Since we were originally having lunch brought in, I did a breakfast bento today: ( Breakfast )

What a great game last night! Any time there's a walk off anything, you get your money's worth. I'm sure emmmitt was pleased with the outcome and the turnout in honor of his birthday (even if the scoreboard got his age wrong).

Rather than deal with trying to jam ourselves on at Navy Yard, E and I (with casapazzo stepping out to grab the 30 bus), walked to Union ( Read more... )

I got in bed right before ten last night, read some Rant, and was asleep before 10:30. I woke up twice during the night for a minute at 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., but otherwise slept pretty well until about 7:15. I'm going to try and go to bed early the rest of the week, given I'll be going non-stop over the weekend, and I then have to come back to ( Read more... )

Note to self for future reference . . . when you go on MLB.com to order a nifty Father's Day present for your Philly sports loving Dad, give them like a month to ship it. I ordered it well more than a week ago, to give it time to come to DC first so I could wrap it and put a card in it. Unfortunately, it only left Arizona yesterday, and, today, ( Read more... )

I should have known better than to try and make the game tonight. Mike and I bailed around 8:00 to grab pizza and watch hockey. I do, however, now have my very own Teddy doll. I was hoping to get a picture with him in front of the scoreboard, but the torrential rain and lightning put the kibosh on that ( Read more... )

Guess who got evac'ed off of not one, but two metro trains tonight? That would be me. My green line train on the way to the stadium got emptied because of a sick passenger. I walked to Capitol South on the way home, and the blue line train was emptied because of mechanical difficulties. I can't win ( Read more... )

( Idol )

It's a good night to be a Philly sports fan ( Read more... )

EW, thanks for pointing this out about Idol!

Pop quiz! In addition to the obvious fact that they've all been booted from American Idol's season 7 finals, what else do David Hernandez, Amanda Overmyer, Chikezie, Ramiele Malubay, and Michael Johns have in common ( Read more... )

Attention Philadelphians:

My poor mother is apoplectic about the fact that her beloved Jimmy Rollins is hurt, and, in her words, that his replacement is playing "like a little leaguer."

Please send healing vibes to Jimmy. My mother has enough stress.