Random Thoughts Thursday 61
- Our softball league starts two weeks from today! Woo hoo! I am really excited. We had our first practice last week, and it was a blast. And I am stoked about our team name/theme, hee hee. A few weeks ago Pete posted this picture to our team Facebook page and suggested “Cats with Bats” for our team name. Of course, I loved the idea. One of Christina’s bridesmaids, Jacquie, is a graphic designer, so I asked her to design a team logo, then another teammate suggested we have cat themed names on our shirts… and somehow, everyone went along with it! I just ordered the shirts yesterday and I can’t wait to see how they turn out. Jacquie did a great job with the design! You can see her portfolio/contact info here if you ever need graphic design help.
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- As a follow-up to last week’s RTT post, I borrowed Mary Poppins from Bobbi and watched it with Steven. Whoa. What a bizarre movie. I can definitely see why kids like it, but I think it I had seen it recently, I may not have wanted to watch Saving Mr. Banks, so… I am happy I watched them in reverse order.
- Speaking of movies, we are still making our way through the 2014 Oscar Best Picture Nominees (only three left!) and watched Philomena last night. Wow! It was really good! I was thinking I wasn’t going to like it – I had no idea what it was about! But I got really pulled in to the story. The same thing happened with seeing Divergent this week. The previews made me think I would dislike it, but I really enjoyed it!
- Check out Anne’s fundraising raffle for United Against Lung Cancer! She has some really awesome prizes! Every $5 donation gets you one entry, and every $10 gets you a bonus third entry! And there are chances for other bonus entries, as well. Last year, I was honored to be on Anne’s team to fundraise money for The Lung Run. 2013 was a really eye opening year for me in regards to the stigma around lung cancer. I couldn’t even tell most people about the team without them asking if the person we knew with lung cancer was a smoker. Sigh. Anne recently wrote a bit about that here, and I recommend reading it, and donating to her, of course!
- You know what weirdo thing gives me much more joy than it should? Organizing things in google. Adding appointments/reminders to my calendar, completing people’s contact info (addresses, phone numbers, birthdays), adding photos to contacts, filing and archiving emails… ha ha ha. Google brings out my virtual control freak.
Themocracy
I love the shirts and the nicknames! What did you and Steven end up going with?
Thanks! He went as Spot (Star Trek reference, http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Spot) and I am Grumpy Cat (obvs). 😉
Wait, so Steven is now Data’s pet? 😉 Good choices!
Exactly. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9W6kZURVjfU/UhtDqQdm5bI/AAAAAAAAKJI/tzibDEGYy_4/s1600/cat+dog+god.jpg
I haven’t seen Mary Poppins in probably 20 years. I’ve rewatched a few other movies as an adult that I’d first seen as a child, and was surprised at how much I didn’t “get” when I watched as a child. It’d be interesting to watch Mary Poppins now to see how much I didn’t comprehend the first time around!
Ha! Do tell which movies, I am curious!
The shirts are great!! I’m currently working on a Wurst Running Club Ever website and need some graphics. Maybe I’ll contact Jacquie.
I had the same thought 🙂
Awesome! Let me know if you do! Are you working on that as a class project?
Yep. It’s for my WordPress class. We have to make a website using WordPress and I figured the WRCE was a good candidate.
Ooooh, I love your jerseys! The team name is pretty awesome.
I can’t believe you never saw Mary Poppins as a kid! I loved that movie! Also, “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” was the song my class played for our 4th grade recorder recital, or something cool like that.
Thanks for the shout-out! I know UALC and organizations like it have been working hard to get the facts out, but it is really unfortunate that people see lung cancer as a “smoker’s disease” or something people bring on themselves, and thus feel less incline to help as compared to other diseases.
Thanks!
I will have to ask my parents why we never saw it. LOL. The first time I heard that song was in the Saving Mr. Banks movie! Steven and I both really liked it 🙂
You are welcome! I am so happy that you are talking about it and informing people!
Ha! I love the softball shirts!
The Redbox in front of our Jewel has Philomena now. I’m waiting for a free day when Paul isn’t going to be around to enjoy it. 🙂
I still haven’t seen Divergent yet, but I read all the books. I hope the movie does them justice!
We saw it with Bobbi, and she had read the books and thought so. I am curious to hear what you think! 🙂
Those shirts – and the name! – are awesome! I bet you guys will have a blast!
I LOVE Mary Poppins. Have you seen the musical? I seriously cried my eyes out, it was so amazing.
Thanks!
I haven’t seen the musical! Just the movie for the first time. I didn’t fall in love with it! I wonder if I would like the musical, more? I did mostly enjoy the songs. I didn’t understand why some of the skits were so long though.
Oh my goodness! I want to join your team just so I can wear the shirt. LOVE, LOVE it!! Did I mention that I love the shirt?
Aww, thanks! 🙂
Did you ever see Dallas Buyers Club? I just barely watched it this weekend and loved it. Hard story to watch, but great performances.
I did see it! We thought the acting was great too! And I thought 12 Years a Slave was harder to watch (well, yeah, right?). I wasn’t in love with the movie but I see why they won Oscars for their performances!