Red Sox Game 4
Victory 14-8 over the Baltimore Orioles

What a great day today was, all things considered!

Went to school to sub this morning, and much to my dismay found out they didn't need me due to a mix up. But, I got to work with the Young 5's through 5th grade all day in the elementary carnival in the gym. Pretty fun stuff, despite it being...you know...like a elementary carnival. A scary moment occurred when one of the special education students who rides in a wheelchair threw a dart (yes, they put me in charge of the dart game--with real metal tips) and it ended up hitting him between the eyes. Don't ask. I also got to teach the kindergarten kids for about a half hour and made candy cheeseburgers with them.

Took a nap and finished cleaning, in preparation for my 'blind' date. This is the only down side of the day. She calls me at 5:00 and says that she has a paper that must be finished by tomorrow, so she was wondering if we could cancel. I told her it was really the only night I could hang out due to a work switch (another girl and I traded shifts). Eventually she said she'd try to finish by 7:00, which I said was fine. She called again at 6:50 and said she would need till 7:45 to finish up. Then, she called again at 7:30 and said that she was leaving her mom's house and to pick her up at 8:00. So I was thinking that great...perhaps I'll get stood up again. So I go there at 8:00 with my orange rose in tow, and eventually she comes out. We head back to my place and make small talk. Amazingly, our personalities match up great, even if all our interests don't. I felt like I knew her, and could easily talk to her, so that was a huge plus. She also saw the other 11 roses (4 pink, 4 yellow, and 4 orange). We got down to making dinner, and it was a highly enjoyable experience with her telling me some of her wild stories and me telling her some about me. She seems like a pretty cool person. When we clean up the dishes, I was going to walk to the video store with her, but she is worried about her paper, so she says she'd rather go home. I understood fine, but to my delight, she said that we should get together next Friday and meet again. Who knows...maybe it wasn't so bad after all. I couldn't really tell how she felt about me...but that's fair, as I'm not sure how I feel about her. I must say though, that she was very pretty in person, and I wasn't disappointed in that regard.

A few notes about her...
-Born and raised in Marquette
-Lived in Seattle for sometime...not sure when
-Likes her alcohol...which has caused her to get in more than a few serious situations. Enough about that one on here...
-She and her family are 'wine connoisseurs'
-She is moving down by the beach
-She likes Mario Kart!
-She loves scary movies!
-She is 19 years old until July. I did figure her to be 20 already.

*Side note...didn't really realize this until after the fact, but in addition to purchasing my first alcohol from a store, and consuming my first alcohol at home, I also have now provided alcohol to a minor for the first time. Oh well, there goes that.

After that ordeal, I went to Nate's and met him and Karen. We finally decided on the casino, and I brought my friend Sarah along. It was a fun time, and I was sucking it up. I was trying to only spend 10 dollars, but who knew what was about to happen. I had spent the 10 dollar bills, and had but 3 dollar coins left. I put one into a 25 cent video poker and won a little, then a little more. Then I hit four of a kind, and made a cool 13 dollars. Karen physically pulled me away from the machine (everyone else was done at that point) but I fought her off and kept playing, eventually deciding I would put all the coins in until I had 10 dollars left in my pocket, to break even. Well, I won several more small pots, then hit that damn four of a kind again. So I ended up with 28 dollars--18 of it to the good! Now there's a first!

Combine all that with a Boston victory and sole possession of first place and it was a pretty damn good day. :0 :)

PS, WTF...the Detroit Tigers and the Milwaukee Brewers are the last two undefeated teams. How the hell does something like that happen? Oh yeah, its the first week of the season. Get ready for the choke.

Night all!