is this thing on?

Brian and I spent the weekend in Colorado Springs visiting with my family. Saturday night we decided to play 'balderdash'; we don't actually have the board game so we just use a dictionary and some scraps of paper. Now, 'balderdash' is more of a Fangio game than a Stoess game so Brian wasn't all too enthused about playing it but he was a good sport and stuck it out until the second or third word. I should note that we were using a dictionary from 1890 which meant you couldn't make up definitions using modern terms or others would know it wasn't the correct one. My brother picked the word 'redecraft' for his turn and we all dutifully scribbled our best guesses at the definition and handed them in. My brother began to read the entries and the first one out of his mouth was this: "redecraft: an early form of easy mac produced by the Kraft company". Yep, that would be Brian's. Needless to say, Brian stopped playing after that. I gu

i slept in until 10:30 this morning, ate breakfast, and then fell back to sleep for another few hours. needless to say, i can't sleep. brian and i went to another rockies game last night and watched as they sadly lost to the padres. on a side note, it struck me last night that the Padres basically translates to "the dads". it's kind of silly. anywho, in traditional Rockies fashion they toyed with our hearts. it's the bottom of the 9th with a guy on first and second, then 4 balls walks the next batter. bases are loaded and Tulo's up to bat. our hearts get all fluttery with the hope of a grand slam because this is baseball and miracles do happen. and then 3 strikes and it's over, just like that. never have i felt such anti-climactic hope until i started to fall in love with baseball. BUT, once every blue moon the hope pays off and that miracle does happen and that's why i keep going and why i refuse to leave before the game is officially over. i

my cats recently turned 2 years old and before i knew what was happening, i found myself holding a plate of wet cat food adorned with 2 burning candles and i was singing happy birthday to them. as the cat's eyes pleaded with me to get those strange burning sticks out of their food and as brian looked at me with complete awe (and not good awe i'm afraid) i reflected for a moment and felt completely ridiculous. so i retorted, 'well, give me babies or it will only get worse!" oi.