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.

Andi, there's supposed to be a way of squeezing the buds that tells you whether or not the flower will ever open. Unfortunately, I don't know the technique myself to describe it. I had a friend who could do it, but I was not wise enough to pick his brains to learn it. If Daniel has been buying the roses from the same place everytime, I would suggest he try somewhere else.

It's been at least two different places, and maybe three, but then grocery store floral departments probably are the ones most likely to be needing wacky-gasses to preserve the flowers they sell, like Ginger was saying.