...And Win They Did

Wow! Last night's game was amazing. At first I thought it was going to be one of those nights where the puck just wouldn't go in, no matter how many amazing chances you had. But, it broke open towards the end of the third period.

Both Vancouver and Buffalo played a great game last night, and Auld looked good in goal, as he has for a while now. But we do need a viable backup.

I thought the first game Ouellette played, he looked good. The second game. Not so much. I don't think I have ever seen an NHL goalie cover his face/mask and duck as the puck is coming towards him. Somehow that doesn't exude a lot of confidence in your goal saving abilities.

Auld is good, but the guy will need a break some time...

The only time I worried about last night's game was earlier in third, and Vancouver appeared to be sitting back and playing a defensive style of hockey, which really isn't them. Hey, I was tired too last night, but I was allowed to be sleepy and relaxed, up in my cozy, little corner of the nose-bleeds of GM Place. I'm not the one playing hockey.

But they woke up, and scored, again.

The only thing I didn't like about last night's game - the hoards of people leaving with about four minutes left. Vancouver was only up by 2 goals at that point, and Vancouver has been known to blow and lead like that, with only minutes left in the game. Oh well, I guess the ones who left aren't true hockey fans (or were Sabres fans, there were a few of those at the game last night)...

It looks like I have a fun weekend ahead of me. Tonight Colin and I are joining Tina to go to her friend's birthday. It sounds like some of tonight's company will be a blast from the past for me, but I enjoy catching up with people I haven't seen in a long time...

Tomorrow, Colin and I are joining my family for Burns Supper at the Rowing Club. Yeah! My annual allotment of haggis.

On Sunday I am heading out to UBC for the Sororities of UBC alumnae open house. It will be neat to see what the other chapter rooms look like. I just hope they don't have the old DPhiE room open. It has been over a year now since the chapter closed, but I still think it will be hard to see the old chapter room, even though the chapter was only in there for a few months.

They Better Win

This post may jinx the outcome of tomorrow night's game, but the Canucks better beat Buffalo, goddamit. I am so adamant about this because I am going to the game tomorrow night. It is my first live Canucks game since Calgary beat us in Game 7, Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2004, and will probably be the only game I go to this year, unless I go to a playoff game again.

In other news... I don't know what the heck to do about this impending election. I thought I had it all figured out, but the last couple of weeks in Canadian politics have been inane. In the last 48 hours I have changed my mind from voting Liberal to Conservative to Green, back to Liberal, back to Green. Damn, we should chuck the lot of them out and start from scratch.

I might have an easier time voting Liberal if it weren't for the continuous scandals and the fact that my Liberal candidate is Ujjal Dosanj. Oh why did Elections Canada have to redraw the boundaries of Van Quadra and Van South? - I could at least stomach voting for Stephen Owen. I did in the last election.

It wouldn't be beyond me and what I stand for to vote Conservative, but Stephen Harper is just such a freaking weirdo, and I don't allign with his morals or values.

I won't vote NDP, I just don't know about Green, and the only other party in my riding is the Canadian Christian Party or whatever it's called - so you can just forget that.

I want to vote Conservative, but I sure as hell don't be responsible for putting Harper in charge of this country.

I've got 5 days to figure things out, and the politicians sure aren't helping any. I haven't learned anything from the debates or the adds other than that one party is worse than the other and that the party leaders are all a bunch of fools.

So on Monday this ship of fools sets sail.

Oh by the way I predict a Stanley Cup Final between Vancouver and Buffalo - here's the method to my madness: Vancouver vs. Islanders in 1982; Vancouver vs. Rangers in 1994; therefore Vancouver vs. Buffalo in 2006. However, should my theory be right, that would also mean Vancouver would loose another Stanley Cup... and it's about freakin' time we won one.

This week in Vancouver...

The biggest news floating around the Vancouver airwaves this week: Lions quarterback Casey Printers is moving to the NFL and will playing for the Kansas City Chiefs... in other news: Don Taylor can't get enough of saying Casey is moving to KC.

