27 posts tagged “hockey”
I have been caught in a trap and Voxing has been the last thing on my mind but I promised myself that today I was going to do it. A little too much questing and a little too little living in the real world. My life is really in the toilet.
I've been doing a real little of reading. I'm reading You Will Know Our Velocity! in 15 page segments. Jason is going to get the impression that I don't want to read it at all, which just isn't true. I just have this buggy personality and when I obsess it takes up all my energy. I haven't been able to concentrate at all. Of course I'm going to devour City of Glass when it comes out a week from tomorrow. Oh my god am I excited. And in my feed this morning was a Rachel Caine update about Fade Out the 7th Morganville Vampire book. The cover design to the left. So she has the next two books in the box. Oh Shane, I'm wishing happy things for you.
Class has been more interesting. I still think my prof is a tool but I really liked the video we watched in the last class. I liked the debate of Intelligent Design/Creationism and Evolution. Go Evolution go! I'm eager to see what happens in class tomorrow. I hope we actually start learning about something other than religion and politics though. D needs to know about psychology before he goes to grad school.
April is coming soon and we have Portland and Shanny and then Nielle will be coming to visit. Oh fun everyway around. Speaking of Shannon she took the pic to the left and I loved it so much that I snagged it for in here. She is so awesome. And Nielle... when she comes here we are going to do the RenFaire in Irwindale. I'm hoping we can do it on a day when Belle can come too. Note to self: remind D to buy plane tickets.
I haven't been watching hockey but I have been playing fantasy hockey and my team beat James for the first time all year last week. WOOT! D tells me that Chris Kunitz is playing well in Pittsburgh and Ovie is edging in on the 50 spot for goals this year. Go boy! Do DC proud. I can't wait until Thanksgiving this year when we will be in DC and I have high hopes that we can see a live caps game.
Sunday bloomed early and we played more WoW and got ready to head home. I wanted to see some missions and we started at Mission San Jose in Fremont. I loved the ceiling of this mission. I thought the raw wood and chandelier effect was beautiful. The altar was simple and elegant. I love missions so hard. I wish this one had better grounds but it was pretty high up there in rating. It's small and I think I would like to see it when it isn't raining. Maybe we will visit it again.
I don't know why I like missions so much. D has a theory that it is because they are like art rather than religion and that is as sound as anything else that I can think up. I am always looking at the altar and because I'm not that well versed in biblical stories or religious iconography I don't know what it is depicting but I like it all the same. I loved San Juan Capistrano and it didn't have a chapel though so it isn't a pre-requisite. I think I'm going to collect the mission figurines from each place we go.
I woke up an hour ago singing the Canadian national anthem. I don't know why but it's stuck in my head. Maybe it is a little leftover from seeing the hockey game on Thursday night. The flames prevailed to win it with a 2-0 shutout. Belle enjoyed her first game. Paul and Amanda had a good time too I think. Ollie was over the moon because his team one. I think Mikey was just drunk. I was happy because I got to see a whole minute of Dion playing the way Dion played last year. I have to glean my Dion happiness wherever I can. I'm still a fan but man he is tanked this season. Only a week a way from watching the Sharks play. My Torrey jersey came. I swim in it but I am happy about it all the same. Go Torrey. I hope you might be back in time for Saturday's game.
So WoW is going well, although I think I have been a lvl32 forever. We did the Gnomeregen and that went well although a lot of heals. I have been thinking a lot about guilds and the last few days we have run a couple dungeons with his guildees and they haven't been asshats. I am just afraid to commit. I don't want to choose poorly. I have it in my mind that once I pick that's it for life. I know that isn't true but I still think that. I'm interested in where our next dungeon mission will be.
Speaking of guilds, I finally caught up on the Guild. The one before last I watched when I was falling asleep. I remember only bits and pieces clearly which is a shame when it is only 5 minutes long. There was a part with Clara and Tink selling Codex that was pretty horrifically funny. The last Guild was pretty good. I think Zaboo stole it for me and Vork and Bladezz talking to him about the duel was hilarious. Of course the entire show is a bunch more funny now that I'm playing WoW. The dynamic is better understood if you know from where they are coming from.
I'm still reading the Eggers book with Jason. It's going pretty well. I have a strange resistance for Will's thinking when we are submersed in his head. Jason's right, it is all very Kafka-esque and I'm not sure that I like that much of Kafka. I still like Hand though. Eggers has these phrases and these statements that I love. He was right. He was a titan. We were again golden. I just love the imagery it brings to mind for me. I won't get to the next park until tomorrow, as D and I are going to spend the day playing WoW.
