I got a hug from the MAN OF MY DREAMS!!!!!

LOL I didn't know what else to title the blog besides...

I MET THE MAN OF MY DREAMS....

*Takes deep breath, lets it out*

Where do I begin?
LOL I didn't know what else to title the blog besides...

As soon as I got out of class, I bolted to my car and sped down the freeway to get to Hollywood. When I got there, I drove past Earl Scheib's once, didn't find any parking on the streets, drove back the other way, found parking, and walked over to Earl Scheib's. Who knows how many times I squealed with joy! LOL When I got there, I found Angelina and them quite easily. There was over a hundred people already there. The lady in front of us was very friendly. Melissa came with her husband, and her son. Her favorite player is Andre Ethier and her son, David's, favorite player is Nomar Garciaparra. We chatted, I showed them my pictures from Wednesday night's game. The group of guys in front of them were peeking, so I let them browse the pictures too. Both groups commented that they were good pictures. Angelina thought I was crazy. She also thought it was funny to hear me talk baseball.

A blue Dodger hummer arrives and a van follows, with the free goodies and Dodger dogs. They set up. Russ arrives in a blue Toyota Highlander, which he drove by himself and arrived alone. How cool is that??? They hand out the goodies, the line moves along. Melissa asked if I was willing to sell one of my baseball cards. David (or her husband) didn't bring anything to sign. Instead of selling her a card, I gave her one of my extra 5 x 7s that I bought. And in good measure, I threw in a picture of Andre Ethier from Wednesday's game. I printed out ten 5x7s and picked one for Russell to sign. I liked the thought of handing him the picture, and asking him to sign a picture that I took from Wednesday's game. Melissa wanted to send me something to thank me for being so nice, so I gave her my information and she gave me her phone number. The line inched by and by the first hour, he already signed over the first hundred people. Here it comes guys...

The first picture is Russ shaking David's hand. He is so cute. The next picture is him signing the picture I gave Melissa. I'm not sure what he's smiling/laughing about. It could be that Melissa is telling him about me! She said she was gonna say, "this nice girl behind us took this picture and gave it to us. She should get a kiss." LOL. Melissa called me later to ask me if I tried to kiss him. LOL. Everyone else was like, you were that close. What could he do if you had gave him a peck on the cheek? After Melissa and her family, we're up!

I ask Russ to sign a picture that I took from Wednesday night's game. He says, cool, sure. Then I ask him if I could have a hug. We had seen other people do it, so I could get away with it too, right??? LOL The guy standing next to the table goes, "Okay, no more ideas about hugs after this. This is going to be the last one." DEEP BREATH... RELEASE... I texted Sherisse later about this and she replied, "did you cry?" And afterwards, the guys (well, Nina, Angelina, Kevin, and Harold) asked me what was going through my mind when he hugged me. Well... besides my mind screaming "AAAAHHHH!!! I'M GETTING A HUG FROM RUSSELL NATHAN COLTRANE JEANSON MARTIN!!!" Okay, so his full name didn't run through my head. In fact, I'm not sure if at that point anything was going through my head. I was soooo overwhelmed by just being so close to him ... man I don't know what was going on in there.

Next is Angelina. She was taking pictures for me, and now it's my turn to take pictures of everyone else. Angelina has him sign an official Major League baseball. No sunglasses. This time she came prepared, lol. But, don't worry. Nina's keeping the sunglasses tradition alive this time. Nina's up next, hands him the sunglasses. He looks at her like she's crazy. LOL. You can totally see the expression in his face. He's confused. Russell says, "Are you serious, yeah, you want me to sign these?" He looks up, smiling. Nina tells him that Angelina got him to sign a pair at PCC and we're making it a tradition. His reply? "Oh no." LOL!!!!! I mentioned that the sunglasses he signed at PCC were smaller. He tried to sign the glasses and commented that it was hard to sign. In the picture, you can see him laughing as he's trying to sign the sunglasses. Kevin's up next with another official baseball, like Angelina, then Harold with a Dodgers' baseball bat. He signed mine and Harold's with a silver sharpie, Angelina and Kevin's with a pen, and Nina's with a blue sharpie. While we were waiting for our "Dodger Dogs", Angelina tried to review the pictures. She wanted to delete one picture and somehow came to the screen that said, "Erase All Pictures." She goes, "LINDA! LINDA! How do I hit cancel?" I told her to turn the camera off. I did that last year by accident and lost all my pictures from the first day and half of youth camp.

Afterwards, we got our "Dodger dogs" and went home. By the time we got the dogs, they ran out of Dodger Dogs and were just giving away ballpark franks. We went to Nina's house, laid out our autographs on her Dodger bedspread, and took pictures of them. Nina and Harold went to the dentist while we ran some errands. First we got cash at the back, then went to Wal-greens. The machine was down. Again. We went to Target, and it was 30 cents a print. Angelina bought Kyle's birthday gift. We went to CVS in Eagle Rock. We picked out our prints. Kevin and Angelina left to get gas and Harold and Nina. I stayed to get the order in. Turns out the computer had to reboot and they didn't receive my pictures. While I was waiting, I saw Ditas, another freshman pit member of mine. Speaking of which, there was Drum Line Competition held at PCC today. Man, thought brought back a lot of old memories and emotions. Some good, lots bad. Anyway, I'm digressing. Ditas now works at the Eagle Rock CVS. She asked me if I was still playing music. I said, yeah, in church. She is an amazing pianist! One of the best players I had in pit that year. So, when I found out the pictures didn't get uploaded, I said it was okay. I wasn't going to try again there. I drove over to the CVS by the church. Homeboy from yesterday was there again. LOL I don't think he was too happy with me the other night. Anyway. I uploaded fifty-two 4x6 and five 5x7. I told homeboy that this was my fourth stop, the other three didn't work out. He said he was going to pull up my prints first if I didn't mind waiting. I waited, picked out two photo frames, picked up some Kudos, and got out of CVS after arriving in there forty minutes ago. Now, my photos (the 4x6s) are in my blue photo album. The picture Russell signed is in a photo frame. And I have more 5x7s for future autographs. And hopefully, we'll find out about the one that's being held next Saturday!