Moonlit Jazz

A’s 4, Mariners 9
Network Associates Coliseum

Winning Pitcher – Shigetoshi Hasegawa (1-0)
Losing Pitcher – Chris Hammond (0-1)

SEA Runs: 9, Hits: 14, Errors: 0
OAK Runs: 4, Hits: 11, Errors: 1

Oakland Record: (4-2)

Mulder pitched today, leaving the game with the lead. But the bullpen let him down. 🙁 And why aren’t there any pictures online of Mulder from today’s game?

Yeah, I can wear this shirt if I lose a couple of inches (or more). Otherwise, it’s going under a sweater or something…

EASTER IN SAN LEANDRO

It didn’t take us too long to get to San Leandro today. The weather was cooler in the Bay Area. By late afternoon I was needing a sweater or something. Ye gods!

Of course, it was nice spending time with family. I always enjoy that. Only three kids did the egg hunt. We had to hide the eggs, which can be interesting. 😉

I hope everyone out there had a lovely Easter.

A’s 2, Mariners 1 [Saturday]

Winning Pitcher – Tim Hudson (1-0)
Losing Pitcher – Gil Meche (0-1)

SEA Runs: 1, Hits: 4, Errors: 0
OAK Runs: 2, Hits: 8, Errors: 1

Oakland Record: (4-1)

The bad news – Ellis out for the season
SAD!!! Hopefully he comes back next season strong and healthy. We’re going to miss him this season for sure…

Two-run rally lifts A’s over M’s
Recap of the game at the official site.

I wish I could have seen this game on tv! Instead, we headed out to Turlock for a couple of hours for some satellite horse racing, then we drove up to Sacramento to watch the 6:10pm show of The United States of Leland. We listened to the end of the game while we drove up 99.

Great game! It was exciting listening to it. Hudson, WOW! 😀

MOVIE TIME

First, I must make mention of the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. Awesome place. It has HISTORY. You can just feel it before you even enter the building. I really enjoyed my whole movie watching experience there. I hope I can see more films there in the future.

Now, the movie.

The United States of Leland – This film stars Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams, Martin Donovan, and Ann Magnuson. Ryan plays Leland P. Fitzgerald, a young man who commits a horrible crime. The film explores the repercussions of his crime with Don Cheadle as Pearl, a teacher in juvenile hall who tries to understand Leland’s story.

The movie is well done. The cast was excellent! But of course I must give Ryan Gosling his absolute due. He is such a talented actor. Even as I think, “Wow, I’ve looked right into those eyes,” I am mesmerized by the power of his performances. Leland is so distant, yet you can feel his emotions just below the surface, ready to take over. But he keeps it away. And Ryan plays it so well.

Even with the horrible events in the film, this one was easier to watch than a couple of Ryan’s other movies. I like watching movies that make me think, but when it’s too dark, it gets depressing. The United States of Leland is a tragedy, but one that offers hope amongst the anguish.

But I really enjoyed Ryan in this movie. 😉

DOMAIN WOES, AGAIN

By the time you all read this, my domain should be up again. But right now, it’s down and I must say IT SUCKS!!! Yeah, just had to get that out. 😉 Maybe I should go LJ.

I think it’s time for bed though…

Hudson tests daytime dominance
Just a preview of today’s game.

Those who comment deserve kisses

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Luz, I LOVE all the A’s commercials. Last night at the game, they showed that Mulder/Zito one. It’s so cute! I love the look on Mulder’s face when he sees Zito’s handiwork. LOL!

DOGGIE LOVE

My doggies got groomed yesterday! Of course, Meggie, the black lab, always looks the same no matter what, but here’s a cute shot of her anyway:

And then there’s the little freakin’ Yorkie, our sassy Saffy. She’s a trip sometimes. Crazy dog:

I love my dogs. 😉

And back to baseball

The Detroit Tigers are 4-0. Remember last season when they couldn’t WIN a game? Yeah, I do.

Mulder takes the mound tomorrow and my parents don’t have satellite or cable!!! For Easter we’re hanging out at my parents’ house and they don’t have any channels. I know, I shouldn’t worry about watching baseball when I’m at a family get together, but it’s MULDER!!! Grrr.

Did I mention I bought a t-shirt last night that says “I (heart) Mulder”? Yeah, I bought it even though it’s technically not my size. LOL! Oh well, I can wear it under stuff. 😉

And speaking of Easter…

A’s 8, Mariners 6 [Friday night]
Network Associates Coliseum

Winning Pitcher – Chris Hammond (1-0)
Losing Pitcher – Rafael Soriano (0-1)
SV – Arthur Rhodes(1)

SEA Runs: 6, Hits: 13, Errors: 1
OAK Runs: 8, Hits: 12, Errors: 1

Oakland Record: (3-1)

A’s double their pleasure, top M’s
Recap at the official site 😉

Notes: Menechino getting closer
Good news on Frankie! 😀 And I think I saw Ellis tonight at the game. I hope all is well with him…

My pictures didn’t turn out so well. Blah!

We had way cool seats though! MVP Infield is always nice. I had a great view of the plate. And if I looked over near the dugout, I could see the back of Mulder’s head. LOL! Isn’t it weird, I know what he looks like from behind.

