Pics from Cubs/Dodgers at Wrigley

To all you lady Cubs fans, feast your eyes on our hot boys. For you other fans, well, feast your eyes on our hot boys....
.The only thing that would have been better is if he was in that shirt. Or out of it. Whatever.
Beautiful Wrigley! As you can see, the wind was blowing WAY in that day......
Cubbies warming up.....LOU!!!!Come on, ya gotta get a Manny pic, right? He cracks me the hell up!
Darlin Starlin!Why hello there, Mr. Lee......REEEEEEEDS!!!! This one's for Jen, JJ and IHDR. Our old fave Reed with DLee and Riot......
Dear Mr. Colvin, I love you.
Hee hee! The lights went out at Wrigley! Fun times.
Erin and I at Murphy's
TED!!!!!!!

Look at Ted in his cute little jacket. And Geo!!!

LMFAO! I love this pic of Ted "batting". SO cute!

Sexy Sean.......Filthy Marm.......Adorable Tyler...who gave the Cubs their only run on Thursday.

Finally got to wave the "W" flag and sing "Go Cubs Go" at Wrigley. Check that off my bucket list......

The Night The Lights Went Out At Wrigley, blueberry beer and Ted Lilly being a bad ass

I swear I didn't do it...I don't care what you people over at Cubblogging say.....the secret is between me and Tyler Colvin. Oh wait...that was the dream I had last night. My bad.

The "it" I was referring to was the lights going out at Wrigley Field Wednesday night. That was fun times. And rather entertaining. Let's recap my trip to Chi-town, shall we?

We arrived in Chicago around 11pm on Tuesday night (there is seriously nothing more boring than the drive from St. Louis to Chicago....except for maybe the drive from St. Louis to Dallas). We checked into our ritzy hotel, the HoJo on LaSalle (hey, it was 80 bucks a night and had free parking....don't judge me) and tried to get some shuteye. Wednesday morning, we awoke to a beautiful, and really effin hot, day in Chicago. After a very yummy breakfast at a place called Yolk, we headed out to Michigan Ave for one very specific purpose....no, not to buy a purse at Coach.....to get popcorn at Garrett's. Ever tried it? It's a little kernel of heaven. Just sayin. After that we headed over to Millenium Park because, I don't care how many times I've been to Chicago, the Bean is always entertaining. Always. After lots of pics (I'll try to post some this weekend), it was time to head to Mecca, er, um, I mean Wrigleyville. I wanted to get there nice and early so we could bar hop, because, well, that's what you do when you're in Wrigleyville....right? We headed for the Cubbie Bear, which, I must say, I was disappointed in. I mean, it was fine and all, but I was hoping it was gonna be a total hole in the wall....and it was actually fairly nice....and big. I wanted wall to wall Cubs fans and the smell of stale beer. WTF is this? A clean bar? Weird. I DID however, get to see my friend Eric while there.....he met us down there so that was good times (been friends since we were 14 which was like um, only 10 years ago and stuff......HA!). After that we headed to Goose Island for dinner and more beer....um, the Cubbie blueberry beer is DELIGHTFUL. I highly recommend it y'all.

Then it was game time, it was Gorzellany vs some dude on the Dodgers (does it really even matter?). The Cubs were down 5-0 after 2 innings and it looked like I was gonna need several more Old Styles to get through the rest of the night......they mounted a comeback (hells yea, Jeff Baker 2 run homer! Too bad he suddenly went blind yesterday. For reals!!! WTF???) but ended up losing 8-5. At least I got to heckle Bob Howry (Ok, I didn't really because I'm a nice polite Cubs fan, but I wanted to. When I saw he was coming into the game I nearly cried).