Also dominating the Vancouver news scene:

Mark Messier's jersey was retired at MSG... big news for Vancouver (note: sarcasm): While the Moose is an amazing hockey player, he captained the Canucks during their darkest days (and quite possibly made things worse).

It's been raining for 25 days straight. Or maybe it's 26 or 27 days now. I don't know. I've lost count. Maybe I should start building my ark...

Vancouver vs. Toronto

I know this a little late, but better late than never...

To all you Maple Leafs fans reading this entry: Leafs Suck, Leafs Suck, Leafs Suck. We beat you! Canucks Rock.

You don't know how long I, and so many other Canucks fans have been waiting to say that. And it seems ever since that game has been over there has been a real lack of Torontonian transplants around here to brag to.

Why is that whenever the Leafs beat the Canucks, the Torontonian transplants seem to crawl out of the Vancouver wood works and rub our faces in the Leafs win, but as soon as we finally beat the Leafs, there isn't a Torontonian in site. And with the new NHL scheduling, we probably won't meet up with the Leafs until the next millennium. Unless we face off in the Stanley Cup finals - you know that could probably count as Canada's first civil war...

Hence the cyber-gloating. And I know there are people from Ontario, and specifically TO, who read this blog, so hopefully I can jeer a few Leafs fans in cyberspace...

There is nothing more satisfying to a Vancouverite than to say those two magic words: Leafs Suck.

Actually, there are probably more satisfying things, but that is definitely up there... Leafs Suck.

Ok I'm done now.

Until we meet again...

(I actually have nothing against Mats Sundin, I just find this picture highly amusing)

interesting fact: there are 324,000 websites that make reference to the Leafs sucking; there are only 165,00 that reference the Canucks sucking (and I bet most of those are from disgruntled Canucks fans...)

Big Fish

A few weeks back Thalia and I got together for our semi-usual Friday night hang-out. After a Sushi dinner we went to Blockbuster and rented Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Watching the movie spurred three conversations: Roald Dahl, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, the latter of which is important to this blog entry.

Even after knowing each other for 20 years, we still discover new things that we have in common: the most recent discovery - we are both Tim Burton fans. Of course this discovery led to us talking about his movies. I have seen almost all of them, but one I hadn't see was Big Fish. Thalia and Todd own the DVD so Thalia lent it to me - I finally got around to watching it last night.

Not only is Big Fish now my favourite Tim Burton movie (sorry Beetlejuice), but is now one of my all-time favourite movies. It was based on a novel, so not all the elements of the movie were Tim Burton, but it was an amazing movie nonetheless. It was a little crazy (as Burton's movies are), but it all came together, and made perfect sense.

If you haven't seen this movie, I suggest you do. And if you tend not to like Burton films because they are on the weird side, I still recommend this movie, as it is more mainstream than his other films.

Best movie I have seen in a while - this coming from someone who practically lives in the movie theatre/video store.

2006

Everybody's doing it, so will I... write a New Year's blog entry that is.

To start, I don't make New Year's resolutions - never have and I doubt I ever will. Actually, that's not true, I always make one New Year's resolution: don't make any New Year's resolutions. True, it is a New Year, but apart from writing 2006 instead of 2005, what's so new about it. I am not trying to be cynical, but think about it - January 1st is just another day, and in the case of this year, just another Sunday.

But I do believe in making resolutions and goals for myself (and yourself), I just make them throughout the year, as I see fit. I am always looking for new and interesting things, and ways to improve myself, I just don't feel like I have to wait until January 1st to "say" I am going to start working on those things.

So what of my end to 2005 and beginning to 2006?

With about three days to New Year's Eve, Colin and I had no definitive plans, so we decided to throw a small party. We invited a few friends over and I cooked dinner for everyone. We had just received our new, big screen tv a couple of days before that so we started the party at 3PM for anyone who wanted to come over early and watch the Canucks get decimated, yet again. I won't go there right now, that is deserving of it's own blog entry...

A friend of ours brought over his digital box, which also has HDTV, so we were able to watch both the Canucks Game and World Junior Canada-USA game in high def - now I'm ruined. Once you watch TV in high def, there's no turning back.

