Fightin' Phils

It was raining again when I originally woke up this morning. I was going to do Yogawood, but not in a downpour. I slept in instead. It was still raining when I finally dragged myself out of bed around 10:30, but the rain gradually stopped. It was just cloudy and damp when I started cleaning the kitchen. By the time I was baking a Pumpkin-Apple Spice Cake, the sun was even trying to break out.

Work was surprisingly steady, given the weather and the fact that this is the middle of the week and the end of the month. I'm assuming everyone was stocking up for the first World Series game between the Phillies and the Yankees tonight. This was confirmed when it cleared around around 7:30 and was stone-cold dead for my last hour or so at work.

Oh, and speaking of the World Series, at press time, the Phillies are up by two in the middle of the 7th inning.

We are the Champions

First of all...Yay! The Philadelphia Phillies FINALLY won their first World Series title since 1980 tonight! I knew SOMETHING was up when I heard fireworks and booms and pops in the direction of South Philly. Shame the trees haven't shed enough leaves yet for me to see the fireworks...

Other than that, this was a very quiet day. I had fairly early work at 11AM. Work was on-and-off busy, no major problems. I got in quickly, despite the wind, and my relief was on time. I had a really nice ride to and from work, too. Windy days sure work your cardiovascular system! It was windy, partly cloudy, and still cold, but neither were as bad as yesterday.

I was going to clean the bathroom when I got home, but by the time I got in, changed, and took out the trash, it was really too late to drag out all the cleaning items. I ended up baking Ginger Cookies instead. I needed to refill my cookie jar.

Balancing Rain and Shine

I awoke to a lovely morning. The sun was shining, and though it was windy, it was neither too hot nor too cold for the time of year. I was a bit surprised at the lack of people at Yogawood. The 9:30 class wasn't nearly as full as last week's, just six women, one man, and the teacher Jill. Perhaps all those mothers are getting their children ready for Halloween.

I wish I were doing better with Yoga. I keep trying as much as I can, but I'm just not in the same place most of the other students are. I still can't really do handstands, and my balance is just awful. I can't stand on one foot for more than a few seconds. I do keep trying, and I do intend to continue the classes for as long as I can. I just wish it wasn't so obvious that I'm a novice. Maybe I'd feel more like I fit in.

I stopped at the thrift shop after class to say "hi" to Erica and to drop off a bunch of videos and cassettes that I was donating along with the CDs that FYE didn't want. The store was very busy. Probably a lot of people looking around for Halloween costumes, for themselves or others.

I went straight home after that, grabbed my laundry, and went over to Uncle Ken's to do this week's load. That mostly went well. Uncle Ken and Dolores was home. They were doing laundry, but not until a bit later. I ran the DVD and videos I took out of the Oaklyn Library back and bought deli ham while the laundry was in the dryer. I spent the rest of the afternoon after that working on editing some of our remaining role-play short stories.

Today was my late work shift. It was steady early on, dead by the time I got out. I didn't realize why it was so dead until I rolled out of the store and felt cold raindrops on my nose. I saw heavy clouds on the horizon as I rode to work this afternoon, but I thought nothing of it until I found myself riding home in a freezing shower. I probably should have called Dolores or Uncle Ken, but it wasn't raining that hard when I went home, and anyway it's a pain in the rear end to wait around for them. I did manage to get home before the rain got much worse. It's pouring as I write this. It's raining so hard, tonight's World Series game ended prematurely and will supposedly finish tomorrow.

Weather Only Fit for Ducks and Baseball Fans

I woke up late and barely made it to work on time, ignoring a light rain that barely dampened my pants. Work was busy today, not really crazy but steady. I got in and out with no problems and my relief was on time. After I got in, I went right back out again to run to CVS to get eggs. Though the rain was still only light as I rode home, it picked up when I went out, and was on-and-off for the rest of the evening.

I stopped briefly at Uncle Ken's and got to chat with his girlfriend Dolores. Uncle Ken is going in for treatments for a bump on his neck (I forget what she said it is), so this weekend will be his last football party for a while. Alas, I won't be there. Unless the game's bumped, the Eagles-Falcons game is at 1PM tomorrow and I work noon to 4.

Speaking of Philly sports, the only people crazy enough to be out there tonight were fowls and people catching foul balls. It continued to rain on-and-off, sometimes heavily, until about an hour ago. It's been insanely windy, too. The weather did delay the World Series, but it went on and the Phillies are winning 1-0 at press time.

Oh, and I'm going to be posting a whole bunch of short stories Lauren and I have written in the past few weeks at our Monkees role-play site as soon as I finish here, including several Halloween stories and a few pertinent to the main spring stories. I hope you enjoy them. This will be the last batch for a while. Lauren and I start our extra-long NaNoWrite story soon, and it's likely there won't be anything else posted until around Thanksgiving.

World Series

Today begins the World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies, the first time the Phils have made it to the championship since 1993. The Acme held a small party in the back room in the Phillies' honor. There was a pizza-pan-sized chocolate cookie with fudge icing, two pans of brownies (I didn't finish the one I had - it was burnt and hard around the edges), Patrice the Stock Manager's sponge cake with cherry Jello swirl and Cool Whip icing, and a huge bowl of "pretzel chips," thin, crispy, twice-baked pretzels donated by the deli. It was a lot of fun, and I had a great time chatting with my fellow employees. Probably helped that the store was steady-to-dead today, with no major customer problems and no problems coming in or getting out. (In stark contrast to yesterday, my relief was early.)

It was a nice day, still very windy but not too cold, about what it should be this time of year. I dropped my lunch bag in the kitchen when I got home and went right back out again for a walk down the White Horse Pike. I stopped at the Oaklyn Library on the way home and rented two Winnie the Pooh Halloween specials and the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. (Actually, one is a prime-time Pooh special, Boo To You Too!. The other is three spooky-oriented episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh collected under the title of the first one, Frankenpooh.)

I watched the Pooh special and a Disney movie I picked up from a yard sale, An Extremely Goofy Movie, during dinner. A direct-to-video follow up to the Disney Afternoon cartoon Goof Troop and it's theatrical spin-off A Goofy Movie, this is the surprisingly sweet tale of Goofy's attempt to stick with his son Max after he goes to college. Goofy apparently hasn't been on a college campus since the seventies, which leads to some hilarious moments (check out Goofy with that mile-high afro!) and a disco-heavy soundtrack. (Loved the cute version of "Right Back To Where We Started From" over the end credits.)