Backtracking to Reunion Week

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection." ~~ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher

Sometime in 2010, I think it was October, I was blessed to be reunited with dear friends and family whom I have not seen for some time.

The reason(s) for the estrangement? Distance, life, circumstances...whatever...

In my book, there are people in your life that you love and always love. No matter if life dictates that you not see that person or speak for lengths of time.

Sometimes you form an attachment to a person that isn't what some people consider "normal", especially in this day and age of the interwebs. 

Sometimes friendships such as these are even more special because of their rarity.

Anyhoo, enough philosophizing for now...on to the photos.

As usual, it's been so long that I don't remember the exact chronology of events; in any case, these reunions all happened within a month of each other at the most.  So I'm just going to put them all here.

MEL AND ME

I love Melanie's parents; the sweetest people in the world!  Nita didn't make an appearance this day, but PaPaw came over... 

... and we suitably mugged him.

Edmonton Oilers @ Da Sharks 12/21/10

Wow, I really have to keep more up to date on these blog posts!  By the time I get around to editing the pictures and actually blogging, I've forgotten what was going on!  lol  Sucks to be old and blonde.

So this was a mystery puck game and I really, really wanted to go. 

It was a bit stressful leading up to it because we bought the tickets pretty far in advance and then, before I knew it, game day was there and I hadn't made arrangements to take care of my mom.

Again, the blondeness! 

Luckily Jeanette (not me, the other Jeanette) came through and we were able to go.

We got there in time and I bought two mystery pucks. 

I unwrapped the first one to find a Ginner puck!  Yay!!  The second one was a John McCarthy puck, which made Adrienne happy.  We do love our Wooster boys...

After we got settled in, I couldn't help myself...I wanted another puck. It was pointless to resist because I couldn't!  The third puck was a Devon Setoguchi which is a pretty good get. 

After getting our pucks, we made our way down to the glass. 

Mysterious Curse? Or Coincidence?

Just call us the Black Widows. 

Three times this season we have spread our evil curse upon the opposing team.  Three times this season our black hearts and blacker thoughts (that's racist!) have spewed a severe punishment upon unwary athletes with a malignity they never anticipated. 

Behold the evidence...

On the dark night of October 27th, in the year of our saviour jesus toews 2010, we gazed with dark eyes upon one Zach Parise (who, appropriately enough, plays for the Devils).