The last 5 months

Ok, so I am not doing a great job at keeping my blog current...I'll try better.

Updates:

I went to Spring Training! I love the Twins and spring training is definitely the best place for a fan. You get to see the players up close and it is just a fantastic setting. Plus you are in Florida during winter which doesn't hurt either.

Here is Allie and I at Hammond Stadium in Ft. Myers watching our first spring training game:

I wasn't lying about seeing them up close:

The season is now underway and I have been busy watching as many games as possible. I am trying to hit one game from every home series and so far I have made it. That makes it 16 games so far this season and we are only half way over.

I have also been extremely busy with work. Now, I am far from loving my job, however, I am starting to enjoy parts of it. I am making an effort to concentrate on the parts I like and deal with and move on from the parts that make me want to pull out my hair. I am currently far to lazy to look for a new job in an economy that isn't stable and don't feel like putting in the effort to learn how to do a new job. So, for now I will stay where I am.

I got to meet my favorite author. She is Jen Lancaster and if you are a girl and have not read a book by her I suggest you pick one up immediately! Her books are memoirs and she is one of the funniest people I have ever met. I suggest starting with Bitter is the New Black.

I am horrible when meeting a "celebrity" that I love. I am not the type that screams and goes crazy, I am the type that is silent and slightly mumbles. I wish I could be the type to talk and tell them how fantastic they are and how much I like their work, however, I never seem to be able to. Jen (cause were close now) complemented me on my shirt and I mustered a thank you. I did ask for a picture and afterwards I mumbled that she smelt good. She liked the compliment on her good smelling nature, but I was ashamed that I could not muster an "i love your work" or "you are fantastic" and especially not "you are my hero and I want to be you". But I still got a compliment (probably cause I was awkward and silent) and a picture.

Back to baseball (I admit I'm a tom boy). Speaking of "celebrities" I got to have lunch with Boof Bonser who is a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. As stated above I am not that great with the whole talking thing, however given a half an hour I do get the ability to speak semi-normally. Although my hand was shaking the whole time I was able to muster out some questions and act as normal as is possible for me in that situation. I must say Boof is awesome. He is so nice and really easy to talk to. He answered any question that anyone at the table had and really was so nice. He made jokes and although it was obvious I was nervous and shaking I really think he was trying to make me feel more at ease.

Here is Boof and I at lunch:

However, my dad and I are starting to wonder if we are cursed. We had lunch with Boof at the welcome home lunch in. At that time he was a starting pitcher and after a few bad starts he got sent to the bullpen to be a relief pitcher. He is not having a great season, but I have faith that he will get better. Last season we had lunch with Sidney Ponson. Who? Oh yeah that starting pitcher that got cut after a few starts because he was horrible and then didn't play anywhere the rest of the season. He is back now and after a tiny stint with the Rangers? he got cut, not for playing badly, but for a bad attitude and bring down the club moral. He did get picked up by the Yankees? and is doing well. However, that's 2 years in a row (the only 2 years we have gone to the welcome home lunch-in) in which the player we had lunch with had a not so fabulous season. I'm sorry Boof, but I know you can do it! Please play well so that I am allowed to go to the lunch-in next year. My dad and I have already decided that if we go and we are sitting with Mauer, Morneau or Nathan we are leaving.