It's been raining a lot lately. LA floods and it gets chilly. I kind of love it. Right now it's coming down and I have the blinds open so I can look out. Of course being who I am, I want to look at it but I don't want to be out in it.
There is a lot of hockey coming up. Thursday there will be a group of us going to see the Flames at the Kings. Mikey and Ollie will be meeting up with D, Belle and I and D said Paul and his girlfriend will be coming too. I am excited to see Chris because I haven't seen him since 2001/02 when he drove through Chico. I haven't seen Mikey since 2000. Then the weekend after next D and I will be driving up to SJ to see the Sharks play the Thrashers. I'll have my Torrey jersey then and we will fit in with all the Shark heads. I can't wait. Hockey in the day and WoW in a random hotel room with a jacuzzi at night. Heaven.
My sisters birthday was yesterday and she turned 13. A teenager. Now is the time where she starts to no longer make sense right? I hope that isn't the case. I do wish that I was home for her birthday. It's so hard being so far away. My mom said I got her too much for her birthday, but I feel I need to make up for not being there for her, Phone calls don't matter much in the end.
Tomorrow is another Gym day. I've been trying to go 4 times a week. Spending 30 minutes with strength training and then 45 minutes on the bicycle. I am usually sweaty and excerise high by the time I'm done. I am so impatient. I want to see results already and D has to remind me that it will be at least 6 months before I start to actually notice a change in weight or physical difference. I hope that I don't lose heart and stop going because I just won't wait. I am childish that way. Maybe I could look at it as just getting through one day at a time. Like tomorrow will just be the Tuesday that I have to get through and Wednesday will be that day. It's easier than thinking I have to get through 26 weeks of waiting. And I very badly want to look different.
Today I started Falcondance and I spoiled myself because I was getting rather high hopes that Nicias and Oliza would overcome odds and pair up but it doesn't look like it. I like Nicias and I am interested in seeing how the world away from the Diente and Tuuli Thea pans out. I still have Wolfcry and Wyvernhail to read after this. I liked Danica and Zane as teens. Now it is 20 years later. I find the Kiesha'ra books to be a little too reaching. I hope that the next one isn't 20 more years in the future.
I wish I didn't have to sleep. That I could read all night and all day.
Today I had to see Dr. Scott and it was a good visit even if he did increase my meds. He said that it seems as if I'm doing really well even if I am cycling some. I have to go back in three weeks so well see how things are going then.
Tomorrow is going to be a reading day. I haven't had much me time in the last few weeks. D's been home and I love that, but it really cuts into having the book time. Tomorrow night is hockey. Hopefully I won't sleep through the third period. We shall see.
P.S. I worked hard at the gym today and bicycled for 16 miles.
I had therapy yesterday and we talked about something that I am starting to feel terribly bad about and it's not very funny although for a while I was laughing about it. Dr. Moore made me realize how wrong I was to share the thought and now I just don't know how to take off the table. I think I'm going to avoid it and see if it won't go away. She'd be really proud of me taking that route too. Damn, what a mess.
Thursday night D and I are going to the Staples Center to see the Ducks play the Kings. Go Anze and Raitis. I would like to be able to stay up the entire game. We'll have to try it out as a new thing. There is just something embarassing about falling asleep at a sporting event. A year ago I would have been all for the Ducks but then they traded Andy. I have man-loyality. And Teemu and Beauchmin aren't playing. It leaves little to be excited about. Hell, they don't even have Bertuzzi for me to be excited about someone hitting. But it will be a good game. We will have fun.
Yesterday was a day full of surprises. I wore my green sweater with my green converse. They aren't grass green, more of a gem colour and it looked really good. It isn't often that I like what I wear. So it was a good start. I went to the bookstore to get Faefever and found Lord of Misrule was out on the shelves early. I whooped and jumped up and down. I have little self respect when it comes to books. I haven't started it yet but I plan to start it today. Oh where for art thou, Shane? I went to a hockey game. Kings vs. Flyers at the Staples Center. I found myself routing for the Flyers... and that is just not acceptable. I have never liked Philadelphia. Even when Mclaughlin was making me watch every game. But I do like Braydon Coburn and D has Scott Hartnell on his fantasy hockey team. It was a hard hitting game. I imagine they will be feeling it today. Although the Kings won in the end, I didn't see it because I fell asleep on D's shoulder and we left early. Hopefully I'll have a better time of it this Thursday when we go to see the Ducks play. I can route for the Kings that game. I never have gotten over them trading Andy McDonald.
