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I wasn't around last night to congratulate him but I did see him do it: Edwin Jackson became the 2nd Diamondback to throw a no-hitter! (the first was Randy Johnson's perfect game in Atlanta on 5/18/04. We haven't done it at home yet)

It wasn't pretty (8 walks! 7 in the first 3 innings!) but he did it! 149 pitches!

And guess who helped him out by getting in his face early on... Dontrelle Willis! (see? It WAS a good trade, six_demon_bag!)

I think in celebration of this feat I should perhaps not clean my house today and be a lazy blob :D

Hey! If you live in America, you're entitled to a free taco, see? Isn't that cool? You don't even have to buy anything else or bring a coupon or anything. I'll have to get a volcano taco too, though, because those are my new favorite thing at Taco Bell.

I have no interest in the World Series this year :(

It's cold. I think I'm gonna have to put my blanket on my bed. Brrrrr.

Oh! And! I got into that RP, so you guys should all go apply: plutoix. It's panfandom. Looks fun so far, though I haven't actually started yet; I'm purposely waiting for one in-game day to pass.

Gordon Lightfoot tonight! (I know at least one of you knows who he is :P)

Happy Friday, y'all!

Eeeeeeeee we should have gone to today's game! Stephen Drew just hit for the cycle! First one in the ballpark's history, oddly enough! (There are two others in team history, but both of those were on the road)

GO DBACKS GO!

Yes, I know most of you don't care, just carry on :)

I don't feel like cleaning this morning. What a shocker!

Happy 27th birthday, Hayden :) Must picspam the comm later in his honor! (ETA: All done!)

Hmmmm, let's do bullet-point babbling. Except as dashes instead of bullets cuz I don't know how to make bullets show up in here.

-Aaron said he'd call me during the game last night, but he didn't. He was working (mall show in Vegas)... and since I'm a nice person I decided NOT to call him and rub it in that my team whipped his team so bad. 9-0! And the coolest part: Conor Jackson was a double away from hitting for the cycle, and BAM! he gets another hit... it could have been a double, but no, he goes for third! So he missed the cycle, even though the team was up (7-0 at that time). Very unselfish of him.

-Going to the game tonight! I like the early start time (5:10pm) - means I won't be dead when I get home. I can't wait to see the new 6600" HD TV. Somewhere in that neighborhood of inches, anyway. Just a tad bigger than my 27"!

-I want to go SHOPPING. For cute new shoes and new spring clothes. Oh - and also I still need to go to Fresh and Easy (of the UK's Tesco!). Just read that they're doing better than they projected out here. Yay! A store closer to me should be opening up later this year.

-I have to take my car to emissions soon. Pain in the ass. But the good thing about having an aging car - it's only $103 to register my car for TWO YEARS now. It just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper.

-I made friends with another kitty last night. He came close enough to sniff my hand but I didn't try to pet him, he was kinda skittish whenever I moved. He's fat so I think someone owns him. My cat food brings all the kittehs to the yard!

-This icon reminds me - I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray. I loved it! (probably helps that I pictured Hayden as Dorian *g*) So I'll start on my next "bubble bath book"... probably not 'til next weekend. :(

-I got my R2! But I haven't had a chance to check him out yet! I need to get big-ass batteries for him first.

-Squicktastic fic in the works. That's all I'm gonna say about that. BWAHAHA!

-I asked for overtime for next week and it was approved, but now I don't think I'll need it. Do I 'fess up or just get the OT? Heh. Maybe I'll just trim it down a bit so I only have a couple hours. And maybe by posting this I'll tempt the Work Gods to make it necessary after all.

-Someone should have told me about the awesomeness that is Mew's "Comforting Sounds" before. Very repeat-worthy. I have more music to check out but I just deleted 100 songs from my iPod a couple weeks ago and I don't wanna delete any more!

-Bobby Brown DID SO do a song called "Don't Be Cruel." How can no one at work remember this but me??? I got laughed at for "not knowing" that's an Elvis song. DURRRR of course it is, but BB did a totally different one!

-Yesterday I amazed those same laughers with my ability to scarf down super-sweet cake frosting like it's water. Hee! That cake was NUMMY. And there's really no such thing as "too sweet," people. I do actually prefer for there to be cake attached to the frosting, but yes I can eat the frosting by itself!

