if i had a soccer game every night, i would be in incredible shape. then again, i might also inadvertantly kill myself.
i hurt myself again, and am now going to dub myself “queen of the minor injuries.” my mildly sprained finger improved a lot over the weekend, and the bruises from last wednesday’s climbing disappeared, and my ankle only feels weird if i turn it a certain way…but last night i tweaked whatever muscle is on the inside of my upper right thigh. groin muscle, anyone? or rather, as i’m going to start calling it, the oswalt muscle?
it was raining steadily at 7:00 when our game was supposed to start, not to mention the fact that lightning was criss-crossing the sky. but apparently we have to give it 20 minutes. at 7:20 it was still raining, but the referee counted 16 seconds between lightning and thunder, and so he decided that the game was on. i headed out onto the field not exactly excited by the prospect of getting struck by lightning, but fortunately, that part of the storm moved on and by the end of the game, even the rain had ended (though by that time, we were so wet and muddy that we didn’t notice). buzz has joined our team, which is awesome. now i have a friend in the group!
anyway. we played, and the first run of the game, i felt a twinge in my oswalt muscle. it bothered me the rest of the game, not enough to keep me from playing, but enough to be bothersome. i thought maybe it’d go away overnight, but it didn’t.
queen of minor injuries. that’s me.
other than that, i had a nice weekend. friday night we went to see “once upon a time in mexico,” which is not as good as desperado, and unnecessarily gory. but i still love johnny depp and antonio banderas. saturday, jason and debbie and i went downtown to the open house for the toyota center, the new coliseum for the rockets and aeros. it was really, really nice. the upper level was open to the concourse, which i thought was cool. the lower level along the sidelines are “club seats” featuring a really posh concession area. since we are planning on buying a 13-game season ticket package for the aeros (minor league hockey team), we’ll even get to take advantage of the poshness. woohoo!
from there we headed over the few blocks to minute maid park and took in a true pitcher’s duel, and maybe the fastest baseball game i’ve ever seen. it lasted only 2 hours and 5 minutes, with roy oswalt and the astros emerging victorious over matt morris and the cardinals by a score of 2-0. oswalt went 7 innings with no runs, giving up only 4 hits and striking out 8. matt morris wasn’t bad either, going the same number of innings and giving up the same number of hits. he just happened to give up a couple runs too. dotel came in for the 8th, and wagner closed it in the 9th for the astros. he didn’t top 98 mph (which seems slow for wagner!), but was still effective.
anyway. yesterday i got some digital photos printed and was privy to the slight incompetance of the walmart photo lab. luckily, eckerd’s saved the day, and now i have everything i need to put together my scrapbooks from scotland (a year ago) and france (january). i’m so slow. while waiting on photos, i got my oil changed. hooray for being productive.
i think i’m going to have to skip climbing tonight because of my oswalt muscle. grr.
