Mood:  celebratory
YAYYYYYYYY! So long tripod blog! I've got a new blog now, a REAL one, none of this not doing what I want crap! Go here:

http://12-6curve.net/jen

Come visit me in my new habitat! Thanks to JULI for hosting me!

More pushy Giants fans...I tell you, I don't know what I'm going to do with Lauren & Steph. Besides love them that is ;)

I had a productive weekend. I worked on Satuday. Almost all the day. I told my boss I was looking into getting a cell phone, and he said if I did, he would pay part of it. My boss rocks.

So I got home, and started researching. I had FINALLY made a decision, after three hours. THE FRICKEN WEBSITE WENT DOWN FOR MAINTENCE! AUGH!!!! So then when I woke up this morning, of course I didn't think I had made the right decision. So I did MORE research. I finally ended up with AT&T. I had them before, and they were good. I think I got everything I wanted in the phone. I should get it by the end of the week.

I also got my hair cut today. A LOT. It's the shortest I've ever had it. I really like it so far though. It's a lot curlier this length. My hair is super duper thick. She thinned it out a LOT. Give me a week and we'll see if I really like it.

This will, most likely be my last post in this blog! I've got a spiffy new one almost read to be unveiled. A REAL one! Thanks to Juli & Chelle. I'm going to work really hard to get it completed tomorrow. I'll post the new URL here then. YAY!!!!!!!

Today's game was so awesome. I haven't gotten to watch too many, cause working 60 or more hours a week cuts down on the TV watching time. Timmy was awesome. I'm sure he's happy to get out of/away from the Toronto team. They have it out for him :( Then Ellis gets hurt and Durazo almost gets hurt. Hatteburg is already nursing an injured back AND of course Mulder is out for the season. JGrab has a broken leg. Injury bug, leave us ALONE! Anyway, back to the game. It was funny, everyone always blames the A's announcers for jinxing the team...well today they were going on and on about how the A's set a record with 14 grand slams last year, and THIS year they had ZERO. BAM, Ramon GRAND SLAM! Then Miggy has one later in the game. It was great.

PLUGS:
Lauren
Steph
Jenn
Chelle
Valerie
Jillian

Virus Problems
Mood:  irritated
In the last four days, I have received WELL over 700 emails with the So Big Worm. I am NOT INFECTED, but obviously many people who have my name in their address books are. So if you are stupid enough to keep getting virus, can you PLESE TAKE MY NAME OUT OF YOUR ADDRESS BOOK! Lucky for me, my ISP scans all my attachments automatically, and strips the virus, but it's still annoying to have to delete hundreds of emails daily. If you think you might be infected (and by the number of emails I've gotten, many of you ARE), read the instructions and download the removal tool.

Because Steph is SOOOOO pushy ;)

Things I Love
Spending time with my friends, which seems to be less and less these days.
That perfect day at a baseball game.
Getting the perfect picture.
Those first 15 minutes in the morning when I wake up, and am snuggled in my bed.
Chatting with any of the girls and getting silly online.
Dying laughing with Jenn at the game. Watch out for a beating with his leg!
Browsing at the farmers market.
Having a meaningless crush.

Thing I Hate
Showoffs - Especially when they are just trying to make me jealous.
My job
Stupid people and having to be nice to them.
Bad drivers.
Knowing my friend is ruining her life, and her not listening to any advice.
Feeling my lif is going no where.
Working 64 hours a week.
Getting a ton of new responsibilites heaped on me even though I'm the lowest paid.

Things I Wish
I had a job I liked...or at least didn't HATE.
That all my friend lived close to me.
That I had enough money to not have to worrry all the time.
That I had someone to love me.
Stress would go away.
I had a real apartment.

TLong Sucks Watch
No, I haven't forgotten, and I didn't want his good (hahaha, I had typed bad, but had to go back and edit) week to go un-noticed. He's raised his average 4 points in the last week to....251!!!

