Final Big Baseball Weekend

We are off for two or possibly three days worth of games in Temecula with DS2s Powerhouse team. It’s the final big tournament for the year. Two games each today and tomorrow for sure. Possibly two more on Monday if we make the playoffs.

DS2 and I had another great night at Petco last night. Padres beat the Cardinals 7-1. Piazza hit a monster home run and the defense was on fire! We got there early enough to watch batting practice and see the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols put on quite a show of power. Perfect evening out.

A pause for some reflection (no, I have no yet retreived whatever flew through my brain earlier this week!). One of my blogsisters and August moms had a great post this week about self-reliance. Like most people, she went through a period of trying to be too much for other’s around her and forgetting herself, and also put too much stock in other’s happiness to contribute to her own. I think this is a very very common dilema, yes? My point is that I am the exact *opposite*. I realized reading her writings that I am self-reliant to a fault actually. Creating my own happiness is second nature to me. Could be the only child thing I suppose, but I hate to put so much stock in that one aspect of my life. No, I think it is also just my nature to not depend on others for my own emotional well being. I am well aware of how other’s can hurt me, but I have always known that my long term inner peace and happiness rests solely on me. However, I say “to a fault” because I know it means that MY Head in my Ass issue (as Mimi so eloquently put it) is that I don’t LET others ADD to my happiness very easily. Which means that I miss out on the connectedness. Something I am aware of and working on, but I think also perhaps something more out of the norm for a woman so I often cannot relate to the typical issues women write about. Ok, enough rambling.

Play Ball!