Sunday Hockey- Game 9

Hey, we finally won a game. Woohoo! We held our losing streak to only 4 games. As for the game itself, we played really well. Going into the third period the score was 3-1 us, so we were confident. I scored the first goal in the third period to make it 4-1. It was a wrist shot from the top of the left circle. It felt great to finally score after having so many opportunities. The final score was 7-2. It was a clean game for the most part. I almost leveled a guy in the last minute. He shoved me kinda hard in the back, and so I turned around, contemplated laying him out, but decided to just put my stick between his legs and give him a shoulder. He wasn't too happy about it. I know this cause he yelled something at me. Other than that though, I think there were maybe one or two other hits. To sum it up: we won, it feels great, and we have some momentum going into next week.

What to Wear

Just a few weeks ago I started to think about what I wear, and how I come to my decision on that. What got me thinking is, I woke up one morning a couple weeks ago, looked outside and noticed it was sunny, so I put on a shirt, shorts, sandals, then left for class. I walk outside, get in my car, and leave. As I am driving down the freeway it starts to rain. Sure enough, by the time I got to school it was cloudy and rainy...so much for a sunny day. Now there have been many more occasions, especially during the "cold" months like December, January, February, and I guess you could throw November in there too, when I would go through the same thought process in the morning. Wake up, see that it's sunny, and put on "summer" clothes. Now when I had my golf class last semester I would suffer more. Sure it was sunny outside, but it wasn't even semi-warm. It was more like frikkin cold or something along those lines. And not to mention that I wore sandals, and the grass was wet and cold, and so my feet weren't particulary warm.

Off on a tangent now. I have a good reason for wearing sandals almost every day last semester. Typical me, I only have 1 pair of shoes. So last summer when I went deep sea fishing I wore shoes (beacuse I didn't want a fish hook or other sharp obeject to stab my toes). It turned out, not to my surprise, that by the end of the trip my shoes had a fishy smell to them. Not to mention the tuna blood stain that was left when one of the deckhands drug a tuna along the deck and over the toe of of my shoe. The tuna was bleeding because once it was brought onboard it had to be knocked out, so it was clubbed or something, and the blood was from that... or maybe from where it was gaffed.

Where was I....oh yeah, 1 pair of shoes. There you have it, my reason for always wearing sandals when it was cold outside. Eventually I decided to wear my tennis shoes, the ones I bought for playing tennis. I really have no explanation for not wearing long-sleeves or a sweatshirt more often though. I guess that's just me. Anyways to conlcude my point about what I wear, I have come up with this: I base my judgement on what it looks like outside. I don't bother to acutally step outside and see if it's sunny-warm or sunny-cold. And I go from that first obersvation. I don't get dressed, then look outside to make sure it still looks about the same as it did whenever I got dressed. The funny thing about this is I am aware of it, and that the weather decieves me more often than not, but I still haven't changed much. I have noticed I tend to wear long-sleeves a little more often now because I don't trust the weather as much as I used to. Oh well...such is life. I think this post is long enough, maybe some other time I will enlighten you as to why I don't wear pants unless required to or that occasional social event where pants would be more appropriate.

Sunday Hockey- Game 8

Take a guess what happened last night...that's right, we lost again. The score was 7-5. Now our losing streak is up to 4 games. I don't really mind the losing because I'm still having a great time out there. I think we are saving the good stuff for the playoffs. Last night was really cool though. One of my teammates works at Centennial Gardens, so after the Condor's game he was cleaning up. He happened to be taking out the trash when he noticed a left-handed 1-piece composite hockey stick that wasn't cracked anywhere. So he took it and gave it to me last night. He also found a full composite stick (not broken) for himeslf too. It's a really nice stick. I played with it most of the game and liked it almost more than the one I already have. It was kinda funny when he gave it to me because ealier in the week I was looking at all of last years model's (for hockey sticks) and the one's I wanted were on sale for $110ish. So when I got home last night I looked online for the price of what I just got, and next to where the price is listed it read: "Call for price." Looks like I won't be needing a new hockey stick anytime soon.

Maybe Someday

We lost our game again last night. We made it to a shootout, but lost. It was still a good game though. I had so many shots (like 8) and scored none. I had some really close ones though. Our losing streak is up to three games now. We'll shoot for a win next week. On to the more important part of life: friends and humor. This morning's topic:

TaylorML217: so are there any girls in your near future tim?
Planet TSA: no
TaylorML217: just no
Planet TSA: i highly doubt it
TaylorML217: lol
Planet TSA: are you implying i need one?
Planet TSA: = )
TaylorML217: no.. need wouldn't be the correct word
TaylorML217: maybe desperately need

Could that possibly be true?? Let's see, in the past 6ish months, Robert has told me I need a girlfriend, Patrick told me once, Robert told me again, Lauren has probably said it too, Taylor just implied it.....yet I am still single. You'd think I would have gotten the hint by now.

Sunday Hockey- Game 6

I skipped game 5...we lost 'cause have our team was gone due to the superbowl. This week we had plenty of people...and we still lost. We lost 4-2. The ref's were horrible tonight. The other team scored, and they were offsides, and no call (so the goal counted). Yet when I score, they blow the whistle for offsides and don't count the goal. The worst thing about was it is my teammate wasn't even offsides. So we had many bad offsides calls, and bad penalties too. I got elbowed in the chin (thats why I wear a face mask), so it didn't hurt at all. In the last minute of the game, I took a guy into the boards with me. He had the puck so it wasn't roughing or anything, but the ref did yell at me since I had him pinned against the boards long after the puck was gone. I got a little steam out and avoided a call. Maybe next week we can win, I know our opponents aren't the greatest, so there's hope.

Awsomeness

Mammoth was awsome. We got up there Thursday night. Friday was all sun and no wind. It wasn't crowded at all either. Chair 25 was nice, as well as 9. Chair 5 was really good, Dry Creek was groomed and full of powder. After lunch I tried hitting some short rails...it was kinda fun. Basically there wasn't a bad spot on the mountain Friday. And Saturday, was really good too. It was sunny all day, with a light breeze in the afternoon. And once again, 25 was nice in the morning, 12 was nice, 3 was nice....and on and on. I think I had a few good spills on friday, especially the one where I fell on a flat part, slid a little ways, and got a bunch on snow down my pants...that kinda sucked. I boarded half day today. It was windy, nothing too bad, just a little cold. There was a little bit of powder that had blown onto the slopes, which made it nice. Overall, it was a great trip, and there's definitely more of them to come this season.

Week 2

"If snow is white, then it is white. Wow...that's deep." -my philosophy prof.

This week went by fast. Class was canceled Monday. Tuesday's lectures weren't too boring, Wednesday was interesting, and today, well today was just fun. Next week is going to be a little bit tougher, but I'm not going to worry about that until monday morning. As for now, I am just waiting for Katie to get home and pack so we can leave for Mammoth.