Since you've been gone or Welcome February

So I haven't written for quite some time now and I think that my last four posts have begun this way so I am really going to have to change that.

So I missed Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and January. But February is here now!!! That only means 2 things: Michelle's month (her birthday and valentine's day make it her month) and the new Strat-o-Matic baseball cards come out. No laughing Montsy.

First and by far foremost is Michelle's month. We have a lot of fun things planned this much. First is this sunday. Super Bowl XL. Michelle has been angry with the NFL the last couple of years. She wrote them a letter inquiring, "why the switch from January to my month." The NFL has yet to respond. We are having my buddy, who is the world's biggest packer fun (don't hold that against the guy - he is a homer, but at least he know something about football, unlike most packer fans - I swear they think brett favre is god) and his wife over. Also pudd is probably going to stop by. He's coming from East Lansing and headed to Milwaukee, but I hope that he stays for the game. He's in love - but aren't we all? It's February. Then next saturday the 11th, Mish and I are celebrating an early valentine's day dinner at the club with mish's parents. Next of course is valentine's day, a big part of february. Then saturday the 18th, I am inviting, couples only, (sorry mcclane...unless ann can make it) to a special event at Apple Holler. It is a type of clue, murder mystery/desperate housewife theme. You can dinner and get to engage in a show at the same time. $39.95 per person - anyone interested? (that means you chief) Finally, on the 20th is Mish's birthday. I believe it lands on a Monday this year. Maybe we will let her pick the restaurant this year. Last year it was Chuck E. Cheese.

The #2 thing (a very distant 2nd) that happens in Mish's month is the arrival of the new strat cards. I am particularly excited this year because this is the first year that I will be in a real league. Typically I play by myself. I used to play with my buddy Nick when I moved to Kenosha, but then he moved to cali, then to michigan, then to ohio, and now he is with Judy Garland in Texas. I tried to get our old youth pastor at our church to play with me, Aaron Monts, a huge cubs fan, but he kind of looked at me weird and said something like, "Don't you know they have video games now." So I guess that would be a no, huh montsy?

But now I am in a real strat league. It is called NABL or North American Baseball League. If you check it out, my team is the Kenosha Titans. There are three teams from Racine and one from Milwaukee. My buddy, Chris, got me on the waiting list. We play softball together and got talking about baseball and I asked him if he had ever heard of Strat-o-Matic. He was excited that I knew about the game and told me about the league he had been in for awhile. I, of course, asked him if I could get on the waiting list for a team. He obliged. About 2 years later, I inherited a team. Immediately I took a look at my roster. The team had won its division the year before, but was extremely old. The average age was like 35. So I quickly traded a bunch of players for younger players and for draft picks. My team is in a bit of a rebuilding year, but that way I have low expectations, right?

Anyways, the cards should be here next week sometime. I will anxiously be awaiting the little brown truck.