Plugs
NOT married to Mr. Foulke
Mulder Fanatic
In denial Sox fan
Ellis Fanatic
Pushy Giants fan

More love for Juli....
from Juli:

"Dear Jenny From the Block,

You can suck it.

Love, Juli"

To Juli,

I think Burkett already did that. Thanks for the offer though.

Love, Jen
PS...you got FOULKED!

I know both Valerie & Taylor agree with me.

THIS IS FOR JULI
Mood:  celebratory
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Pedro's our bitch!

<3 you Jooj!
Hudson puts A's on top in Wild Card

Mood:  incredulous
Why does a woman, a supposedy SMART woman, have sex with a man, who has had unprotected sex before AND has never been tested for STD's? Do you HAVE no self respect? Do you not CARE about your life?

I can't believe that people can be so careless...and for MONTHS. ugh

I'm SOOOOOOOOOO weak. I'm sure a lot of you knew it was coming. So here it is: Jen's Baseball Galleries: Keith Foulke. I just couldn't resist! I <3 him. I know you all do too, so GO VISIT!

Random Stuff:
Laundry Mat
I have no washer and dryer, since my home is the size of a small box. So I have to go to the laundry mat. I HATE laundry. Well, I hate any activity that in any way includes cleaning. It's a good thing that I have a LOT of clothes, so I don't have to go very often. If I did, I'd be fucking insane. Either that or I'd have to kill someone. But you know it's time to go when you buy a new pair of pants because you don't have anything clean.

The laundry mat is very nice. Very large, there is an atendent there all the time, and they don't use quarters. They give you a card you put money on. It's like a whole debit thing. But the fucking PEOPLE. No one speaks english, and the are sooooo rude! These three older ladies, they were just standing there, blocking the whole asile. This girl comes walking down, carrying this big basket of clothes, trying to get by. They just stare at her. She has to say excuse me three times. Then they finally giggle and get out of the way. I would have said, bitches MOVE. Damn. Then, one of them is washing towls. They are in the machine next to me. The water is RED. So when she takes them out, lint goes EVERYWHERE. I mean, a lot of lint. The floor is red. The machine is full of lint. Does she clean it up? HELL NO. Dumb bitch. Then of course when I'm drying my clothes, they are next to me also. They keep pushing their carts into me and stuff. Oh, I wanted to punch them out.

Work:
I really need to look for a new job. I have the two year itch now. I'd never been at a job for two years until this one. Now I've been here for 27 months...and I think that's abotu 24 months too long. The benefits are good, the hours are good, but everything else SUCKS ASS. The people I have to deal with have to be the stupidest people on the face of the (besides the people at the LM). I swear, the more education you have, the stupider you are. Seriously. When they tell me they have a masters or PHD, I just KNOW they are going to be difficult. I'm just too lazy to look for anything else.

Vacation:
Well, had a good vacation planed. Two of them. One of them was ruined cause of bitchy people. WHY WHY WHY must they do everything? LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!!!!!! One is being ruined by COUPLES. I wanted it to be just my two friends and I, since we NEVER spend any time together anymore. Well, they mentioned it to some of their friends, and now they've all just took over. So as it stands now, it will be three couples...and me. Doesn't that just sound like a TON OF FUN? Not. They are trying to make me feel better by saying girls in one room boys in another. RIGHT. Like that's going to matter. It's going to end up all of them together anyways. So I asked Jenn if she wants to go. Maybe some other SINGLE friends too. I was so excited about this trip. Now I'm just annoyed.

Enough complaining.

Can't complain about the A's right now! No siree. Rolling right along. Chavez had an awesome game last night. Guillen chimed in with three hits. Piatt added a homer, and Byrnes an RBI. Keith didn't get to pitch, but that's all right. Huddy had another fantastic performance. He's just rolling right along...and he actually got the W tonight also! YEAH HUDDY!


