[This is Chapter 3 of our three-part "A Playoff Carol". Chapter 1 can be found here. Chapter 2 can be found here.]
When the doorbell rings, they think they’re ready for him, but when they tug the door open, they are stunned to find a massively rotund, gray-haired Marty Brodeur facing them.
IPB: Oh crap. Are YOU our playoffs future?
GoPF: [Around a mouthful of powdered sugar donut.] You bet I am. Who did you think it would be?
IPB: We have no idea. Please tell us you’re representing the near future…
GoPF: You wish. I’m going to be getting every playoff start for the Devils for the next 30 years. Now come with me — you know the drill. We’re going to look at your future to scare you into loving the playoffs now.
IPB: The next 30 years???
Ever-Growing Spectral Chain: *CLANK!*
GoPF: You know, I’ve got a box of donuts and a plate of honeyed dormice with my name on them waiting on the other side. Let’s get this over with, okay?
IPB: [Resigned.] Fine.
A puff of powdered sugar flies off his fingers as the Ghost snaps them. Suddenly the trio is in a desolate, dark graveyard, where a couple of sinister figures are digging in front of a headstone.
GoPF: [Nonchalantly.] Oh look. Gravediggers.
IPB: GRAVEDIGGERS? On our graves?
GoPF: Looks like it.
IPB: Well, good luck to them. We haven’t got anything worth digging all the way into a grave for, and certainly nothing we’d ask to be buried with… Hey! Wait a second! What does this have to do with the playoffs?
GoPF: I don’t know. You’re the ones who told the Zach Ghost that you know this story. I’m no literary critic — you figure it out.
IPB: You’re keeping us from sleep for an allegory even you don’t get?
GoPF: [Irritated.] Okay, smarty-pantses, I’ll do all the thinking here. What you learned from Arnott Ghost is that you mostly like playoffs where the Devils do well, but you are capable of liking playoffs where they don’t. And you learned from Zach Ghost that there are things in this year’s playoffs that you are capable of liking. And now you’re seeing a terrible vision of the future. Maybe this means that if you keep on the path you’re on now, you’ll end up in a gruesomely awful place like this because the Devils aren’t going to be good forever.
IPB: They’re good now?
Ever-Growing Spectral Chain: *CLANK!*
GoPF: You know what I mean! They’re still making the playoffs, aren’t they? No, what I’m talking about is them being hugely bad.
IPB: Like the Penguins were? So we’re looking at first- or second-overall picks for five straight years? Then we’ll be good again! No biggie. That’s how you build in the NHL these days.
GoPF: I was thinking more like Panthers bad.
IPB: Ouch.
GoPF: Or worse than that, Blues bad.
IPB: You mean, like, “irrelevant for three decades” bad?
GoPF: [Solemnly.] Oh yeah.
IPB: [Shakily.] Heh heh. No. No, it could never get to that…
GoPF: Not only will they not matter, but they could be called on the TV by John Kelly–
IPB: [Cutting him off.] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh god, make it stop! MAKE IT STOP! We’ll do anything! We’ll change! We promise!!
Suddenly the Ookies realize they are weeping into their front lawn, and there is no one around. They get to their feet unsteadily, then, trembling, retire to their respective rooms. In the morning, they exchange few words while embarking on a mission they both understand as necessary. After making a few stops along the way, they make a quick trip to Pittsburgh, where they are shown in to the Pens dressing room. The team is still partying in fashion not unlike their phantom visit the previous night.
IPB: [In tiny, timid voices, just as Sid is squeaking, "God bless us, every one!"] Excuse us, Penguins?
Sid: [Haughtily.] Who are you? How did you get in here? And what is that you’re carrying?
IPB: Um, it’s a really long story, Mr. Crosby. But the thing is that we’re on a kind of “Christmas Carol” mission, so we stopped on our way here to buy the finest goose from the big store window, and we want to give it to you.
Sid: [Snorting with disgust.] A goose? Are you fucking nuts? [To a security guard near the door.] Show them out.
IPB: Wait, what? [They are roughly ushered toward the door, goose and all, and as they stumble out, they shout back over their shoulders.] Well fuck you, Penguins, and your basement! We’re going to take this goose to Detroit. We bet they’ll appreciate it.
The End.
We’re going to take this goose to Detroit. We bet they’ll appreciate it.
They won’t. They think they’re too good for you.
I don’t know who John Kelly is, but it sounds awful!
Hilarious, again! You still don’t think Marty will take a couple of games off next season?
We’re going to take this goose to Detroit. We bet they’ll appreciate it.
