April 26, 2009
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Toe-berlicious
I really should have written about this earlier this week, but Wednesday I wanted to write about Earth Day and I’ve been very busy ever since. Tuesday night I went to the Cubs game again. It was their first night home game this season, which I guess makes it opening night. I got off work at 4 in the pm which is 2 hours early. I needed to to get off early though as it wound up being a 2 hour drive to get down there. What really sucked was that not only was it cold, but it was also raining. And by cold, I mean like 38 degrees. Now I don’t mind a little bit of cold. I also don’t mind a little bit of rain. But the combination of the two promised to make for a very long night. What’s even worse, we were also in the bleachers, which has nothing to protect you from the rain. The bleachers are general admission and by the time we got out there at about 6:45, the left and right field bleachers were packed with people. We had to settle on the center field bleachers not too far from Wrigley’s famous scoreboard. For a brief moment, we thought about sitting underneath the scoreboard, which I was all for since it would have kept us dry as there was a very little drizzle in the air. But, everybody else wanted to sit further down. The drizzle only lasted for the first inning, after that it cleared up and instead was just cold. Fortunately for me, Don sitting next to me and he worked like a wind blocker for me.
One of the guys I was with who by the way was a Sox fan (honestly, if I were a Sox fan there is no way I would have put up with this weather shit) left after 2 inning. After about 4 innings me and one of the guy’s decided to get up, me to look for hot chocolate, he to look for beer. We walked under the scoreboard and saw that not only did they have tvs there, but they also had heat lamps! If only we had sat there earlier.
Anywho, here are a couple of pics from the game.
This was taken from my seat. If it seems far away its because it was far away. On the other hand, its almost like a postcard shot.
Right after the game ended with a Cubs win. You can see just how close we were to the scoreboard.
Every year my work has a thing that we do in which we help to rebuild a poor families house. Well, maybe not rebuild, but at the very least we refurbish the house. Yesterday was that day. I had to be there by 8 in the am, which meant that I had to get up at 7, which really really sucked since as we all know, I HATE getting up early, especially on the weekend. What also sucked was that it rained on and off throughout the day, but at least it was warm, pushing 80 degrees. It was fun though, I had a good time and it was for a good cause.
You know, a lot of times I come up with funny things. While there is nothing odd about that in itself, what is odd is when these things pop into my head. Now as you may or may not know, I’m a huge Bulls fan. Today during the VERY exciting Bulls playoff game against the Celtics I had one of those moments. I was sitting at home watching the very tense game when with about 20 seconds left in regulation (the Bulls needed 2 overtimes to beat the Celtics) all of a sudden, I thought of something funny I could send to my friend Danel in a text. What was it you ask? I sent her a text saying “I just realized I have 6 toes on my left foot.” Just something I found funny and that was totally out of left field. I like to text people or tell people the most random goofy shit all out of the blue. Mental note, save that one for a time when it is least expected and maybe even at a time that is not appropriate. That would maximize the effect.
I went to a wake today for my cousin who died of cancer at 58. He was a longtime smoker and I’m pretty sure it had something to do with his dying. Unlike my cousin who died a few weeks ago, this cousin I actually liked. Every family has the disease that kills many family members. Some families its heart disease. Others its diabetes. Well on my mom’s side its cancer. My mom and 2 of her siblings all died of cancer. This is my second cousin who died of cancer. Another cousin had a cancerous tumor removed and she is fine now. Another uncle has skin cancer right now. It might be 20 years or so, but I think its only a matter of time before it gets me or one of my siblings.
