softball, graduation, and EARTHQUAKES!!!

This is my rambling of updates from the past month or so. With the demise of my work computer, I am slowly rebuilding three years of presentations and rather busy with my daughter's activities.

The summer is quickly approaching, that means softball season is gearing up. Craig and I have rather stupidly accepted the responsibility to 'help' run the Girls softball league here in town. My job simply involves being on the Rules Committee, creating the website, collecting the player application and putting the information into an Excel spreadsheet (currently at 290 players), help with the draft, find 27 businesses to sponsor teams, encourage other businesses to buy a banner for the fields, ...Oh don't forget that our names are on the applications so anyone who has a question, suggestions or the most popular a complaint, they call us!! Those jobs are primarily finished, now I am trying to schedule the teams games. However, several teams have players that participate on school teams and have asked that I avoid those games. This is CRAZY!!! All I can say, "Im doing my best!" I spend anywhere from 2 to 6 hours or more on softball each day! Is it over yet???

My second update is that Lauren is graduating!!

Relax..... It is only from 6th grade! She came home the other day with this picture. It literally left me speechless. (.... ok ok.... enough with the comments on me being speechless...it doesn't happen often. I can't help it that I like to talk!) I doesn't seem she should be old enough to go to jr. high. This breaks my heart. She is literally growing before my eyes. I think she has grown 4 inches since December. ...... impossible!

Finally, EARTHQUAKE!! This morning around 5:30, I woke to my house beginning to shake. I was confused for awhile thinking it might be a vibration from the train. But it got stronger and faster. Craig sits up and says, ''''whoa..Whoaaa.." All three girls jumped up and stood in the hallway, one was crying. For 60 seconds our house was shaking!!!! It was the eeriest, weirdest minute of my life. The center was not far from where we live. It measured 5.4. What a week!
This is a video from the yahoo website on the earthquake: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=7455661&ch=4226713&src=news

Ok... I gotta finish the scheduling for softball.

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Computer crashed....... again!

After taking a new job three years ago, my consultant firm gave me a laptop to use for work. In the three years, the laptop has crashed twice. The second being just this week.

Somewhere in my heart, I am trying to explain to myself it was some metal and plastic, yet it feels like a pet or a family member.

I stored all my 'important' stuff on it. All my work accounts, presentations, personal informaton....etc.. you get the picture.

How do you explain to your five year old why you have been crying all day over a computer?



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..... I can't believe Im hooked on......

GUITAR HERO!!!!!!!!!!

Lauren got this crazy game for the Wii for Easter. I picked it up several times, and actually got booed off stage every time!

However, recently, I tried again. My fingers decided to work with my brain and actually make it through the first song! I almost stood up and cheered. *ok, I did!*

Now, I officially have 12 songs completed!!!

How cool and dorky.....all at the same time!

ROCK ON!!!!

Boat Drunks are losing my favorite bass player!!!!!!

*sigh*

Mike Miller is without a doubt my all time favorite bass player! I saw them play for the first time several years ago. I knew when I left that night that two things caught my eye. One, was that I heard a song that will top my all time favorite songs for a very long time: Hollow Man. Two, Mike Miller, who wrote Hollow Man, is an amazing bass player!!

For several years, we followed the Boat Drunks! Mike always went out of his way to speak to Craig and I and he also made a point of saying my name from the mic. I know he has no clue what that means to me, but he will always hold a special place in my heart. I wish him the VERY best!

Calling all Drunk fans, Craig and I will be planning one last trip to Illinois this summer to catch one of Mike's last shows with the band. We will let you know when and you can travel with us to hear Mike play one last time!!!!!!

You will be missed Mike!

... To learn more about Mike:
http://www.boatdrunks.com

The ultimate peep show!!!

Happy Easter!!!!

In need of warm weather!

Craig and I were talking in February about the fact that we have had such a good winter from a health point of view. None of our girls had been sick and both of us were healthy too. However, snow hit in Feb and so did our sickness.

All of us from one time or another has had a cold, strep throat, or even the flu. Lauren is so active with basketball she has never given her body a chance to shake it. We are currently on her 3rd round of antibiotics. It seems like I am following her lead. I too am currently on my 3rd round. This time it is the cold/flu.

Actually, I just think a week in the tropical sun will cure it all!

*sigh* /cough/ *sigh*

I can't wait till the weekend....

After many, many weekends of basketball, we are shipping the girls to my parents for Spring Break!!!! Whooo hooo! I can't decide if I want to spend the weekend at home working on the house and relaxing, or take the opportunity to go out with friends for cocktails. Oh.....who am I kidding, bring on the cocktails!