Answers

1) New England Patriots, Golden State Warriors, Carolina Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Bay Lightning. Carolina is not a state, and Tampa Bay is a body of water;-)

2) Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild.

3) The Florida Marlins and The University of Colorado Buffaloes. The plural of Marlin is Marlin, and the plural of Buffalo is Buffalo. Marlins and Buffaloes are not words;-)

So, there you have it...and if any of this is wrong, take it up with the guy that gave me the questions and the answers. Consider this the first installment ever in "Tuesday Trivia".

Back to regular blogging tomorrow (or Friday)...

Total Nonsense

This is post #500 since I started blogging...that really seems like a lot. Like, really a lot.

Anyway, I should have something good for such a momentous post, but I don't:-P. I am super busy and have very little time to write, but I got tired of the spreadsheet I was staring at, so I am going to write quickly.

Actually, I have a fun exercise...prompted by the combination of a GoogleChat discussion with e.b. and some random trivia that my co-workers love to ask each other at lunch.

So, I pose to you the following sports-related, totally inane trivia questions. Answer in whatever channel you prefer, and there will be invaluable prizes for the winners (and by "invaluable", I mean "of no value".)

Questions are courtesy of my co-worker, and you can yell at him if the answers are wrong tomorrow.

1) Name all of the professional sports teams (NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB) in America that are not named after a city or a state (for example: the Boston Red Sox are from Boston, which is a city. The New England Patriots are named after neither a city nor a state...so there, I gave you one already. )

2) Name all of the professional sports teams in America that have nicknames that do NOT end in "s". One of them is right there in question #1;-)

3) Name two mascots...one professional and one college...that are grammatically incorrect. Not just misspelled like the Red Sox or White Sox, but actually incorrect.

There you have it...those are your questions. Maybe later in the week, if everyone has fun, we can do some non-sports questions. But those happen to be what the trivia buffs around here gave me yesterday....

Have fun:-)

Exhausted

I am so fucking tired I can barely think. And I have a lot of work that I should be doing, but that likely will have to wait until tomorrow because I am way too tired to do anything well. I slept very little on Saturday night and didn't get home until very late last night, so I am desperately in need of about 12 straight hours in my bed. Oh, and what greets me in my Reader this morning? A whole post about beds... Aaron, you are not helping!

So, today you get the nutshell version.

The Body and I got there with no trouble on Thursday. And the weather cleared just about exactly as we got there;-). And, miracle of miracles...our dresses still fit and required no last minute fixes.

Cookout with a lot of family members on Thursday, lovely. Beach all day Friday, also lovely. The rehearsal was ultra-quick (good!) and dinner afterwards was really nice, too. Very casual and a great time.

Spent some time on the beach Saturday morning before we had to get ready. Limo brought us to a really nice spa for lunch, hair and getting dressed. Munchkin was gorgeous...she gets prettier all the time. I made her get ready before I had my makeup done...because of the crying;-). Smoking Hot Roommate had to have hers redone...lol...she is not as good a planner as I am!

I can't even describe how good SHR looked. She is just so physically striking, and so confident, and she was just so happy. I know I have told you that she looks like Charlize Theron when she is all dressed up, but I am not even sure that does her justice (she has better cleavage than Charlize does:-P).

Wedding was beautiful! It was a little too breezy to have it on the beach, but it was perfect in the front yard (the house is right on the beach, but there is a large lawn on the opposite side of the house, and the house and some trees block the wind when it is a little windy.) The Boy was, in my totally objective and unbiased opinion:-), the best looking guy in the place. Something about tuxedos...

The reception was fantastic, too. I danced all night, got to spend some time with some people I don't see enough and didn't even drink too much (although that last part is open to interpretation). The Boy and I took a very, very long walk on the beach after it was over (OK, a medium length walk, but we stopped to sit on the rocks and drink most of a bottle of champagne for a while...we may have even made out a little bit:-P).

Big Sis gave a toast that was absolutely brilliant. I am going to try and get the whole text from her and post it...but it was just outstanding. And she has some a magnetism and is so comfortable in front of a room...it was really special. Not quite as tear inducing as her sister's was last year;-).

