Ok, the hellish post-semester meeting stretch has ended. A few bullet points for the week:

On Tuesday night both T and S had their first baseball games. I attended T’s and M and N attended S’s. Both boys played well. S, in machine pitch, got on base twice. T hit a single and got hit by a pitch. At one point T stopped between 2nd and 3rd on a steal but still (barely) reached third. I froze my ASS off on the sidelines, by the way. The temps were below fifty and the wind blew strong. My sleeping bag kept me somewhat warm but kept blowing off my lap. Yes, I’m a wuss, I know.

Yesterday was long boring meeting hell day. I survived. God, I love working at a place where I can get up and walk out of boring meetings without repercussions. Yay tenure. One of the floor queens tried to get under my skin but you know, I’m better this year than in the past to letting that slide.

I’ve worked out a few times this week but I’ve been eating like shit. Hope my behavior evens out, at least.

Did I mention I finished “Outlander”? I’m reading “Alternadads: The True Story of One Family’s Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America” now. So far so good. The author lived in Rogers Park and nails the neighborhood in the first forty pages. A couple weeks ago I read “Know It All”; if you like that book, you’ll like “Alternadads”.

http://www.amazon.com/Alternadad-Story-Familys-Struggle-America/dp/1400095581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212184892&sr=8-1

Today’s weather is beautiful, warm and breezy. M and I sat under the gazebo and talked this afternoon. We have N’s baseball practice at 6. The boys are throwing hard enough to warrant wearing a baseball glove, so I dug my ancient first baseman glove (with my original phone number written in my mom’s handwriting on the leather) out of the garage. Fun. We’ll play some baseball while N’s practicing. Tomorrow I’ll finish the garden. Tomorrow night we’re at the Brewers/Astros game with the little league.

By the way, we’re kind of broke. Not sure why. That’s ok. I don’t need anything (except maybe mulch).

More later. Cool Friday night. I’m feeling fine.