If they don’t try to throw it on the ice first.
I’m sure the Wings would be Swedishly polite about turning down the goose, unlike Sid. :P
Oh, and no. Marty’s not going to take more games off next year. Please. He won’t be taking games off until he’s 80.
Marty’s not going to take a few more games off until he has to have his honeyed dormice pre-chewed for him.
But Sid always seemed like such a polite young man. :(
If they don’t try to throw it on the ice first.
They will. They definitely will.
Wait, I’m confused. Does this mean you have spent all this time convincing me that Sid and Malkin are wonderful and now you are going to back the Red Wings?
Or…what…gah…my head hurts.
I guess Sid just didn’t want our charity. :P
And yes, I’m cheering for the Wings. I loves me some Sid, I not hates me some Malkin, but I just don’t like this Pens team. I’ve tried. OH, HOW I’VE TRIED! But it’s just not happening. I’m not going to vomit copiously if they win, but they’re not who I’m cheering for.
Myra, is it sleepover party night tonight, or is that tomorrow?
Really, what it comes down to is I’m just a lot less familiar with the Wings and thus am a lot less tired of them.
OK, NHL, I hope you’re happy! Your plong delay in getting the show on the road has reduced us to watching MacGyver on DVD!
What’s that you say? You’ll have to type louder so I can hear you over the five 11-year-olds in the other room. Ok, that’s the real reason my head hurts, not hockey. :0
We just served the Chocolate Decadence cake and Bluebell ice cream. They should hit a fevered pitch in about half an hour!
Was the cake delish? I’m glad the kids (and the Kid) are having a raucous time, although I’m sorry you have to be there for it, Myra. :P
So you know what I’ve learned so far from MacGyver? I’ve learned that Northern Russia looks just like Southern California. Heh.
I’ve also learned that psychiatric doctors in Northern Russia in the mid-80s had Brian Engblom’s hair.
How fun! A slumber party! And Blue Bell ice cream!
I’m glad the slumber party’s going well and that the cake and ice cream were delish!
The cake was good but, meh, I’ve had better. Tons of really good chocolate icing so the girls loved it.
Hubbie just announced he was going to bed. I said I don’t think so.
Patty, there’s plenty left, come on over!
Uh, Northern Russia looks like Southern California. I would have never guessed.
I used to love MacGyver and Quantum Leap. :)
Hubbie just announced he was going to bed. I said I don’t think so.
HA! Nice try, Hubbie! :^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
I loved Quantum Leap! I thought it was like the coolest show ever!
Quantum Leap was so good! Although it was no MacGyver. :P
Hubbie just announced he was going to bed. I said I don’t think so.
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You guys keep having fun with the party! :PPPP
Wooo!!!! Time to open presents!
PREZZIES!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! I hope the Kid gets everything she’s hoping for! (Have I mentioned here yet how much I LOVE presents? :D)
Why yes, Schnookie, I believe you may have mentioned that before. Presents Day still set for Sunday or have you persuaded Pookie and Boomer to move up to Saturday?
Kid received a Limited Too gift card, Bath & Body Works gift card, Target gift card and iTunes gift card. I notice a theme. She was very excited over her new copy of The Battle of the Labyrinth.
We then moved on to turning them all into zombies with glow stick necklaces and bracelets. Now all the lights are out except the disco lamp and string of lawnlanterns and are eating poprocks with 7-up. We are watching the 1st Harry Potter movie. I think I’ll have another Dr Pepper….
Dude, Myra, you’re hopping the kids up on sugar! Sounds like a hell of a party! And the Kid made out like a BANDIT. I wouldn’t mind all those gift cards myself!
I wish I could movie prezzie day up to Saturday, but Pookie works tomorrow. So it’s going to have to wait if I want it to be an all-day affair. :P (I say that fully putting forth that I can skeletonize a pile of presents in under three seconds.)
Whoa, The Kid made out like a bandit! Gift cards are the perfect gift! By giving them you give the gift of a present and a shopping spree!
As for the party itself, it sounds like a pretty awesome party! If when I was 11 and I’d been to a party with glowing jewelery, I’d think — nay, know — it was the cookest party EVAH!
Myra, I’m no parent, but was it really a good idea to make The Kid’s first slumber party so cool?! How are you going to top it?
Dude. There is NOTHING on TV! I caught myself watching “Unwrapped” for Pete’s sake!
It would be so cool if the Stars were in the Finals because they’re having the whole Media Day thing going on on NHL Network. Bummer.
