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Hey Everyone!

First of all, look at the awesomeness that *siriuslylostwerewolf made me:


I haven't sent a journal out in forever and the last one was kind of depressing so here's a new one.

Anyhoo, I tortured myself last night by watching the entirety of the Major League Baseball All-Star game. If you've watched me for a while you probably know I adore baseball, and I had the game on last night mostly just to have it on and see Cliff Lee start for the American League.

I hate extra-innings. No, make that I loathe extra-innings. Especially in something as meaningless as the All-Star game, where to make matters worse they blaze through players and insist on sticking to regular baseball rules, so once a player is taken out he can't go back in again. If the damn All-Star game goes into extra-innings they should at least allow the managers to put back in players that have already been taken out.

So anyway, the American League loads the bases in the 10th with no outs and blows it. The National League loads the bases an inning later and blows that, too. Finally in the bottom of the friggin' 15th inning (for those of you not familiar with the game there's only 9 innings in a regular game) the AL scores to end the game. I actually let out whoop "It's Over!" cry. It was 1:40 in the morning here and at the stadium.

The best part? For anyone who knows baseball you just have to look at the box-score. [link] So that's what it looks like when every single player on the team plays in one game. Stupid extra-innings.


As an update to my previous journal and all the hoopla on the golf course here: the 13th green looks ok now; the grass is growing back slowly. The sixth isn't in such great shape. They had to special mow a bit of the rough/fairway abutting the green to serve as a sort of substitute green until the grass grows back.

My uncle gave Diane until the end of the month to get the hell out of the apartment. She actually abandoned her bird and left the poor little guy in the apartment after she took all her crap. At that point any pity I might have had for her was done. She's damn lucky she's not under a bunch of charges considering everything that happened.

It turned out Lloyd was on probation for a felony, which means he wasn't allowed to own or be in the same household as weapons and he had no driver's license. So he's currently serving out the rest of his previous sentence (until December), will likely get at least an additional year tacked on for the gun possession charge, and who knows what for causing $50,000 worth of damage to the course, which is also a felony. Then there's additional charges like driving under the influence and without a license.

The moral of the story? Don't drink and then commit felonies, mmm'kay kids?

The apartment has been completely refurbished. It was in really bad shape after they left. My neighbor and I really hope Sherm rents to someone nice now. And about our age.


So that's enough rambling for now, I think. Check out the new features, especially the first one.

~Tina

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Oh good lord where in the world do I start?


Mom woke me up today, and she had a certain something in her voice, a certain something that wakes me up immediately and freaks me out, like the world is coming to an end. It wasn't quite that but she certainly was upset and I shall explain why.


Early this morning, I was lying in bed doing some puzzles; I could hear the neighbors come home and I thought that they got out the ATV to ride around in, which they've done before in the middle of the night, so I didn't think much of it except that they were drunk and being stupid again. Except they were doing a lot more than that.


They took their big pick-up out onto the golf course, and ripped the hell out of the 6th green, as well as a lot of the rough around that hole, doing doughnuts, mind you, in the grass. They also decided to do doughnuts on the 13th green, and the 14th fairway, and ripped the hell out of the lawn around the building we live in.

13th Green:
6th Green:


The greenskeeper finds the greens this morning and calls the police, and it doesn't take much to figure out who did it, since the tracks lead back to the house and the driveway is littered with bits of mud and green. But of course the guys deny they even know anything about it, so the cops (three of them, each with their own cruiser) arrest my neighbor for lying to the police, as well as his cousin or friend or whatever the relation is between them. Turns out that my neighbor wasn't allowed to own any weapons because of earlier run-ins with the law, so they confiscated the shotgun they found in his apartment and now he's up on weapons charges, along with $50,000 - 100,000 worth of property damage and lying to police. His girlfriend also nearly got arrested but she eventually stopped lying and fessed up to the cops about what she knew, and because she has a 9 month old baby they didn't arrest her.


They've been on a month by month lease and now, understandably, my uncle is evicting them. I feel bad for the girl and her baby; she's only 23 and has been a stay at home mom for the last year. I guess she'll have to move in with her mother.


At what point does one think that it's a totally fun and cool thing to take a pick-up out onto a golf course to do doughnuts? Especially one you live on and owned by your landlord? The damage to the 6th, although extensive, looks like they were just drunk beyond words, but the damage on the 13th looks malicious and planned - they came from the main road, did a few doughnuts directly on the green, and then drove off. I just don't know what to think.


Anyway, mom and I both got less than 4 hours of sleep and spent about 2 hours walking the course to get pictures of the damage. I'll be posting a few to my gallery, so everyone can see what you shouldn't do when you get too drunk.


In happier news, today is my kitties birthday. Happy b-day to Bims and Thomas, who are 1 year old today.



~Tina


Oh, and thank you everyone for so many faves this week! My inbox has been overflowing!

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Hey Everyone!


It's snowing out. Never mind that it's 83F. There is white fluffy stuff blowing by my window.

I hate pollen.


Mom's been with me this week. We've seen a lot of the extended family. Busy week.


I guess business has been hell on the golf course. People are spending all their extra cash on gas, so no money left for golf. And it's been windy as hell all week. That can't help things.


Not much else going on. Want to get one more lineart finished for my project over at *DisneyDreamers. That will have to be done tonight.


I want to see Iron Man again. I've only seen it three times now. Not enough.


~Tina


p.s. If any of you are Bleach freaks like me, come talk with me in one of my threads: [link] . Or, if you don't like Bleach, start a new thread about something else you know I'd like.

p.p.s. For my Buckeye friends, check out this poll: [link] for some potential devMeets in Ohio.

p.p.p.s. For my newer friends, note me your favorite piece of art from your gallery so I can add it to my Watchers' Best Collection: [link] .