Monday, October 16, 2006

Snow?

Requests flooded in for an update.......so here we go!
Were do I start? Lets start with a glass of wine....POOF There we go!
My last update included the start to the NHL season and the beginning of my curling career. The Oilers are still hard at it and play tonight.
Now on the other hand, lets talk about the hot new men's curling team in the Airdre Monday Night Curling League. The Reynolds rink sits at an astonishing, two wins and zero losses. A combination of great focus and natural talent, Reynolds carries the majority of the team on his shoulders. The other three simply just follow along and try..., try... , try. On a more serious note, we have done pretty well. All of us make good shots and bad shots, one of my throws I went to turn the rock and I pretty much pushed the sucker right into the side boards, not pretty. Yes I am still whinning about the sweeping, it's tuff work!
Other than curling, not a hole heck of a lot has happened. Stacey and I played with the Gukerts in their Wednesday night volleyball league. We had a blast, Stacey and I showed up a little late so it was a couple of farmer stretches and straight on to the court. Gukes was utter dominance throughout the night, Stacey still has the big O'l Cannon out the left side and Melanie is turning into quite the setter let me say. The night went fast as we went two straight in each of the matches, and on our way home with smiles on are faces.
This last weekend I worked for Staceys uncle at the Franchise Show in Calgary. My duty was to sell magazines to people walking through the exhibit. It was a long a day, but fun to talk to the people I may see coming into the bank one day.
Saturday evening I watched hockey all night. Yes, the Oilers won!
Sunday I got to use my new table saw. I constructed a slab of wood into and photo-album type unit for Stacey. She's using for a project she is doing for her boss. ( I will update with a pic)
Now I bring us to the current time, work was fast and busy. I had to call in sick to curling, I think I have some kind of stomach flu or I ate something bad in the last 24hrs, but this is not fun. The good thing is that Oilers are playing the Kaknuckle Heads and should be a battle.
Oh ya, I am last in my hockey pool and I am getting smoked!
Nice to chat but I have to run!
Lates
JP

Friday, October 06, 2006

Haaackey Is Back!!!

As most of you know hockey is back and in full stride. My Oilers, AKA the best team in the NHL, gave Calgary their first beating of the year and more to come. Spud I feel for you, so much anticipation over the summer and your team starts like that. I knew from day one they would.
Oilers look really good, lots of passing and hard skating. Even three goals to start the year. Flames on the other hand looked a little groggy and not much jump in their step. What is with Pa-nu-finlander, he ran little Hemsky twice. What a tuff guy, and when Jason Smith comes after him he skates away. In my eyes the flames have the two most over rated players in the NHL. First Dion Panufinlander and Chuck Kobasew. Need I say more.
Oilers, great to see Rolie back in action and stuffing Inggy on the pentaly shot. Hemskey is back to his antics again. Lets not forget about Ryan Smith, crashing the net and sacrificing his body in all ways. Adabe Smyty!!

Some other thoughts:
I joined a mens Monday night curling league this year. JR, Gukes, Bacon and myself are on the team. What a blast, we ended up winning the first regular season game, going into the game we figured we would have our asses handed to us. No the case. Can't wait to get to know what the hell we are doing.
Quotes from the game:
Gukes: The only weight I have is takeout weight, so I want to play in that position
JR: Good take out Gukes
Bacon: Huuu!! (this was said after he push out of the hack, fell and pushed the rock down the ice from is back. It did end up hitting the side boards before the hog line. haha. I was friggin hilarious!)
Jeff: I need to hit the weights, this sweeping is hard on the shoulders!!!!
And it is!!

Other than these most recent events, no too much more to talk about. Thanksgiving this weekend, can't wait to stuff my guts with food all weekend!!! YeeHaa

It was great talking with you, but you are pretty quiet today.
Lates
JP