts when they knocked MSU out of the basketball finals! I also have a USC football T-shirt because my Dad had wanted to go there. And, OF COURSE, I had to get a Georgia Bulldogs Football T-shirt because that is where Matthew Stafford went to college!!!
So, I have a bunch of college football T-shirts in addition to my MS Awareness T-shirts and my GMFB shirt (Which I LOVE!!!) but I do not own a Michigan T-shirt. My Mom, bought me a Michigan T-shirt to wear which got me a really excited!
When I put it on today, my Mom asked me what it felt like. I told her that it, “Feels Like Home!” Right after I said that, I thought of this movie and this song:
After I put this T-shirt on, I got cold in my house because the air is on and I can’t control my body temperature anymore. I put on the Georgia Bulldogs sweatshirt Sean got me for my birthday but I know I am wearing the Michigan shirt underneath and that makes me feel good because it, “Feels Like Home!”