Plug-a-riffic:

Valerie::Lauren::Jenn::Meesh

***WARNING***
This is going to be the longest blog EVER. Okay, maybe not EVER, but it will be pretty long, since I actually have time to sit and do it. This is the first time in almost two weeks that I will be home for more than a couple of hours and not be sleeping. It's been a wild two weeks!

Okay, so this goes back a while:

July 25, 2003 - Rivercats vs. Iowa Cubs
I went to the game with Abby and Jenn. We had such a blast. We are so nutty together! So before the game, I got Bobby Crosby to sign a photo I took of him in the Hawaiian jersey. LOL. He said you would have to get a pic of me in that jersey and I said hell yes, so it can never be forgotten, which he laughed at. We asked him about Jason Grabowski, and he said he was probably out for the season, since they only had 5 weeks left anyway. Told us he broke a bone in his leg :( Poor Jason, made me SOOOOO sad. That I might not get to see him again this year. The manager confirmed this later. Jenn is working on a little something for us to get a hold of Jason, so I hope it works out!

After the game, I was able to get Justin to sign my photo. It's been hard, cause every game I go to, he's pitching! But he did really well this game, and stuck around for the whole thing. As we were leaving the game, we were stopped at a light, and Abby says "ooh, there is a nice car coming up behind us." It was in the other lane. As is drives up next to us (and stops) Jenn and I both yell out BOBBY! We were shocked, it was Bobby Crosby! He was stopped next to us. Abby's window was down, so I know he heard us. He was too far up for me to see anymore, but Jenn was doing her best impression of being sick in the front seat and laughing hysterically. Abby looked over at him, and he was looking at us smiling. It was so hilarious. We were all in shock.

July 26, 2003
So I get home about 11:30, then I have to pack to go to Anaheim. I arrive at Rebbeca's house about 12:30, and we leave about 12:45. Only took us 6 hours. She drove the WHOLE way. I think I slept at least 4 of the hours. We arrived at the hotel at 6:45 and they verified our reservation (too early to check in) and Rebbeca and Sandra bought shuttle tickets to Disneyland. We went to Mimi's for breakfast, and I called Edie to come pick me up. We went to her house, and perused bridal magazines. Great day, friends, beach, game, bbq and alcohol. What more can you want?? Maybe a CAMERA? Yeah, I'm a dumb ass, I left it in Rebbeca's car :(

My impression of Edison Field? Great. Parking is cheaper than Oakland. Outside you can tell you are actually GOING to a baseball game, which is really nice. I only sat in the top deck, so I can't say much for the view. Our seats were fine, upper deck is upper deck. About Angels fans, they remind me a lot of Giants fans. Not a whole lot of emotion. There were A's fan everywhere, and they didn't even say anything. A's cheers drowned them out. Rich Harden was AWESOME. I wasn't sure he was ready when they called him up, but his starts so far have changed my mind.

When I got back to the hotel that night, I went to check in. It was about 11:30, and I was SOOOO drained. Rebbeca and Sandra were still at Disneyland. When I got up to the counter, they asked me how I wanted to pay, and I told them I had already paid, when I made the reservation. They said no, they can't charge you until you arrive at the hotel and they scan your card. I said no, it had already appeared on my bill. They tried to make me feel hella stupid, saying they knew what they were doing, that they did it every day. It came down to either I pay, or I have no hotel. Since it was almost midnight, I didn't have a car or know my way around, I paid. We ended up getting two adjoining rooms, since that was all they had left. Not bad for $40.

Tried to get an early start the next day. Ended up arriving at the park about noon. Made our way down to the field only to find out that Harden and Mulder had already signed. BP soon ended, and Harden came over to sign again! I was able to get him to sign my pic with him. He seemed to remember me. He was really nice and chatted a bit.

It was so fricken hot. Great game though :) Took off for home right after the game, stopped for dinner and was home just after midnight. I drove about 2 hours, maybe a bit more on the way home.