This is getting long. I should stop procrastinating cuz if I keep doing it I'll need to use a cut and then no one will read it. Ha! I probably should use one anyway... NAHHH you guys can just scroll.

It's all over, my team's going home. And it's all my fault -- we didn't win a single game since I uploaded this icon!

You get half your wish, at least, archerstar.

*sigh* I fucking hate the Rockies.

Thanks to my oh-so-demanding brother, now I think I'll be working Sunday instead of Monday since he wants to go to the ballgame. (day game, since it's a holiday) Or possibly a few hours Sunday, a few hours Monday. We'll see how motivated I am. I do want to go to the game, though. It will be the last game for me this year... until we make the playoffs, of course! *waits for Aaron to respond to that snarkily*

Time to post the answers to Round 2 of the song meme! elledwen won this time. Woo! Expect your prize in... 2 weeks! (yay!)

8. "Easy Life" by Finger Eleven
11. "Present Tense" by Pearl Jam
12. "Get Together" by Madonna
14. "A Song for Sleeping" by Stone Temple Pilots
16. "Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash (I'm surprised no one knew this one! It's ancient!)
17. "Heat Dies Down" by Kaiser Chiefs
19. "Antichrist Television Blues" by Arcade Fire
20. "Cemetery Drive" by My Chemical Romance
21. "Spiders" by Editors

Wow, so many not guessed this time.
Okay, I promise I won't play this game for at least another month now ^_^

Bleh, the litterboxes await me.

I went to the baseball game tonight (Dbacks/Red Sox) and whoa was it good. Bad end result, but the game itself was really fun. Sold out crowd (49,800-something). That's rare down here! But the enemy team is really popular. I think there were more Boston fans than Arizona fans. Almost 4 hours long, though!

Many, MANY chants of "Yankees suck!" broke out around the place. The Red Sox fans were doing it but unless you're a Yankee fan (duh), you kinda have to hate the Yankees on principle. It was fun trying to out-chant the Red Sox fans. And the Sox have this guy named "Youkilis" - I never heard of him before and I wondered why everyone was booing. Only, they weren't booing, they were "youuuuu"-ing! I actually did it too even though he's the enemy. "Youing" and booing is fun.

Any marketing people on my f-list? Wouldn't it seem to you that... if you're going to give away something cool - as in, the most popular give-away item over the past few years - wouldn't it make more sense to do it when we're playing a team that's NOT popular? This game would have sold out anyway, they should save the lure for the crappy teams. We looked at the next few bobblehead nights on the schedule and those are also against popular teams. WTF?

The guy behind me was annoying. He kept talking to the girl he was with, who obviously knew nothing about baseball, explaining things to her - only, he didn't know what he was talking about cuz he kept giving her bad information. I almost turned around and corrected him a few times but then decided that would be asshattish of me so I kept my mouth shut.

So my day started really emotastic and ended up with me laughing and cheering and having fun. Yay. Now I think I'll get cracking on my f-list finally... but will probably get too tired and have to stop before I get up to date.

I’m in a rambly mood today. I’ll try to stick to each subject header for your skimming convenience.

( Cut for rambliness )

Ohhhhh I forgot one! Food. I've been craving Long John Silver's like whoa. I've had it three times in the last week. I need to stop, it's expensive to eat fast food all the time, not to mention fattening! I want it again now too >.> We have a new employee with the last name Plankey, and whenever I see her name, I think about their fish planks and chicken planks. Gah!

If you don't give a rat's patootie about baseball, feel free to skip the cut. I'm babbling mainly because I can't NOT write about this.

( ~There's no crying in baseball~ )

I will hopefully find out what's wrong with Bailey later today. I'm eager to start him on some kind of drugs to stop his projectile vomiting.

I'm in a writing mood, but it's my busy week at home. I hate how my muse doesn't like to cooperate with my schedule.

I'm still a bit sniffly and a bit cough-y but I'm 1000 times better now than I was last week. I have my energy back!

Shrimp tacos from the place down the street are really good.

I think that's all. I have work to do. Though not all that much considering I was out Friday.

Sometimes, I really hate baseball. That's all I'm gonna say about that.


This week's thefridayfive is movie-related, whee!

( ~You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?~ )