Thursday, October 16

Erin's Wedding

I can't believe that Erin is married?! OK I can believe it but it's just strange. I mean Erin and I have always hit our milestones together or at least at the same time. Now I was a bridesmaid in her wedding and I got to stand up and be a part of her wedding day. Now before you get any ideas I think her husband (did I seriously just write her husband?!) is the perfect match for Erin. I have always liked Ryan and I am very excited that I got to be a part of them joining their lives together. There is a part of me that is sad. I always thought that we would get married around the same time and have our kids around the same time. I kind of planned on that since I knew that my siblings were going to have their kids before I was ready. I always thought no big deal Erin and I will be having kids around the same time. Maybe we still will no one knows what is in the cards for anyone and what life is going to through at you. What I do know is that I am very single and now my first and oldest friend is now married and on her Honeymoon. I couldn't be happier for her. I am just a little sad for me.

Tuesday, October 7

Soxtober is here again!

There really is no better time of year to a baseball fan then October when your team is in the playoffs. Sunday night I went over to Beel's to check out his new HDTV with surround sound and hopefully watch the Red Sox sweep the Angels. I had a great time hanging out with Beel and check out his place and the TV was nice. The game was a roller coaster ride which is to be expected. It got to be 12:30 and the 12th Inning was about to start so I decide that I need to leave and see if I can catch the redline into Park to grab the C line. I know that since the game was going late that usually they will still have trains going out. I get to Porter T stop and I am standing on the platform by myself and they announce to step back from the platform that they are not going to take any passengers. I stand back and look very sad and the train did stop and picked me up which was nice of it and then at Park St it was held for the game. I went upstairs and caught a C train and walked in the door at 1:20 on Monday Morning awesome way to start the week if we can. No big surprise that on Monday night I decided to watch my boys from the comfort of my own home to make sure that if it went late which of course it did that I could just crash.

Now with Lester pitching Monday night I felt good and he did an AMAZING job on the mound but in the 8th Inning when Masterson let Hunter hit a single and two runs got in to tie I will admit I was not feeling so great. I knew that the Sox could pull it out and get it done but man we went 12 innings the night before and Tampa Bay was done if we had to go to Anaheim to finish the Angels and didn't have the rest and they did the ALCS was not going to be pretty. We are playing well but we are using all our resources. Thankfully Jason Bay hit that double and Oh Lowrie hitting that single and seeing Bay determined to get home was AWESOME! I can't imagine what that felt like for them but for me and plenty of Red Sox fans out there it was a beautiful thing to see.

Here we are going to ALCS the defending World Series Champions to play Tampa Bay the team that won the AL East this year. This is going to be a tough match up but Game 1 isn't until Friday which gives us a few nights to recover and since they are on the same coast there won't be any games starting at 10:00 which ensure that you aren't sleeping that night. My Team survived and gets to play another round. When your baseball team is in the playoffs it heats October up and reminds you that anything is possible. So GO SOX! I can't wait to see where you take us next.