Hey everyone sorry if I've been gone for the past few days. I saw both Mamma Mia and The Dark Knight over the weekend and was in Boston yesterday so I haven't been watching any baseball for the past few days.
Everyone should see Dark Knight because its awesome on so many levels
I got home at 8pm and then baked muffins because I was so bored. Now I have 11 muffins and don't know what to do with them. Baseball needs to be earlier!
Hopefully the games this weekend go well. Being in third after the ASG is never a good thing, so hopefully it can be avoided...
Well after tonight you'll have to struggle through until next week without me cause I'll be splitting my game time between watching at a baaaah and hanging at Fenway.
I usually lay off, fc, but it's been a hot day and I'm celebrating something really good that happened for one of my favorite family members, so may as well enjoy a beer for a change.
I was afraid that would be the case for me here, Kate, but fortunately the heavy weather has just made a big circle around the mountains. Just looked at the radar and it looks like poor Bethie could be in for it.
Really, Kate? I love West Virginia! Have spent some time traveling in the southern coalfields and at the fiddle convention at Clifftop (NE of the New River Gorge Bridge by an hour or so).
I'm in Asheville, NC.
Bethie, I was worried that my computer would get fried if that mess came through here. :::keeping fingers crossed for you and me both:::
True, Karen, I can imagine that in central WV there's not much to do for folks who are used to the hustle and bustle of a good-sized place like Raleigh. If you're not from there it probably seems pretty dreary.
... Last month I went to Boston for the first time and now I am dying to move there. I loved everything about it. My mom and I are trying to convince my dad to search for a job there. Haha. :)
oh yeah I forgot to mention I'm probably the youngest person on here -- only 16. Bleh.
Kate, I'm not sure about this particular moment, but there are people who hang out here who are younger than 16. Me, I'm the oldest. Will be 50 in a couple of months.
Maybe you can start looking into colleges in Boston. :)
Yes, fc, it was b&w. Ya never know...I got drunk when I was 13 (hides head in shame). And I thought I was the one who could lay claim to being 5 emotionally. Glad to know it's not just me.
Kate, you must get WGN on cable too? Same here. It is odd. The good news is that it gives us a couple of extra Red Sox games on TV when they play the White Sox later this season.
I'm not sure why we get WGN in Western NC, but for you in central WV...well, it's pretty close to Ohio and is thus on the verge of the Midwest. That doesn't make it any closer to Chicago, of course, but maybe it's a regional thing, the big "superstation."
She isn't going any more, however, she did go several times AFTER getting melanoma when she was 18 (or 19?). Tanning booths should, at the very least, be under some sort of regulation. And salons shouldn't be allowed to market them as being "healthy" for you because they help you synthesize vitamin D. (I did melanoma research for a few years, I gotta say something:-P).
I have never gone to a tanning booth. I did spray tan only. Although when I was younger I got burned many times. After watching my dad get at least one skin cancer removed each month I use lots of sun screen. I burn just standing out in the sun for 10 minutes.
Love hearing the sounds of Manny's return to the dugout there. Thanks for leaving the mics on, NESN! (more please? okay, i know it wouldn't pass FCC muster)
I used to go to tanning booths all the time. I stopped last year because I was only going like once a week to keep up my tan and decided it was a waste of money to do.
Seriously though I feel for you early risers. I used to open at DD a long time ago and I'd have to be in there by 4:45am on weekends...and this was when I was a senior or so in high school. So I never had a day of full awesome sleep. Or even relatively decent sleep. Though I did have teh whole day to myself afterwards.
I actually do have to get up and out of the house soon after I wake up (whenever that may be)--I'm taking care of some cats, and they get lonely and sharpen their claws on furniture when I'm later than noon. :P
Piney, the reason I get up at 7:00 is that I absolutely can't drag myself out of bed any earlier. I am so not a morning person. Fortunately, where I work there are "flexible hours" options for those of us who don't have direct contact with patients.
Much as I'd like to stay and hang out with y'all for the duration...I really need to go to sleep. Will drop by for bits and pieces of tomorrow afternoon's game. Otherwise, will see you good folks on Friday. GO SOX! :D
I am so not a morning person. I have to set my alarm a half hour to hour before I actually have to get out of bed. I am so a noon person. I work 2nd shift but live 1hr 30mins away.
I'm not a morning person, either. I often can't remember anything that happens before about 7:30 when I get up for school--which is good, considering my classes start at 8.
My alarm clock is purposely a half hour ahead to trick my brain into thinking I'm running late. Sometimes it doesn't work like that but I can't change it back to normal because then I'd be thrown off with that. Then I set my alarm for an hour earlier than the "supposed work time" to throw myself off even further. And it gets to a point that I have to wake up or else I wouldn't know what time it is. It works pretty well. :)
TITO STOP IF YOU PUT TIMLIN IN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN WITH A RUN DIFFERENTIAL OF TEN IN EITHER TEAM'S FAVOR DURING THIS SERIES I WILL KILL YOU STOP MUCH LOVE FROM LIZA STOP
There was a ball hit to left center, and Coco and Ellsbury both went to catch it, and kind of bumped into each other. Ellsbury ended up making the catch for the second out of the 9th.
Coming back for a moment--"Joco" is a combination of Jacoby and Coco that I use to refer to them as a single entity, as if they were just one starting center fielder (full name: Joco Crispbury).
Also, Texy (or Ian, I suppose): Can we get video of that catch (the Joco one)? Please?
on July 22, 2008 9:54 PM
KNUCKLEBALL!