So now my pants don't fall down

[susandennis]

Because I'm cheap and lazy, I wear knit pull on pants with elastic waist - every day. I have them in black and gray and navy. When Walmart drops their price to $6 a pair, I stock up. They work fine, are really comfortable, wash well and suit me fine. Except. When I put a gynormous phone in the pocket. With that phone in my pocket I spend all day hiking up my pants. I do it without thinking.

The smaller Pixel does not pull my pants down and it is very cool not to be hiking up my pants every few minutes! ahhhhh technology.

This morning is house cleaner morning. I'll probably use the time she is here to nip out to Grocery Outlet. I need eggs and tortillas. And maybe take my walk. It's a very nearly balmy 47 degrees out.

I just flipped over to February in my Google calendar to check something and saw that the Spring Training games start on the 25th! I have it set to add all Mariner games automagicaly. I saw on Twitter that all 16 home Spring Training games will be on TV this year. And, this year, I finally have the wifi bandwidth back in the sewing room to actually watch the game on my tablet (via TiVo). So yeah!!

Also I see that my Amazon Prime membership payment is finally due in February. For awhile there, I had so many issues - mainly delivery - that every time they gave me a free month. I haven't had one in a while so soon it will actually be time to pay the piper. It is certainly worth the $ - about 10 times over!

Now I need to walk through the house and make sure everything is picked up and put away so Amira can clean.

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[amw.livejournal.com]

Funny story about the Mariners and Spring Training. When my ex and I were in Vancouver, we booked tickets to a Mariners game. She was (is?) a massive baseball fan, and it was (is?) her dream to visit every MLB ballpark. Anywho, we booked a Greyhound and a hotel, got to Seattle only to realize that the game was in Arizona. After much pleading with the ticketing agents, we got a refund and decided to walk past the stadium to take photos from the outside anyways. Turned out the stadium was open, and we got in just before a group of Japanese tourists, so got to sneak along on a tour of the field, going out on the diamond and hanging in the dugouts and everything. That was our first - we subsequently went to the Toronto stadium (home team) and stadiums in Boston and the Bronx too, but that one was special because it happened by accident. Now we are divorced and living in different countries, but we'll always have Safeco Field in Spring.

[susandennis]

Very cool. Before I got to the end I wondered/hoped it was Safeco (and not the Kingdome which would not have been as much fun). But, still great great story.

In the late 80's I was sent to Toronto on business. I had very full days - then 2 days with nothing - then more very full days. So, on the two days with nothing I made a beeline for the baseball stadium. I ended up sitting in a section of very tight knit fans - all season ticket holders and one couple from Sault St. Marie. This was in the old (horrible) Veterans Stadium and it was probably the most fun game I ever watched.

The group adopted me and the couple from Sault St. Marie. They filled my two empty days with tours and meals and another baseball game and one of the greatest memories of my life. I have loved Toronto ever since.

Baseball makes good memories, yes?

[amw.livejournal.com]

It certainly does!

I didn't grow up in North America, so I don't have the cultural association that many Americans and natural born Canadians do (I am naturalized). In the Commonwealth I guess cricket should fill that gap, but it doesn't, really. There is something quite unique about baseball, even if you enjoy other sports more for their pure entertainment value. (I like basketball and professional wrestling myself.)

Going to a ballgame has some kind of historic weight to it that I haven't felt at other sporting events. Perhaps it is closer to soccer, in Europe at least. But soccer fans take themselves much too seriously. Baseball manages to balance reverence for tradition with a delightful child-like wonder. A remarkable slice of American culture.

Thanks for sharing your Toronto story :) It is a pretty lovely city, and Canadians in general are pretty great too - it's why I decided to become one!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

This was in the old (horrible) Veterans Stadium

Veterans was in Philadelphia. I tried without success to remember the name of the old Toronto stadium, but Wikipedia says it was Exhibition.

[susandennis]

ahhhh. well, whatever it was called, it was still a crappy place to play a baseball game!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

it was (is?) her dream to visit every MLB ballpark.

I have that dream too. I don't think I'm likely to fulfill it.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Now I need to walk through the house and make sure everything is picked up and put away so Amira can clean.

This is why we don't hire a cleaner, tempting thought the idea is. Picking up and putting away everything that's lying around would be a major undertaking.

[susandennis]

Oh that's the part I like. It forces me to put stuff away - at least once every two weeks!