The increase in energy prices may impact the holiday season,

I don't know if it was the holiday blues or what. We had no energy in the fourth quarter, which is totally out of character for us. That didn't look like the Bastrop Lady Rams out there. Offensively or defensively, we didn't play the way we are capable of playing ball. That's the reason we lost the game.

Unless energy prices ease, the holiday shopping season will probably be mediocre at best.

Winning was like going on a crap holiday and coming back as Elvis.

Its more of a celebration than a religious holiday.

Since Thanksgiving and throughout the normally slow holiday period, we experienced unexpectedly strong trading activity and that strength has not yet ebbed,