I'm of half the mind to watch some TV today. This is highly unusual. I have the gym today so anything I would want to watch gets cut into by that. And then we are going to go and meet Jamie in LBC for some Indian. By then this idea will have burned off. Tomorrow I'm meeting Nicky online at 11:30 so it is out then too. Then I have Dr. Moore. I have plans to read Lord of Misrule sometime in the next 24 hours too so that leaves me really short on time. But I have Sinchornicity, which D found for me and Lost in Austen. D is going to have Hex come through on Netflix this week. I will have to readjust my mental thinking to work on this.
New Years Resolutions!!
I made a few... alright more than a couple. I was generous with my resolve and not doing so great on a few of them. But I will list them here so that I can look back and know which ones I need to work on.
- Go to the gym three times a week. 3 hours cardio and 1.5 weight training.
- Lose 15 lbs and keep it of.
- Be more mindful of my hygiene.
- Do something social each week.
- Read 5 books a week.
- Walk more.
- Clean the house one a month.
- Keep on top of the kitty litter.
- To let my hair grow. No cutting it.
I'm so excited for Christmas. I love opening presents. And I like Christmas to be a big affair. My mom is sending two more boxes of presents. She gives me plenty of gifts to unwrap. I am done shopping for D. My secret santa gift is under control. I think the gift I am most excited about is something I got for D. Although he never read the gift I was most excited about last year. He better be excited this year. Oh and I am excited about what I got for Belle. She's going to love it.
I've been doing a lot of downloading lately and I hit pay dirt today when I found Ripe by Ben Lee, The Perishers's Let There Be Morning and Nightcrawler, Pete Yorn's newest album. I also got some HIM albums I don't have and I cleaned up my Metric collection. I downloaded a bunch more too. I am happy to have so much new music. Although right now I am listening to Stellastarr* and I've had this cd for about four years. So maybe new music is wasted on me.
New Moon has a release date 20 November 2009. I am getting excited about it. I hope Chris Weitz doesn't fuck it up.
I got the best news this week. Nielle is going to buy her ticket to come and visit in April. I am already racking my brain as to things we can do. Maybe the LACMA, or the Science Center. Maybe to the Salton Sea. Maybe I will make her cook for me. I'm sure she will want to watch hours of the food channel. We will have tons of fun.
I had a really nice weekend. Saturday Belle came over and we all went
Anyway after all the fuss we sat down to watch the first 5 episodes of SYTYCD Canada. The first 4 episodes are the ones that generally drive me nuts. It's all the auditions and I would just as soon as see the real dancing then watch all the half assers. It just brings me no joy to watch the dancing dipshits. So I was a little over tired and rubbed the wrong way by the time it got down to the top 20. I like Nico and Arassay and Danny and Allie. I don't mind Lisa and Vincent, they are probably the better dancers but they are just unattractive as all hell. I like the pretty. It did strike me that they didn't have any b-boys or hip hoppers in the top 20. It tells me that all the hardy ones are in America. That's certainly sad. I like to think of Canada as a hope to which my country could aspire. This kind of weakness with all they wishy washy contemporary dancers is inexcusable.
Sunday night we went to the Sharks game at the Staples Center. It was interesting seeing Rob Blake dressed up in teal. And the poor man, he couldn't touch the puck without being booed very very loudly. Kings fans apparently hate him as much as they loved him. It's not like it's his fault he didn't wake up one day and decide to be a Shark. Of course no one wants to be on the Kings so that should be taken into account. It's the nature of the beast I guess. As for the rest of the game, all I have to say is that games where Nabby isn't in goal are infinitely shittier. If I had known that Nabby wasn't going to be between the pipes I would have had D take Paul. We know this for next time. I spent the night watching Kopi skate and then breaking glass with his stick. A temper tantrum that the A should bank. But it's Kopi and his feet alone make me tolerate a lot that I wouldn't from someone else. But he is the only reason to ever watch the Kings. The game was a one goaler. It was hardly offensive from either side and maybe both teams were tired of one another as it was the second night of a two-nighter. Who can say. I just know a few facts that I will impart... Boucher is a crap goalie and I will never like his goalie style. Kopi is sex on skates. Joe didn't show up to play. Cheechoo has a fire. JR will check everyone on the other team... and that might go for the goalie too. Kaspar should play like that in every game. Of course when the rookie is your only goal, some others aren't showing up in skates. I miss Lubo. And how long until Torrey
