It's my birthday

So, this is it. today is the day... It is shower time and then leaving fr the airport.. have a great my birthday weekend and I will chat with you all on tuesday.

Here are all the things that share my birthday.

Today is Barbershop Quartet Day.

Today is Iinternational "Louie Louie" Day, an opportunity to celebrate what many call the greatest party song of all time (louieday.org).

Today is National Dandelion Day.

Today is M&Ms Crisis Day, marking the day in 1966 when American astronaut Shannon Lucid reported from the Russian space station Mir she was "absolutely, totally out" of M&Ms. Lucid spent 188 days aboard the Mir and asked only for regular resupplies of M&Ms.

Today is National Cheese Fondue Day.

Today is 8-Track Tape Day.

Today is Liberation Day in Uganda.

1973- I was born- Thanks mom!!!

1979: Rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control of Uganda's government deposing the brutal dictator Idi Amin.

1981: Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli were married in Los Angeles.

1986: Kellogg’s of Battle Creek, Michigan, stopped an 80-year tradition of tours of its breakfast-food plant, believing that spies from other companies were taking the tours to steal company secrets.

1989: The U.S. issued a patent (#4,821,247) to Reginald Grooms of Conway, South Carolina, for his Ear-Mounted Alarm Clock, a digital alarm clock so tiny it can be hidden in your ear and awaken you without bothering your spouse.

1990: Astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Arizona named four asteroids after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

1999: Florida accountant Jim Akin finished his annual count of dollar bills stapled to the walls and ceiling at McGuire’s Irish Pub & Brewery in Pensacola. Since 1977 customers had signed and stapled up 175,000 dollar bills, which every April have to be inventoried and reported to the IRS.

2003: Thieves broke into a safe and stole $1,020 -- from a prison. A spokesman for Spring Hill Prison near Aylesbury, England, said the crime took place in the prison's reception area.

2006: Sicilian Mafia leader Bernardo Provenzano was arrested near Palermo, Sicily, after eluding capture for 43 years.

it's friggen snowing

that's right, April 10th and it is snowing.. We are expected to get about 2-4 inches. It doesn't seem to be sticking to the roads yet, but the grassy areas are pretty much covered and layering up. I hope all the weak new tree branch growth can take the heave spring snow. But i hope this might take some of the tree allergy causing agents out of the air, my nose hurts :(

Today i am staying at home and getting things ready for the trip. we leave in about 24 hours. Very exciting. But the crappy thing is that this storm that we are getting now will only be moving east and hitting chicago just in time for us to get there.. it will be snowing some in Chicago also. Nothing like following the storm across the country. crazy... And the folks here in denver will get to enjoy 60 and 70 degree weather this weekend.. something just doesn't seem fair.

But we have lined up media credentials for the aquarium and the Sears Tower. I have never been to Chicago, so it is all new to me. We are also going to try to get into the Art Museum at some point too. But the main attraction will be the three panic shows that we will be seeing each night.. Can't wait.. oh and that reminds me, we need to check set list from last night, so hang on...

Set 1 - Lil Kin, Can't Get High, Pickin Up The Pieces, Boom Boom Boom > You Got Yours, Flicker > One Arm Steve > Jam > Solid Rock
Set 2 - Good People > Bears Gone Fishin` > I'm Not Alone, Goin Out West* > Drums** > Jam > Blight > Greta, Walkin
Encore - Up All Night > Porch Song * w/Ben Ellman ** w/Stanton Moore

Not bad, good solid set. looks like they started pretty slow, with the can't get high and pickin up the pieces, but not bad... boomx3 is a new one, pretty catchy and i can see where it could get big in the middle, and then the rest is pretty solid (flicker is new too)
second set, good people is fun and bears gone fishin is a great, classic tune. Going out west (well i guess Cincinnati/Chicago is more west than The east coast, so ok. and there is my greta that i should have gotten for my birthday, but now that wont happen. the soonest they might play it is sunday night, but totally not going to play it tomorrow. and walkin is a good solid song.
well those are my thoughts on the sets...
hope everyone has a great weekend...

