>>I was a competitive figure skater <<

REALLY???? I never knew that. Trying to imagine you in a Dorothy Hamill haircut . . .

And it was 13,000 pounds yesterday, my friend. I think we're up to small truck now. :)

Off to the Joy and the Madness that is the first-grade field day now. Pray for me.

Annie has always been one of my heroes. "Despite my rejection of most Christian and Judean ethics, I am, within the framework of the baseball season- monogomous." That line still makes me laugh. Of course, I can't watch it at home anymore, since it annoys the snot out of everyone when I can't stop saying all the lines. It's almost as bad for me as "The Princess Bride". Ahhh.
And you are VERY interesting. I think I like your Hub, he sounds like mine. It's good that he makes you think about all that you do, especially in comparison to your friends. Mine does the same.
But, like Alesia, I really can't picture you with a Dorothy Hamill do. I had one for a few years when i was a kid. Ick. That's all I'm saying.

Figure skater? No kidding. And you say you're not interesting. The most interesting thing on my resume is that I can whistle only by sucking air in instead of blowing it out. Whoo.

OMG, I LOVE "Bull Durham"!

"You did not get lured--women are much too strong and powerful for that."
"Honey, we all deserve to wear white."
"You lollygag to first...you lollyag to to the outfield...what does that make you? LOLLYGAGGERS!"

. . . and there are the same number of stitches on a baseball as there are beads in a rosary . . . Wow! I LOVE that movie!

I can totally see you in that dress, Barb!

Eileen

P.S.-- That dress is hella cute. I *heart* Anthropologie. We must be twins separated at birth!

I guess I'm going to have to try Bull Durham again. Barb? Bring it to Atlanta? Because I respect all y'all's opinions, but it bored the everloving snot out of me when I watched it.

Oh, I'm so seeing a BULL DURHAM watching party. Yep-- it's coming to Atlanta. I can't believe you were bored by it, Alesia-- I mean, with immortal lines like,

"Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you're a slob."

Dee and Alesia, y'all can keep imagining the Dorothy Hamill haircut because it never happened. My mother would just as soon cut off her right arm than allow my hair to be cut short as a kid. Therefore, I had butt-length hair until I was eighteen.

Cate, that was the only way I could whistle for the longest time too-- and I absoltuely long to whistle through my fingers, but I just can't do it. Can't roll my tongue up into a little tube either, but that's a genetic thing. No. Really, it is.

And isn't that dress just the bee's knees? I'm going to be driving past Anthropologie tomorrow... should I go in and see if they have it? Just to try on? Hmm...

I hope it's one of those movies that hold up. I can't believe the number of videos I've rented for the kids because I remember the movie being great and then we watch it and it's, well, uh, not so great.

OMG! Is that paisley eyelet? See Janina covet. Covet, Janina, covet.

Eileen, I know what you mean. I had that happen last fall, with "The Pirate Movie". I remembered it from when I was young, and I just remember all the singing and the silliness of it. Soooo, I bought it, thinking my kids would get a kick out of it. We started watching it, and I had to turn it off. It seems that it got a lot more risque over the years. Or maybe all of those innuendoes just flew right over my young head. Either way, it just wasn't same!
Too bad. Ta-ran-ta-ra, ta-ran-ta-ra!
And Alesia, I'm wondering if you were slipped a mickey the night you saw BD. I just can not imagine anyone not totally falling for that movie. I developed a LOVE for minor league baseball after that movie, and I am a total football chick. Let me tell you, there was just something about those Bulls... "Anything that goes that far oughtta have a stewardess on it!"

Ok, just one more BD comment, and then I'll stop...

Can I just say that I have never had a long slow soft deep wet kiss that lasted for three days? But I really believed that they might exist after Crash said that to Annie. Still, to this day, that is the one thing that makes me sigh like nothing else can... Crash's "I believe" speech.

Total Baseball junkie here. Seen them all. Even had a BD moment last night when we watched one of our dearest friends on sports center. Because now he's in the freakin' show. Got drafted by the Giants. He did the "I only want to help the team speech. Bull Durham is the ultimate baseball movie. Seriously Alesia, I think you're missing a gene or something. You didn't like Bull Durham?