The party ran really late (like, until the sun came up;-)) which made it hard to get out of bed for brunch at like 9:30, but I managed. I even managed to look really cute! Spent most of Sunday just hanging out with people, packing stuff up and sort of winding down. Then I had to get a bunch of people to the airport last night, and by the time that was all over with and I had everything unpacked and yada yada yada, it was about 2:00, and that alarm came REALLY fast this morning.

So, that is my disjointed, exhausted rundown...I will try and do better tomorrow:-)

Of Mice and Men

My brilliant plan to collect the travelers and get to the beach last night didn't quite work out. We had some really bad storms and the airport got all backed up. The BFF's got in on time, and The Mouth was only about half an hour late, but The Body's flight was about two and a half hours late (much of which was spent in the air, circling...poor thing.)

I ended up bringing the early arrivers to Smoking Hot Roommate's place so that they could all get on the road, and then waited for The Body by myself. And proceeded to get kinda drunk in an airport bar and make her drive home...lol. At that point it was way too late to catch the ferry, so we went back to my place, grabbed some dinner and stayed there. It was actually pretty fun, in the end! We had some excellent girl time, and did entirely too much teenager-style giggling.

So, now she is still asleep (although I have to wake her soon) and we are gonna get on the road this morning. We can catch the 11:00 ferry and be at the house by 12:30...all in all, not exactly a tragedy:-).

Anyway, now I am really checking out for the weekend, although I will probably approve comments and may even post once or twice if I feel motivated over the next couple of days. Weather is looking pretty good as of now...keep your fingers crossed!

364 more days until another birthday...phooey.

I am starting to think that the MSN life expectancy calculator is not that complex...it seems to tell about half of people that they will live to b 102. Looks like Ys, Laurwilk, e.b. and I will be partying in the old folks home together. Sorry Annie, you are dying first...

I am grading my birthday as at least a solid B+/A-. Really, my only disappointment is that Munchkin or Tinkerbelle weren't around...but they both called, as did all of my out of town friends. I also got two cakes...one at work and one at Big Sis's house last night where they had a little birthday party for me. I got some lovely presents (including new sunglasses that I love so much that I am swearing at the clouds today...damn you!!! Damn you for postponing my fun!!!)

And, in addition to the necklace, The Boy gave me no fewer than five orgasms over the course of the day...hee hee. Maybe that grade above was too low...

Change of subject...how did no one tell me that Project Runway started again!!! (Imagine me doing a Homer Simpson "Marge, we are missing the chili!" dance right now.) Seriously, I missed at least one real episode, and I also missed whatever sort of casting shows they had. I caught the first episode in reruns on Monday, and was kind of unimpressed, hopefully they get better starting tonight.

Speaking of tonight, my super-long, wedding extravaganza weekend starts right after work. I am gonna jet out of here as early as I can and pack the car up (I have a LOT of shit to bring.) Then I am gonna head to the airport to get The Body, The Mouth and both BFF's...their three flights are all landing within half an hour of each other. Seriously, what are my chances of three planes landing on time..? Fingers crossed...

I also have to clean the apartment because two of The Rocket Scientist's cousins are staying here tomorrow night. I feel like we have done a lot of resource-marshaling for this...apartments and cars, mostly...

Assuming they get in on schedule or close to it, then we are meeting Big Sis and the Brain Surgeon and Smoking Hot Roommate and heading down together in two cars (well, that is assuming that you consider the monstrous Excursion that Big Sis rented a "car"...should we take bets on what kind of mileage a pack-t0-the-gills oversized SUV with five people and a seriously lead-footed driver will get? I will set the over/under at about 7 mpg...)

The Boy is coming down on Friday morning with his Sister, her wife, and the baby. His sister's in-laws are on vacation on the Cape this week, so her father-in-law is gonna hop on the ferry to come over and babysit and let them go to the wedding...isn't that nice of him? (He is really nice...someday I will tell you about him, not sure I ever did.)