I'm back from our tournament in Fremont/Milpitas but JZ and Matilda are still in Portland.
We won the tournament. The championship was a close game for the first half but they couldn't match out pitching depth and as we got into their other pitchers we pulled away. Emmett had a pretty good tournament. Hit a home run, was on base a lot, played his usual high quality catcher (threw out two runners, which is always rare and a big deal in Pony league tournaments where the runners can take leads).
We got fired up for every game by blasting Guns 'N Roses and AC/DC.
Whichever tournament we play over Memorial Day is always the real beginning of the tournament/all-star season for us, and it's a big bonding things for everybody to stay over in hotels together. Albany had seven different teams in one hotel, so it was crazy kid city around the pool for three days. You get to see kids who graduated up to the next level, and guys you coached with, and kids from your regular season teams and their little sibs and the whole shebang. And it's a big get-reacquainted event for the parents because you spend so much time together.
that rug is perfect, Sue!
There's a Company C near my parent's place, and it kills me, because EVERYTHING is beautiful and funky and unusual and rather outside my budget. But Mum has been saying that she'd buy me a rug from there for the past three years. And the new place is smaller, so I wouldn't need a huge, terribly expensive carpet.
My only concern is: cats. They have their cardboard palace which they love to scratch on, but they've still managed to slightly mangle the carpet i got from Target. Would a more expensive (better made) carpet be more resistant to kitty claws, or am I setting myself up for heartbreak?
I still can't get over the wall-to-wall in Current Apartment losing it's threads from me washing out spilt laundry detergent. I am not used to cheap carpeting. They are so going to make me pay for that.
I don't know about carpet and cat's claws--my cat only scratches at the carpeting in the spots left when I move furniture. However, she is loving my new couch, and not in a way that I like. I'm thinking about picking up those double-stick sheets of tape and slapping them on the areas she's finding fun to scratch. I'll probably also get the sofa people in here to fix the fabric she's already managed to pull away from the wood on the front of the couch (that's what I paid the extra $70 for!).
Yay Emmett and the Eagles!
I'm hiding in the computer/TV room while Matilda and my brother and his GF garden and toss around a Nerf ball that has, for complicated reasons, also been designated the GF's teddy bear. Aside from one spectacular meltdown leading to an aborted playground visit and a stern time-out, she's had a grand time digging in the dirt and playing with the cats and eating noodles and splashing in fountains. If David and Emmett were here, she would never want to leave ever again.
My interview went well, thanks for asking. I now have two hiring managers to make it past this week. Here's hoping.
Sounds very promising, ita. Continued interview~ma vibeage headed southward all this week.
Hooray for good interviews -- lots of people pulling for you -- including some of the lurkers.
yay good baseball
yay digging in dirt.
great rugs
ita, what did the job sound like? Do you have a clearer read on the description?
Just back from a banquet for drill team. Fer Reals.
Yay ita for the good interview!
I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day. We were at the kids' Grandpa's house, the house where my DH grew up. We never go visit, but we should, way more often. It was fun.
