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).

Shark Revenge! Bite the Blackhawks on 11/24/10!

So, because I'm obviously bad at timely posts...I can't remember tons of detail about this game.  Plus my head was spinning from the sexyness that was (and is) Patrick Sharp.

Things I do remember:

1. Patrick Sharp is extremely yummy.  I mean extemely.
2. Patrick Marleau had an excellent game.  Very physical.  To bad it was his last for awhile.
3. Jonathan Toews didn't skate near me.  Booooo. 
4. Seabs took a shot to the cojones. Pictures of his suffering to follow.  The funnier thing was, he took another shot to the same sensitive area the very next game against the Kings.  I wonder if there was a conspiracy.
5. I think this was Justin Braun's first game as a callup. I could be wrong.  It could have just been the first game we saw him at.  I also could be wrong about that.  lol (EDIT:  I was right!  He was called up the day before.)
6. Apparently, Adrienne & I were on t.v. in Chicago during this game.  My friend texted me and told me that he saw us.  haha  I assume it was when they interviewed Duncan Keith right before the game and I was taking his picture.  Slightly embarrassing, but my friend did think we had seats on the glass so that made up for it.  lol

Tampa Bay Lightning @ Sharks 11/6/10...and a few other things...

Holla. Sitting here watching the Sharks apparently on their way to another loss, this time against the Oilers. *le sigh*  Today was a good/bad day and appears to be ending on a down note with this game.

On the good note, Roman at Guitar Center in San Francisco is a gem.  Actually a lot of the dudes there are pretty nice.  Had a nice little drive with fairly light traffic except a couple spots on the Bridge and in Berkeley on the way back.  Sonic tots are always a plus. And able to help my daughter out after she had a very, very bad day yesterday. 

On the bad notes...why mention it?  Alzheimer's is a bitch.  Add in fairly acute hearing loss and life is pretty stressful and ALMOST unbearable.  I really, really pray that she gets her audiology appointment soon and hearing aids soon thereafter.  AND  I really, really, really pray that once she can hear better, she will be more responsive and regain some of the independence she has lost over the last couple months.

Holy hello!  Jumbo just scored on the PP after nice passes from Patty and Heater.  Nice puck movement boys!  Is there life in this team after all???  Oh...maybe not... Oil with a 5-3.  This will be telling....please kill this boys!  Oh.  Killed it and then they scored.  Wow.

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Alright, let's go back to when the Sharks were decent and we all had hope for a future filled with bright, beautiful, silver cups.

Once upon a time a fan drove to a Sharks game with a feeling of optimisim that the home team was badass and would overcome even an opponent who was playing as well as the Tampa Bay Lightning. 
That day was November 6, 2010...

There was a lovely air of pissed-offedness amongst the fans since this was the first Free Jumbo game.

Sharks Mid-Season Rant

I was going to post my pics & thoughts from my trip to see Ryan Malone and the Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Sharks in November but first a few random thoughts:

Another brutal Sharks loss last night.  This team is talented offensively and there is just no damn reason for the lack of scoring.  Our defense is not as atrocious as previously anticipated but it's not good enough to support a dearth of scoring .

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Joyeux Noël

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