Big E, big deal...

I never figured it would ever happen, but alas... it is finished. The Big "E" (and I don't mean Enema) has landed in town. I have to say I like his price tag and his point production last time he played, it's just he's bound for another injury, which worries me. If the Leafs have too many eggs in their injury prone basket, like last season when they had too many eggs in the geriatric basket, they could be in for trouble if/when someone gets injured. But that's not gonna happen, right? Finally a player for Antropov to look up to, so hopefully he can learn something and start getting concussions and retire early... stupid Antropov.

A rousing melodramatic hooray and a loud "show me what you can do" comes out for this move. Here's to the big E!

He's back, and it's for good this time...

Like an abused woman, I was ready for more abuse, hearing that the NHL is coming back, saying to me, "I still love you, baby" and "Those other leagues meant nothing to me..."

I don't care, I'm pumped about hockey.... Civic nation, I mean Leaf Nation is back! Should be interesting. I'm happy with John Ferguson's early moves, bringing in Jeff O'Neill and letting the fossil brothers go (Roberts and Niewendyk). It's long overdue time for some young'uns to get their chance... Stajan and Wellwood meet the NHL.

Ready yourselves, folks for a flurry of strange free agent signings, and sit back and enjoy the wonderful new NHL

Hair today, gone tomorrow.

Look at him, he's dazzling...I thought I'd put up a sultry pic of me at Rudy's parents pool. I thought that if Cindy Crawford could pull off the look, I could. There you go.
Ok

Brat Camp

The following is an actual letter from Jooje the cat to Faith, when she was at Petcetera for her haircut. She thought she had been sent to Sagewalk for the TV show Brat Camp. This was a very emotional time for Jooje, and I think it straightened out her deviant ways...

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Dear Faith,

I am here at phat, I mean brat camp, and I don’t even know why you sent me here. I mean, gosh, what the frig. I only used catnip once by accident. Dang… like, you were the one who put fruit in pistachio pudding, which should be a crime. I’m cold and about to die, for the second time today. My spirit hurts. With pain. Ouch. Ow.
Jooje

I've got a golden ticket!

We went to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Friday night, and I was quite happy with it. Let it be known that the oompa loompas music sucks worse than the first movie, but who cares, the characters we just as funny.

Johnny Depp did a marvelous job as the creepier Willy wonka, a character they developed a lot more in this movie. It was quite satisfying to see them build on parts that didn' see much action in the original, and cut out the parts that dragged or just plain sucked.

Well worth the price of admission, or at least DVD purchase... Thus sayeth me.

It started off good.

Game 2, division finals, we got a 2-0 lead, then squandered it in the second period. Any number of excuses, missing our captain due to suspension, losing a few more Defencemen to injury during game, we blew our lead. I played all but 30 seconds of the last 5 1/2 minutes leading into OT... They smothered us in OT, and the winner for them ended up being a curveball from centre, squeaking off our goalies blocker and in.

Friggin heartbreaker... season over like that... ah well, had fun...

Season Stats
GP G A P Pim
15 2 6 8 6

Playoffs
GP G A P Pim
5 3 1 4 2

Friggin Eh!

Heyo, it's about flippin time... the deal is ready, and looks like it will all be done soon... Now lets focus on Toronto winning the draft lottery and getting Sidney Crosby.

The Leafs will be in trouble, having a lot of money locked in and needing to sign a lot of players... hopefully they won't ditch too many players. I'd really like to see Alex Mogilny in blue and white again...

This brings me to the real point.... how long can my TV last without turning Hi-Def?

Yippee!

Went and saw Bewitched tonight at good ol' cineplex. We've been wanting to see this movie, and movie theatres have a/c, so tonight was a logical choice. Solid movie all around. Will Ferrell is at his nutty best and Nicole Kidman seemed quite healthy for her age... good combination, funny characters.

Speaking of remakes, I am totally pumped to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which hits theatres this Friday. I forgot how much I liked that movie when i was younger, but it all came back Sunday when it was on YTV. I usually have a policy on musicals, which is NO! I have another policy on children singing, which is also NO! This movie has both, yet I didn't run screaming, but basked in the goofy characters and oompa-loompa culture. I even read the book when I was younger, which is a big thing... I hardly read anything... Should be interesting, Johnny Depp and funnier looking oompa loompas...

Game 7 Heroics

Yesterday was gme 3 of our semi final ball hockey playoffs. Tied 1-1, this game was the deciding one. We were up early, 3-2, then they scored a few quick goals. bringing us to 3 minutes left in the game, down 5-3. We scored a goal, pulled the goalie with about a minute left, then comes my glorious moment. Kelly won the faceoff back to me with about 30 seconds left, I just put as much mustard on the shot as I could and I curved right into the top shelf... tie game! A few minutes into overtime, we scored to win the series, beating the first place team who only lost 4 times all year.

It feels nice to win something.

Next week that puts us against the second place Stingers for the D division championship. If we win this, we'll go to Provincial Championships in Hamilton in August.