Wow, “Unwrapped”? That is really the lowest of the low, Patty. I’m so sorry! I’m telling you guys, these MacGyver DVDs are SO hitting the spot. We’re starting an episode now that says Mac is going to get trapped inside a computer hell-bent on destroying him. It’s from 1986. We’ve been having a great laugh at how much harder it is, 22 years later, to literally get trapped inside a computer now.
Unwrapped? Dude, that’s when I say, “Time to turn the TV off!” Unwrapped is like the Food TV equivalent of the evening news segments on “Arrested Development”. “How Kit Kats are made… And what it means for your weekend!”
You two remind me of my sister and I so much! We are constantly saying the exact same thing in almost the exact same way. We have even gone so far as to pick up the phone to call the other and the other is on the line, it just hadn’t rung yet. It’s happened more than once. Kinda weird, huh.
The Kid and I love throwing parties. We have developed quite the reputation with our friends, if I do say so myself! :P
We still have board games and popcorn with mini-M&M’s to go.
(I would like to point out that when I hear “1986″ I really don’t think “22 years ago”. The episode looks 22 years old, but seriously, 1986 just doesn’t seem that long ago…)
We have even gone so far as to pick up the phone to call the other and the other is on the line, it just hadn’t rung yet. It’s happened more than once.
That’s so awesome! Pookie and I haven’t done that, but when I was in AZ and she was in NY, we would talk on the phone (for hours) every day, and we’d discover more often than not that we were always wearing the same outfits.
…1986 just doesn’t seem that long ago…
Tell me about it. I graduated from college in 1985. How can that be?
…says Mac is going to get trapped inside a computer…
I think I had nightmares like that when I was in college and having to write computer programs in Basic and Cobol and wait for the huge printouts in the basement computer room of the Business school.
MacGyver is sneaking around the desert at night right now wearing dark denim and white sneakers. When I remarked that he might be better concealed if he didn’t have white shoes, Pookie said, “White sneakers are really the fake mustache of shoewear.”
Tell me about it. I graduated from college in 1985. How can that be?
I figured with the crowd around here tonight, I wouldn’t talk about how old I was in ’86. “Sheesh! That wasn’t that long ago! I was in fifth grade then!” :P
We have dressed alike on occasion but what we find pretty funny is that our husbands will show up dressed alike. One time they had on the exact same shirt (Jan & I had bought them at the same time), kakhis and the exact same shoes. It wouldn’t have been so bad except the shirts were this watermelon kind of color so it was really obvious. We just call them the “bookends”.
Did they make anything but white sneakers in 1986?
Did they make anything but white sneakers in 1986?
I remember being very jealous of Schnookie’s banana yellow high-tops around that time. I wonder why Mac isn’t wearing those.
My banana yellow Reebok high-tops were the EPITOME of cool. If you were a TOTAL dork like I was. :P (I actually don’t think I’ve ever loved a pair of shoes as much as I loved those.)
That is so adorable, Myra, that you and your sister have married bookends!
Myra that party sounds BAD ASS! I want to be eleven again juuust long enough to go to a birthday slumber party. Good times.
I think the Swedes will very politely accept your turkey. The Red Wing probably have a very orderly system in place to graciously accept gifts (and European bikini models).
I love the Playoff Carol! Well done, Schnookie!
I want to be eleven again juuust long enough to go to a birthday slumber party. Good times.
I bet Pommerdoodle has parties like that every weekend!
The Red Wing probably have a very orderly system in place to graciously accept gifts
I think you’re right. Lidstrom accepts the turkey and in return gives us a mini-Swedish flag and a box of Swedish candy.
…that you and your sister have married bookends!
On the surface they don’t seem that much alike but they really are quite similar. Never, ever try to play Trivial Pursuit against them. Both are huge history buffs and have excellent memories. Me and my sister, not so much.
We have now started the 2nd Harry Potter movie and we have lost one to sleep. I have one who has declared she can never sleep at someone else’s house and plans on talking all night. She is also the only one who asked for seconds of cake and just asked again for more. I said no. There always has to be one annoying one in the group. :(
I bet Pommerdoodle has parties like that every weekend!
You are SO right!
I think you’re right. Lidstrom accepts the turkey and in return gives us a mini-Swedish flag and a box of Swedish candy.
Totally. And then Zetterburg quickly writes a thank you note.
There always has to be one annoying one in the group. :(
Maybe you can slip a mickey in her second slice of cake? (Just kidding! Just kidding!)
Oh and, :^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: about the Swedish mini-flag.
And then Zetterburg quickly writes a thank you note.
