Softball Wednesdays

It's official!! A winning streak!! We won 10-4. It was awesome. Our defense was solid. I mean, sol-id. My batting, now that's another story. Oh well, a girl's gotta have something to work towards, right?

If I'd only known

Today I got a call on the home phone. Most calls are friendly telemarketers or awesome credit card offers. Today was someone asking for a charity donation, not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just not giving to charities right now. So, when they asked if they could send me a packet of letters to send to my friends asking for donations in August, I replied, "I'm actually leaving the country in July." And do you know what they said??? Wanna guess?? After a short pause, they said "Oh. Thanks for your time."

Who knew that's all you had to say. I should have been using this response all along.

Softball Wednesday

Man oh man! We did it AGAIN. We won one. Our second win of the season. Goooooo us! 15-10. We really did have to smoke the bases too. Dudes were hitting balls and making inside the park home runs. That means if you're on base, get ready to book it. Really. Fun times!!

Warning

I'm going to paraphrase an email that was sent to us at school today.

"Oh my god!! Someone was bitten by a rattlesnake outside in the field next to our playground. AND on the day before we were supposed to have field day!!"

Okay. The email didn't exactly say that, but that's how I interpreted it. The victim was working on something outside. Crazy right? You see, our school is right smack dab in the middle of the country. A good 10-15 minutes from Wal-Mart. Now you know it's far when you gotta drive that long to get to Wal-Mart, y'all.

The guy is going to be ok, thank goodness! We did get to see the culprit today. It was about two feet long. It was in a bucket, in pieces.

Texas. Go figure.

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Dude. Can we please get another win? I mean, it's like they have professionals coming in and playing. Now some of these professionals may be "washed up" by the American League standards, but professionals nonetheless. Last week was a pretty close game, but no dice!

This week we lost again. It was a pretty good game. Until that one inning. In the field. I think almost every player out on the field made at least one error. Then they just kept coming. Ouch. It hurts when an inning gets away from you that fast. It's just hard to come back from that stuff.

I didn't get any good hits. I did get some good exercise busting my ass to get to first and then running back to the dugout because I got out. I did that about, oh, 3 times--every time I was up to bat. Unfortunate.

I did redeem myself shortly by making a good play on first. I know! I was surprised too. Line drive. Right to me. I had time to set up, planted my feet and said to myself, "Self! Get this damn ball. You got it!" It was coming right to me and bounced right in front of me so I snatched it up real quick. Then I said, "Oh shit! I caught it!!" and ran to tag first. Great play, self! High five!!