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Items on yesterday's list that I achieved:

* Bought food.
* Deposited check at bank.

Bonus Item:

* Went to H&R Block and had my taxes done. This should bring me three hundred or so dollars to put toward the trip to New York. Also: My TAXES are DONE and I don't have to spend the next month and a half going, "I should really do my taxes . . ."

Tomorrow, I will try to resist the urge to sign on to AIM, because the lyricwheel fic is due Wednesday, and I must get the fucker done. So if my will breaks, and you see me on, poke me till I go away, please? Thanks. Of course, in the event that I inform you that I have finished the fic, poking may be replaced by congratulatory petting. Your call, of course. *g*

Huckabees just going to have to wait some more. Maybe I'll hold off and bring it to NY to watch with Anji.

Oh, yeah: I'm going to New York. =D I will be visiting _ashtray_girl. I am leaving on the tenth, which is suddenly really close OMGWTF. And yes, I will be wearing my Bosox cap everywhere. Which I do already, so it's not like I'm going out of my way to be annoying or anything.

Also, just to make my schedule that week more fun, manderspander is turning twenty-one on the seventh, which also happens to be the date for the Red Sox/Yankees spring training game WHICH THE RED SOX BETTER WIN BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO HEAR A DAMN WORD ABOUT SOME MEANINGLESS SPRING TRAINING GAME WHILE I'M IN NEW YORK but anyway. She's coming down, and we're going to try and find a bar showing the game. Failing that, we can buy our own damn liquor and watch it at home. Or at least go out that night, as I believe the game is in the afternoon.

My manager looooooves me. And I love her for giving me the time off for the trip when she's already having a hard time making ends meet with the schedule. <3

So, yay to me for actually being semi-productive, yay to Peter at H&R Block for being both helpful and funny (he was way too pleased that someone my age actually knew a couple Talking Heads songs, it was highly amusing), yay to visiting New York, and yay to keeping my streak going on consecutive days posted!

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Whoops, I forgot to blather about baseball in my last post. So, here, have a post that doesn't make any sense.

I've spent time today reading many, many, many various baseball blogs (yes, those are each a different link).

And baseball starts soon. Little more than a month away. And god, I am so happy, this has been a long and miserable off-season which has caused me to do things such as write Yankeeslash, cheer at a random line at a random song because it mentions the Tigers, even though the line is about a football team (and yes, americanleaguer, that is your fault), and fail to have an opinion on steroids. (Although, having finally found a copy of Juiced to flip through, I do have an opinion about Jose Canseco being a crazy motherfucker who can't write for shit. Guess what it is.) I want new baseball. I want to apply the things I am learning from Baseball for Dummies. I want to see our old boys back in action and see what our new boys can do.

But I've also been thinking about how I felt after the ALCS, in those few days between it and the World Series. I remember writing somewhere on redsox that I wanted to hold on to the moment, that I wanted to live in it for a while before I had to move on to thinking about other things, like the World Series and the offseason and who would leave and who would stay. I just wanted to stay there for a while, at that time after the ALCS, when the memories of beating the Yankees and claiming the pennant were the clearest they'd ever be.

In that vein, I'm feeling a little calmer about waiting for the 2005 season to start. We've got one more month to live in this stasis, in this time when our boys are the World Champions. Things are unchanging right now. Once the season starts it's time to charge forward and see where we are and how our team is gelling and how our scarily injury-riddled pitching rotation is going to hold up and exactly how long before the first Red Sox/Yankees brawl, and to see things evolve and see another season carry forward while we put 2004 away.

But we can hold onto 2004 for another month, and still look forward to the new season. I think I can relax and enjoy that.

Of course, it helps that it's, you know, only a month. Had someone expressed these thoughts to me in December, I would have been like, ". . . but it's so looooong till baseball!" *g*