Happy New Year Everyone!! (For our equestrian friends here, 2026 is the Chinese Year of the Horse. It’s element is Fire. February 17, 2026 - February 5, 2027.)
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Happy New Year to you and everyone else! May 2026 bring us a year of happiness and blessings! 
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While I can compliment those on the sentiment, with the global 
show going on, I’ll reserve judgement on that at this point and see how the year shakes out.
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2026 just said “HOLD MY BEER”
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Hope everyone had a fun New Years Eve! Keeping positive thoughts for a healthy and peaceful 2026 (can you believe it!). Hope those of you in the frigid Northeast are warm cozy.
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Happy New Year to all, and I hope for a year of joy and peace for all my turquoise peeps (and beautiful jewelry). @Islandmomma, you had a rough year health wise, so prayers this next one is better!
Now whoever are not football fans can skip this next paragraph 
The day will be especially good for my fam if IU wins. Nothing against any 'Bama fans, but you can’t understand how we Hoosier fans feel; it’s like we are living in an alternate universe 
And condolences to any OH State people. Another match up in the final would have been nice!
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Thank you so much for your prayers. I’m looking forward to a healthier year! 
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Husband and I were faculty brats who grew up in Tuscaloosa, during the Bear’s heyday 
I like to see Bama win, but I am not very interested in football (though I have to be careful saying that around here!)
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Happy New Year to all and a year of blessings and good health.
I will be cheering for Indiana Hoosiers. LET’S GO!! B1G
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Wishing everyone here a very Happy New Year with health and joy in abundance 
(Also, for the benefit of those aching to start celebrating the Year of the Horse, you might like to know that in Japan it’s already started! The Japanese use the Chinese lunar zodiac but they apply it to the western calendar. So, January 1 is the first day of the Year of the Horse in Japan. No need to wait for February to get out all your horsey tchotchkes 
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Oh! My! Gosh! Go Hoosiers!
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I really appreciate Hoosiers like this one.
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I had no clue what y’all were talking about so I had to Google it. And its not like I didn’t grow up around furniture 
Hubby has never heard of it either. Go figure.
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Cignetti is a great coach. And the transfer portal is making this happen….leveling teams out at the top but unfortunately killing the lower level teams. Expect some very good years with this football coach. Congrats!
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I do have to chuckle when you say leveling the teams out “at the top.” No one would have ever described IU as a top team They literally had the worst record (till recently of course). But I’m sure it has helped them. It was kind of funny watching my sister’s reaction yesterday; she looked a bit in shock (she graduated from IU in 76).
He is a great coach, and he cracks me up.
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Nobody talk to me. Buckeyes trauma.
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Yes. Indiana has had decades of drought. But any Division I team has the chance to get to the top with the right coach and with the transfer portal. The smaller divisions will see their top players transfer to the bigger $chools. Even teams like Iowa State will suffer. https://x.com/CFBTalkDaily/status/2005723442306544086?s=20
Ole Miss quarterback could be the first QB that won a Division II championship and a Division I. I am hoping the final will be Indiana and Ole Miss. That would be interesting. I’m surprised Ohio State played so poorly.
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Lo siento. I was cheering for Ohio State…for once. They always ruined Penn States chances…even when we beat them and won the BIG 10 championship. My son was on the D line when we blocked that kick and won!
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