Yesterday was a day game, so after breakfast with my friend Eric, we headed back to Mecca and hung out at my new favorite place-Murphy's Bleachers. Now THAT is my kind of bar. After a couple of 312's, we headed on back over to Wrigley where it was............TEDSDAY! I was so effin excited to see Ted pitch and he did not disappoint-even when he was caught cheating. OMFG, seriously? We had no idea what was going on, why that Dodger guy was so mad, it wasn't obvious from the stands, I found out later from news reports. What a douche. Accuse Teddy Baseball of cheating? Seriously? Does he not value his own life????? That, sir, was a mistake. It was nice knowing you.

I must say, watching a pitcher's duel is never exciting. I mean, sure, I was glad Ted was pitching such a good game, but if it wasn't for the freezing ass lake winds, I may have taken a nap (we used Erin's "W" flag as a blanket...yes it was that chilly). My ass was up out of my seat in the 8th however, when Mike Fonte"yes" hit that triple! SO exciting. Of course then Geo got out but then, oh then, my baseball boyfriend Tyler Colvin came up to bat. I just knew the game was about to change because young Mr. Colvin is quite good off the bench.....and have I ever mentioned how freakin adorable he is???? His double turned triple scored the game's only run and while Ted didn't get the win (that honor went to hottie mchottie pants, Sean Marshall), it was fantastic. And Marm. Oh the Marm. Nothing like experiencing a Marm heart attack in person. He walked the first guy and everyone was nervous. When Manny came up, the crowd started booing and chanting "Manny sucks" which leads me to a short diatribe. Why does everyone hate Manny? The man is PURE ENTERTAINMENT. And, I don't know if Cubs fans realize this, but Manny's ability to suck as a left fielder allowed them some hits....and later runs. Leave the guy alone! He struck out against Marm as I knew he would and all was right with the world again. Marm actually struck out the side and I could see the filthiness from here. That was some sexy pitching my man. Sexy. I finally got to realize my dream of singing "Go Cubs Go" at Wrigley Field and waving the "W" flag proudly. Bucket list check off.

After the game we had to head home as I had to work today. After sitting in Chicago rush hour traffic for like two hours, we were finally heading south down Hwy 55 and on our way back to the STL (Jen, I totally thought of you as we drove through Springfield!). We got home around 11pm....I was sooooooooo tired and ready to go to bed.....only to discover I was locked out of my apartment. Now, let me explain. I had my keys, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that my landlord had been there all day helping install new windows (they're quite nice!) and, upon leaving, apparently locked both locks on my door. Now, this seemingly is not a big issue, but each lock requires a different key (I have no idea why) and I only carry the key that locks the deadbolt.....therein lied my problem. So, at 11pm, I was on the phone with my landlord who had to drive from his home about 20 minutes away over to mine so he could unlock the door. Awesome. I'm sure that will earn me some brownie points......actually he was quite nice about it and while I was waiting for him, I got to meet my new neighbor Brian and hang out in my other neighbor's living room. Good times.

Once inside my own apartment around 11:45, I discovered not only had they locked all my locks, but they also TURNED OFF THE AIR CONDITIONING. Um...it's been in the 90's all week in St. Louis, so, at nearly midnight, it was 80+ degrees in my apartment. Who the hell can sleep when it's that hot? Not me. I was still awake at 2am (even though the air was crankin) and had to get up at 6am. Needless to say, I am a barrel full of sunshine today. Thank God for Diet Dr Pepper.

I heart roadtrips

Well, my variety of Cubs T-shirts are packed. As are all articles of clothing in varying shades of blue. As are my two Cubs hats (one pink, one blue-a girl needs options). As are the tickets to tomorrow's and Thursday's games.

Roadtrip to Wrigley is here! WOOT WOOT! Erin and I will be leaving tonight at around 5:30 or whenever it is I get unchained from my cubicle......

As I will not be online until Friday, I wanted to give a quick shoutout to Jen over at Cubblogging to wish her a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow. I know you think you're on the wrong side of 25, but think of it this way-you're on the right side of 30. ;) I sure hope Sloth brings home a winner for ya!

