2 posts tagged “colorado”
I hate baseball. It's boring, it's slow, and just plain not fun to watch. I've been to two baseball games in my life and the ONLY reason they were at all enjoyable was because I was with a bunch of friends in the nosebleed section of Coors Field, so we weren't actually watching the game. Oddly enough I know the rules of baseball better than I know the rules of most other team sports, though I have no idea why since I never played baseball and have always disliked it.
But all that didn't prevent me from watching the first six innings of the Rockies game last night. The words "Rockies" and "good" seldom show up in sober conversation, and "Rockies" and "World Series" are only combined in the dizziest daydream of the most crazed fan. But we'sa goin' to tha World Series, baby!
This is definitely more a case of fierce Colorado pride rather than any sort of inner baseball fan coming out. It could be the Denver Curling team and I'd be just as stoked. *waves her CO flag*
Thursday night I had the brilliant idea of actually -looking- at my plane ticket, and saw that it was for January 12, not December 22 (though that wouldn't have mattered much since the Dec 22nd flight was canceled anyway). The woman at the airline said I could try to get on standby for a flight every day until the 26th, when I could guarantee a spot on a flight. Um, no? So I did some freaking out and then calmed down enough to contemplate my options, of which there was only one: bus. So I packed up my goods, bought a bus ticket online and cabbed it over to the Greyhound station in a lovely part of Philadelphia. 40-some hours later I find myself completely sleep-deprived, disgustingly dirty and bored out of my skull, finally getting off the bus in Denver. On the plus side I got to drive through something like 8 states, most of which I'd never been to (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia, Indiana, and probably some other state...oh and Colorado). I also got to see that eastern Colorado is exactly like Kansas: incredibly boring and flat. I got a laugh though when I saw a billboard advertising tours of Dorothy's house in Kansas. But anyway, if you ever have a choice to bus it or do ANY other form of transportation, don't bus it. Maybe I'm just an impatient snob, or maybe it was because I had already been traveling for two days and was already aching to be home, but it was not fun. Evil snow! Always raining on my parade.
But anyway, my parents picked me up and we came home so I could take a shower and put on some clothes that weren't alive with germs and stink. I got to see my doggie, I don't think she quite recognized me at first because she was a bit standoffish, but now she's fine and follows me around and stuff. We went to get Thai food for dinner which was delicious as always. It's weird to be home though, almost feels like I never left. My computer has all sorts of funky updates that it needs (helloooo there iTunes, when did you get so pretty?) and I have a lot of things to catch up on, like South of Nowhere season 2 that I FINALLY get to watch. Joy.
So yeah, that's it. Tomorrow is Christmas eve, which is totally weird because that's when we usually do everything, and this year we're not really doing anything. My grandpa is in the hospital because he has pneumonia and had to get minor surgery, and his lady friend is being a total nutcase about the whole thing and is trying to take over the situation, so that has my parents really stressed out. So he's going to be in the hospital for a couple more days, which means Christmas is just going to be me, Mom, Dad, Sarah and Patrick (Sarah's boyfriend), but I don't know what we're doing or when we're doing it. Christmas has always been about my Grandma Lind and Aunt Clara, and ever since they've died it hasn't been the same. This will be the second Christmas we've had without either of them, and last year we went on a cruise so it was weird and different anyway. This year is going to be way odd.
