And This One Belongs to the TWINS!

It's probably a good thing they don't televise many Twins or Vikings games in central Wisconsin. I can't handle all the stress!!

My plans were simple today. Hubby left the house at 4 a.m. to go to the airport (work trip). I was going to go in early, work through lunch, leave early enough to get home by the 2nd inning of the Twins game (which started at 4:07 p.m.), then spend a quiet evening at home with Carter.

Who knew we'd sit through a nail-biting 12-inning 4 1/2-hour game?! AND it was worth it!

This was the tie-breaker game for the Central Division Championship -- much like last season's tie-breaker with the Sox. Only this one turned out better. Much better.

We fell behind early probably because I didn't get the Homer Hankies out until the 6th inning. Then things turned around. When we were batting at the bottom of the 9th (still tied), I said to Carter, "Ohmigosh! We forgot to eat our Twinkies!" So we raced to the kitchen, each grabbed one and, I'm not kidding, ate them in like 3 bites. It's all about good karma, you know!

We did a lot of screaming during those extra innings. And boy, when it was over, we were shaking those hankies and hugging and screaming -- and only the cat was around to roll her eyes at us. (I think Daddy would have taken it easy on us, too.)

Now we just need to calm our hearts, catch our breath and try to get a good night's sleep. I told Carter we shouldn't even be thinking about playing those Yankees tomorrow. Let's just enjoy for one day what we (as in our Twins) accomplished since September. Incredible!

And we just bought ourselves a little more time (hopefully) in the Homer Dome.

Welcome to October!