weekend happenings, a defense of VM....oh yeah, and a ghost

some brief (hopefully) highlights (and lowlights) of an eventful weekend:

-welcomed back JK and her family from 3 weeks in Ireland, got awesome souvenirs (a Trinity College t-shirt, Guinness paperweight with actual Guinness inside and 2 tall cans of Irish beer)....I have the coolest ex-gf/best friend around

-watched the season finale of Veronica Mars, if you don't watch the show...WATCH IT!! even though its drama, I laugh out loud many times every episode at the brilliant writing, only one of 3 shows that I laugh for every episode (Scrubs and Boston Legal the only other two)....I know, this is when you dismiss it as a "high school" show or say that I watch it only b/c she makes me. but this season has consisted of: a bomb on a school bus that blew it off a cliff, multiple murders including one guy being handcuffed to a sink in a stadium that was imploded, rape accusations, STDs, bribery, sex, blown murder trials, child molestation by the guy from Police Academy, and shocking criminal masterplans. Does that sound like a "high school show" to you? seriously...watch it, I'll even get you started if you want

-Mud Hens double-header Friday night, stayed longer than my dad...listened to the game on my radio when he left, whats more lame (especially to the ladies) a guy watching a baseball game alone or trying to look busy by listening to the radio call of the game he's at? finished off looking lame by watching the fireworks...by myself

-saw The Da Vinci Code with the folks, liked it better than I thought I would...still liked the book better. Tom Hanks grew on me, though, that hair?! hoping the better Angels and Demons will get made too...filled out a survey for "Ron Howard" apparently

-watched HP and the Goblet of Fire, best movie so far based on the best book so far

-the often-infamous WSJP Memorial Day party at Castle Chach, perhaps a smaller crowd than normal but good times had by all. great softball game...made a great catch, Chach got drilled in the head by an errant Corey through (or was it?...good food as always, way too many asses seen (well mens' asses anyway), Chach was going to help me out but kinda failed :-) but not through lack of effort....I think

-another Hens game monday night..guilted JK into going, she checked out players with the binoculars, liked the Hens catcher Maxim St. Pierre (the girl does like her catchers)

-driving home from her house I swear to god I think I might have seen a ghost in one of the two cemeteries next to her house...I always look at night because sometimes there will be red or blue candles at a couple of the graves that just happen to be lit (creepy because there is no pattern to it, and there is a story that one of the candles is over the grave of a dead child). while looking at a couple of them that were lit, my eyes picked up something next to them. I swear there was a women knelt in front of one of the graves, and she was a draped in an eerie white shawl....I slowed down (for some reason) and then I am positive that I saw a woman's face. I couldn't take my eyes off whatever this was but I had too soon passed it. but I COULD NOT make myself turn the car around and look again. I was strangely calm but I just couldn't order my body to do it.
now my rational mind has provided plenty of explanations for what I saw (was really just another headstone, some actual woman was in the cemetery perhaps lighting the candles even though it was 12:40 on a monday night, it was obviously something more normal and believable, like aliens) but none of them really fit. now I do believe in ghosts, just not sure I'd ever seen one or that I have even now. still very cool to think about
of course I called JK to tell her and she didn't appreciate being told of a possible ghost 50 feet from her house, bit I reassured her, she lives next to 2 cemeteries, an 1812 fort where fighting and sieges took place, a site of a massacre, and an Indian burial ground...if she hasn't seen a ghost yet, she probably won't