Love You Like Crazy Part the Second - Blackhawks 2/5/13

As previously promised, here are some pictures taken by my daughter's HTC phone.  We were on the Blackhawks' side for warm ups, so - yep, you guessed it - these are pictures of the Blackhawks.  You even get a glimpse of my Sharpie's pretty face.  ;-)

Love You Like Crazy - Blackhawks at Sharks

Dear NHL,  Your addiction to money and power has affected my life in the following ways...

Seriously, it's been hard for me to get very much into the hockey season this year.  

Don't get me wrong...I've still watched almost every Sharks game on tv this year as well as quite a few Blackhawks and Penguins games.  But I've only been to one game at the beginning of the season.  

And when I left the game, which was quite exciting, I didn't feel an urgent desire to go back. 

So I haven't. I did, however, splurge on some tickets for the last home game of the season with the  hope that I would feel more excited about making the 5 hour round trip to watch some hockey in person.  I am getting more excited...which is exciting!

Another way the damn lockout affected me is that I wasn't very careful with my camera and it somehow it became severely disabled.  In other words, I broke it.  So I took my daughters POS camera.  Which is really not supposed to be a POS. It is a Canon that I advised her not to buy because IMO Canon's have a lot of focus issues.  This Canon is no exception.  

I Miss Me When I'm Gone...

Why am I so tired?  

At least twice a week I have a strong desire to write in this journal.

Evaporation occurs before my hands type the address of the page.

I love my job.

I want to write.

I need to do more...

I'm Okay! (Trust Me...)

Well if you wanted honesty, that's all you have to say.

I never want to let you down or have you go...it's better off this way.

I'm not okay

YOU WEAR ME OUT!

Here's the simple truth.  

I'm a strong woman.  I've been a single mother for 26 years (and I mean that...no ex who really was involved in my daughter's life except sporadically.  He's not a bad person at all, just lives in a different city and has a distant personality as well.)  My own family is jumbled and distant - your normal dysfunction.  My daughter is my family.  I'm closest to my sister but we talk maybe a couple times a month and usually about my mom.

So why am I rambling about this?  Simple.  My family, or lack thereof, has always been a source of great stress and sorrow to me.  Don't get me wrong...I'm mostly happy with my life but I've always wished that I had a family who was close and who cared.  

Remembering a Lazy Wednesday at Raley Field - Rivercats 5/2/12

I'm sitting here watching the Sacramento Rivercats play on the telly for only something like the SECOND time this season, so I felt inspired to post some pictures from an early season game.  

It's somewhat of a travesty that the Pacific Coast League-leading Rivercats have only been on the local t.v. twice when the stupid Single A San Jose Gnats are shown all the damn time.  I really don't understand it.  Did you know that Forbes magazine listed the Rivercats as most valuable minor league team? Well, they did.  And they don't get as much play in the local media as they should. The newspaper is idiotic here anyway, but cable should be better.

/rant

So...I used to get off work at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesdays and one hot lazy early summer day I decided to head out to the ballpark to lay on the grass and fry myself at the business person's special.  

Here are some photos!

OH SHIT!  The Rivercats pitcher just took a liner right off his wrist and it doesn't look good.  And instead of showing us the action on the field, the cameraman, who is apparently squeamish, cuts away to a prolonged picture of the Tower Bridge.  And now the 'Cats logo.  Weird.  It's not a streaker people!  

Show us the damn field!!!

Whatevs.  As I said, photos:

 I like birds. Especially when they make the foul pole above me a fowl pole.  Get it?  Ha!

Avalanche du Colorado @ Sharks de San Jose en deux parties

And away we go...

I think I forgot to mention yesterday that this game was my birthday present to 

myself since it was two days before my actual birthday. 

Got an awesome ticket via HF Boards - midway up in the upper deck center ice.  Nice.

The Not So Marvelous Return of Jamie McGinn - Avs @ Sharks 3/26/12

Color me shocked that I'm thiiiiiiiis far behind in my postings.  The blame for my lethargy rests squarely on my mother.  And of course it all started on the day I had a trip planned to San Jose to see the return of Jamie McGinn.

The months-long drama that sapped my energy is fodder for another blog posting; I won't bore you with it today.  Fortunately, the lassitude did not fully set in for a few weeks, so I was able to make the trek to the game after work.

Obviously, much time has passed and I don't fully recall the details.  One thing I know is that it was a bittersweet night for me.  I really HATE HATE HATE the trade that sent Jamie McGinn to the Avs (along with a good prospect, Sgarbossa) in return for T.J. Galiardi and Daniel Winnick.  So of course I wanted Ginner to do very well and hopefully continue the great season he was having.  With the Sharks winning of course.  

Didn't happen...

Because I have a dear, wonderful friend whom I adore, I tried to be by the Avs bench area during warmups.  It was interesting....I had to move once and then I ended up sitting with some really nice guys...one of whom spilled a beer on my feet.  

But hey, that's okay.  He didn't get my camera...or did he?  I'll just blame any sad, blurry photos on beer.  And let you determine what I mean by that.  

Warm-ups baby!

Here's Paul Stastny doing a pregame telly interview. 

And Jumbo, my Jumbo giving a fan a smiley photo opp.

I love it when he does that.