Once those two games were over and more people arrived, we kept on watching hockey, and a room full of Canuck fans sat and watched the Battle of Alberta. After hours of hockey (I think 6 or 7) we all turned our attention to the party. Later in the evening we broke out the board games and listened to an ailing Dick Clark ring in the new year.

At about 1 or 2 in the morning, we heard a lot of swearing and yelling outside our apartment. There were a few drunken teens outside. We didn't think to much of it, but kept an eye (and ear on the situation), and it was a good thing we did.

First they kicked over a couple of newspaper boxes. Stupid, but not detrimental. A few minutes after that, however they ran up to a car driving slowly by and punched the window. Right after that a stream of teens flooded out from the building next to us and began chasing the car. That's when we called 911. While waiting for the cops, a girl at the party was now standing below our window, arguing with a couple of the guys. It was starting to escalate and get physical, so we called 911 again.

Within minutes two cop cars showed up and were talking to the three teens for a good half hour. No one was arrested in the end, but we didn't hear a peep out of the culprits from the rest of the night. Mind you, by this time it was getting close to 3AM.

We returned to our games for a bit, then decided to pack in the party around 4AM.

All in all, it was pretty good way to ring in the New Year.

January 1 was unusual day, but a good one. On New Year's Eve we received a somewhat drunken phone call from a friend of ours who had come over from Victoria to spend New Year's Eve in Vancouver.

The next day we met up with Adam and our friend Jed for an all you can eat sushi lunch. Here we were after a late night of drinking, having serious, intellectual conversations about the state of the world, but of course this was interrupted by a moment of immaturity, as Adam just had to order the chicken knees. Why? Because they were chicken knees. I don't think he ended up eating them though.

On Tuesday, I had a great, Canadian experience. Yes I live in Canada and I experience it everyday, but not quite like this.

I had the opportunity to attend the World Junior Hockey Championships semi-final game between Canada and Finland. It was such an amazing and patriotic experience to be there among the red, white and maple leaf. And the fact that Canada won was doubly good.

It also gave me the opportunity to see Luc Bourdon in action... a Canuck draft pick. By the sounds of the game, I think the people of Vancouver have already taken to him. We could use someone good on defence right now...

So far that is my 2006. Not a bad start to the year...

I now just have to get my act together and start planning my 10 year reunion, because at some point last year I thought it would be a fun thing to do. Now I'm not so sure.

Ecological Foot Print

I saw this on Lisa's blog so I thought I'd check it out...

According to www.myfootprint.org, if everyone lived like me, we would need 5.6 Earths. That is a very scary thought...

But perhaps this is something we need to keep in mind in 2006. We saw so many natural disasters in 2005 caused by global warming (or many of us assume it was an effect of global warming), that we need to really open our eyes this year and try to make some significant changes to conserve the environment we live in.

New Goalie Rumour...

Biron.

That is all.

And So Another Year Ends.

Well, I guess there is technically one more day left, but for all intensive purposes, 2005 is over. Without a doubt 2005 has been the most exciting year of my life, thus far. The biggest reason for that is I got married. I also started a job in my field, even though I am starting to have second thoughts about it. But I won't go there right now. I saw my family from England for the first time in ten years. I finally met someone from Colin's mum's side of the family, which was extremely important and special to me. And, after all these years of wanting to to return to Aloha paradise, I honeymooned in Hawaii.

2006 should be an interesting year since I have my 10-year high school reunion. I can't believe I graduated from Crofton 10 years ago! And I graduated from UBC five years ago. And this year I am really on the downslide to thirty...

The past few days have been lots of fun. We finally bought our big screen TV. We upgraded from a 21-inch screen to a 46-inch HDTV compatible TV. It make sense for a couple like Colin and me to have such a gargantuan TV: we love our movies and our hockey. I am looking forward to watching the Canucks-Wild game tomorrow on our new TV.

Colin and I decided last minute to through a small New Year's Eve get together. Ringing in the New Year with close friends is always fun.

Goodbye 2005 and hello 2006!

