Taking off for the long weekend

Ok, so i woke up this morning and decided that i am adding Thursday to my birthday weekend and not coming into work tomorrow. So, you will have to make up your own snack time items...

We don't head out until friday, but i want to take some time tomorrow to pack, get some goodies for the hotel room, pack some more.. clean the house for someone to come and take care of the dogs, and then rest some...

I don't know if it is a universal thing that happens to all people but around my birthday, my energy level gets kind of low. I mean I love my birthday and can't wait to go away, but i am SOOOOO friggen tired.. anyway, i feel like i need to take the day, so i am going to take the day.

Oh the Rockies topic, they pulled out a back to back win the last two days against the Braves.. I think the first few runs were a little emotional and they needed to get their heads out of the clouds and back into this season. I think they felt some pressure to be the "National Champs" and they didn't consentrate of being the 2008 season Rockies. But now they have their rings, they have their fan fair of the first home opener etc.. time to play some ball.. So they have been hitting better, getting some good swings in and hitting it pretty far. There were a few errors by the Braves that we took advantage of and scored. Come May/June time i will be seeing more games personally and will be bringing you some pictures from the field. I know you can't wait.

But in the mean time you will have to watch on your tv.

I am taking te easy route and ending my blogging here...
Have a wonderful "my birthday" weekend... check the set lists each night to see what we are hearing.. See you on Tuesday 4-14.

Today is National Chinese Almond Cookie Day.

Today is Jenkins' Ear Day, marking the date in 1731 when Spaniards boarded the British ship Rebecca off Jamaica and, among other atrocities, cut off the ear of mariner Robert Jenkins. Seven years later Jenkins appeared carrying his ear before a committee of the House of Commons. As a result, the British declared war on Spain. The 4-year conflict is still known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Today is National Cherish An Antique Day.

Today is National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.

1973: Carly Simon received a gold record for the single, "You’re So Vain."

1984: Robert Duvall won the Oscar as Best Actor for his role as a country singer in Tender Mercies.

1988: Singer Brook Benton died of a spinal disease at age 56.

1988: Elders returned to Bikini Atoll to begin cleaning up the island where no one had lived since the nuclear testing of the 1940s.

1988: The final episode of the action drama The New Adventures of Beans Baxter aired on The Fox Network.

1992: U.S. President George Bush fell suddenly ill at a state dinner in Japan. He became pale, slumped in his chair, and threw up on the Japanese Prime Minister. (That was funny)

1993: The Colorado Rockies set a National League baseball record by drawing 80,227 fans to their first game. (THAT”S RIGHT!!!! GO ROCKIES)

1994: Actress Judy Geeson was playing a chain-smoker in the play Faith Healer at a New Haven, Connecticut, theater, when a man in the audience stood up and said, "You’re gonna kill yourself smoking that much!" Then he yelled as he walked out, "Smoking is prohibited in this theater anyway!" (Sounds like something I wish I could do, I love cranky old men)

1996: The Church of England was in uproar after actress Ruth Ford was cast in the role of God in the annual York Mystery Plays.

1998: New Zealand’s conservation minister proposed firing the Easter Bunny and replacing him with the Easter Kiwi. Nick Smith said the bunny was one of New Zealand’s major pests and that the kiwi would be better for the environment and for kids.

2002: Former Arthur Andersen auditor David B. Duncan pleaded guilty in Houston federal court to ordering the shredding of Enron documents, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

2002: Scientists at the Army Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts introduced a vacuum-sealed battlefield sandwich edible for up to three years. Using an array of chemicals to seal the meat and inhibit bacterial growth, the scientists had produced pepperoni and barbecue chicken indestructible sandwiches, and were experimenting with pizzas, bagels, burritos and even the staple peanut butter sandwich.

2005: Britain's Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, who took the title Duchess of Cornwall.