Three days, not like anybody is counting

so three days to go and only two more of work. I am really looking forward to getting up Friday morning to a Mimosa and a shower. I got the oj on one of my three trips to the grocery store on sunday. The hint was all he needed because my boyfriend called from his car on his way home from a meeting last night and asked if i wanted anything from the liquor store. I said, sure pick up a six pack of Sierra Nevada. Not knowing where he was going, i wanted to stay with something safe that they would carry. A little while later my boyfriend comes home and says "I am sorry but i passed on the Seirra." I was flipping though a magazine and didn't really think much of it, so i looked up and was saying that's ok when i saw that he was holding 2 six packs of Green Flash West Coast IPA>. If you have been reading long enough you will know that aside from Bell's Two Hearted Ale (that i will be drinking this weekend and can't get in Colorado) the green flash is my favorite!!!! We have a hard time finding it around here so i was SHOCKED when he had two sixers.. AWESOME!!! Oh and why i started that story is that he picked up some champaign also. I think my hint of getting OJ showed that i am serious about the mimosas.

Why mimosas you ask.. well it seems to be a great morning drink for one. i mean you get your vitamin c AND a nice gentle bubbly buzz.. It seems to also be a drink for me when i accomplish something that i never thought i would. I had mimosas before my college graduation(ok and in a water bottle during), I had a mimosa the morning after my sister got married. and now, i am going to have one on my 35th birthday..
It just seems appropriate. Like most kids if you asked me when i was 12 if i would ever be this old, i would say that 35 is about as close to the grave as i can imagine and no, i would never get that old. When i was about, oh i don't know, 19 to 27 you would have thought i was TRYING not to make it to 35... and now, WOW!!! I did (barring nothing happens between now and 4:58 Friday afternoon. Is that east coast time, I thnk it is.. so it will be 3:58 in Chicago, right...
I will guess that we will be on the el-train somewhere in the city trying to get to the hotel when i turn exactly 35 years old.. I will give my mom a call and she will remind me that she didn't get dinner that night because she was delivering when they went around to ask for the meal requests. And since i was a C-section, it took a little longer. I will say that i am sorry. She will tell me how much it hurt and that she can't wait for me to have the same pain.. (no she isn't jewish, but i know, you would think.. :) Then i will proceed to hear about everything that i have done in my life, that party i had in high school where all the porch furniture ended up in the lake but I was sure they would float. And the time I drove my brand new Mustang through the christmas tree field at 10Pm and told my folks when the came driving up the drive way and caught me, so I said that i was looking for my watch i dropped. It sounded good to me at the time.
Well more birthday musings to come....

Did you catch the Rockies game, yeah, well i was watching the basketball game too.. But i watched the game up to the 8th inning and saw the Braves earn one run before i turned it over to the basketball game for the last period. Then i heard this morning that we won!! no kidding, about time, right. Well our man Holliday hit a two run home run to bring up one over in the 8th. We went on to win. Not bad for the Division Champs that are currently ranked LAST friggen place.. again.. we are used to being down here. I just hope that we can climb out before it really starts to count. Cant tell the season by the frist 5 games, but really.
They are playing again tonight and then tomorrow. I think it is an afternoon game on Thursday. But the kicker is that we are under a winter storm warning starting tonight and going into Thursday. (Boy am I glad i am not playing softball thursday- it is going to be COLD!).
Well that's all, here are some things that have nothing to do with my birthday or baseball. it's a shame I know...

Today is Counter Stool Memorial Day, a day to see if you can remember the last diner or lunch counter where you spun round-and-round on a stool at the counter. Is there still a place where you can do it again?

Today is Children's Day in Florida (always on the 2nd Tuesday in April).

Today is Tutor Appreciation Day. (Thanks for all your hard work)

Today is National Notice a Wildflower Day. (Not when there is still snow on the ground.. UGH!)

Today is Draw a Picture of a Bird Day. (Here's my bird, of course he's pooping, now draw yours.)

Today is Trading Cards for Grownups Day. (whatever)

Today is National Peanuts Kids Baseball Day. . (Sorry there was one thing about baseball, not my fault it is the best sport ever.)