Oh yeah, if you ever need to buy anchovies, they aren't with the other canned fish, they are in the refrigeratedsection at the back of the grocery store, with the cheese.

This is not some random comment, I spent a good 20 minutes walking around Safeways tonight looking for anchovies.

White Christmas

While most Vancouverites will be enjoying a warmish, wet, green Christmas I am guaranteed a White Christmas. No I did not rent/invest in a snowmaker, I am heading to Whistler. I have never spent Christmas in Whistler before so I am really looking forward to it. Plus I really just need to get the heck out of Vancouver right now.

Work has been brutal the last few weeks. To put it in a nutshell the Marketing Manager has been indisposed and with no warning I was left to run the entire marketing department. It was tough at first, especially since I hate chaos and uncertainty, but once things were organized I felt a lot better.

But I am thankful just to get away for a few days and have a few days off! It's not my usual minimum 2-week Christmas holiday that I have become accustomed to, but it could be worse. I am taking tomorrow off, and the office is closed till December 28th. Then it's back for two days and then off for New Years. I don't really understand why I have to go in for two days next week, but I have pretty much used up all my vacation time, so I will have to keep that in mind next Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

David Letterman Stalks New Mexican Woman...

Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be anymore room on this planet for crazy people another one pops up. This time it is a woman from New Mexico who has created such a fantasy world for herself that she actually belives David Letterman is stalking her via his Late Show monologues.

Here is one of many articles on the story - this is from the Mail & Guardian Online
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=259765

'Letterman must not think of me'
Santa Fe, New Mexico
22 December 2005 12:34

Lawyers for David Letterman want a judge to quash a restraining order granted to a Santa Fe woman who contends the CBS late-night television host used code words to show he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host.A state judge granted a temporary restraining order to Colleen Nestler, who alleged in a request filed last Thursday that Letterman has forced her to go bankrupt and caused her "mental cruelty" and "sleep deprivation" since May 1994.Nestler requested that Letterman, who tapes his show in New York, stay at least three yards (2,7m) away and not "think of me, and release me from his mental harassment and hammering".Lawyers for Letterman, in a motion filed on Tuesday, contend the order is without merit and asked state District Judge Daniel Sanchez to quash it.Letterman's long-time Los Angeles lawyer, Jim Jackoway, said Nestler's claims are "obviously absurd and frivolous".Nestler's application for a restraining order was accompanied by a six-page typed letter in which she said Letterman used code words, gestures and "eye expressions" to convey his desires for her.She wrote that she began sending Letterman "thoughts of love" after his Late Show began in 1993, and that he responded in code words and gestures, asking her to come East.The motion to quash the order contends the court lacks jurisdiction over Letterman, that Nestler never served him with restraining order papers, and that she didn't meet other procedural requirements. -- Sapa-AP

Man that woman is crazy... It is scary to think though the people like this actually do exist!

Elexmas

You know it had to happen sooner or later... no, not the election. Me, writing a blog entry about it.

Of all the times of year to hold an election, what a stupid time. Christmas! It's not like we have anything going on in our lives. Way to go Harper! You couldn't wait till the new year... nope, you couldn't.

I, like many Canadians, have decided to ignore the election for now. I will begin paying attention January 3rd, after the Christmas holidays, when I go back to work, when the election should have been called.

Christmas, as fun as it is, is also a very insane time of year and the last thing Canadians need right now is to turn their already frazzled minds to four, crazy politicians.

Maybe I'm lucky. I know a lot about Canadian politics, at least that's what my university transcript says. I know what the parties stand for, and 20 days should be suffice enough for me to rummage through their election promises to figure out who best run this country.

Actually, I already know how I'm voting - Liberal. Many of you will agree with this choice, while many of you may think I'm insane. How can I support a party that is so corrupt.

Law of deduction...

I wouldn't vote for a party whose sole purpose is to break up this great nation. Besides, I don't live in Quebec, so I can't vote for the Bloc anyways.

I live in BC. I won't vote NDP.

That leaves the Greens, the Conservatives and the Liberals.

