The Birthday Weekend

This weekend was my birthday weekend. Normally I don't do birthdays they aren't a big deal but I had already made plans anyway so I thought I'd make a whole weekend of it.

It started out Friday with the baseball game and dinner, which I've already talked about. But before that I had a little time to do some shopping around the Forks. I didn't get to a lot but I went to Kite and Kaboodle and picked up the second book in the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. Now some of you may be saying "but aren't those books written for teenagers?" To which I would reply, what's your point. Seriously they're good. You should check it out.

Then on Saturday I went to see Dinner for Schmucks with my brother and his girlfriend. Overall I would say it wasn't a good movie but it had funny moments. But I got to the mall early, so again I had shopping time. So I stopped in at Chapters and picked up a couple more books. The last book in that series and also the latest book in the Outlander series which I also recommend. I've been putting off buying this book because the paperback version is a different size from all of the other books in the series, but finally I broke down and picked it up.

So I spent Sunday reading, finished off the book I was reading at the time and then watched the Emmy's. Why oh why did I watch the Emmy's?

So that was birthday weekend.

My First Ball Game

Okay so maybe I don't hate baseball quite so much. Or maybe it was the company.

Today was my first live-action baseball game. And while it wasn't the major leagues at least it was entertaining. We did a little pregame dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory since it was my birthday and the game started at 7 and my friends got off work at 5. Then we walked over to the ballpark just as the first inning was starting.

The home team lost 3-0 but you can't win 'em all I guess. But we did win free pancakes because the Goldeyes' pitcher struck out the "original pancake house's pancake batter". So now I'm going to have to go collect on those some day. Tons of foul balls though.

All in all I'd say it was a pretty good birthday outing.

Rain Delay

So I didn't ever mention that I won tickets to a baseball game. About a month ago I was in the Chiropractor's office and there was a draw for tickets to a game for the local minor league team. Then they called me last week and told me I won. I was going to take my Dad because he's never been to a game but my cousin was getting married that day so he had to be at the wedding. So I called my brothers and they were all busy that day too. So I asked one of the guys from work if he wanted to go. He agreed and so I was pretty excited for the game today.

But wouldn't you know after standing around for an hour and a half the game was rained out. So now I have to go back to the stadium and exchange the tickets for another game. Hopefully my friend will be able to make it to the game.

Because the Joe Mauer tag doesn't get enough use

Baseball season is upon us once again, I know that technically it started a couple of weeks ago but, I freaking hate baseball. I know I mention it every time I talk about baseball but I really think that it can't be said enough.

Anyway you'll also know by now if you've been following my blog for any amount of time that my baseball boyfriend is Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins. It's been a while since I've bothered to mention his hotness so I thought since I had nothing else to talk about that perhaps it was time to bring him up again. Just in case you're trying to find some reason to watch baseball this year. So here he is just doing his job and also in eye-black. YUM!

Watching Baseball

I can't believe I watched baseball last night. I hate baseball. To be completely honest I was also watching the Colts game so it was kind of a flip back and forth kind of deal. So what was I doing watching baseball then?

Well see it started because I was out at the farm for the weekend and my dad was watching the game. So I sat down to watch with him until the football game started. That's when I realized it was the Twins vs. the Yankees. Now because I don't like baseball and therefore don't follow it the only player I knew besides Jeter and A-Rod was Joe Mauer of the Twins.

So Lisa if you're still following this one's for you. I've been trying to get you a Joe Mauer bobblehead for the last year but the 2009 versions are terrible so here's a picture instead.

Just to Cleanse the Palate

Alright as we can see from my previous posts I tend to be kind of single minded. But in honor of a certain co-worker's new shirt here is some Joe Maurer of the Minnesota Twins. Have I mentioned I hate baseball? But I like baseball players. Oh and he's 6'5 so he's both age and height appropriate.

Is there anything hotter than an athlete doing stuff with little kids. Yes, I realize that sounds really bad but you know what I meant.

Well that helps.

You wanna know something that could brighten a truly terrible day? Try this:
Does it really matter who it is? He's hot. But really his name is Jarrod Saltalmacchia. Try saying that 5 times fast. He's newly of the Texas Rangers, just got traded from the Braves.

I know this isn't the sports blog but it still made my day.

Huston Street is Beautiful...

That is all.


Oh and this probably could have been a cross blog with the sports blog but I felt it was more appropriate here.

Yet another creepy rez/athlete similarity

For those of you who used to read my old blog you know that I was constantly finding people who looked like people that I lived with in rez. Well here's another example. Thank god it's only in this one picture but still the similarities are enough to make me cringe. Oh and his name is Mike by the way. Yet another creepy coincidence.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight after this discovery. Well than and spending last night working on the Morgue video for the yearbook.

Oh that reminds me, if anyone has suggestions for music I should use in the video yearbook please leave a note in the comments. I've got about 4 hall videos left, plus the spring banquet and a video of random pictures.

Shadowing in the call centre

So my boss had this brilliant idea that I should job shadow in the call centre. Not that this is nessecarily a bad idea it's just boring as all hell. Right now is a down time for them so basically me and my shadowee sat and talked about farming. There was also discussion with the people around us about baseball. I just nodded my head and smiled because ever since I broke my leg in high school I hate baseball. I think it's the Devil.

It's not that I hate baseball so much as I've vowed never to play it again. Suprisingly 5 years later my knee is still giving me trouble occasionally. But yeah shadowing is boring and I get a new shadowee the day after tommorow, but hey at least I'm getting to know people.