Is It April Yet?

10 hours and 23 minutes (at the time of post) until the Cardinal's first Spring Training game...

Can baseball season just get here right now???? I need games, games, games! I need the 9 texts a day for 401 updating me of the Cardinals games. I usually get annoyed with the texts when I am at the game, but now I would appreciate them anytime!! Just start coming please...

I have already looked up trips to Seattle, St. Louis, Boston and San Francisco to catch a series or two. Why do I always go to the same ballparks? This isn't helping me reach my goal of going to all of the Major League Baseball Stadiums...

I am liking the fact that the Mariner's Opening Day is a week after baseball starts. Seeing as how I will be traveling back into the country on April 6th, most likely with an empty bank account, it will be semi-impossible to catch the Cardinals opening day... So second best is Seattle, right?? I am a little worried for the Mariners that their 2nd and 3rd home games of the season they are already offering half price tickets. Is it really that hard to get fans to come? By the way, on my birthday (April 30), the Cardinals are giving away Cardinals Snuggies... If that's not a sign that I have to go, then I don't know what is! Done and done!

I am excited to see the Cardinals this season. We dropped a few, picked up a few and had a few struggles during the off season. But doesn't everyone? I am cheering for Freese no matter what anyone says. I am excited to see Pujols, Yadi and Holliday back in action. Let's get a Cy Young from Waino or Carp this season. Good riddance to Ankiel (or HGH) and Thurston. I'm surprise LaRussa let go of his man crushes. I wish I could go to Jupiter right now.

April-October/November = PURE BLISS! And I can't wait for it to begin!

Get ready for me, St. Louis! I am coming!

p.s. I am in love with the first picture that comes up on the Cardinals home page right now. It's McGwire and Freese in the batting cages... It makes me smile everytime :)

Do What You Gotta Do

WOW.

a lot has happened in the last week... so i was asked to leave my apartment by roommate. i had a week to find a new place. and luckily i have some really great extended family members that offered me a place to stay until i leave the Lou. they are great people! live in a nice neighborhood in webster groves. now i don't have to be as scared for my life at night. now i can post those nelly lyrics talking about U City.

Courtesy of Country Grammar
which i was listening to (edited version of course) and thought i heard him say u-city. so i looked the lyrics up.

See me, mon, cheifin rollin deeper than any mon
through Jennings mon, through U-City back up to Kingsland
With nice n*, sheist n* who snatch yo life n*
Trife n*, who produce and sell the same beat twice, n*

mom. you don't have to be scared of people taking my life in u-city anymore. haha.

anyway. i am really excited to move in with them! and packing isn't that hard. although i am getting rid of a bunch of clothes that i really don't need anymore. and i have NO idea why i brought them out here. but how does one donate to Goodwill? do i just leave bags somewhere? there is no DI out here, and that's all i am used to. man do i love the drive through drop off at the Provo DI. makes things so easy. i did take a bunch of stuff to Plato's Closet and got some good money out of that! (it's all going to paying for my speeding ticket/traffic school.)

Despite what others may think, the past few days have really some of the best out here.

Thursday: I have fallen in like with basketball. i haven't really been a big fan of the sport. but last week and especially saturday i was glued to the tv watching mizzou do some amazing things. Thuesdays games though were by far the best! Mizzou scores 102 against Memphis in the Elite 8! Denman swished one from three-quarters court at the halftime buzzer! Then moments after the game was over i switched to TNT to see RUDY get 5 points in 3 seconds to give the blazers 100 points in the 3rd against Nash and the suns. Chalupas in the 3rd quarter! love what oregonlive had to say.

here's a little highlight from the game. sorry for the poor quality.

Friday night: ALAN JACKSON! he played all my favorites. little bitty. livin' on love. who's cheating who. good time. chattahoochee. summertime blues. country boy. oh man. i was in country heaven. alan jackson has been my favorite for soooooo long. i still remember getting his everything i love cd for christmas from shawn. i even remember that he wrapped it in toilet paper and duct tape.

Saturday morning before i went into work i visited the local bakery to pick up some mizzou cookies for the sports department. Mizzou had a chance to go to the Final Four for the first time. unfortunately they fell short (barely) to UConn. But at least the cookies were a hit!

Yesterday: getting the offer by brent and patty to live with them.

then today:

DAVID FREESE IS THE NEW CARDINALS THIRD BASEMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cannot wait for Monday! also today i walked through busch stadium. out onto the field. touched the grass. threw a few baseballs. watched a bit of bp. SLU and Mizzou are playing on the field tonight so we went for a few interviews. it was nice practice for next week. boy did it sure feel like HOME. i belong here.

like shania twain says in Up! i was listening to it while getting ready today. complete coincidence it will only go up from here!