-friday-

nope..its not friday yet. but i am about to go to bed. so, very soon it will be friday. and a woo and a hoo to that. what am i going to do with my long weekend? hey...have i mentioned that i do not have to work on monday or tuesday? (at praxair anyways...thank you snot faced sarah for pointing that out).

sunday...i am excited about this one. i am going to see lagwagon up in st paul. lagwagon has been one of my favorites bands for a long time, yet somehow i have never seen them live. somehow i have always had something else going on every frickin time theyve been in the area. but this weekend...i get to go. thanks neely for getting the tickets. you did get the tickets right? neely?

speaking of neely...i will be going up early to spend some time with neely...should be good times.

other then sundays plans i really dont have anything planned for the long weekend. which is exactly the way i wanted it to be. the important thing is that i will be getting away from what i am now calling "that f-ing place".

my mini softball slump seems to be over. fall ball has not been going as well as i hoped...for me or the team. we started 0-4 and i was not hitting the ball the way ive been hitting the ball for the past few years. 0 homeruns...and just a lot of singles. my confidence must have just run away for a few weeks cause i did not even want to play. i was worried that i had peaked...and generally when i peak at something i just lose interest and move on to a new hobby. but i love playing softball and did not want to just give it up. tonight felt good. i was 7 for 8 and i finally ended the home run drought. my 1st at bat of tonights 2nd game i hit a no-doubter to straight away center. a 3 run blast...in a game we ended up winning. our first win. and the 1st game in awhile that we actually seemed to have fun playing. somehow this season weve all started taking the game so seriously that it just isnt as fun as it once was. when its not fun, we dont play as well...when we dont play as well, its not as fun...etc etc. weve been in this cycle for months. i need the game to be fun again!

i finally gave in and bought "a prayer for owen meany"... lagwagon has a song called "owen meany" (i recently posted the lyrics- this song has been hitting me hard lately)...and "goodbye sky harbor" by jimmy eat world is written about this book. i love both of these songs...bit ive always been worried that the book would not live up to the songs written about it. ive only gotten through 2 chapters so far, they are very long. but so far i really like it. im not much for reading...especially long books...but i felt like maybe i was missing something in these songs since i hadnt read the book that inspired them.

random thought of the evening: i am NOT looking forward to winter at all this year. i used to love it. now i dread it. more and more every year. thats a sign of old age isnt it?