Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Gas Prices

Okay so gas prices have been skyrocketting all over the place. Just heard a nasty rumor that comes from Headquarters at QT. They have been given the okay to raise prices to $3.09 tonight and go up to $4.00 by Sunday!!!! That would be a record high for Missouri!! I can't afford to keep driving to school at that price! I have no one to carpool with. Gas prices have got to come down. This sucks!

Monday, August 22, 2005

Take me out to the Ball Game

Okay so Friday night I got to go watch my favorite baseball team and then Sat afternoon I got to go again, b/c Froggiegirl and Gimlet owed me for watching their chinchillas (which I love doing- I get them all hyper and then leave) (which by the way I didn't do in case you're worried Gimlet). Friday night's game was unbelievable!! We came from behind in the ninth to win the game. We are down 4-0 bottom of the ninth. We start getting base hits and then catcher Yadier Monlina (recently off the DL) comes and slams a 3 run homerun, making the score 4-3. John Rodriguez comes up to bat to pinch hit for our pitcher and smacks out a single. Tony LaRussa then makes the awesome decison to have Hector Luna pinch run for J-Rod. Luna is much faster than Rodriguez. Smart move LaRussa. David Eckstein marks the first out of that inning, which is suprising as he is the hardest Cardinal to strike out, (he is amazing by the way!) Abraham Nuñez comes and smacks a single. Luna rounds second and ends up on third. The next batter, Albert Pujols, out, so Jim Edmonds steps up to the plate. Jimmy hits the game winning double. Luna easily scores, and Eckstein chugs around second and third to home plate to score the winning run. After he scores, the Cards dug out empties and swarms second base where Edmonds is. The all tackle him, congratulating him and celebrating the ninth inning rally. The crowd went nuts!! The atmosphere after the game was unreal. Then I got to go on Saturday, where we won again. Oh yea, and some stupid fan through back the ball when the Giants got a homerun. Hello we are not Cubs fans!! We are not chicago, we do not disrespect the other team like they do. I for one am embarassed by this imature behavior. There were several boos when this was done. Hopefully this was a one time, idiotic thing, and will not disgrace Busch Stadium again. St. Louis is known for being the best town for baseball fans. We love our players and show it. The crowd awarded former Cardinal catcher Mike Matheny (now playing for the Giants) w/ a standing ovation when he recieved his national championship ring. He aslo got a 40 second standing O Friday night when he came up to bat. The crowd also gave a standing O for Larry Walker who finally returned from his long time on the DL. St. Louis is unreal in the way they treat their players: for example when Larry Walker first arrived in St. Louis and played for the first time as a Cardinal, he recieved a standing O, and even when he struck out, we gave him another standing O! This one was another game we came from behind to win, though we didn't play our half of the ninth inning. I introduced Gimlet to my family's traditon of keeping score. He was very excited, and proceeded to keep score for the Giants when they came up to bat. I got to keep score for the home team. I had a great time at both games. I love Busch Stadium! I love St. Louis, and I love the Cardinals!
Let's keep it up guys and Let's Go Cards!!!

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Cardinals are # 1!!!!

Its official, the Cards are ahead of the Chi Sox!! Whoohoo!! The Astros are 11 games back, which means the magic number is now 34 ( I think) Yadier Molina will be back behind the plate in a coupla days! Sanders and Walker took in some BP yesterday. Things are looking up! We beat the D'backs last night 8-2. So Taguchi was on fire last night!! Three doubles last night! I love this team!! I love this city!
Let's Go Cards!!

Update: Magic Number is 31!! Yadier Molina is behind the plate now. He was activated last night!! We are still ahead of the Chi Sox. The Astros are 12 games behind, and the Cubs are 17 games behind, the Brewers just pased them and are 16 and a half games behind!

