Presumed to be awesome.

1. Cramps suck the joy right out of my day. DNW. And there is apparently not enough ibuprofen in the world to make them go away today. Owie!

2. NOOOOO!!!! The D'backs traded Conor Jackson to the A's for a RHP that, unless he's the second coming of Christ, is not going to have enough miracle in him to fix the complete clusterfuck that is our bullpen. My annoyance with our front office knows no bounds right now. *glares* Mostly though, I'M GONNA MISS CONNOR'S PRETTY FAAAAACE!!! *sadface*

3. Adam Lambert is coming to my neighborhood!!!!! Almost quite literally. He's playing the Marquee Theater in Tempe on August 1st. You damn well better know that I'll be there. *g* It's a GA show, and if azewewish and I can elbow are way to within a few feet of the stage for a Down show, Glamberts stand no chance against me! *evil cackle* 5 cities, 7 Glam Nation shows, plus Gaga. July is going to be the best month ever! Or, you know, it will completely kill me. Either way, I cannot wait!

4. If you haven't seen Adam's music video for 'If I Had You,' GO NOW! Makes me wanna dance under the moon! What? Just me? Sorry for your life if you've never done this!!! *g*

5. How to silence the annoying buzzing noise so you can watch the World Cup without wanting to kill someone. I've not tried this yet and it looks a good deal more complicated than the mute button, but it might be worth the trouble in order to get commentary to a sport I only really watch for the hot guys. *g*

6. I did an upper body workout yesterday and today I can barely lift my pen. I may have overdone it. :(

7. There's apparently race!fail in SPN fandom again. I don't know many of the details, but it has me thinking about how characters of color are written in general that I'll probably put up in a separate post later because I'd love to have a discussion with all the smart people, and particularly all the smart writers, on my flist about it. But, if you have thoughts on or links to the current kerfluffle, I welcome the edumacation!

ETA: A few more things:
8. Adam has announced a show in New Orleans!!!!! September 12! GLAM NATION IN NOLA!!!! Fuck yeah! I haven't been to New Orleans since October before last, so this definitely calls for at least a long weekend of shenanigans in that most awesome of cities! Who's with me???

9. Goddamn Matthew Morrison. *bites lip*



(More of that gorgeous photo shoot here.)

- Any day that the D'backs beat the Dodgers is a good one. It's especially good when said win snaps a 7 game losing streak at Dodger Stadium. Now, um, if we could work on inching a bit closer to .500 I'd feel a lot better about life.

- Conor Jackson is making his acting debut this week in an episode of 'General Hospital'!!! The hilarity of this cannot be overstated! Conor, who's been too damn sick to play any baseball of late, will be earning his lunch as an actor in a soap opera! *laughs*

- President Obama has declared June to be LGBT Pride Month!!! I ♥ our President so hard!!!

- As is everything Adam related, pictures of him out on the town with his boy are ridiculously happy-making!


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Friday my brother, mom, Rianna, Rhyan, and I all went to the D'backs/Dodgers game. The girls were all decked out in their D'backs gear. The cameraman loved Rhyan and Rianna because we were on the jumbo tron 5 times during the course of the game! Seriously, every time I looked up, there we were. It was a bit disconcerting after a while. Rianna, of course, thought it was the coolest thing ever. And Rhyan was just busy lapping up all the attention she could from everyone around us. Good times!

( Family night at the ballpark! )

It was a good game, with the D'backs winning it 9-4. In the first week of season, the only two games that the D'backs have won have been the two games that I've been at. Obviously, I NEED to be at the ballpark more often! For the good of the team, of course. *g*

We had great seats, just behind the home dugout. So, naturally, I took lots of pictures. Although I didn't take as many as I normally would have, as I was trying to keep up with a very wiggly 1 year old who was hamming it up for the jumbo tron!

( Hot baseball players!!! )

Saturday was spent working. I'm going to be in trial for the next two weeks, staring Tuesday, so I spent most of the day at the jail going over last minute details with my client. For the record, spending the afternoon at the county jail is NOT my idea of a fun Saturday! It was an awesomely rainy and cloudy day, too -- the kind where you just want to curl up with a good book and laze about the house. We don't get very many of those 'round these parts, so it felt like a wasted opportunity. *shrugs* Oh, well. You do what you gotta do.