Today is Hammerin' Hank Day, marking Hank Aaron's 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing record, on this date in 1974. Hank's record of 755 home runs is still standing. (What?!?, it wasn’t planned! I swear)

1974: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record. The homer was off pitcher Al Downing. (Same story, doesn’t count)

1975: History’s oldest canary died in Hull, England. Joey, owned by Mrs. Kay Ross, was 34 years old. ( I made it longer than a canary, there is something to be said for that. I don’t know what, but something)

1986: In a landslide, actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.

1988: The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart was defrocked by the Assemblies of God church after he rejected an order to stop preaching for a year.

1989: "Entertainment Tonight" hostess Mary Hart married producer Burt Sugarman. (and I care because???)

1990: 11-year-old Richard Daff Jr. of Crownsville, Maryland, bowled a perfect game. He is believed to be the youngest bowler ever to score 300.

1992: Britain's top humor magazine Punch published its final issue. It had lasted 151 years.

1994: The grunge rock group Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide in his Seattle home. (tragic loss to music- for real)

1995: Associated Press reported that Virginia prisoner Robert Lee Brock’s lawsuit for $5-million against himself had been dismissed in state court. Brock claimed he had violated his own civil rights by getting himself arrested for grand larceny and asked the state to pay the $5-million because he had no income in prison.

1998: Japan slapped restrictions on the use of flashing lights on television after a "Pocket Monster" cartoon made thousands of kids sick. Some 680 children were rushed to hospitals after being thrown into fits by the cartoon show. Another 10,000 reportedly suffered convulsions and blurred vision.

2001: A Valparaiso, Indiana, couple who met through their mutual love of jogging were married in their running shorts after completing a 5-kilometer race in which they competed against their pastor and best man. During Wanda Johns' and Clarence Melion's wedding, the Rev. Duane Schmidt told the sweaty couple they were starting the "marathon of life." Johns' racing outfit included a white veil attached to a baseball cap, a wrist corsage and a white lace garter.

2006: A White House spokesman said President George W. Bush approved a leak of classified information, as charged in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby case, because it served a "public interest" and did not compromise security.

People are the worst....

That was the best line from Sienfield the other night and I can't agree more. I think Elaine said it and then Jerry responded with out a second of a pause, "they are the worst".. too funny.

There is this chick out here in Denver, I think, that IS married to a principal of a school. About a year or so ago, she was busted after going on a camping trip with some students (i think she was a teacher) and then ended up having sex (after giving them beer) with one of the 17 year olds.. She gets caught, she goes to jail, for reals, and has a trial and everything. Big news around here because she is what every 17 year old guy might want for a teacher that is willing to go all the way. I mean she isn't a beauty queen but for a school teacher, not bad.. Anyway.. fast forward to two days ago and I see her mug come across the TV screen. I say to myself, 'self, isn't she from that student sex story.. why is she on the news again?'. Well boy was i glad i asked.. Turns out that a parole officer was doing their routine check-ups on parolees and went to check on this dude on his list and low and behold, there is the school teacher lady in this guy's bed.. Well it would just be the guy and the chick's husband's problem (yeah- still married to the principal) but you see, she is a convicted sex offender and that means she has to register every time she has sex, so being found in this guy's bed (that wasn't the principal or the 17 year old that she was arrested for) she was breaking her parole and now she is back in jail.
PEOPLE!!! come on...
That goes right up there with one of my cell mates going through extensive cancer screening and other procedures just because he didn't realize that gaining weight that your doctor ordered you to do will cause your pants to get tight, which in turn will make your intestines squish out the side and create a huge pain if you don't loosen your belt... I kid you not..
And like another co-workers child that was going though a health kick and ended up swearing he had colon cancer because his poo was red.. After, again, extensive cancer screening and checking why he would have blood in his poo, he discovered that when you stop drinking pomegranate juice, you poo goes back to it's natural color. COME ON PEOPLE!!!!
let's try usng our reasoning skills that our 6th grade science teacher tried so hard to teach us.

On another note, baseball players are not real people. I mean did you see some of the plays the Rockies pulled out of their butts? I think Nix is going to be great at second and I am pretty impressed by Wells pitching last night. I think he gave up one hit and it wasn't until the 6th inning or something. not bad.. At least better than Francis did the day before.. Gotta love a rain out.