Then Datsyuk gives me a gift of lacquered nesting candy corn dolls made at Fedoskino.
Thanks, Katebits! And you guys are so right — the Wings are going to be very orderly and juggernauty about accepting the goose, and we’ll walk away from the transaction with candy and mini-flags.
And I was going to agree that I want to be 11 again just for a slumber party, but now that we’re getting to the “some are falling asleep, and others are being bratty” phase of the event, I’m being reminded why I’m glad I’m not 11 anymore. :P
Oh, and when Pommers is the Sabres captain full-time, ALL their team parties are going to be like 11-year-old slumber parties!
Then Datsyuk gives me a gift of lacquered nesting candy corn dolls made at Fedoskino.
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I LOVE the idea of Lidstrom accepting the goose (sorry I changed it into a turkey for a second) and immediately being showered with thank you gifts from the motherlands, assembly line style.
“Thank you so much for the gift of the goose. Please accept this mini-flag and these Swedish Fish as a small token of my gratitude.”
Maybe you can slip a mickey in her second slice of cake? (Just kidding! Just kidding!)
Murder has crossed my mind more than once with this particular child.
Myra that party sounds BAD ASS! I want to be eleven again juuust long enough to go to a birthday slumber party. Good times.
Why thank you, Katebits. I’ve always wanted to do something considered BAD ASS but have always been considered too much of a nerd to be put in the same category.
I think banana yellow high tops would have been amazing. I had a pair of red patent leather flats that I wore with everything when I was in college. I adored those shoes. I wear black low tops that have been splattered with bleach all the time now. I’m always getting comments from nerdy teenage boys about them. What can I say, I rather like being a nerd. :)
Oh, and when Pommers is the Sabres captain full-time, ALL their team parties are going to be like 11-year-old slumber parties!
It’s going to be ALL about scary movies and Cool Ranch Doritos. I miss Pommerdoodle. Aw, Doods. (You guys, I’mgetting so good at Guitar Hero. I’m going to be a star at the Sabres slumber parties.)
ALL their team parties are going to be like 11-year-old slumber parties!
I have this mental image of hockey players in their pj’s eating poprocks and painting their toenails with glowstick necklaces around their necks. I’m trying not to laugh out loud.
(sorry I changed it into a turkey for a second)
I suspect you changed it into a turkey out of self-defense. I mean, first the Wings are trying to get Crunchy, and now Goose? Who next??? :P (I think it was a turkey in “Christmas Carol”, actually… I can’t be bothered to look it up, though.)
The Sabres won’t have Guitar Hero at team slumber parties until Staffy’s named captain. As long as Pommerdoodle’s in charge, it’s going to be all about staying up late, putting on makeup and giggling about boys.
Myra, you are SPOT-ON with what the hockey slumber party would be like! :P
What can I say, I rather like being a nerd. :)
Nerd power rocks!
I’m going to be a star at the Sabres slumber parties.
You’re going to make Derek Roy cry because you beat him at GH and then poor Crunchy’s going to have to call Mr. and Mrs. Roy-Z to come and pick Derek up.
Speaking of leaving sleep-overs early, I think it’s time for me to turn in since I have to work tomorrow. Good luck with the rest of the party, Myra; good luck beating Guitar Hero, Kate — I want to hear reports of you getting 5 stars on the super-hard secret level! Everyone excited for hockey tomorrow?! Woo-hoo! Good night, everyone!
The Sabres won’t have Guitar Hero at team slumber parties until Staffy’s named captain.
That seems like an awfully long time to have to wait to be a star at the Sabres slumber parties. Hm. I’m going to have to get better at putting on make-up and talking about boys, I guess. (I’m pretty good at that stuff too, actually.)
Actually, I should go to bed too. I have to work tomorrow as well. I have to work during the GAME too. My schedule is ALL fuckered up for the finals. Oh well.
I suspect you changed it into a turkey out of self-defense. I mean, first the Wings are trying to get Crunchy, and now Goose? Who next???
Seriously!
I am also going to turn in, since I have to get up early to PICK UP MY BIRTHDAY CAKE IN PRINCETON! G’night, everyone! Myra, I hope the partiers start dropping off soon so you can get some sleep tonight, and Katebits, I hope you kick GH’s ASS!
Good night, Pookie.
Thanks for the company!
Maybe I shouldn’t have had that 3rd Dr. Pepper?
Good night, Kate. Sorry about the bad work schedule and missing the game.
Good night, Schnookie. You’ll have to tell us all about your Birthday Cake!
