Yeehaw!

Friday was such a blast! After having waffles + fruit salad + whip cream for breakfast, the lot of us watched The Price is Right while everyone showered and got ready for the day and whatnot. For lunch, we had tuna salad sandwiches, then we all headed out to a nearby park (it has grass!). The boys taught me how to throw a frisbee, and while my aim still isn't perfect, I did make great strides in keeping the disc level enough for it to go a short distance. There was also a baseball and a couple gloves, so I learned how to be a professional baseball player, too.

One of the gloves had its strings break (due to wear and tear and old-ness), so we switched to pitching and catching up against the back of a baseball field metal screen wall thing. It's where the end of a baseball field would be, with the metal fence and a taller fence on top to prevent homerun balls from escaping the field entirely. I'm hoping to figure out how to upload a video from my computer onto here, because then you could really see the field and everything. H. is currently working on that technical problem.

After baseball, we found a Sonic nearby and slurped down some slushies and ice cream. We were sitting in the middle, where you can order and still sit at a table, and there was this cute little girl there with her mom ordering lunch. Except instead of deciding what she wanted for lunch, this girl just kept saying, "Mommy! Mommy! I ... LOVE that car!" It was so cute!

Then we drove over to the only mall here (that I know of) and walked around looking at all the stores. Apparently, directly across from a Hot Topic, they are going to open up another Hot Topic. Also, there were a number of jewelry stores, which I particularly need to remember because we still need our wedding bands, and I don't really trust the local jewelry stores (maybe I should?). I'll have to scout out their prices. Helzberg has these beautiful and wonderfully priced bands, but printed on the inside is the name of the line they are from, Artiste. Who's gonna buy that? I looked through some booklet from one of the stores, and apparently nobody does yellow gold these days anymore. I just don't get that.

Inside the mall was a theater, so we watched Battle: LA. It was better than we expected, and even with some minor drawbacks, I feel it was a very well done movie. What I didn't like were all of the people getting up and going to the bathroom at various points during the movie. Around seven people did that. Blarg! For the first five minutes of the movie, I successfully suppressed my desire for some popcorn, and it really only worked because I know I bought popcorn at the store just in case the guys wanted to watch a movie this weekend. So that's definitely on my list of snacks for today.

After the movie, we returned to the apartment, and I made fish tacos (with a cucumber and sour cream sauce) whilst the guys watched Wheel of Fortune and The Office. The fish tacos were a big hit, but I ended up making much too much, so we'll probably have those for lunch or something today. We've also got lasagna to eat up, so I don't have to make dinner tonight! Right after dinner, we played this game called The Pit. I had never heard of it, but you have nine cards in your hand, and there are four types of cards. The object of the game is to get all of the same type of card in your hand, then ring this tiny little bell to say that you've won (one of those bellhop service bells that makes a distinct ding! sound). It's supposed to be like the NYSE, where people yell out "I've got 2!" and then two people switch their cards. It pretty much ended up in a tickling fight amongst the guys, with elbows and knees going into people, so I stepped in and made them do dishes before they really got angry with each other. The guys wanted to watch a zombie movie, so I went to bed instead (I was super tired).

This morning I woke up with shin splints, so I am declining to join the bros on their adventure to the Pima Air and Space Museum (H. and I went about a month ago as a surprise trip). As much as I would love to go, I don't want to walk everywhere that I know they will want to go, but hopefully they'll remember that they have the camera with them and take some pictures of everything that they find neato. While they're gone I'm on a mission to do laundry and clean things up, because making dinner last night was kind of a fiasco. We have enough space to cook for two people, but cooking for four seems to complicate things somehow. Not enough counter space for things to be placed and such. So that's on the to-do list today.

Tomorrow will be a little grueling - we're going to another spring training game in Surprise, this time to see the Rangers v. Giants. The only problem is that apparently the seating is all sold out, so we will be sitting on the lawn in the homerun porch area. Translation: tomorrow I will need to bathe in sunscreen to prevent any burns (I got a minor sunburn on Wednesday on my neck/chest area when I was walking to the game ... we put on sunscreen when we got to our seats, so apparently that little sun will burn me. H. believes it's because I'm a vampire).

Glad update!  If I hadn't lost our ruler, I would know exactly how tall they are, but for now we'll just estimate with 8.5"x11" paper.

The plants are approximately 22" tall, which seems like a really high number for some reason. The info on the bag I got the bulbs in says that they will grow to be 48" tall. When I bought the bulbs, I thought that was best-case-scenario height, but maybe they will get that tall. I've already got plans to use paper towel rolls to support the plants once they start flowering, but as you can see, one of the little guys is already trying to bend towards the sunlight. I try to rotate them around to prevent this, but it's probably inevitable. I might end up gluing two tubes together, as the one just comes up to the halfway point on their 22" side.

That's all for now, tune in next time for "that's the way baseball go"!

EDIT: It's taking forever, but I've got some of the videos uploaded for you all to look at and enjoy. One thing you should know is that I had no idea that you can't simply 'rotate' the video like you would a picture in a graphics editor. So some of the video is vertical instead of horizontal, and for that I apologize.

Gilly Dance
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