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Geez Louise, what the hell was my body doing while I was asleep last night? This morning I’m all achy – stiff neck, sore hips and shoulders. Is this what “being old” feels like? Cause it’s not good, not good at all. And nothing that you potty brains are thinking of happened last night, so that’s right out.

Sheesh. I’d better go look for the Advil.

Also, what the heck is up with the fall-like photo they chose for August on my New England Travel and Events calendar? God, what a depressing brown photo. “Hey, let’s get a shot of everything when it’s all brownish green from the excessive heat of summer. Oh, and we’ll take the photo late in the day so there are lots of shadows everywhere. We’ll call it “Death to Summer” or something cheery like that.

A whole month I get to look at this. *sigh*

I think it’s a shame, really. It’s a shame in a couple of different ways. It’s a shame that Nomar behaved so badly when he was trying to get his salary boosted. For someone who claimed to want to play out his whole career here, for any price, many of us were insulted that he decided to play hardball [sic] with management’s offer. Bad move. The fans don’t like that kind of crap, especially when the offer looks mighty good in relation to the level of recent play.

And then there were the endless weeks of injury, followed up by the less than impressive playing. Nomar, for God’s sake, stop swinging on the first pitch!

Well, go ahead, I guess it doesn’t matter anymore, does it.

Still, Nomar was my favorite for years. He was the team mascot. We all loved him. I think it’s stinky that in baseball, it’s nearly impossible to spend your whole career with one club. So ya, I’ll miss Nomar. But I guess I’m not very surprised he’s gone.

I’m off to play a little t-ball with Junior with his old teammates. We planned on an 8:30am start to beat the heat. So the heat can stay beaten until we’re done!

Also, can someone please invent a towel that cleans itself? I feel like I’m just always washing the danged things.

“Weekends Were Made for Michelob”

God, when’s the last time you had that jingle in your head? Well it’s there now! And if you aren’t nice to me, I’ll give you a few others. And don’t think I won’t do it!

No strong plans for the weekend. That’s okay, we’re saving our cheese money for Florida. Have I ever explained the concept of cheese money? It’s very simple. Cheese money is the extra money you have available to blow on fun stuff. The concept was invented years ago by myself when I was trying to convince Mr. Dump to take a road trip to Vermont. You know, just for fun. I told him the reason we “needed” to go was because I wanted to go to buy Vermont Cheddar cheese – that I had saved up “cheese money”. Now we use the phrase “cheese money” to refer to budget excess that would allow us to do something fun – go to a museum, go to an amusement park, visit the Vermont Country Store to buy some cheese. You know, cheese money.

I want you all to feel free to go out and use this handy phrase in your everyday lives.

You’ll have to forgive my obsession with Disney right now, but I’m so ready to be there that I’m not letting little things like the trip being three months away deter me from planning and just constantly thinking about it.

Today’s thoughts are about Universal Studios. I think Junior would get a real kick out of going to Universal to see all the Nickelodeon stuff that he regularly sees on television. If they are in production, he might actually see sets and/or a show. That would be too cool. On the other hand, the Studios is a different “park” than Islands of Adventure, and both have their own tickets, and I just don’t think we have the time or money to do both. Would he like Islands of Adventure? I’m sure of it. I know my brother-in-law is all over the whole Spider-Man thing. IOA has a big Marvel Comics section.

So, those of you who’ve been, thoughts?