the one where he has a witty title

Wow what a great game! A real nail biter till the end. I thought we had it in the bag untill 26 seconds where left on the clock, and Team USA scored the tying goal. You could almost see 35 million Canadians throw their Molsons at the tv at the same time.

SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME

My biggest fear. Crystal is laughing on the couch to my left, and I am sinking into the couch. I tell her, all I want is a good game, well I’m getting it. Another 20 minutes that will feel like an entire work day. My heart can’t take much more of this. It jumps in my throat every time Team USA has the puck.

Ok, Some back story for a second. In the second period, I was eating some of Crystal Baked Doritos. I gave Mal a corner of one. Well he loved it. He licked all the cheese off of both side, and came back looking for more. I bet* Crystal that if the Canadians won, she has to eat the chip, if they lost, I would eat it. Sidney Crosby is a Hero! Something like 9 minutes in to the overtime period, he scored the game winning goal. I jumped up and screamed WOOHOO, and EAT THE CHIP! She didn’t. In fact, I gave her numerous chances to do so. I think the last time was just before we went to bed. SO when I got up this morning I put it in a baggie and hid it somewhere so I can bring it out again at the 2014 Winter Olympics. We’ll see who is laughing then!!

The question is now, What the hell do I do with myself now that the Olympics is over with? I know, The summer games are in 2 years, but it’s not the same if its not on home soil. Well I have some plans:

- DVR DVR DVR.
We have two hours worth of Caprica, Survivor, Survivors (BBC) and Sparticus.

- 5k St. Patrick’s day run
Its on the first day of Spring!

- My Birthday is coming up in 3 months!

- Vegas Baby! in 9 months 2 days

I think we’ll keep busy.

* Sadly though, she didn’t take the bet.

the one where he’s proud

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l’épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.

Congrats to Team Canada, who beat Team USA in over time to win the gold!

Final medal count for Team Canada:

14 Gold, 7 Silver, and 5 Bronze

the one where he doesn’t know what to type

Another weekend. We’ve been out to get a larger cat box, some shred for Pickle’s cage, and of course the fixin’s for the biscuits and gravy for tonight’s supper. I’ll start laundry day tomorrow morning as I loaded the dishwasher and its running right now. I think this will also be the week, that we try to transition Mal into eating the plain crunchy food, instead of the the soft/crunchy mix. the soft food gives him terrible gas, and make his poopies smell rank, especially at 5am while I am trying to make my coffee. Mal is starting to venture upstairs. he was exploring, always within running distance of the door to go back downstairs. He’s too cute. Chaucer is the typical big brother. Mal came nose to nose with Jazz, the old man kitty from upstairs, and in a flash Chaucer was there to make sure Jazz didn’t do anything.

Been watching a lot of the Olympic coverage. If you call watching 90% of the events after the fact. A couple of time we were watching the speed skating, and I already knew the out come. I think the only events that were live, that I noticed have been the hockey games. Speaking of Hockey, it’s going to be USA vs. Canada on Sunday afternoon. Go Canada! We watched some of the awards ceremonies, for when Canada won medals, it fills me with pride that we are doing so well. Technology is awesome during these games, because everything is so connected. I can keep up even while I’m work.

Work has been slow. Most people have already spent their income tax cheque’s, so they are back to buying the basics. Since they are buying the basics, less are coming back as returns. Which makes my job a blessing and a curse. Less returns means less claims. So we have to find other things to make the day go by.

The initial excitement of going to Vegas has faded. Which is a good thing because I don’t think I could have handled myself being like that for the next nine months. I was just a little *too* excited. I’m still very excited but its more controllable now. The same excitement of me getting my new phone has waned as well, which is even better than the Vegas excitement, because I think I was really starting to annoy Crystal. All in due time. Work has told us that we’ll be getting a bonus cheque this quarter, so I’m going to put some money aside for Crystal to go on Ebay and look for a phone that she wants.

So, yeah, I think that’s all I really have to say now. Been a boring long week. I’m glad its over. In fact when I go back to work, it’ll be a new month.

My wife is pretty awesome, she’s playing the tragically hip for me, because I said that I never get to hear any of my music. She rocks.

the one where he wishes for one more day

It’s Sunday. That means I’ve already finished the laundry. I’ve actually folded it. Its still sitting in the kitchen, but its folded. I’ve been trying to get into that habit as I’m pulling it out of the dryer.

On Saturday, we all climbed into the Escape to go up to the Emerald Square Mall to hook Brian, my father in law up on my Sprint plan. And to try and talk him out of getting the HTC Hero as his phone. (Really I wasn’t trying to be selfish, its not that that’s the phone I REALLY want…) I didn’t think he needed it. He doesn’t have a facebook, a twitter account, and email address, text message or anything. He doesn’t need to sync it to gmail etc. Plus like I pointed out, the entire front of the phone is glass, and he works in construction. You do that math.

So after about 15ish minutes of walking back and forth he settled on another touch screen, I think it was the Instinct. I walked up to the counter, and tried to get this really uninterested Indian guy to help us. (I think we walked into the wrong Sprint store as there are two of them. The other one must have had the nicer guy that we talked to a couple of weeks back.) I gave him my phone number and my last name. We waited for him to plug it all into the system. He then told me he couldn’t sign Brian up for a phone because I was only approved for 3 lines. I had no idea. I felt gutted. I apologised like mad to him. We’ve only been bugging hime for at least 8 months to just give up on the pay as you go plans and get a real phone (he currently has a Razr phone).

So yeah I feel terrible.

Now on to the next thing. Last week, he bought our airline tickets and our hotel reservations through Expedia.com. and we’ve been getting the “OMG YOU HAVE TO CALL US RIGHT AWAY OR WE’RE GOING TO KILL A KITTEN” type emails. It seems Delta airlines has been screwing around with the flights, but not talking to Expedia. So Expedia gets confused and freaks out. I know its more than nine months before we fly out there, but its annoying to have received 4 emails in 3 days. I’m so confused about when we are leaving, and Crystal hopes that she’s not going to get these emails every day, because that would suck.

It’s Sunday. That means I’ve already finished the laundry. I’ve actually folded it. Its still sitting in the kitchen, but its folded. I’ve been trying to get into that habit as I’m pulling it out of the dryer.

It’s Sunday, and I am bored.