Booyah!

Next game is This weekend, July 16th at 5 or 6pm, with the next tourney at the garagio following the game at 7:00-7:30... Will I repeat as big winner this time, or is if time for a new champion? We could have a new points leader after this week...

Superstar!

CSI star, Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown) was on stage with DMC in Barrie for their Live8 performance... Is there anything this guy can't do? Their performance was ok... I caught a bit of live8 on tv, really enjoying Coldplay and U2. Deep Purple really stunk, and to top it off, Dave Matthews was playing in Philly at the same time, and they didn't cover it, they just flaunted it on split screen without sound... friggin Smoke on the Water... I can play that... it's not hard.
Anyways, good times.

What's up?

Not much, you? Oh ya... things pretty dull round here. Went to Sarnia for the long weekend, which consisted of losing at golf, revisiting Paddy's and having a few lengthy naps.

Again, why must Ben Mulroney be the representative for anything to do with Canadian music.?!?!? At least he didn' host Live8 here in barrie, but he was on my tv... Ben Mulroney is an idiot... more than Ryan Seacrest.

My hair is in braids again... anybody guess how many this time? They're real braids instead of the twisty things like last time.

I see little bits of NHL news not pertaining to the CBA on tv here and there, which makes me think that maybe there'll be NHL this fall. Which means, I want a new TV... I'm not sure how long I can go without taking advantage of HD broadcasts of Leaf games... it will be agonizing... not only TSN HD and Sportsnet HD, but Hockey Nught in Canada on CBC HD... We'll see what happens.

Church ball against the other good team tomorrow. I'll try and hit another dinger for all y'all.

peace out

You're which is itchy?

The real liger...

You decide...

110% All Day!

Ball Hockey Playoffs Game 2...

Our team really pulled it together today and pushed through some tough play, rough at times, to pull out a 5-2 victory over the Kings to tie the best of 3 series at 1's. I had an assist and a missed goal (it hit the padding inside the post, the ref thought it hit the post.) Tough defence with relentless offence was the difference. We meet again in 2 weeks, July 9th at 4pm at Lions Arena.

TPTP Event at the Garagio

Again, I fought through adversity, an early rebuy, and then being down to just 300chips, (with 6,750 in play) to become the victor, and inch towards first in the points list. Hats off to Dave Wager for a noble performance, the river is a killer... Honorable mentions to now-part-time champion Matt Brouwer, and Mike Rosenberger, finishing 3 and 4 respectably.

If you're gonna spew, spew in this...

It's June 25th and you all know that that means, no not 6 months til Christmas.

Ball Hockey Playoffs start today...

it must have been the pressure of the game, cause I threw up my lunch when I got to the arena. I don't think I've puked in a few years, so this is odd. I got out and played the game, at forward instead of defence today, like I needed any more running. In the end, on this ridiculously hot day, we lost 5-1. Most of my team gave up with 6 minutes to go or so, I scored our 1 goal with 25 seconds left. Ah well... today is do or die, if we don't win, we're eliminated. I'm not optimistic, but I'm gonna try hard as heck to win this thing. Maybe I need to upchuck again for good luck. I'm leading our team in goals for playoffs.

Third Time's a Charm

IN your FACE Shoppers Drugmart! Last week was the 20x optimum points day, and I got myself back up to 34,000 points... which means $75 in store. I bought a poker chip set and a few magazines, then returned the poker chip set to get my $75 back in cash. This time was easier than ever, they didn't have to call another store... they just said, "we'll have to give you cash instead of your points, sorry."

Beautiful! Now I can go somewhere else and get what I need cheaper.

Whammy!

Tonight was the night... sure, i went 1 for 4, but my 1 was quite the hit... A huge dinger to left center field, BOOM! Good times. I'm a baseball player. I play baseball. I've switched from being the John Olerud type, to more of a Dave Winfield, hitting the odd homer amongst a bunch of fly-outs.

It's a date!

The next poker tourney is this Sunday evening at the Garagio, at 5:30-whenever... Fun is ready for all interested. Email me, or Comment if you're interested and want more info.

Get a haircut and get a real job.

Jooje got it together in like her big brother bob. "Why shave a cat?" you say? Well, she wasn't handling the heat well last week so we decided to give it a try. The nice people at Petcetera were kind enough to give her the lion look and take many strange incriminating photos.

She's so cute.

Bet you can hardly wait...

In absence of any significant post, I will tease you about the cat's new haircut... pictures will follow which will make you lyao.

As if I need any more reasons...

Last night, I bested a field of 8 mini golfers at the Sportsworld Old Mill Course, shooting an amazing 46 to take the first place prize of bragging rights! Thus confirming my unnatural prowess in mini golf.

Booyah!

In other news, I got up and found out that there's a 6:45 in the AM (Who knew?) to come to work, only to find out that our scheduled trip to Marineland had been cancelled due to the weather. Ugh.