Back from baseball and Greek Easter.

Emmett walked three times, scored once. Was wild again while pitching, but wasn't throwing them all in the dirt and once he started taking a breath between pitches was getting strikeouts.

We should've won this game but we pissed it away. Fumbly hands at first base, running into double plays and just not hitting. Except our star player, Reed. He hit a home run. Not an inside the park home run. An over the fence 200 feet away home run. First time a 9 y.o. has done that on that field in the 40 year history of Albany Little League.

It was an awesome blast. He tomahawked a high pitch and it just went up and up and out and out.

Then he pitched crappy the next inning and was thoroughly disconsolate. Baseball - it's more of a rollercoaster ride than PMS!

Then we went to see JZ's Greek relatives for orthodox Easter celebrations. We got there late, but we got to see her cousin Nicole, the baby goth we sat at Jilli's table at the wedding. She's the Michael Jackson impersonator.

Turns out she's a huge fan of the movie Tombstone too, so she and Emmett bonded immediately with their Doc Holiday impressions. (She's 18.) Then they told fart jokes. Then they took a baseball bat in to the side yard and exploded easter eggs.

Emmett was very sad she had to leave early. But then he played whiffle ball with the littler kids for a good hour (including him leaping over a planter and wiping out and skinning his elbow into a bloody mess. But he didn't cry, he just "walked it off" per Dad's advice.)

We're going to have Nicole in for a weekend in the city this summer. She went to a Michael Jackson impersonator convention in Las Vegas this year, and met her true love, Tony. He's 22. He's got Cerebral Palsy. He's a christian and a Michael Jackson impersonator. And he loves Tombstone.

Ten minutes after she turned 18 she tattooed his name on her shoulder, much to her mother's surprise.

We're at home watching What a Girl Wants and JZ is crushing on Colin Firth even more than usual. (Which is usually maximum crush.)

CJ's team played a 3 hour game this afternoon and they won! The final score was 12-11 and it was an action packed game. CJ walked and hit a nice single. I'm not going to even mention his play in the field because it is a sore subject around here right now.

K-Bug, her boyfriend, DH and I are watching Narnia.

We could've used Gris to referree a conversation at Chez Zmayhem.

JZ: I think the actress who plays Glynnis in What A Girl Wants played Miss Bingley in Pride and Prejudice. And she lost Colin Firth in that too.
Me: I don't know, but she was definitely duck-face in Four Weddings in a Funeral where she was jilted by Hugh Grant.

Her name is Anna Chancellor, she's a distant relative of Jane Austen and she plays snooty British bitches who Don't Get The Man. It's a career. Sort of like Dermot Mulroney on The Colbert Report.

Colbert: So you play a lot of boyfriends and fiances.
Dermot: That's what I do.

CJ walked and hit a nice single.

Go CJ! (Is his suspension over yet?)

I'm not going to even mention his play in the field because it is a sore subject around here right now.

Emmett's been surprisingly non-stressed about the poor pitching performances. Not that he doesn't care or isn't trying. But he just walks away from them and does his best in the field. He's been great catching - probably our best player back there right now. And he was a dominant pitcher last year so I think he'll come around this year. But it's been nice to see him simply just happy out there to play. Our manager, Eliott, commented on it. You just like having Emmett on your team. Good energy.

We're at home watching What a Girl Wants and JZ is crushing on Colin Firth even more than usual.

I watched that today, too!

ION, my hair is now short and fairly spikey. I'll have to post pictures tomorrow night. I've got an appointment for coloring.

Oh yeah, he is not suspended or grounded or anything right now. But today was one of those days where every single thing was a drama. I'm exhausted.

Today may be their only win as we have next to no good pitching. The kids try and sometimes it is painful to watch, but they ALL have such good attitudes that the game result was just an added bonus.

Oh, my. Right smack in the middle of What A Girl Wants -- Colin Firth in a sleeveless shirt and leather pants. Dancing in front of a full-length mirror. It's... I'm... glurble

Words cannot express just how much I need to own this movie.

WS, I read somewhere that the refrigeration/gas process used to keep roses a long time can stop the opening process, so there may not be anything you can do.

Those flowers are amazing colors, Beth. Are they asters?

I had a very multicultural evening. I went to a party at a friend of a friend's. They're Russian immigrants and there was food and more food and then more food, plus the insistence on drinking vodka and Krupnik Polish honey vodka. They also showed a video of their daughter's wedding, which was a Russian Jewish wedding in New York on a scale that I never imagined.

ION, my hair is now short and fairly spikey.

Right the fuck on! ::loves Cash's commitment to the cool haircuts with a righteous fury::

I'll have to post pictures tomorrow night.

Yeah, yeah! Pictures are good. ::also loves pictures of Cash::

The baby we played with at Easter today? Oh so cute and sweet and easy to delight. A little toe nibbling and he was such a giggler.

WS, I read somewhere that the refrigeration/gas process used to keep roses a long time can stop the opening process, so there may not be anything you can do.

Thanks, Ginger. It helps to know it may not have been me.