P.S. There is a girl in my office today wearing a Soriano t-shirt. Did my heart proud. Cubbie love is spreading my friends, it's spreading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leavin' on a jet plane.....

Ok, I'm not actually leavin' on a jet plane, rather, we are driving, but KD is about to get the hell out of dodge. And not a moment too soon. I soooooooooooooooooooooooo need a day off from my job, and what better way to do that than to go see my Cubbies live! Knowing I get to see the boys in blue soon is what's getting me out of bed in the morning (a bit melodramtic but unfortunately mostly true). Tomorrow after work my friend Erin and I will be Chicago bound, most likely arriving in the metro area 11pm-ish. We're attending games on Wed and Thu before driving home because SOMEONE (read: yours truly) has to freakin work on Friday. Bah humbug. And, if my math serves me correctly (which is always a crapshoot-math was NEVER my strong suit), I believe one Ted BAMF Lilly is pitching on Thu....meaning I get to see him live! Holla! Does that mean Wellsie is on for Wed? Mmmmmmm, mama like.....
I'm also excited to see Starlin Castro and, of course, my 2010 Cubs crush, Tyler Colvin. Ol' KD will be fueled up on Goose Island's 312 and Old Style, I may (or may not) be responsible for my actions after that.......
I'm hoping to also see one of my BFF's while there, Eric. Lots to pack in to just over 48 hours, but I'm up to the challenge. As long as I don't have to be at work, everything will be a-ok.

Friday randomness

This morning on my way to work I heard the Kenny Loggins classic "Footloose", which caused me to reminisce about the first time I saw that movie. No, it wasn't in the '80's when it originally came out, it was circa 1994, my freshman year of college. And the first time I ever got drunk.

So, in high school I was a good kid (I'm sure my parents would agree), I didn't party or stay out late (ok, once when I was out on a date and got home late...I was grounded for like a month, but whatever) and never touched one drop of alcohol. Until I went away to college. I mean, isn't that what EVERY kid does once they're away from home for the first time? Ironically, I remember most of this drunken experience well. My roommate Stormy and I (yes, her real name) and our respective boyfriends at the time went on a double date picnic....complete with a bottle of Boone's Farm's Strawberry Hill. Classy, right? Stormy and I split that bottle of Boone's and KD got drunk for the first time. So, what does cult classic Footloose have to do with this story? Well, after our picnic we decided to rent a movie and head back to the ultra cool dorms. Yep, you guessed it, we rented Footloose and I proclaimed that I had never seen it (true). Let me tell you, my newly drunk ass thought that was the FUNNIEST MOVIE I'D EVER SEEN. I'm talking hysterical, drunken laughing. I think Kevin Bacon would agree that it is not a comedy, not even the part where Ren is dancing in the barn. Ah, the innocence of drunken youth......

So, what else is going on? I was talked into working at my part-time job tonight after slaving away all day at my full-time job-yay me. After that I am gonna go see my Mikey, so that's cool. I heart my Mikey (our friendship shall be tested in a couple of weeks as we travel for the first time together....to Vegas. Yikes.). Tomorrow I'm having lunch with my friend Renee and then pretty much not doing anything the rest of the weekend. Awesome. It's my last quiet weekend before many, many busy weekends approach. I shall take advantage of the down time.

The Cubbies begin interleague play tonight.....against the Rangers. Awesome. I realize my Cubbie expectations are low, so I shouldn't be too disappointed when they get swept. Hey, it's not being negative, it's being realistic. Maybe at least we'll get a Rich Harden's Ass sighting. And a big GFY to the Cincinnasty Reds for blowing a 9-0 lead, losing 10-9 and allowing the Cardinals to get back in 1st place. I'll expect the Reds to be in 4th place by mid-June. Dusty Baker sucks.