Today, however, was significantly better as I decided to ignore work for most of the day! We celebrated Easter in our non-religious, candy-filled way at a park. Lots of good food, kiddos having fun with their Easter egg hunt, more desserts than should be legal. Good times! :)

( Rianna and Rhyan in their pretty Easter dresses! )

I hope y'all had a great weekend too!

Oh, man, I really missed baseball! Please don't ever leave me again! *clings*

Ahem. So, yes, the D'backs Home Opener was made of AWESOME with a side of FANTABULOUS!!!!!! We beat the Rockies 9-8, in what turned out to be a really great slug-fest. I have about two million pictures, or perhaps just slightly less than that, that I will post as soon as I find my USB cable. *searches in vain* Unsurprisingly, I have lots of great shots of Chris Snyder (who is looking especially HOT this year). I also took a bunch of pictures of Stephen Drew, Eric Byrnes, Augie Ojeda, and Rockies' catcher Chris Ianetta, with several of my flisters in mind.

Some of the day's highlights:

- A touching pre-game tribute to Marquis Cooper, with his dad and local sportscaster, Bruce Cooper, throwing out the first pitch. *sniff*

- Garlic fries and cold beer!!! Yum!

- Muhammad Ali in the crowd.

- Felipe Lopez, our new second baseman, hitting a home run during his first at bat. And then repeating the feat in the 4th inning from the other side of the plate. He can stay! *g*

- Tony Clark's two home-runs, also from opposite sides of the plate, something that major league baseball hadn't seen since 2000 and never before on Opening Day. Go boys!!!

- Chad Tracy also hit one out and Chris Snyder had a lovely RBI double.

- It was great to see Eric Byrnes on the field. I missed his crazy hair and his even crazier theme song!!! *sings I just wanna use your love* Also, his team pictures look as if they were ripped from his 70's porn star portfolio. They are hysterical!!!

- By some miracle of divine benediction, Conor Jackson has somehow gotten HOTTER since September! I don't understand how this is possible either!!!

- CHRIS SNYDER!!!!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ (That doesn't really need any further explanation, does it? *g*)

In conclusion: BASEBALL IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My life is complete.

Today has been made of monumental suckitude. I'm having technical issues like woah with both my t.v. and my laptop. There may or may not be major work changes in the very near future. Any such potential work changes will likely fuck in some way with my plans for a birthday weekend in L.A. later this month, my trip to New Orleans in October, and maybe even my ability to take the California bar exam in February. But all of that is way too stressful to think about tonight when I can't do anything about any of it, so instead I shall tell y'all about my weekend of BASEBALL AWESOMENESS!!!

So, while the series against the Braves, as a whole, was really rough for my Diamondbacks (we only managed one win and lost Orlando Hudson to a broken wrist on Saturday night), we came out of it still a game and a half ahead of the Dodgers (thank you Giants!), and I personally had a blast at the ballpark four days in a row. I love seeing both the D'Backs and the Braves play ball. I got to see my two favorite HOTASS catchers, Chris Snyder and Brian McCann! Not to mention the sex on legs that is Conor Jackson and the always fun to look at Chipper Jones! Brandon Webb pitched a beautiful game on Sunday. We got to enjoy all four games from absolutely phenomenal seats. Seriously, the games were happening literally right in front of us. And, the best part, is that I got to share all the baseball goodness with azewewish!!!

See? We're obviously having a blast. And I even got Brenda to don some Diamondbacks gear under her Braves jersey! \o/



And, because one of the joys of baseball is the really hot men, I give you some of the weekend's eye candy. ( HOT BASEBALL PLAYERS! )

I have about a billion more pictures from the weekend here. It shouldn't surprise anyone that MANY of those pictures are of Chris Snyder or Brian McCann, or, best of all, Chris and Brian in the same picture! *g*

Now I'm off to engage in some more hot men therapy in the form of the Olympics and, particularly the Chinese mens' gymnastics team and the hot male swimmers!!! \o/