My Favorite Place to Be

There is one place I love to be more than anywhere else. School. Joking, obviously, I hate that place. If I could pick anywhere in the world to live it would probably be Busch Stadium. The atmosphere, especially during playoff games, and the players are my two favorite parts about it. The too expensive food and drinks I could do without, but they're awesome there and let you bring your own drinks in so that helps to save money.

Anyways, Cardinals baseball is my happy season. It may be because they are so good and I can count on them to always be playing on my birthday, but for some reason I love those boys dressed in red and white. If you've been following along since I started this little blog you would know how much I love them. If not, then just check it out here, here, here, and here.

So last Tuesday when one of my friends told me she had four free tickets, Nick and I jumped on them quick! We went with her and her husband and sat on the third base foul line. The entire game I wanted a foul ball to come flying at us from Matt Carpenter, but that never happened. That's okay though Carp (since I know you're reading this) I'll forgive you this time. 

Tuesday night the guys also got their NLCS rings before the game started. It was neat to see that because the hall of famers came back for their rings too.

Friday night was a Cardinals vs. Cubs game and I had bought the tickets back in February for Nick's anniversary present. We started out four rows behind the Cubs dugout in the bleacher section but when we realized one of my friends was also there we ended up sitting three rows from the field in the bleacher section with her. The end of the game was not what I wanted (the Cubs won in 11 innings) but I'm glad Nick enjoyed it because he doesn't get to see them play that often since we live down here. I also got my Michael Wacha bobble head, so that was really all I needed. Well, and maybe a home run ball from Carpenter, but once again, I'll forgive him.

That's Peter Borjous. In case you were wondering, that rhymes with gorgeous. Which is appropriate for our new center fielder. Now if he could just pick up his bat.

And, because we can't get enough sports in one month, we will be attending games 2 and 5 of the Stanley Cup Playoff series between the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks. I will admit, I am a Blackhawks fan and not a Blues fan. But that's because I didn't watch hockey before Nicholas came along and since he's a die hard Hawks fan I just kind of became one too. So hopefully they kick some Blues butt!

Keeping Up

For some reason lately I have just been feeling so discouraged when it comes to writing. I don't know what it is, but I haven't felt like I have had any good ideas or anything useful or fun to say. However, while I was sitting here trying to come up with something today a thought struck me. Why do I have to write to impress other people? Shouldn't I be writing just for myself? Isn't that the whole reason I started this little blog? I have been so worried about followers and gaining new ones and keeping old ones that I have lost track of why I really started this blog. I have found myself recently wishing that I had a BBFF and wondering how all of these amazing women have made so many wonderful friendships. And then I remembered that they are probably just writing for themselves and about what they think is important or fun.

I am starting to realize that not only in life but here on the little piece of the internet, that I need to just be myself and if someone doesn't like me for me then screw them. The people who are true friends will stick around with me and love me for who I am and not what I can do for them. I needed this little reality check for both aspects of my life because I just haven't been feeling myself lately and I really think it is due in part to trying to be someone I'm not. I am always trying to impress people by doing things I think they will like or being a certain way and I was starting to lose sight of who I really am. 

I'm sorry for such a boring post. Actually, no I'm not. This is who I am and how I'm feeling, which is why I started this post in the first place. If you're ever feeling like you are losing sight of yourself be it here on a blog or in real life or somewhere else in your life, don't worry, people will love you for you. I will be the first one to tell you that true friends will be there no matter what and the people who don't like you for being yourself don't matter. Or in the words of Dr. Seuss, "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." 

A Puppy Photoshoot

First off, I know I suck at this whole posting thing. But like I said in my last post, I just haven't been feeling like myself lately and in turn that has caused me to just not feel like posting. It's a long story that I won't bore all of you with. However, what I will show you is the photoshoot I had with Luke Sunday.

The weather here has been so crappy for the past 23425432 months and Sunday it was finally nice enough to go outside and play. So we did. And he loved it. Actually, he just loved eating sticks. And trying to chew the bark off the tree. But I was able to bribe him with sticks to get him to sit still for .2 seconds to take a picture.

Luke and I cannot wait until we actually have a big yard for him to run and play in. But he absolutely loved playing outside. I am so ready for the weather to be nice again so we can play outside more often. And then we went inside and he decided to be a brat and pee in the house. So that's cool...

I did make him some awesome homemade treats that were like superrrrr difficult to make. I mean so difficult that I didn't know if I was going to be able to put a spoonful of yogurt and peanut butter in the ice trays and freeze them over night. However, he loved those super difficult to make treats and ate three in five minutes because I can't say no to him. I have a problem..