happy halloween!

i'm handing out candy in costume. what am i, you ask?

a justin morneau fan. aw yeah.

payless catch

you have to have the coupon, which is at http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20091016-tows-payless. good through today.

oops - my bad (acutally, taco bell's bad)

jimmy rollins did not steal tacos for us. he stole a base, but there was no stolen base requirement for a free taco this year. that makes me sad, cuz it takes some of the fun out of it, but hey, at least we still get free tacos.

go phillies!

i don't like cliff lee (cuz he and go-go don't get along so well cuz lee's a bit of a... nevermind), but i gotta give him credit for this

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7099837&topic_id=7224330&c_id=phi

happy thoughts

tonight and tomorrow at Payless: everything 50% off

saturday night between 6pm and midnight: jimmy rollins of the philadelphia phillies stole free black jack tacos for everyone in america

the sloth has arrived

hooray!

good ole facebook

my diana came over the other night, and as my mom logged off the computer, i suddenly remembered that months ago i had stalked my elementary school arch-nemisis/6th grade crush on facebook, and had promised to show him to her. he looks exactly the same. well, then, seeing as we were stalking people, she said we should look up our (yes, our - he was everyone's) 1st grade crush. i recognized him immediately, but she was unsure. so i went running upstairs to bust out the elementary school yearbooks. once she saw that indeed it was him, we went on to laugh at everyone we had known. it's amazing how cool you think you are, only to find out that you weren't.

(oh, and ps - mr. first grade crush is still cute. see? oh yeah. i know how to pick 'em.)

sad news

my favorite hobbit/elvish name generator is no more:(

i just watched fotr

and while i have lots of thoughts on this film, my current thoughts are:

1) how did sean astin not get an oscar? (and he only gets better)

2) rosie cotton is one lucky girl - i love sam

3) too bad boromir isn't real. he'd so be on my list.

for some reason, this made me laugh

from the library website:

The languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Noel, Ruth S.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Adult Reference Book (Stacks)
PR6039.O32Z715 1980
All copies are for Reference use and cannot be checked out

what made my day

our most horrible resident, waiting to come into the dining room for breakfast, singing (in a 98-year-old voice, mind you) 'nobody knows the trouble i've seen'

brilliant thoughts of today

my tummy doesn't feel good.
but i've been wanting middle eastern food for days.
i think i'll get some middle eastern food.

i still don't like the yankees

but. i was watching the game today and thinking 'ugh. i don't like andy pettitte. he's a yankee and he's funny-looking and i don't like the yankees.' and then torii hunter got a hit against him. and then they showed a replay, and showed pettitte's reaction, and i read his lips, and he had said, 'oh, crap.' and then i remembered that he's a Christian. so i was proud of him for saying 'crap.' good job. but that doesn't mean i have to like him as a player. so i still don't.

news report

today i hopped onto the counter at work. today i hopped off of the counter at work. all without incident.

supper tonight

lucky charms, a hostess cupcake, and cheese puffs. aw yeah.

slothful delivery

awhile ago i ordered 'eight men out' for free from kellogg's with little token-y things from cereal boxes. it's taking forever to get here. in all fairness, they did say it might take 90 days, but 90 days? seriously? hobbitsister thought they must be sending it by pony express. until she remembered that ponies are fast. her next best guess was that they're sending it by sloth. she's thinking one might show up at my door one of these days to deliver it. she thinks that would be cool. i think it would be freaky.

i love cornelius

my boyfriend [at the home - don't go getting excited] was having a good day today. he was smiley and chatty, and slightly possessive, which i always find cute. :) he was teasing me, and telling me how much he likes me, and just enjoying having me sitting by him. finally i told him i had to go help with the dishes. 'oh no!' he protested. so i said i could sit a little longer. finally i said, 'well, i have to go help or my co-workers will think i vanished.'
'i don't mind,' he said with a huge grin.

ALDS Game 3

I don't think I've wrung my hands so much in my life. And I was very happy to have my homer hanky as a security blanket to fiddle with. Goodness it was stressful last night. Thankfully for the first 6 1/2 innings it was good stressful, and even for the next 1 1/2 after that it was alright. That last inning was brutal, though. But it was good to be there nontheless.

Pavano was outstanding, Guerrier was brilliant, Denard was denardiest, and Joe saved that day. The seats were great, I got to experience the post season, and I got a ball from the ALDS(specifically tossed to me, even though I wasn't asking for one), which is very cool. I was at the last game at the Dome and saw home plate being dug up. I saw Joe Nathan take dirt from the pitcher's mound to put on the new pitcher's mound at Target Field.

"After the Yankees left the field and before workers arrived to dig up home plate late Sunday night, Twins closer Joe Nathan walked, head down, from the dugout and swiped two handfuls of dirt from the Metrodome mound.
He didn't expect to hear cheers, not after his failures helped the Yankees sweep the Twins in three games in their first-round playoff series. He had hoped to "slip in and slip out," but most of a crowd of 54,735 had stayed to look around on the last night of baseball in the big blue room, and they saw Nathan leaving the mound for the last time and cheered.
"I thought it was going to be me grabbing some dirt, just like a kid playing in the playground," Nathan said. "I didn't expect to stir the crowd or anything. I didn't expect the reaction.
"It was just something for me to bring a little piece of this place to the new place, sprinkle that on the mound. We've had some good times in this building." - Jim Souhan, StarTribune

People cheered. After we were swept in the ALDS, people cheered. The point isn't that we lost the division series, but that we had a good season, won our division when everyone counted us out, and that we love our boys no matter what.

damn Yankees

gosh we have a cute team

http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7019083

we did it!!!

let's do it!

(startribune.com)

further proof that i am a geek (and that i'm forgetful, since this happened a bunch of days ago)

the other day i woke up with 'foux de fa fa' in my head (go figure), when it dawned on me (at 5:00 in the morning mind you) [eew, sorry, no pun intended], that 'piscine' (swimming pool) probably stems from the latin 'pisces.' and that was my waking thought.

another 163?

go Twins!

Psalm 119:47

"...I find my delight in THY commandments, which I love."

hm...so how do i segue away from that post?

i hate lou gehrig's disease

one of the residents is dying from it, and it's horrible to watch. he's only been at the home for a couple months, and to see the changes in him is just heart-breaking. it's going so fast. back in april he was driving a car. now he has to maneuver his wheelchair with slight turns of the head. his speech has been quickly going, but today was the first day that i really couldn't understand him. i just wanted to cry. i hate it. i hate it.

yay, boys, yay!!! :D