Also in Cubs news, Bob Howry. Really? Do the Cubs not remember how much he sucked the first time he was on the team? I mean, yea, he's kinda hot, but hot in a I-just-want-you-to-sit-there-and-look-pretty sort of way not gee-I-really-want-you-to-blow-some-games-for us (that's what we have John Grabow for-DUH). SIGH. Just another case of the Cubs making moves that make no sense whatsoever. I really shouldn't be surprised. It's what they do. It's maddening, but I put up with it (because I don't know any better.....).

Speaking again of the Cubs, I will be at my own personal Disneyland next week! (Translation: Wrigley Field). It's been five long years, but mama's comin home boys! And, pssst, Tyler Colvin, we're staying at the Best Western. Just sayin. Wink, wink, nod, nod.

Carlos Silva....Cubs ace???

Holy crapola, Batman! What is going on here? Baseball bizarro world continues-the Reds are atop the NL Central (WTF?), the Pirates are actually sorta competitive (again, WTF?) and Carlos Silva (he of the super sucktastic Carlos Silva circa, well the last few years) is freakin 5-0. FIVE wins, NO losses. Um, what? Rarely do the Cubs get the last laugh, but in this case, they already have. As you may recall, Silva was part of a double dump-the Cubs unloaded pain in the ass Milton Bradley and the Mariners unloaded their suck ass Silva. Only, Silva no longer sucks ass, and Milton Bradley still does. HEE HEE! Score one for the northsiders! Sadly, we here in Cubsland are ecstatic about the fact that the Cubs are riding a THREE game winning streak (including a two game sweep of the Rockies. Hey, if the Cardinals can brag about their two game sweep of the Nats, then so can we).

Now the Cubs face my second favorite NL team....the Phillies. I like the Phillies because they are amazing....top to bottom their lineup is fierce and on any given day they can kill you. Plus, they have hometown boy (and Lafayette High School grad) Ryan Howard (who keeps friend requesting his former high school classmates on Facebook. He and I now have two friends in common. Just sayin. It's six degrees of Ryan Howard) and Hottie McHotterson, Chase Utley (oh how I love myself some Chase Utley.....). Of course, for this series, my loyalties lie with the boys in Blue. Will they beat the Phillies? Hmmmm.....don't know. What I DO know, however, is that I like the way they've played the last couple of games and I'm begging, BEGGING for this to be the start of a good run (you hear me Aramis Ramirez and Derek Lee? EVERYONE else is batting .300 or more. You are the supposed superstars on the team-start acting like it. You're being outhit by a 20 year old, for God's sake).

T-minus one week until I make an appearance at Wrigley. Long time coming, it's been like five years since I've made the trek to my own personal Disneyland. This damn team has roped me in yet again. So................GO CUBS GO!

YUM!

The nicest thing happened today at work. The four doctors in my office made us all lunch! Not bought....MADE. They made lunch for about 50 people, most of it various ethnic dishes (our medical director is from Cuba, two of our docs are African-American and the other, well, he's a white dude from South County). We have homemade jambalaya, pulled chicken and pulled pork, salad, some spicy Cuban meat something or other (it was beef but also olives and raisins...you wouldn't think this would go together, but it did!), some sort of dessert that tastes like cinnamon (I think it may be bread pudding) and a couple of Ethiopian dishes that, on sight I wouldn't touch (cooked cabbage and carrots? No thank you) but after trying it, all I can say is YUM! Each doc stood by their respective dish or dishes and explained what it was and, in some cases, how to eat it. (the Ethiopian bread/chicken dish was a bit confusing, after a demonstration, we finally understood). This is truly one of the coolest things they've ever done (as you can imagine, the docs are often a target of our frustration-usually rightly so. Psychiatrists can be a bit, um, high on themselves at times.) and very much appreciated. Just wish I'd known to wear my fat pants today or at least some pants with stretch. I'm stuffed!!!!

Kendall's birthday pics

the pic that will cause her to hate us all someday......

pure happiness......

she decided she wanted to eat her cake with a fork like a little dainty lady. well, maybe not too dainty, check out her green hand...

this was pre-fork. she wasn't as in to the whole cake thing as we would have hoped.....