Our third softball game is tomorrow and they are calling for snow starting tonight. I don't want to play in the snow, but i can say that at least it is at 6pm. MUCH Better than a 9pm game. And i won't be playing next week due to preparing for my birthday celebrations in Chicago. (read: packing and drinking). I woke up this morning and told my boyfriend that by this time next week we should be packed. I hope that is true. I was watching a "New Adventures of Old Christine"- love that show- and Christine was saying that it was her birthday month. I feel that way too. I could celebrate all of April, if people would let me. I know no one besides me and maybe my mom really cares about my birthday, but a month long celebration might be fun. (HINT HINT- BIRTHDAY IS IN 9 DAYS- GET YOUR SHOPPING DONE EARLY TO ACCOUNT FOR MAIL TIME TO DENVER)

Don't forget to watch your Big brother today. James freaked out yesterday, and then won the POV, so can't wait to see what goes down tonight.. LOVE THIS SHOW!

Here's stuff that you might or might not know or care about...

Today is Serious Soap Opera Day, marking the debut on this date in 1956 of "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night" on CBS Television. "The Edge of Night" had been moved from radio, where it was called "The Adventures of Perry Mason." It was canceled in 1984;"As the World Turns" continues. (My grandmother watched “The Edge”- it was her “story”)

Today is National Day of Hope, a day for all to pray the cycle of child abuse and neglect can be broken to give abused children hope for the future (childhelp.org).

Today is Great Lovers' Day, marking the birthday on April 2, 1725, of Italy's most famous lover-philanderer, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova. (Yeah Casanova- first true gentleman, I think my grandfather was the last)

Today is International Children's Book Day, marking Hans Christian Anderson's birthday (reading.org). (Not as sexy as Casanova)

Today is National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day. (YEAH I LOVE PB&J don’t forget to crush the potato chips in the middle of the sandwich)

Today is "Dallas" Day. The popular TV series debuted on this date in 1978. It starred Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Charlene Tilton, Victoria Principal, Ken Kercheval, Jim Davis, and Barbara Bel Geddes. It ran almost 13 years.

Today is Reconciliation Day, a time for forgiving, a day to write a letter, make phone call to mend a broken relationship. (If we were in a relationship and you read this, don’t call me….it’s all good :)

1974: Robert Opel streaked naked across the stage at the Academy Awards. Actor David Niven, who was on stage, adlibbed, "Just think, the only laugh that man will probably ever get is for stripping and showing his shortcomings." (funny)

1978: Dallas debuted on CBS Television. It starred Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing, Linda Gray as Sue Ellen, Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie, Patrick Duffy as Bobby, Victoria Principal as Pam, Charlene Tilton as Lucy, and Jim Davis as Jock. (my mom loved this show)

1980: Toshiaki Shirai and Yukiko Nagata set the world underwater kissing record in Tokyo with a very wet kiss of two minutes 18 seconds. (can you hold your breath that long?)

1984: John Thompson became the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA college basketball championship. Georgetown’s Hoyas defeated Houston 84-75 in Seattle for the win.

1992: Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison. ( and there he died, right?)

1995: Author Norman Mailer, writing in the New Yorker, quoted KGB officials who said when Lee Harvey Oswald went hunting in Russia, he couldn’t hit anything. (funny)

1996: A Chinese dinosaur egg believed to be 100 million years old sold at auction in Vienna for $4,500. (mmmm, eggs)

1999: The Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate fell to a 29-year low of 4.2 percent in March 1999. (can’t say the same for today)

2001: A computer engineer in Coppull, England, found a live mouse inside the casing of a faulty PC's hard drive. Gary Taylor said the creature caused the machine to short circuit by chewing through wires to make a nest. He thinks the rodent may have crawled into the computer through a tiny hole at the back. (just weird)

2007: In Langley, Washington, Alden Couch went for a drive in his '81 Impala to celebrate his 101st birthday. He would breeze through his state driver's license test, including the dreaded parallel parking, a few days later. He limited his driving to South Whidbey Island -- "The mainland is too wild" -- and drives mostly to nearby Langley, to the grocery store, the gas station, and the senior center for lunch and a game of dominos. His new license expires in 2012. (my grandfather thought it was great that he had a license that didn’t expire until 2012 too)

And finally, what you don't want to see on your way to work.