Ouch, Hil! It is nice to know that I'm not the only one who is constantly being attacked by kitchenware. The Tupperware has it in for me. Ice, ice, ice. If you don't want to explain it, I've found that putting on several coats of foundation and then using more eyeshadow than usual seems to reduce the number of people who notice.

Heh. "More eyeshadow than usual" for me would be any eyeshadow at all. And I don't think I own foundation.

I think I'm just going to go with "You should see the other guy." No need to mention that "the other guy" is picnic ware.

I've found that people are normally pretty unobservant, anyway.

Did you at least beat the picnic ware into submission?

Laura's all about the pigtails. Poor Brendon. His baby!

Back from a long day. We won our game but almost coughed it up. We were winning 15-2 in the 5th inning (out of 6) and gave up 9 runs. Ayiee! But we came back and scored six more in our half, and shut them down in the sixth inning to win 21-11. Needless to say, it wasn't the best played game of all time. Mostly we scored so much because (a) their pitchers walked us and (b) we stole bases incessantly.

Emmett played pretty well, but during warmups a ball took a bad hop off a pebble and the ball came up hard to hit him in the ear. Painful! And then he was a little ball shy. But he still went 4 for 5 and pitched two innings giving up two, and threw somebody out as the catcher.

Then we went to JZ's mom's bookstore's (oof - three possessives in a row) Grand Opening (change of ownership) and saw JZ's brother (down from Portland) and Deb and Nic. Long drive out and long drive back, but we're all home and relatively content.

Tomorrow Emmett has a practice and then practice game with the tournament team so we're back in the East Bay. Apparently, I am up for a grand round of practical jokes and ribbing tomorrow. I may be obliged to do pedicures on random strangers and serve mimosas. (This is all because I pitched a snit about the schedule this year which reversed the proportion of weekend to weekday games. There might've been some snarking on my part about Mother's Day as well...)

Dudes! Tonight must be the night for all kitchenware to rise up and overthrow their evil human overlords. I got attacked by a corelle-ware bowl that fell out of the dish drainer while I was rinsing a sink full of dishes. Stupid tempered glass shards.

ION Daniel and are going to start shopping for new dishes.

Perhaps I should wait until tomorrow to wash the dishes. I don't want to risk an uprising.

I think you are right, Zenkitty. Safety first!

Zenkitty, is that in Charlottesville Virginia? Or some other Charlottesville? How fun!

I am sleepy, even though I took a three hour nap this evening (5:30-8:30). Oy. Ridiculous. I used ot stay up this late all the time! Even on weeknights! What the hell--am I OLD now??

I think I am old. Cause we went out to a bar, to meet K's coworker, who she talks about all the time, and I was dying to meet (and who, interestingly, is the daughter of a Senator). And it was loud and crowded (though not smoky, yay!) and I was so over it. And couldn't hear a damn thing. And feel hoarse. And then had to drive K home cause she was feeling really sick. And had to keep pulling over for her. Sigh. I'm definitely too old for this shit...

Also, I need the weekend to be longer. Harumph!

It is indeed Charlottesville Virginia. The house is on the south side of the city, about 3 miles from downtown. It's perfect, exactly what I wanted (my sister to buy for us). At least I think it is; I haven't actually been there yet! We close mid-June.

The weekend should be longer. I want a three-day work week. It always takes me a day just to unwind and de-stress.

Erratic MiniMeara:

Thing 1: Daniel! Don't touch the hot things! Don't do it!

Thing 2: OMG, Matilda killed me. Seriously. I don't know when I've seen a funnier baby picture than Baby Rage. Bless. Bless bless bless. She's getting to be such a big girl now!

Thing 3: Cheesecake filling seems somehow Of The Wrong. But I dare say I'd change my mind about that if I had a brownie in front of me, a tin od cheesecake filling and maybe some nice sour cherries with a slosh of kirsch...

Thing 3: BabyBat!Jilli is cute as a button (and does indeed look like Goth!Jo), but she is not the One True Jilli.

Thing 4: PC, I'm sorry about the parental pressure wrt the marriage thing, but I think people already said the things I thought. She could be cool, and they can't MAKE you marry her - this way they can't slag you off for using the internet! Because you're doing what they asked, by chatting with an invisible internet person!

Thing 5: Hil's recipes always make me hungry. Always. And I just ate.

Thing 6: Yesterday I got my first ever tattoo. I spent 6 hours solid getting inked, with a 5 minute break in the middle. It's my own design, traced and then coloured in very painstakingly in almost exactly the way I wanted (I think I may later get the centre, the 'pupil' bit retouched to include more black and an almost pinky purple, but I like the work she did on the turquoise of the 'iris' bit). Here is a picture taken right after she'd finished.

Afterwards, I went home, got changed, and then went out to meet friends to go and see the hilariously fabulous Calypso Cabaret. Rarely do I feel I am wearing an insufficient amount of glitter, but last night was one such occasion.