Kendall LOVED the balloons!

proud Aunt Kerri with my favorite girl. This pic was before she got icing in her hair......

We celebrated Miss Kendall's birthday this past weekend. Thought I'd share a couple of the pics. Miss Thang doesn't really like to stay still for pics anymore. She's too busy, always on the move. Or crawling on the floor acting like she's a dog....

Babies, babies everywhere!

It's baby fever and I sure as hell hope it's not contagious......

Lots o' babies born recently. I'd like to give them shout outs all together, if I may:

Baby Haylee, born to my cousin Ben and his wife Ashlee (I'm sorry, I don't remember the exact date. I'm old)

Baby Ailyn, born to one of my old college BFF's, Deven and his wife Mandy on 5/8

Baby Liam, born to old family friend Billy and his wife Melanie on 5/15.


Congrats on all your beautiful babies!!!!!

KD's Friday rants

I realize I haven't been blogging with my usual frequency lately (I know you've been sad about that). That's because my job has taken approximately 97.5% of my time and energy (the other 2.5% has been split between eating, sleeping, breathing, and seeing friends and family). Yes, work is that busy right now. And quite frankly, I'm sick of it. However, this is not a post about work, rather it is a post about some of KD's random rants. Enjoy.

1. Ok, one more thing about work and I promise I'll stop. While I appreciate that management has acknowledged our busyness, I'm not sure they're going about it the right way. Case in point-last Friday they fed us pizza. Yesterday it was ice cream sandwiches. And next Tuesday? The psychiatrists in our office are cooking us lunch. Random. Nice, but random. So now, not only am I tied to my cubicle for 9+ hours a day, but now I'm gonna get fat as well. Sweet. How bout some time off instead? No?

2. Slow drivers. I am of the slow driver persuasion, so I can speak on this topic. I am a big fan of driving the speed limit (saves you in gas folks, just sayin). I am NOT a big fan of driving under the speed limit, however. Case in point-this girl driving about 45 MPH down Hwy 270 last night. Just as I was about to go around her to get to the exit lane for Hwy 40, she moved on over into that lane and then proceeded to ride her breaks while driving approximately 30 MPH. Um, what? Figuring I could get around her once we got on Hwy 40, I patiently bided my time. Once on 40, the hwy was a bit crowded. Slow Chick was still in the exit lane and I was attempting to at least get up to the speed limit, when Slow Chick decided to just come on over into my lane...missing my front bumper by mere inches. This is when I brighted her. Almost feeling bad for one second thinking maybe it was an old person, I managed to get around her, only to discover it was not an old person, rather someone in her 20's who really should have known better. After that I felt justified in my act of aggression.

3. The Cubs. For the love of all things baseball, can we please get Sloth a win today? Good lord! I never thought I'd be one to jump on the Sloth bandwagon, but come on! The man has a sub-3 ERA and is 1-4. If I were him I'd be pretty pissed at my shitstain team mates. Cubs fans-google search footage from Cubs Con 2010-Sloth is actually quite funny. Who knew? And married. Again, who knew? For those that don't know who I'm talking about, I give you exhibit A: I rest my case.

Continuing on this Cubs rant all I can say is this-dude, WTF? Five games under .500. Really? Hey, remember how you got swept by the Pirates last weekend? Huh? Remember that? How bout we not let that happen again, k? Thanks. I'm annoyed with my team. For reals. I mean, I realize the Cubs are chronic underachievers but come on! They're performing far below their already low expectations. Let's see some hustle out there boys! And Rami and D-Lee, this cute little slump of yours had best end quickly. Just sayin. You're being outplayed by Ryan Theriot and Kosuke Fukudome for God's sake. Just sayin. Rami, you're still hot but DAMN amigo, get your shit together.

4. DishNetwork. Still pissed at them and still refuse to pay them $100 to come out and fix my dish. As a result, I have now been without TV for two weeks. Somehow, I've survived.

