-finally done-

i stayed up good and late last night...i got reading the last chapter of "a prayer for owen meany"...and its the chapter in the book that once started, must be finished. so i finished it. the last chapter: over 100 and some pages. i got about 30 pages into it, realized how tired i really was, and wanted to kick myself for starting it...cause like i said, it had to be finished. my opinion of the book: great. even better than i expected it to be. i think that some of the lines in 'goodbye sky harbor' by jimmy eat world will hit me even harder now. i generally dont have the attention span for fiction. but this book really sucked me in and made me want to keep reading. my only complaint...the foreshadowing...big events were just made too plain, too early. i felt like there were no real surprises at the end. BUT, it was still very moving to read as the events happened.

so its saturday today. i woke up around 8, which was way too early considering how late i was up last night. i just couldnt get chloe to go back to sleep. my grandpa is going to change my oil later so im going to waste that time away watching the twins game at my dads. the twins just swept a 3 game series against the white sox. what a huge series. the twins started that series 2 1/2 games out of 1st with only 6 games left in the season...by the time the series was over the twins were in 1st by a half game with only 3 games to go. crazy. game 3 was insane. the twins went down 6-1 after 4 and seemed to be self destructing. so badly even that i gave up on the game, and the season. my dad called later that evening. "they tied it up!". they finally won it in 10. one the greatest comebacks ive seen in a long time. click here for the game tying triple. the twins players are going nuts, its so fun to watch...but my favorite part of this clip: ozzie guilens reaction at the 20 second mark. hes the coach for the white sox. he looks like he just watched his mom get hit by a bus. click here for the game winner. good times. sadly the twins managed to kill their own buzz the very next day by getting kicked by the royals. but the white sox lost too. so with 2 games to go, the twins cling to that half game lead. i have a bad feeling that they will not be able to hold it. but...at least they made the end of the season very exciting.

my mom took chloe over to st peter for a bit...and from there they are going up to new prague. my cousin luke just had some scar tissue removed from his... ... his ...wee willy wonka. it had blocked his ability to pee. so, they had to go in and take it out. yes, i am squirming in my seat as i type that. i hope all is better with wee willy wonka lukey! anyways...i have the entire house to myself until i go over to peter town for an oil change and baseball. what to do? what to do? i will probably clean. exciting huh? thats what my life has come to...an empty house is a chance to get some cleaning done.