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Nike

Thank you Nike!! Apparently Nike has jumped on the band wagon for showing "real" people in their ads! I love this! Finally they are showing that you can be beautiful and at the same time not rail thin. All I have to say is that is about darn time! One of their features is the "less-than dainty shoulders of a swimmer". I was a an active swimmer until I got into college. My shoulders were definitely not these dainty little shoulders you see on models. Especially my senior year, I really bulked up in my shoulders. I happen to like my big shoulders. Swimmers are muscular, I am really proud of all of the muscles I have thanks to swimming. So here is a big shout out to all of the female athletes who are not "dainty" and are proud of it!

Monday, August 15, 2005

St. Louis Cardinals

Okay so it majorly sucks that we lost to the Cubs!! I mean this team sucks big time! And we lost 3 games to them. Well, these past games should serve as a wake up call, just b/c the Cubs are 17 games behind doesn't mean you can play at 50% b/c they will capatalize on the mistakes. The Cards are still leading the NL, and the magic number now is 35 b/c the Astros lost. Right now we need our players to get healthy/ or stay healthy. Hopefully Molina, Sanders, and Walker will be activated real soon, and then we will start to really kick butt.
Let's Go Cardinals!!!

Update: The Cubs are 17 and a half games out. The Astros are ten games behind. Get this we are tied w/ the Chi Sox!!!! Our record is 74-44, theirs is 74-42!! All right!! C'mon red birds, lets win tonight, and hope the Chi Sox lose and then, we will be ahead of them- therefore having the best record in all of baseball!!!! Whoohooo!!!!!!!!!

New York and Company

Okay I am just taking a moment to express how much I love this store. My friend Melissa got my friend Froggiegirl addicted to this store, and froggiegirl in turn got me addicted to this store. This store is "classier" as my mom says than Forever 21 (which only in a blue moon do I find something appropriate to wear to work there) . This store is awesome! I have purchased 2 pairs of jeans and 3 pairs of pants for work there. This store is great for casual and dressy clothes, which is perfect for me as I buy clothes that serve for both play and work. If I can't wear it to work (unless its a character/logo shirt or jeans) I usually don't get it. Considering I only have at least 2 semesters of college left and am working in a place that requires Business Casual, its smart.

Thunderstorms

Okay, so St. Louis County got hit big time by some nasty thunderstorms on Saturday afternoon. Lucky for me I was in the mall w/ froggiegirl when it hit. Actually we were looking at clothes when Gimlet called froggiegirl and said a nasty storm was headed our way. So she asks "Does that mean you would like us to move your car to the garage", which of course he does. At that point we have no clue how bad this is going to be. So we are on the second level of the garage and it is getting really dark outside. The clouds were moving pretty quick. Suddenly the parking lights go out, the wind starts blowing hard and the pouring rain starts coming in sideways. So froggiegirl and I get half soaked trying to get back into the mall. The fire alarms were going off, and then I get a call from troll boy telling me not to go anywhere (as if I would- I hate driving in these conditions), he says its so dark where he is he can't see the highway. Spooky. So we go shopping, leave about 5ish. Get to froggiegirl's neighborhood and it looks like a tornado went through it. Not to mention the trip on the way there. Manchester was a mess (I know I know whats unuasual about that?) From Laclede Station Rd to just East of Highway 141 the lights were not working and of course there were no cops to help direct traffic. They might get wet! Oh the horror!! Then I had to drive home from Froggiegirl's house to aviod wave 2, which I did. The drive there was fun, almost all of the lights on 141 were out and all of Fenton was dark. Not to mention the lightning storm. The clouds, shelf clouds I believe, were awesome! I have never seen such clouds. Unfortunately I did not get pics. We lost power sometime during the storm and didn't get it back until midnight. So not fun. Sunday we cleaned the branches out of the backyard. According to our rain gauge we got over 4 and a half inches that day. According to the radar, we are in for these storms all week. Oh kill joy.

Update: I have been corrected. The road was Barrett Station. My bad. Apparently power is still out in some parts of Manchester. And I am not surprised, why? Apparently some Parkway schools are also without power. Sorry kiddies, you'll still start school on time. Hahaha!