I don't really have a concrete reason for not voting for the Greens, I guess I am just too mainstream, and can't look outside/am not ready to look outside the box.

I would vote Conservative if Mackay were in charge, and the party had a more PC flavour. Progressive Conservative that is. I used to vote PC. Then came the wolf in sheep's clothing. The uniting of the right: a blend of Alliance and Progressive Conservative. Hmmmm.... What ever happened to the PC component of that equation. As long as crazy people from Alberta like Harper (and his predecessor, Day) are in charge of that party, forget it.

Leave abortion alone. Leave gay marriage alone. Last time I checked Canada was a progressive nation, always moving forward. Oh, that's right, I forgot, the Progressive was dropped from the Conservatives.

Which, by logical deduction, leaves the Liberal party.

Every time one of the four Prime ministerial hopefuls show up on TV (most often the news), I change the channel. From now, until January 3rd, the only election coverage I'm watching is on Air Farce, the Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

You can learn a lot about the current campaign from these shows: for instance, I learned from the Rick Mercer report today that Harper's 5% GST won't kick in till 2011. Do the math on that one: even if a majority is elected January 23, and stays in term for the full five years, which never ever happens, an election will have to be called before the GST reduction comes into effect.

There's something to chew on.

Merry Elexmas.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

This past weekend I went on a hunt through my parents' house for my copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was tucked away in a box, which was one of many boxes filled my (and Andrew's) old toys and books. Of course, it was in the very last box.

I vaguely remember reading this book. I think I was in Grade 5, maybe Grade 4. Up to that point only four versions had been published: the original, published in 1950, a second version published in 1980, and mine: the television tie-in special edition, published in 1988, and another version published in 1988. I am sure, however, many more have been published since then.

As I mentioned, I have the TV tie-in edition. This particular edition accompanied the then made-for-TV BBC Mini series.

And now, seventeen years later, the motion picture version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is about to be released... which is why I was tearing apart my parents' house looking for my copy of this timeless book. You see, I don't remember the story, at all. All I do remember is that there is a lion, a witch, and a wardrobe which leads to Narnia. And the only other thing I remember is that one of the children had a thing for turkish delight.

I tried turkish delight for the first time when I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I remember thinking it was magical and mystical, because you could get all the turkish delight you wanted in Narnia. Of course now all I have to do is go to Purdy's to pick some up...

Separated at Birth?

For those you who watch SportsNet Pacific and the Daily Show have you ever wondered if Don Taylor and John Stewart are related?

Their looks, their mannerisms, their idiosycrasies are so eerily similar that you really do have to wonder if they were separated at birth...


So pay close attention the next time you watch your Canucks news and then tune in later for the Daily Show...

Hawaii the Blog

Hawaii the Blog has now been posted - check out the October archives and look for October 19th! Warning: this is a very long blog entry!!

I've Lost the Will to Blog...

I don't know what's up with me, but I haven't felt like blogging much lately. I've been super busy and haven't had anything creative to type. Heck, I haven't even posted my Hawaii blog yet and I've been back in town for 6 weeks now.

The last month at work has been extremely busy, and December is showing no signs of letting up. Then there's my 3 volunteer positions with my sorority, plus I am now a class rep for CHS and trying to organize a 10-year reunion; and I have to start planning for Christmas.

Ah well, next week kicks off the party season, with three Christmas parties in less than a week, so it's all good.

I've been watching that How Clean is Your House show on the Women's network. I think it has inspired me somehow: I cleaned my apartment from top to bottom today - I can't get over how clean my oven is, I keep staring at it - which, when you think about, is really quite sad.

I found out this week there is going to be a Canadian version of America's Next Top Model: Canada's Next Top Model. I absolutely love ANTM. In fact it is the only reality show I watch, besides the Amazing Race, so I am looking foward to the Canadian version.

There's a Rumour Going 'Round

If you haven't heard this by now you are either living under a rock or don't pay attention to (or don't care about) Canucks hockey: apparently there is a big trade with Florida coming down the pipes.

