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We ruined baseball and cemented a dynasty. BACK TO BACK CHAMPS! Good heavens that series was a pressure cooker and stressful beyond belief. Thrilling no doubt but omg down to the minute we barely squeaked out a win. Yeah the Blue Jays were good, I mean... so good, but somehow we stopped them. Brought the championship trophy home for back to back world series championships. First back to back champs in 25 years. L.A. excellent baseball is here to stay.  There will be no living with me from now on. You thought I was insufferable about L.A. before, strap in.

I used to think baseball was boring. I always loved movies about baseball but at some point in college my brother and I started rooting for the Anaheim Angels since I went to school near Orange County. Around this time I also watched like so many baseball movies and the game got to me. Bull Durham came into my life and that was it for me and baseball. For-ev-er. I also finally understood all the rules and strategy but more importantly the romance. The history. The romance of baseball and the agony of defeat and the euphoria of a win.  We started attending any baseball game in person we could when we were out of town. In 2010 Man-D and I went to visit Ali in Boston and went to a Red Sox game and I got to see the green monster live. Fenway is a cathedral of baseball, the brick, the history... a real ballpark. Matt and I got to go to Wrigley AND US Cellular field on the same 4th of July trip in 2013 which was so special since his grandpa played minor league for the Cubs. We got to see...

  A lot of people want to live in Stars Hollow, but I actually do. A few years ago I finally watched Gilmore Girls up to Season 3 in preparation for my friend’s birthday party that was gonna be GG themed. I never got into the show because I was right in the middle of the two main characters’ age and their whole thing didn’t appeal to me. Their ‘whole thing’ was a mother daughter story and ugh: my relationship with my mother was/is not great so a story about them was not my idea of a good time. And these two were FRIENDS? Is that even possible? But my friend Laurie who watches it yearly pitched me a part of the show that I wasn’t aware of. I thought it was about a woman who was stuck in the small town she grew up in and hated it but no. No people, it’s about a woman who chooses to raise her daughter in an adorable small town full of kooky characters and many many civic events and festivals planned and held by the over-eager city council and put on by aforementioned kooks.  SOL...

I know that I got my first grey hair in college but somewhere after having babies the top of my head started being dusted with grey highlights. I look in the mirror every day and still see a brunette but the greys being noticeable was apparent when I emerged from the pandemic and get compliments on how great my hair and especially my greys looked. Suddenly the greys are a big feature. Suddenly my flat hair had heaps of volume on normal days! Suddenly my hair could pull off certain hair styles. Suddenly my son was worried about how old I was getting and that I was gonna die because well, “your hair is turning white”. Wally is obviously not chronically online to know that grey hair is cool now. Grey hair is hot. Every man with white hair that’s handsome and lets his hair go grey we call a ‘silver fox’ and it is a crime to us if he dyes it. My husband, when the sides of his hair are longer, has those silver Reed Richards / Dr. Strange temples. It does something to me… and not just ‘caus...

Posting about Summer seems to be an annual tradition so here we are... Big post. NEW JOB The ironic thing about this summer was that when the year began I wasn't sure what work would look like so in an effort to save money we opted out of any summer camps and then I got consistent work. Of course. But big hurray I got consistent work! I worked for a few months with my old friends at Airbnb and now I've been contracted until the end of 2024 with a nice video game company to produce for them. Another remote gig! The view from my office is still my own backyard! Hurray. TROOP BEVERLY HILLS MOVIE NIGHT Thinking that it was gonna be our own family camp and we'd be directing our own activities, I got us matching T-shirts for Camp Fredrich Summer Camp: Troop 91504. The shirts gave me an idea to throw an Outdoor Movie Night: Troop Beverly Hills. The theme was 200% up my alley being a film about camping and also the Beverly Hills Hotel which is pink stripes and martinique wallpaper ...

March! How is it March? In a few weeks we will celebrate a resurrected life and welcome the feast of Easter and usher in Spring and Eastertide. The snow will thaw (figuratively I mean come on I live in Los Angeles), the flowers will bloom.  It’s been quite a winter. Our best ever! I took the bull by the horns and knew that if I didn’t set up a system in place to survive the winter and fight the dementors of depression that the winter would feel barren and dead instead of how the Creator intended it with hibernation and rest. I wanted to embrace the beauty of winter and surrender to its truths and rhythms. There is a time for everything and this was the time of preparation for growth and life.  I started small and found a pinterest article on how to embrace winter and one of the ideas was to try some “Hygge”. Oh boy did I! It’s the Scandinavian way of embracing the cozy lifestyle during winter. I listened to the Little Book of Hygge and got the basics down and I was ready to b...