Summer Adventure #2

I'm a planner, and some would consider having a week to plan a ball game is more than enough time. But not for me. Still, I ruled my second goal for the summer: go to a ball game.

How did I rule it you ask. Well, starting off with two Pepsi cans for $4 off Value Deck (i.e upper deck but behind home plate) seats, tickets for two were $16.00. But wait! $6 per ticket are loaded on to it for food or merchandise. I though "almost a small soda! Cool!" (To be fair, we brought Togo's sandwiches and two bottles of water and two bottles of soda.) Actually it amounted to nachos, a bottle of water and a regular soda, but I had to kick in an extra $.75. Ordinarily, I'd go nuts on food and drink from the water fountain (which I did) but it was the 7th inning and you can't take the money with you and I didn't want a pulled pork sandwich (which according to my receipt, I got). So in the freaking hot we enjoyed a cool beverage. 

The value of all of that was cancelled out by paying $17 for the priveledge of parking six isles from the box office. Tickets and food less than the parking. Sounds about right. It turned out to be a good thing since we came in with a hard plastic cooler and that's not allowed. (Because it's a weapon? People come in with umbrellas just waiting to take eyes out. Come on!) So a quick run back to the car and then we were ready to go. (I should have mentioned we were sporting our hats that we got from the game we went to last year. I love swag.)

Speaking of swag, it was beach towel day. Yes, these are thead bare, crappy, must wast separate from anything or risk the ink bleeding over your real clothes...but free!!!!! (I did some mild freaking out that they'd run out. It got bad when they sent us back because of the cooler. But all was well when we made it through the gate. And around the fifth inning, people were coming in and they got them too. (Grrr.)

There was also a guy taking pictures that we could see online. According to him they were free, but I guess it was free for them to take our likeness and use it how they want but we have to pay to get a print. Or $50 to download the image. Meh, I didn't look as cute as I thought so it's okay. I got my beach towel and tan so I'm good.

If you have to get technical on the price of gas, sunscreen(I had a coupon), food before the game, ect. of course it was more. But I look at the price of the game itself. It was a great day. And the bonus was I saw a Florida plate on the way there. Whooo! Could this get sweeter? 

Oh, right. The A's won. That doesn't usually happen when I'm there. Good times!

License Plate Update # 2

Wow, this is what I do now. Sad in a way. AND awesome. Amazing what you can find just in your own home town. I personally saw:

South Dakota
Kentucky

Fun times. How long before this starts to suck? (Don't answer that.)

License Plate Update

On my second adventure of spontaneous gambling and sad loss of a hundred bucks, (No, not playing, I literally left it in a redemption machine and walked away in a sleep deprived state. According to my mom, there was someone behind me who was nice enough to not inform me and walked off with my cash.) I saw on the way to Reno the following plates:

Colorado

Oklahoma

Minnesota

And for some reason saw New Mexico on the way to work this week. I'm getting closer. Whoo!

Summer Adventure

This year, as with last, I'm making a list of things I'd like to accomplish before the summer is over. The list isn't complete, but one is already done. I went out to Monterey just for clam chowder in a bread bowl. Yum.

On the way back I reverted back to my childhood days and started listing the license plate from different states. My dad said if we ever saw all fifty, we'd get a free trip to Japan. I didn't realize he was joking. But one year I did and kept asking when we'd get our free trip. Weirdly, I did go with my parents a few years ago. I love my dad.

So here's the list so far. Granted I'm not after a trip to Japan. This is about honor. Hmm, I guess it's Japan in spirit.

California

Texas

Nebraska

North Carolina

Nevada

Arizona

Alabama

Oregon

Washington

Idaho

Illinois

Test Your Might

This will make my misguided love of the 1995 Mortal Kombat film seem even more ridiculous by comparison. (Give me some credit. I was young and naive.) To the makers of this most likely movie I say a la Harry Dean Stanton: AVENGE ME! AVENGE ME!

Make full screen for complete awesomeness.

Spoiler Announcement

I had the "joy" of attending a graduation last weekend. Yes, it is a very special celebration, but the lines, stadium seating that kills the back, and constantly reading the program to see how many other speeches before we can take off and get lunch is grueling. 

This particular graduation had the distinction of a speaker with very impressive digital animation credentials. I will not mention which films he has worked on simply because I read about it in the program, it was mentioned in the introduction, he mentioned it in his speech and there were clips. I'm saturated in his credentials. But what I thought was interesting is that one of the clips featured a death scene at the end of the movie. Yes, it was a specific example of his contribution, but as I saw it and I listened to him say "where he dies" I wanted to scream out in the auditorium "SPOILER ALERT!" Would that have been wrong to yell it out in the middle of the speech? It can't be any more obnoxious than the guy with the air horn.

Now while this movie was over five years old, my urge to protect those who can still have a virgin movie experience is intense. I think this maybe the pop culture equivalent to sitting on a guy's lap when he has an erection. There is still so much more to experience, but a little has been taken from you. (Oh, this works for dudes too). 

So with that being said, I now have to go into pop culture exile because I'm going to miss the finale of Lost. My attempt to cram over a hundred episodes of the show before the finale was ruined by the fact that I have a life to live. Now when I get back from the awesome vacation with my best friend, we'll see how well I can do to keep my ignorance in tact. I bet it will somehow involve the island. (Sorry...SPOILER ALERT!)

Crush Update

Leave it to me to combine crush memories. As it turns out I havd a serious crushing moment when my boyfriends and I were watching The Office. It was the episode when (SPOILER ALERT) Jim and Pam were getting married. Pam was upset she ripped her veil and Jim without hesitation cut off half his tie. Yes, I had a moment and I needed to pause the DVD. That memory combined with me listening to the Nerdist Podcast. Tom Lennon was the inaugural interviewee. He is so freaking funny. I showed a picture of him to my boyfriend. He isn’t the conventional leading man and I like that about him. He was the awkward Simon Pegg-type crush forming. Whoo! Irritation averted.