Days Away

The past few weeks have been a blur. I was at the beach twice and went to Phili.

I joined a soft-ball team. This is the worst soft-ball team every created. Our first game, first hitter (batter I think is the correct term - you can see where we are with this) slid into first base. But not really. In reality, she face planted half way to first. Hilarious. We have a foreign girl on our team who had never heard of base-ball. She made it to first, but didn't know she had to run to second. Apparently you get two outs from having two people on first. Who knew. As an outfielder I spent a large amount of time begging strange men passing in the park to throw the ball in for me. This leads us to our 1-22 score. Sweet.

Yesterday I had to take my cat to the vet because he was pooping blood. The vet fixed his behind, but something is wrong with his personality now. My soft baby kitty is now a ferocious beast. I could not dislodge him from his cage at the vet. I almost lost a hand. We finally captured him in a small box and the vet laughing gassed him. No one laughed. The dead-weight cat was moved to his crate. He is now fine.

Last night was the Dave Matthews Band concert, which, after the monsoon, rocked. We met a sailor named Daniel. He shared our blanket. He has deployed to Miami. Thank goodness, someone has got to keep the whores in line. That is not a deployment I told him; That is a vacation. He was insulted. I am officially an Army wife.

I slept over at my girlfriends house who lives closer to the concert and closer to work. This morning I clogged her toilet. I ran around her house searching for a plunger. Luckily, I perfected my plunging skills a few weeks ago when I tossed a wod of paper towels in my toilet at home. Not good. Joe of course called while I was frantically searching for a plunger. I am exhausted. I did not drop the phone in the toilet and that was good. That would have only improved my day. I was only into my day, so far, 45 minutes.

I have been cleaning for weeks. I grocery shopped for the first time in a while too. I am redefining "perfect" to be more inclusive of the rest of us.