Birthdays, Baseball, and Buying Stuff

It's been a while since my last post, so let me get started...

First of all, April 5th is my wife's birthday. So happy belated birthday to you wife. The Saturday before her birthday, she threw a baby shower for her sister. Her sister came in town from California, and her mother and grandmother came in town from Memphis. I had an idea, I was going to throw her a surprise birthday party! By the way this was her 25th birthday. So I rented a few lanes at a bowling alley, got a cake, a present, and figured out what we would do after bowling. Fast forward to Saturday, the shower is over, I have a plan to trick her to the bowling alley. We decide to go to dinner, and from dinner I would get us to go to the bowling alley. Side note: my wife is difficult to surprise, she was very stubborn for some reason this day. Between that and the fact the restaurant was slow, we didn't leave until almost 9 p.m. when we should have been there by 8 p.m.. Finally we get there and I convince her that we should all go in. We walk in, she sees a couple of our friends and thinks, "cool, so-and-so is here". Then we walked down the stairs and BAM, family, friends, and bowling. Good times for all. I had planned on going to Bailey's Chocolate Bar afterwards, but it was too crowded, so some of us went to a friends house and that was that. Some other details, I got the cake from Coldstone Creamery (cookie dough delirium), I got her a personalized engraved keychain with an angel and a heart, and everyone had a good time. Man, it's a lot of work planning a surprise party, whew!

I had the opportunity to see the exhibition game between Memphis and Springfield at the new Busch Stadium. Wow, what a beautiful ball park. Opening day is Monday the 10th, and I am now more pumped than ever. Besides the long consession lines, everything was perfect. I will post pictures later.

I would like everyone to know that this is the inagural post from my brand new laptop! Woo hoo! It's an HP Pavilion zv6130us. Athlon 64 processor, 512 MB ram, 128 MB dedicated video card, it smokes. I can't tell you how excited I am to have this. I could spend all night on this thing getting it up to speed how I like it. But it's Friday, so I probably won't. (Crap, Derek Lee just hit a home run for the Cubs. NOOOOOOO!)

Well, gotta get back to work.

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