My speculation, Colin's speculation, our friends' speculations, the media's speculation is that it will be Jovo and Cloutier for Luongo and a draft pick. I have heard rumours for sometime now that Jovo would like to return to Florida, so I wouldn't be overly surprised by that move; and Cloutier, as much as I like him, and he puts out good numbers, he is injury prone (as proven again this week) and has never had a decent playoff run.

Luongo may be the first superstar goalie Vancouver has ever seen. Not sure if this is set in stone, but it sounds like he will be back up to Brodeur at the Olympics and will most likely become Canada's starting goalie when Brodeur retires.

My only concern is that Vancouver has often proven itself to be a goalie graveyard: I seem to recall Potvin being a good goalie for TO but when he came to Vancouver he was as about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.

It has also been rumoured that Betuzzi may be traded. I don't think that will happen, for two reasons: First, to break up Bert and Nazzy would be destructive; and second, I think Vancouver is the only franchise and city that even accepts Bertuzzi after what happened that fateful day in March, 2004. So far every other rink he has played in this season, he has been booed everytime his stick touches the puck.

But, for now, this is all just rumour. Maybe someone planted it to take our minds of the Grey Cup partying we Vancouverites should be doing this weekend...

Getting Lazy

I can't believe the amount that has passed (again) since my last blog entry. For some reason lately I haven't been in a very creative mood and just haven't felt like writing. Plus, I really just haven't had the time to sit down and write an entry.

It seems like ever since I returned from Hawaii I have been extremely busy, and when I have five minutes to myself all I want to do is sit and down and watch TV.

So what have I been up to the last couple of weeks:

With Remembrance day landing on a Friday, Colin and I decided to go out Thursday night to watch the Canucks-Colorado game and invite some friends along. Matt Diamond and Travis joined us at Hudson's Landing, a gorgeous, little sports bar just minutes from our apartment. But I think that is the last time I will ever watch a Avs-Canucks game there, since the Canucks lost both games to the Avs that I watched at Hudson's Landing. In fact, I think every Canucks game I have watched there, they have lost. Bad Karma. Hockey superstition.

On Friday (November 11), I went shopping with my mum, and began to mull over my Christmas list, as I am working up until December 23, a first for me. Colin was good, and went downtown to watch the Remembrance Day Service. He didn't stick around for the parade though, since it was pouring rain, and he was soaked to the bone.

I have only worked over Christmas once in my life, and that was nine years ago when I worked at Roger's Video during my second year of university (and the only time I worked during the school year). Every other Christmas I have either been in school or worked in a school so I had anywhere from two weeks to five weeks vacation. This year, including weekends and my flex days, I have eight days off, so I need to get my shopping done in early December, probably on one of my two flex days I have before Christmas.

But I digress. After shopping with mum, I headed over to Lisa and Andrew's and spent some time with Lisa and Tina. Tina took off around 5 PM, but I stayed as I had no plans for that particular Friday evening.

I went out to dinner with Andrew and Lisa. We dined at the Bavaria House in New West. It was my first time at a German restaurant, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will have to take Colin there one evening. After dinner we returned to Andrew and Lisa's and watched Child Star - a Canadian film, which I really enjoyed.

I don't remember much else of that weekend - so I am assuming it was fairly uneventful.

Last Thursday, Colin and I went over to West Van after work to have dinner with my grandparents. Since they can't fit all of their grandchildren and significant others in their apartment at one time, we are going over in pairs. I think my brother and his girlfriend are the only ones who hasn't made it over yet.

Last Friday I was super busy - most of my day was eaten up at my hair salon. My appointment was at 12:30, and I didn't leave till almost 3:30. But my stylist is good - so I'm not complaining. That evening I joined my in-laws for a night at the movies. We saw the new Harry Potter movie, The Goblet of Fire. While my favourite book is the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Goblet of Fire is definitely my favourite of the four movies they have made so far. It was excellent.

Saturday was an interesting day: Thalia and I went to the CHS Bazaar for an alumnae tea for the Class Reps. We were the only two there from the 90's. Most of the attendees were from the 60's and there were a couple who graded in the 80's.