And Barb, you cute little figure skater. I can totally see you in that dress. You must have the new dress for signings and conference and because the not murdered in his sleep yet husband must take you out to dinner on release day.

700 cookbooks? They have their own room? Have I told you about my Barbies?

Obviously I must watch Bull Durham, since y'all are raving over it. I must confess, I don't think I have ever watched it. Not a big baseball fan here, but we do have a great minor league team here in Modesto that unfortunately got re-named the Modesto Nuts. We don't even want to talk about that--really, we don't. Suffice it to say that we used to be a farm league team for the A's and now we belong to the Colorado Rockies, and no one in this blessed town could come up with a better moniker than The Nuts.... At least we aren't the Alabama Biscuit Eaters--I kid you not! That's a real team....

700 cook books? I think I love you! I covet your Joy of Cooking! I have some old books from the early 1930's that are regional cook books--put together by ladies from different churches and community groups. Great recipes, aren't they? My husband used to buy storage units that people lost for not paying the rent and one of them had TWO ice chests full of cookbooks. I was in heaven! Couldn't keep them all, unfortunately, since I only have limited storage space, but the ones I got to keep are wonderful! Even have some hand-written recipes from them...

And so glad to hear that there is another Virgo in the world that isn't a clean freak! My dust bunnies would love to have coffee with yours and discuss the dog hair that keeps getting into everything (we have four dogs!)!

So I guess you were wrong--you ARE very interesting! Don't you just HATE it when the hubby is right?!! *wink*

>OMG! Is that paisley eyelet? See Janina covet. Covet, Janina, covet.

Yep, indeed-- paisley eyelet. Alas, they did not have it at my local Anthropologie. Looks like if I want to try it on, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and order it. At least I already have shoes to go with. More than one pair, actually.

Eileen, it totally holds up. I have a ritual every spring, right before the start of the regular season, I sit down and watch MAJOR LEAGUE, and BULL DURHAM.

And Dee, I know what you mean about old movies-- although finding out it's more risque than you remember is different from it not holding up. I remember going to see Grease as a kid and totally loving it-- then like five or six years later, when I performed in it (and of course, we all watched the movie again) I couldn't believe anyone had let me see the movie as a kid. There were so many double entendres that had just gone over my head. It's like Bugs Bunny cartoons-- that's the genius behind them-- they're as funny for adults as they are for kids.

Cindy, the cookbooks don't necessarily have their own room-- I just decided to make the dining room actually useful. :-P And what's this about Barbies? The Diva has every Holiday Barbie from the year she was born, on. My mother buys them for her.

>>At least we aren't the Alabama Biscuit Eaters--I kid you not! That's a real team....

You don't mean the Montgomery Biscuits (almost as bad, mind you.) They're in our League-- we're home to the Jacksonville Suns, which is a Dodgers affiliate. I guess the funkiest name in our league might just be the West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx. Diamond Jaxx. Sounds like a stripper, doesn't it?

>>My dust bunnies would love to have coffee with yours and discuss the dog hair that keeps getting into everything

We'll definitely have to make a date. And I meant to ask last week-- what DD#2 listening to that's making you cringe? Maybe I can come up with an alternative that won't make your ears bleed.

And Husband? Right? What are these words of which you speak? They sound so foreign...

Lordy, Barb, I had just about put that the most interesting thing about me was that I could roll my tongue. Holy crapola, we think way too much alike some days. But you are also correc that it is genetic -- and only one of my three boys has the gene, as well.

Bull Durham is a blast. Alesia, you must try it again. The line about long, slow, wet kisses is worth it all alone.

Another reason to love you all! Bull Durham is one of my all-time favorite movies, and after all these years I still quote it constantly. Lots o' my fave quotes have beem mentioned here, although one of them is so random:

"My socks? It's cold in here." -- love the way Nuke says that.

Then there's always:
"Get a hit, Crash." "Shut up." -- still cracks me up every time

"I am not some quote, piece of ass, unquote" and "I gave you a gift. You stand here showing up my pitcher? Run, dummy!" are featured 'round my house quite often. That and "announcing my presence with authority," which DH and I both use in a variety of situations.

Barb, did you really have the Dorothy Hamill? I wasn't so lucky; my sister had it, so I got the Toni Tennille. EEP!

And you have a very interesting past and a very interesting life!

Rebecca, rambling