Baseball Fever – catch it!

A while back, I mentioned a conversation with my most excellent brother-in-law, Tom, in which we talked about attending a Cubs Fan convention quite a few years ago. He mentioned his "Hugh Hefner" moment, walking into the banquet with my sister and me. Ha ha! I found the picture he took of me with Mike Bielecki, a Cubs pitcher at the time. This had to be around 1990 or so. Check it out…his pitching hand is on my shoulder. Oooo. You really can't see much of my dress, but who cares about the freakin' dress?! Look at that guy! I look pretty happy, don't I? Wouldn't you be, with that guy standing next to you? I have a picture of my sister-in-law Christine with him, too, and she looks just as happy. Honestly, he's one of the best-looking guys I've ever encountered in person. It was a meet-n-greet, so it's not like there was much conversation taking place, but I recall him being a nice, polite guy, and a good sport for letting so many people take his picture. I looked for a current picture of him, and hey, he's on Teh Bookface! We'll see if he 'friends' me. He's still pretty darn good-looking, too.

But of course, my hubby is the handsomest guy in the world to me, even if he doesn't play baseball! :)

Today has been a puttering day, chatting with my mother-in-law, getting some things done that I needed to do. The MacAfee antivirus that AOL provided expired, and in doing a little research, a lot of people weren't too happy with MacAfee's renewal rates and policies. So I went with Norton and got that installed on all three computers today. I feel so protected!

I did a load of laundry, and as I was putting the clothes in the washer, a spider dropped out of a pair of pants, and scuttled into the machine. I did one of those "Gahhh!" things and jumped back. He was a good-sized one, too...one of those brown spiders that make funnel-shaped webs in the grass and on shrubs. (There's one that has made a home on our mailbox. I leave him be, except I always blow on him when I go out to get the mail, and watch him run back into the bottom of his web.) Spidey went through a wash cycle, so I'm guessing that's one spider that won't be crawling up the spout again. Just watch...when I put on one of the T-shirts I washed today, a little spider corpse will drop out and freak me out all over again.