It was very strange being back at Crofton. We chatted with Miss Addison at the tea and then walked around the school grounds and checked out the Bazaar. It was very weird walking through the woods. All the memories of lunch time forts, the money tree and the "horse riding area" came back to us. Between the two of us, we pieced together many a lunch hour spent in those woods when we were little girls. It was a very nostalgic moment.

We were also able to go into the Fine Arts Centre. The second I entered the Auditorium I felt very strange. I spent so many years on that stage, on the catwalk and in the sound booth. It was a huge part of my life coming back to me. A life I left behind 9.5 years ago. A life to which I am now returning - I have taken on the task of organizing my 10 year reunion and have been in contact with CHS a lot over the last month.

On Sunday I watched a very frustrating hockey game. With all the penalties called, I think a maximum of 5 minutes of actual hockey was played in the first period. There was just no flow to the game - but at least the Canucks won. Two points is two points, no matter how you get them. Afterwards I watched the Grey Cup Western Final. Good year for the BC Lions to loose - since the Grey Cup is in Vancouver this year. I'm glad I decided not to by any Grey Cup tickets.

There are all these great festivities going on this weekend, but with the Eskies playing the Allouettes, I am not really in the mood for Grey Cup partying now, as many other Vancouverites probably feel.

On Tuesday I was exhausted and all I wanted to was go home and go to bed. But when I walked in the door, Colin informed me that his dad was coming by in about 30 minutes to pick us up to go out for dinner and watch some hockey.

I didn't have to go, but I wasn't about to give up a free meal and a hockey game.

Ruutu and Kessler were the big favourites at that game; in fact at one point GM Place was chanting Ruutu, Ruutu. It took me a moment, however, to decipher what they were chanting as the crowd sounded more like a bunch of barking seals. Maybe it's a good thing Ruutu isn't a superstar.

Tonight Colin and I are going to watch the San Jose game and tomorrow we are going with Travis and Clare to the Giants game.

I love going to the Coliseum to watch hockey - it brings back so many memories.

Do you remember when the Fox was locked out and you had try to get him back in???

On that random note, goodbye...

It's Been A While

I haven't written anything substantial in my blog for sometime. It's not that I haven't had anything to say, or anything interesting going on in my life. In fact, it has been quite the opposite. I have been very busy lately.

Let's rewind a couple of weeks: I love Halloween, it is one my favourite times of the year. But it's always a crap shoot; I either have many parties to go to, or none at all. This year it was the former. I was invited to three Halloween parties, but with one in Vancouver, one in North Van and one in White Rock party-hopping was out of the question. Colin and I ended up at Tina and Mark's in White Rock. It's always a good party at that house. I dressed up as Batgirl, and Colin dusted off his Joker costume, that was a huge hit in 2001 and again, this year.

Last weekend I was very busy. On Friday I went to the dentist, Curves and went shopping (both clothes and grocery). On Saturday I headed to North Van for a day of quilting. Yes, that's right, quilting. Two of my sorority sisters are excellent quilters and decided that we should make a t-shirt quilt using old sorority t-shirts, to auction off for our Centennial Fund. So I really did learn something new this past weekend - 6 of us spent the day working on internal stitching. I know it doesn't sound that exciting or glamourous, but I had fun, and enjoyed the time spent with my sisters.

That evening Colin and I headed to the first of two 30th birthday celebrations that weekend. That night we spent the evening celebrating Shawn's (Colin's ex-roommate) birthday, and on Sunday night we went to a Karaoke Bar on Alberni to celebrate Matt's (one of Colin's groomsmen) 30th birthday.

So far I have no plans for this weekend. Tonight Colin and I are going to a sports bar to watch the Canucks-Avs game. I guess I will have to see where the weekend takes me.

Next weekend I am going to the CHS Bazaar, and will be attending a class reps tea. Yes, in a moment of weakness or maybe insanity, I signed to be a class rep for the class of 1996. It could be interesting...

Good News...

...for all you Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert fans - The Colbert Report begins airing in Canada next Monday (Nov 7), right after the Daily Show, on the Comedy Network.