The game was CRAZY! But in the end, it was all good because the A’s got the “W.” And wow, all the freakin’ doubles they hit! Eight doubles by the A’s. Glorious! We got a quick glimpse of Byrnes, but he didn’t get to go up to bat. 😛

I was all geared up in my A’s stuff: my Mulder jersey, my A’s earrings, my A’s jacket, my truck with the “I (heart)THEAS” license plate frames. I think it might have all worked too! Yes, I can be a little superstitious at times…

Hmm, do I do this Friday Five with my last job in mind? Or present tense? 😉

1. What do you do for a living?
For almost eight years, I worked in detentions and corrections.

2. What do you like most about your job?
I loved most of my fellow employees and I liked how my job was a combination of the other jobs in the office.

3. What do you like least about your job?
Stupid people.

4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____…
I let the stupid people get to me.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
Now that I’m free, the possibilities are endless. Ultimately, I’d like to pursue my writing. How about a novel? Yeah, that would be nice!

GOOD FRIDAY

Tonight we’re going to the A’s game. I’m totally excited! We’ve got seats in the MVP Infield area. Maybe I’ll get good pictures. 😀 I’ll take lots of pictures. LOL!

And in the religious sector, Good Friday can be defined as:

Definition and etymology. Good Friday, called Feria VI in Parasceve in the Roman Missal, he hagia kai megale paraskeue (the Holy and Great Friday) in the Greek Liturgy, Holy Friday in Romance Languages, Charfreitag (Sorrowful Friday) in German, is the English designation of Friday in Holy Week — that is, the Friday on which the Church keeps the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Parasceve, the Latin equivalent of paraskeue, preparation (i.e. the preparation that was made on the sixth day for the Sabbath; see Mark, xv, 42), came by metonymy to signify the day on which the preparation was made; but while the Greeks retained this use of the word as applied to every Friday, the Latins confined its application to one Friday. Irenaeus and Tertullian speak of Good Friday as the day of the Pasch; but later writers distinguish between the Pascha staurosimon (the passage to death), and the Pascha anastasimon (the passage to life, i.e. the Resurrection). At present the word Pasch is used exclusively in the latter sense. The two Paschs are the oldest feasts in the calendar.

From the earliest times the Christians kept every Friday as a feast day; and the obvious reasons for those usages explain why Easter is the Sunday par excellence, and why the Friday which marks the anniversary of Christ’s death came to be called the Great or the Holy or the Good Friday. The origin of the term Good is not clear. Some say it is from “God’s Friday” (Gottes Freitag); others maintain that it is from the German Gute Freitag, and not specially English. Sometimes, too, the day was called Long Friday by the Anglo-Saxons; so today in Denmark.

-From the Catholic Encyclopedia

My left eye has been bothering me all day! I took a nap in the afternoon and that seemed to help. But it’s definitely still very irritated and it’s still watering. Blah! But lucky me, it didn’t stop me from going out. 😉

MOVIE TIME

The Prince and Me – I belong to Katherine Fugate’s email group and last week the talk was about The Prince and Me. Katherine wrote the story (along with Mark Amin) and screenplay (along with Jack Amiel and Michael Begler) for the movie. Katherine also wrote the Xena episode “When Fates Collide.” So, with the Xena connection, I just had to see the movie.

I enjoyed The Prince and Me. I liked Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You and I liked her in this film. Luke Mably is ADORABLE. And he was just right playing Eddie. I really really enjoyed his performance. The film itself was just lovely. I’m definitely going to buy it when it comes out on DVD.

If you haven’t seen it, GO! It’s a very sweet movie…

“I’ve Got the World on a String” by Frank Sinatra

I LOVED my other layout. And if it wasn’t baseball season, I think that layout would have been around longer than less than a month. Oh well.

Besides the obvious theme change, the layout is only slightly tweaked. I like using tables to center the content. Instead of having the menu stuff on the left, it’s on the right this time. It’s called “version: just another play for today” because (and this is the long story) I was at Wil Wheaton’s site yesterday and the title of his entry was “luck has left me standing tall,” which very much reminded of a line in a song. I looked up the song lyrics online and lo there it was. One of the other lines in the song was “just another play for today” and I thought, hey, very baseball. So not only did I use the line for yesterday’s entry title, I decided to use it for this layout.

Now, from what song did I get that line?

Let me be a whiny bee-ah-tch now

I sent out invitations to our anniversary party a few of weeks ago. The last day to RSVP is April 10. In the invitation, I EXPLICITLY noted that the party is catered and PLEASE when responding to include the number of people in the group. We need a rough headcount, so I think I worded in a way that should have been easily understood. I left an email address and phone number for the RSVP. Easy, right?

When I was growing up, I think my parents called everyone to invite them to parties. Likewise, we got calls for family gatherings. It’s probably a good way to touch base and a more instant method of compiling your guestlist.

But wonderful as the telephone is, so is good old fashioned postal mail. Right, not email, but postal mail. Isn’t nice to get mail in your mailbox? And oh, there’s also technology like email! Email rocks! 😀

My rant is this: most of my family has NOT RSVP’d. It’s really FRUSTRATING because I took the time to make the invitations (albeit on my computer), I stuffed the envelopes, and now I must wait. Do I take silence as a no show? Or do I take it as a “we’ll be there”? I’m not supposed to call everyone and ask them, am I? If I was going to do that, I wouldn’t have sent the invitations in the first place.

I would like to know who’s going to be a the party. And if they’re not coming, I’d like to know that too. Is it so difficult to respond?

No baseball today, but tomorrow…

We’re going to the game! Woohoo!!! Have I said how much I just LOVE the Husband? Well, I DO! 😀