My Fantasy Team

While I normally reserve this site for cute pictures of my children I've been inspired by recent events to think, nay, fantasize, about drafting my dream team. My husband Josh, for the first time in our 7 year relationship, is playing fantasy football. He has two teams—one that he drafted on an NFL site, and one that he drafted on an ESPN site. Every week he gets points based on the "real game" achievements of his players, and each week he can trade, drop and/or move players around on his roster. It seems to make him happy, and as long as he does the laundry and plays with the kids and rubs my back every night I can't see the harm in it.

But is has gotten me thinking. What would my dream team look like? Who would I draft if I could draft anyone to play on my team?

First, I'd like a personal chef. I think I would have to draft Heidi whose website frequently appears in my Google Ads. She is a vegetarian and a health nut and she photographs her own food; it always looks and sounds delicious. http://www.101cookbooks.com/.

Secondly, I'd like a personal trainer. Jillian from The Biggest Loser seems like she might be good. She can be mean, but, ultimately, she is about all of us believing in our own potential for personal transformation.

That said, I'd like a high powered intellectual writer on my team, and here I'd have to go with Barbara Ehrenreich. She's best known for her best selling book, Nickled and Dimed. Her latest book shreds the positive thinking movement, and it's a tough critique for me to hear, because I was raised on all of that mumbo jumbo. I basically still believe in it. So I'd put Barbara on my team. To keep me honest. http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/books.htm

For my TV pundit I would draft Rachel Maddow. She's adorable and brilliant and left wing and funny and cool.

I'd like an in-house barista, and in this category I'd probably have to go with my good friend E.L. Fricke. She makes the best latté in the burgh.

For husband, I'll keep the one I have, though on my fantasy team he has already finished his dissertation. He already rubs my back every night to help me to get to sleep, and that's just about every woman's fantasy as far as I know.

That seems like a dream team to me! Who would you draft for your dream team?