Their Bad Fan

by CajunKate

So I've been pretty neglectful in giving the Lady Cajuns softball team the props they so richly deserve. The gals are up in Oklahoma right now for the College Softball World Series. They beat LSU (in Baton Rouge!) in the regionals, and Houston (in Houston!) in the super-regionals to get there. Today they played their first game. It was against Florida, the #1 seed in the nation. Florida has lost only three games all year...oh, I'm sorry, make that FOUR as of about ten minutes ago! Yeah, that's right! The Lady Cajuns won 3-2. Naturally, the game was Tivoed, so you know what's coming shortly. That's riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Illegally uploaded video to YouTube. (I'm just gonna keep violating copyrights until someone sicks a lawyer on me. *shrug*) Next up for the ladies either Virginia Tech or Texas A&M tomorrow night on ESPN2. Ooooooh, hey, maybe I can do one of those fun play-by-play thingies like Burt did for the Hornets a few weeks back. Only mine will have to involve wine...oh, and cheese...maybe some bread.... probably definitely some cursing...dang, this just keeps sounding better and better. It may actually happen.

UPDATE: Game highlights below!

You Throw Like a Toddler

by Cajun Kate

So have we seen this? Mariah Carey "throwing" out the first pitch at some baseball game in Japan? And believe me by using the word "throw," I'm being very generous. Dude, I am the most physically inept, nonathletic lump ever visited upon the world. My second grade teacher had to call my mom to tell her that I was failing P.E. because I couldn't learn to skip, and my mom had to tutor me on the weekends until I learned this valuable gross motor skill, so I know from goofy inabilities in bodily movement, in general, to say nothing of coordinated ability. Let's not even go into that whole "aerobics dance unit" in high school gym class. Suffice it to say, it was ugly, my friends. And yet I feel, and I say this with utmost confidence, that I would look like a freakin' Cy Young Award winner if Mariah and I went head to head. So here's to you, Mariah Carey! Thanks for being one in probably five billion people who could actually make me feel like a true specimen of athletic prowess.

Portuguese Goodies!

by CajunKate

So today the mail carrier knocked on our door. Highly unusual, as neither Alex nor I was expecting a package. I heard Alex saying thank you, and then once the door closed, he yelled, "Oh, YEAH!" To which I replied, "What is it? What is it? Is it for ME?!?" (Now really, did you honestly expect any other response from me?) And it was for me...oh, and Alex, too.

Alex's mom and dad have been on a trip up to the Northeast, and the trip included a stop in his mom's hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts. (Sidenote: Fall River is also the town where Lizzy Borden axed her parents to death, and Alex's mom grew up in a house right down the hill from the infamous Borden house!) Alex's mom is first generation Portuguese, and Fall River is home to lots of Portuguese immigrants (the highest percentage of Portuguese Americans in the country). Every year at Christmas, she sends us goodies from the Portuguese bakeries and butcher shops, but this year she didn't. It was strange, but what are you gonna say, right? Hey, Mom, what the hell? Why'd you stiff us on the annual Portuguese awesomeness? Not so much. Well, I guess she was just waiting until she was there in person to make the orders this year because the bakery goodies arrived today.

She sent us sweet bread, sliced raisin rolls, and Portuguese muffins. Everything is delicious, but Portuguese muffins are my favorite. They look like English muffins, but are nothing like them in texture or taste. They're so yeasty and dense and slightly sweet. Freakin' carb out heaven! I like to toast them up and slather them with butter. Say, I bet they'd be really good with a drizzle of honey! Well, I think we've just found my mission for the weekend.

Say hello to Portuguese heaven from a box. Ooooohhh, come to Mama!

Normally, I'm a giver, but these are mine...ALL MINE! Aw, crap...and that Alex guy's, too, I guess. Sigh. Now I know my mom said marriage was work.