5. Stupid people. We all know my tolerance for stupid is low. I mean, I'm not the brightest girl on Earth, so if I think you're stupid, then that means you're really, really stupid. I don't really have any specific examples at this time, just wanted to rant about it.

6. Justin Bieber. Who the f**k is this little Canadian kid and why is he famous? I have not heard one Justin Bieber song. And what the f**k is up with his hair? Is that what the teenybopper girls are in to nowadays? Good lord.

7. This isn't a rant but rather a YAY. At today's Cubs game, American Idol contestant Lee DeWyze (and my personal fave-he's so cute!) is throwing out the first pitch. How cool is that?

8. The weather. Ugh. For reals, can it stop raining already? This has had serious repercussions on my hair, people. My flat iron is taking a seriously long break. When the weather is like this it is frizz city and not at all cute. Just sayin. Dear Rain Gods: Could you at least hold off until after tomorrow? We are doing the Heart Walk (for the American Heart Association) tomorrow morning at Busch Stadium and I would prefer it not be raining when we do so. I'm very excited about this event-my employer (the healthcare giant that they are) is a sponsor of the event and we have a large team participating. Also, this year, as this organization has new meaning, my parents, sister, brother-in-law and niece will also be doing the walk. So....we're gonna need it to not rain. Thanks.

9. I was gonna try to come up with 10 items for today, but I just got sleepy. So bye.

The Chicago Cubs suck.

That is all.

New pets

These two cutie pies have been living in my yard for the last few days. I named them Lucy and Desi. They quack, quack, quack at me when I leave in the mornings (I like to think they're actually saying "good morning friend, have a lovely day").

This morning I caught them in the bushes. I told them I didn't want any funny business around here and told the boy one (???) that he needed to keep it in his pants. Too much?

I'm TV-less

How can one live without television??? I'm currently finding out. DishNetwork has pissed me off for the last time. I'm done. I am so stubborn that I will go without TV before I will pay $95 to have some technician come out to try to fix my satellite. My satellite went down Friday night during yet more storms and tornadic activity ("tornadic" is currently my favorite word, it makes me sound smart. I don't even know if it's a real word, but I like it). When it still wasn't working on Saturday, I called my friends at DishNetwork to see what I could do about getting it fixed. Well, when it seemed that the at-home diagnostics weren't going to work, the DishNetwork lady (now forever known as the DishNetwork Bitch) said she could send a technician out to the tune of $95 to fix it. When I balked at the idea of paying someone $95 to come out and fix THEIR CRAPPY PRODUCT, do you know what the bitch said to me? She said "well, if you had insurance and went to the doctor's office, you'd still pay a co-pay wouldn't you?". This is when KD got pissed. I didn't even bother to tell her that her comparison was retarded and not even the same. I just informed her that her company was horrible and that I would be taking my business elsewhere and then I abruptly terminated our call. F them.

I'm now researching AT&T UVerse. I'd been thinking about getting it anyway, this has just sped up the time frame. I'll be tv-less until I can find a date that will work for me to have someone come out to set it up (given how busy work is, that may be in 2012.....roughly). I'm excited about UVerse and hope it will be a wonderful partnership.

GFY DishNetwork. GFY.

Just call me Cougar....

SIGH. Isn't he cute??? Meet my latest Cubs crush....young Mr. Tyler Colvin. Young as in 24 years old young. It feels slightly dirty having a crush on a 24 year old....but I'll get over it. Not only is he adorable, but he is DAMN GOOD. I hope the Cubs don't find a way to ruin him (a la Mark Prior-just sayin) because he's got what it takes to be a major star in the big leagues. Watch for this kid! He's #21 (Sammy Sosa's old number!).

My favorite little munchkin-almost 13 months old!

Just when you think Miss Kendall can't get any cuter.....

She does.

It's attack of the toddler. She was coming straight for me-I'm not sure if she wanted me to hold her or if she was trying to steal my camera. I'm leaning towards wanting to steal the camera.....