We’ll Get Up Again.
Nov. 9th, 2012 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dodger_sisterI meant to make this post last week, but then Sandy hit and the World Series seemed less important suddenly. And then my Halloween fic came back from beta and then the election happened. So now…let’s talk a few things.
Not only did the Tigers lose the World Series, but we got completely swept, losing the first four games right off the bat. Ugh, boo. For the record, my appreciation for the San Francisco Giants has turned bitter. No amount of adorable flirty fanfic about their pitchers and cute little talented catcher will sway me now. San Francisco, you’re officially on my list!
This is the problem with being overly invested in these things. What an anti-climatic letdown that was. Still, I am going to get myself an American League Champions shirt because the Tigers are still amazeballs and that was an awesome season! And I still hate The Yankees. This year was the 11th ALCS win for the Tigers since they were founded in 1894...112 seasons, all of them in Detroit! Just wish we hadn’t got swept so bad in The World Series.
And now baseball season is over and…/gasp/…I can go back to filling my days reading fanfic! I know, you’re all shocked.
In other news that makes me sad-face, Halloween kind of blew. The BFF was sick and didn’t come down. Half of our tombstones were ripped or destroyed. It was too cold out to do our witches theme in the front yard. And we only got, maybe, 1/3 of our usual trick-or-treaters. Both the weather and those stupid trunk-or-treat things kept them away. (Raise your hand if you know what Trunk-Or-Treat is - I am curious as to what other states have this.) We sat for an entire hour without a single trick-or-treater. Finally we got about 30 kids and my sister gave away the candy in handfuls, because it was obvious that we weren’t going to get our usual 150+ kids. Of course, after she gave away the candy, we got 20 more kids at the door and I had to send them away empty-handed. The whole thing was a bust.
Here’s to next year, I guess.
Finally, on a better note, I would like to take a minute to say ‘THANK YOU’ to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizibabes, denig37 and vikingprincess for the V-gifts of Halloween cookies. I think I am really hungry right now because suddenly I am craving cookies coated in delicious sugary frosting.
Not only did the Tigers lose the World Series, but we got completely swept, losing the first four games right off the bat. Ugh, boo. For the record, my appreciation for the San Francisco Giants has turned bitter. No amount of adorable flirty fanfic about their pitchers and cute little talented catcher will sway me now. San Francisco, you’re officially on my list!
This is the problem with being overly invested in these things. What an anti-climatic letdown that was. Still, I am going to get myself an American League Champions shirt because the Tigers are still amazeballs and that was an awesome season! And I still hate The Yankees. This year was the 11th ALCS win for the Tigers since they were founded in 1894...112 seasons, all of them in Detroit! Just wish we hadn’t got swept so bad in The World Series.
And now baseball season is over and…/gasp/…I can go back to filling my days reading fanfic! I know, you’re all shocked.
In other news that makes me sad-face, Halloween kind of blew. The BFF was sick and didn’t come down. Half of our tombstones were ripped or destroyed. It was too cold out to do our witches theme in the front yard. And we only got, maybe, 1/3 of our usual trick-or-treaters. Both the weather and those stupid trunk-or-treat things kept them away. (Raise your hand if you know what Trunk-Or-Treat is - I am curious as to what other states have this.) We sat for an entire hour without a single trick-or-treater. Finally we got about 30 kids and my sister gave away the candy in handfuls, because it was obvious that we weren’t going to get our usual 150+ kids. Of course, after she gave away the candy, we got 20 more kids at the door and I had to send them away empty-handed. The whole thing was a bust.
Here’s to next year, I guess.
Finally, on a better note, I would like to take a minute to say ‘THANK YOU’ to
lizibabes, denig37 and vikingprincess for the V-gifts of Halloween cookies. I think I am really hungry right now because suddenly I am craving cookies coated in delicious sugary frosting.
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Date: 2012-11-09 10:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, my Halloween wasn't as much fun as I wanted either. I was feeling incredibly tired and so wasn't able to do a costume. The kids at school did neat things but I think the upper respiratory infection that whalloped me yesterday was working on me then.
*hugs* I feel you on the sports teams. The Eagles were playing in the Super Bowl my first year in New Zealand, I took the day off work and took my Kiwi boyfriend to a sports bar to watch the game. The Eagles lost, they did great but lost and it hurt. The Phillies have done okay but I don't follow them as much, but as someone from a town with not so great sports teams, I know that investing and let down feeling.
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Date: 2012-11-11 12:33 am (UTC)Right? I actually think it makes the most sense in a bigger city - some place where you have a lot of apartment buildings (because trick or treating inside a building never really works) or some place where you have unsafe neighborhoods. But even the ghetto here is mild in comparision to larger cities. Detroit, they could use Trunk or Treat. Here, it just feels like it is un-promoting community living by taking the trick-or-treaters out of their own neighborhood. I hate our damn neighborhood kids all year long - playing in our yard, running up and down the street screaming, tossing their crap on our sidewalk - Halloween is the one time of year I want to see the neighbor kids, you know. :)
Ugh, I am sorry your Halloween sucked too. A costume would have been a cool way to show off a little for your students. Everyone was kind of grossly sick for Halloween it seems - bummer. That respiratory thing you got going on just sounds utterly dreadful. You have to get better, woman, so you can come here and be around the cats without having a major setback. Bring lots of cold medication! Also, do you have a dehumidifier? That might help. Feel better!
*hugs* I feel you on the sports teams.
It's so disheartening when they make it that far and then get completely stomped. I would like to say, "Well at least they played great," but they didn't. They didn't even look like the same team out there on the field, to be honest.
The Eagles were playing in the Super Bowl my first year in New Zealand, I took the day off work and took my Kiwi boyfriend to a sports bar to watch the game.
A chance to show him how your home team does it..and they blew it! Oh man, that had to hurt.
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Date: 2012-11-11 04:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, that Super Bowl was hard but it could have been worse. For a football game, it was pretty fast paced and intense and close as well. So the Eagles did a lot better than they could have, it still sucked.