It's no secret my blogging has gone... downhill. I'm not going anywhere, hoping that the desire to document my life for the unknown internet readership (except for family - hi Dad!) will return once the kiddo is here.
Anyhow, where I've left off on composing actual posts I've picked up on daily photos with the iPhone.
So here's a glimpse of the past week:
Opening Day @ AT&T Park, year #7
How young is too young to get kids listening to Keith Richards?
Amazing rainbow @ the U. after a freak hailstorm
Really Katy, make yourself comfortable wherever you see fit.
Working at a University can be so fun, where else do you get emails that say "Governor Schwarzenegger will be on campus from 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. today".
Pomegranates, proper decor for a Central Valley event:
Laziness in the Red Lot:
If the weather looked perfect, it's because it was. About 78 degrees. Nevermind that I am apparently the scrooge of Fresno because I hate it because it is NOVEMBER and we've got a short enough winter around here as it is! I've got handknit sweaters to wear people!
Speaking of handknits, one of them made its work debut today:
(no car accidents were caused in the snapping of this photograph)
and while I had the camera with me, I took this one of the trees in the parking lot at work.
Not a fun thing to wake up to this headline on a Sunday morning:
You know, it's not that one shouldn't be totally surprised when a #10 team beats a #21 team, but this may have been the biggest heart-breaker game I've ever been to. I woke up hungover, with a raw throat from yelling for 3 hours straight, and had to read this on the National news. BLAH ON YOU BADGERS.
However, I am vey excitied to welcome back a season of tailgating fun and shenanigans.
What a few days it has been around here. Exhausting, yes, but it's weeks like this I just LOVE working at the University. It's hard to REALLY explain the culture around here when it comes to the U's athletics and the Valley's loyalities (Lisa knows what I'm talking about!) Being in the Central Valley without a lot of other 'teams' around, residents around here (whether your are an alumni are not) love, LOVE their bulldogs.
Anyhow, I know you didn't come here to read about baseball or listen to me brag about the school I work for - but this really is an amazing story. To give you an idea:
- First team to score more than 16 runs twice (19 vs. Georgia, 17 vs. Rice) - Tied for most runs scored in the College World Series (62) - Had a .309 team batting average (only fourth time since 1980 that champ has finished above .300) - Hit 14 home runs as a team, the highest total since 1998 and third all-time (seven different players homered for Fresno State) - 20 strikeouts by Justin Wilson, led this year's CWS - Most losses (31) by a championship team - Lowest-seeded team to win an NCAA championship in any sport. They've said if this were the NCAA basketball tourney, we would have been seeded 89th and came back to win the whole thing.
It is truely remarkable. I love it.
So as you can imagine, I have not done much knitting at all this week. On top of the Wonderdog mania, we FINALLY bought a new car. My old car, the Suzuki, was at that turning point in the road (as I discovered while on a recent road trip) - we either needed to pour some money into her (60,000 mile service, new keyless entry, new belts, etc). Instead, we were lured by a great financing rate and bought a new one: an Acura MDX.
I. LOVE. THIS. CAR.
It talks to me (Reynaldo, as I call him), has XM radio (SWOON!) and leather/sunroof/powerEVERYTHING, and it like 10,000 times nicer than any car I've ever owned. We bought used, so it's already appropriately worn in, and DID I MENTION I LOVE THIS CAR?!?
Anyhow, I've got 4 WIPS in constant rotation so I'm not making much progress on ANY of them. Rambling Rose, Terracota Tank, Watery Cardi, and Merlot Socks have all been knit on in the last 48 hours. Really? What the hell is wrong with me sometimes.
On a closing note: a few nights ago we gave Katy a bath and finally taught her "SHAKE". Here's a little tibbit of that:
[click to wineandneedles.blogspot.com to see video]
A couple weeks ago, the impossible happened around here:
“With the wind blowing in Sunday afternoon, and Rice's bullpen loaded with future major league millionaires, Fresno peppered seven pitchers with four homers and the most runs allowed in a CWS game in seven years.“
