Hilary Booth... of course!

I managed a few photos of Nationals Park, but none of the Stitch N Pitch event. They’re up on my Flickr account, if you’re interested. I will add photos of the hat and my project later.

I attended my second Stitch N Pitch event last night. The Washington Nationals were hosting Baltimore Orioles in the second game of the vaunted “Battle of the Beltway”.( We don't want to go to Baltimore! )

It must be time for tennis. Wimbledon starts today. With Henman gone, I have no idea who I'll wind up rooting for. At least I'll have something else besides baseball. I picked the only good game to attend. The Rangers won the other two games against the Nationals. The starting pitchers did fine; it was the offense that let them down as usual.

And is nothing sacred? First I said goodbye to skating's beloved 6.0 and now they won't even let me have a perfect 10. The gymnastics code of points has undergone an overhaul so that the new 10 is 17. I watched part of last night's US Olympic gymnastics trials. Chellsie Memmel impressed me as much as the more popular Johnson and Liukin. They select two girls that night and then the rest have to go through a selection camp. That's asking for injuries or worse. I remember when they selected everyone at Trials. I also watched the last five minutes of the diving trials, where a 30-year-old diver made her third Olympics and everyone was amazed.

So now I'm moderately more awake. I did try to take a few pictures, which are here.

( We need the comebacks, the rallies... )

Sorry, I need to do the baseball dance of joy! I had checked the schedule earlier and it looked like it'd be Millwood vs Mock, but instead the Nationals are starting Tim Redding, one of the bright spots in our rotation. I've been delivered from minor leaguer hell. I'm sure he'll be an okay starter eventually, but Mock's first start was not encouraging. Redding, on the other hand, been pretty solid so far. *crosses finger & raps wood for good measure* Now to make sure I've packed everything I need, since I'm not sure I can make it home and back to Navy Yard after work. Needles, thread, hoop, spare batteries? Oh, yes and my ticket! I'll be the one in the Nats cap. *grins*

Stitch N Pitch: Needlearts (Crochet, knitting, needlepoint/cross-stitch) events at major and minor league baseball games. The Nationals game is the June 20th game against Texas Rangers, the former Washington Senators.

but lord has the last week been depressing for this Nationals baseball fan. After winning the first three, we dropped the next five, usually by only a run. Of course some commentator pointed out the last Washington team to win their first three, then lost a record thirteen. Let's hope the slump disappears real soon now?

And the Caps are in the playoffs. They're going to break my heart again. I know this. It's a time honored tradition.

It's that time of year again.

My loyalties are always a little torn in baseball season. I've been a Atlanta Braves fan since the early 1990s because we didn't have a team here in DC. (Baltimore did not count.) Now we do. Unfortunately they're in the same division.

Guess who the Washington Nationals are opening their new stadium against? Yep, my old Atlanta Braves team. Nationals Park looks nice. I should find a good afternoon game to go see. From the sounds of it, the upper deck seats give you some nice views of the US Capitol. Nice change from the upper tier of Redskins stadium where you see the parking garage...

I have to gripe a little. The "pretty in pink" baseball caps for women are not any prettier in person than they look on the website. If I want a Nationals or Braves or *shudders* Yankees cap, by gosh, I want the real colors! Having my heart set on a nice blue with W cap to show my local pride, I set out for thither and yon to P City. Everyone wanted a Nationals cap. The main "Lids" store was pretty crowded, mostly asking about sizing. I found their secondary story upstairs and tried them on again. Two sales ladies nixed the blue one. "You look better in the red". The cap has no hole in the back for a ponytail, but otherwise it fits fine.

Do you know they've discontinued the smaller bags of the most popular flavors of Lindt truffles? The bigger bags sell more. *sighs*

Today is a lovely spring day. The girls are playing softball around the corner. I picked up my small pile of comics and an extra box from Hole in the Wall.

At home I'm continuing my spring cleaning, focusing some of my attention on filing some of my writing and business files. I've put all my current projects together so I can find things! I was a little irritated the hanging folder frame I bought were too big for my drawer. I'm hoping they'll fit the file cabinet. I don't have my father's tools to cut them down.

I made the mistake of watching my first Nationals game on tv last night. After taking two from Philly, my new home team was soundly trounced by the Marlins. But I have a team. I almost wish I could create an animated gif with the Nationals logo replacing the Senators one.

And I have the remastered dvd of "The Band Wagon" to watch!

Hell has officially frozen over, because DC finally gets baseball! I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Not to date myself, but the Senators left the month after I was born. So I never felt like I had a "home team" for real. Hence my loyalties to the Braves during my years at Tuscaloosa. But baseball! I'm reminded of the song from the Hexagon satire show, "We need a team in Washington", including the immortal line "We need a team that lost a hundred games every year?" Hey, they're lugs, but they'd be our lugs! Granted we'll have to make some concessions to Peter Angelos, because his poor Orioles will be so hurt by this. And we have to wait to see if they can approve the stadium, but there's hope.

I had a dentist appointment yesterday to deal with one filling. I hated waiting for the numbing injection to wear off. I have more dental woes coming later.

And the apartment sent me running around to get something signed and notarized today. I'm sure the office was impressed I did it so fast, but it's not like I'm lacking free time. At least by being with friends on Saturday, I missed the fun and games, when someone got very publicly written up for a drunk and disorderly after a party. For once it pays to have a semblance of a social life.

Merck took Vioxx off the market, because a study shows a heightened risk of heart attacks and strokes. For whatever reason, Vioxx never worked on me, so I wound up using Celebrex.