All in all, GREAT trip. When I got home, I checked and I WAS charged twice for my hotel. I notified the company that I made the reservation through, and my money was refunded by Thursday. GREAT service.

July 29, 2003 - A's vs. Indians
Met Mariam at the game. She got Rich Hardens autograph. After that, I went over to the Indians side. Sat with Gabby right behind the Indians bullpen, and got some great pics of Brian Anderson warming up. It had been a while since I'd seen him pitch in person. Mariam and my seats were in the second deck. One of the ushers let us sneak down to the first deck. After the fourth, we went and sat in the front row behind the bull pen with Gabby. Mariam had a good time, in spite of the A's winning ;)

July 30, 2003 - A's vs Indians
Went with Jenn and Jillian. I went over to the Indians side, to try to get Brian to sign my photo. I didn't say anything to him, cause usually he only signs after BP. Well, he remember me, and came right over to me with me having to ask. He's such a sweetheart. His smile and those blue eyes. And he's so funny. Some kid was "Hey #31" and he says "Hey kid in the blue hat." He's got such a great personality. That's why I love him!

Got to see CC Sabathia pitch for the first time. What a treat. He had a good game. Unfortunately it was against the A's :( I think Jenn and I annoyed the hell out of Jillian. We were laughing so hard, I was crying. I think we even annoyed the people in front of us. That's ok though, cause everyone was bugging me. Ever time Keith would poke his head out of the dugout (we were behind the pen) people would either all stand up or put up their hands. I was seriously getting pissed off. I had such a good time, besides the rude people.

I was going to take off Thursday, to go see Rich pitch. I'm SO glad I did not. From what I heard from Jenn, I would NOT have been happy. Some people's rudeness seems to be getting more and more pronounced. And I swear, I thought the game was for WATCHING. It's like we don't even exist some times. Oh well, we are more than capable of entertaining ourselves.

August 3, 2003 - PHOTO DAY...Oakland vs. NYY
We got to the game about 9:45 and went over to find Jenn and Jillian in line. They were in the very front, but we weren't too far back, so we just stayed at the end of the line. Cause cutting is bad children! They did save us a place on the field though. We were right underneath the NL scoreboard. We really got so screwed. None of the major players made it our way. We just missed out on Zito, Byrnes and Chavez. We got Ellis, Piatt, Melhuse, Lilly, Menechino and Billy McMillion. Ellis, Lilly and Piatt all commented on my shirt :) Ellis said he would tell Keith to hurry our way. And of course lots of coaches, Ron Washington (who told us Clarence Cockrel tackled him yesterday), Brad Fischer, Tony Francona, Bob Gueren (who took credit for Keith) My only goal was Keith Foulke, since I was wearing my OH SO COOL Foulke You shirt, but he didn't nearly make it our way. So with five minutes to spare, I grabbed Susana and we ran over to where Keith was. Right after we got there, the security person said only one more person. Well, I was lucky, and got to take one with him. He said my shirt was awesome. He really liked it :) Problem was, the camera was off, and Susana didn't know how to turn it on. Keith and I both though she had taken it. So he moved on down the row. I turned the camera on, and asked if we could take another one, since it didn't work. So he said of course, and came back over and took a good one! YAY! I was floating on air. I had achieved my goal :) That carried me though the whole game, since most of is was sucky. THANK GOD FOR MIGUEL! He saved us again. I have to say, I was worried, but I shouldn't have been. Mulder pitched a FABULOUS game, and it would have been a shame for him to lose. WHOOOO HOOOOOOO! Okay, that's the end! FINALLY!

Oh, here is my shirt:

I'm sure there are some things I left out, but you get the idea ;)

EDIT: Saw Valerie! She was hubby-less today. Good for her ;)

Mood:  irritated
DAMMIT. I just typed up this whole long blog as a recap of this weekend, then IE crashed and I lost it all :( I'll try to type it up again later, but lunch break is over now.