Now I know I shouldn’t have had that 3rd Dr Pepper. Hubbie and the dog went to be an hour ago.
Yay Birthday Cake for Schnookie!
Good morning, everyone who’s around on this fine day! I’ve had such an eventful morning, first picking up my cake (which is GORGEOUS, so thanks to Boomer and Pookie for that), and then we had a little head-to-head encounter with a wee little garden snake on our front walk! The snake probably thinks its a Ghost of Playoffs Something-or-other. Heh.
I hope Myra’s still got her sanity this morning…
Yay for pretty cake and good days! Poor snake, all confuzzled about not being assigned a roll in the grand Playoffs saga.
I hope Myra still has her sanity too. I sure don’t. Fucking hockey broke my spirit.
I’m so sorry your spirit’s been broken, Mags! What happened?
Bloemendaal (Flutter’s team) beat Amsterdam (my team) for the Cup. 3 years in a row now! They’re only the least deserving “dynasty” EVER and I hate them.
And then I made cake so I could eat something and feel better, and the cake sucks.
Wow, that BLOWS. And the cake sucking on top of all that? Talk about adding insult to injury! I’m so sorry!
Is ok. I’ll get over it. Right after I’m done drowning all of Bloemendaal in my bitter, bitter tears.
So, apart from looking good, does the cake TASTE good? Or haven’t you tried it yet?
We won’t try the cake until tonight, but I order the same one every year. It’s quite a departure for me, because my normal approach to desserts is, “If it’s not chocolate, it’s crap.” It’s layers of vanilla sponge cake with vanilla pastry cream, vanilla buttercream and strawberries. I always just feel, this time of year, that I want something that fresh and light and sweet, rather than a heavy chocolate dessert. I think I’ve had this same cake for the last five years for my birthday! I love it so much!
(It’s strange to think that last year when we had the cake in the house, we had just embarked on our Dead Refrigerator Era. That seems so long ago!)
It’s layers of vanilla sponge cake with vanilla pastry cream, vanilla buttercream and strawberries.
I’ll just hop on a plane then :D
It’s strange to think that last year when we had the cake in the house, we had just embarked on our Dead Refrigerator Era. That seems so long ago!
Amazing how fast you get used to luxury huh (although I wouldn’t call a fridge a luxury. More a necessity. But I hope you get the point)
I just mixed my cake with raspberry jam, and it tastes ok that way. Problem solved!
I’ll admit the first few years of this being Schnookie’s birthday cake I’ve thought, “Ugh. Strawberries and vanilla cake. BO-RING!” Now I’m like, “OOOH! It’s strawberry and vanilla cake season! Woo-hoo!”
And, ARGH you know why B’daal sucks especially hard? (I was looking at the highlights on TV and suddenly remembered) They wear dayglo orange shirts and white pants that look like boxershorts. And their fans have stupid orange fireworks and sing “you’ll never walk alone” ALL THE TIME. And 85-90% of their lineup is going to the Olympics, and only 2 guys on that whole team were drafted by them, the rest were all bought from other clubs. They’re like, the RANGERS. But actually good (clearly, I am not over it) Gah.
B’daal sure SOUNDS like the Rangers. How ugsome! I mean, that they’re the Rangers but they win. No one should have to live in a world where the Rangers are winning.
I’ll just hop on a plane then :D
This particular cake (and the bakery that makes it) is almost worth the trip! :D
I’m so glad the sucky cake was improved with raspberry jam. In my experience, most baked goods can be made better with raspberry jam. :D
As for the fridge, every now and then I think about the saga of that particular fridge, how it was a total lemon, and how we spent most of last summer with it on the fritz, and how the day before we got our built-in installed, a repair guy came and told us he was ordering a part for us for the dinky fridge to be repaired. He said it would be delivered to us, and when it arrived, we could call him and he’d install it. The next day we got the Liebherr, so it didn’t matter, but you know what? That part still hasn’t arrived. Good thing we weren’t waiting for it!
This particular cake (and the bakery that makes it) is almost worth the trip! :D
I still haven’t decided on what to do with summer the 3 weeks I’m not at camp or in NS. I might just go and camp outside that bakery :P
That part still hasn’t arrived.
Are you serious? That is… cripes, that’s just plain impressive!
Yeah, Sears really outdid themselves with the customer service on that fridge debacle. Everyone kept telling us that if we made it clear we had no refrigerator at all, they would send someone over to fix things PRONTO. Instead, we’d go weeks at a time before the repairmen could come out, and the fridge kept breaking and breaking and breaking and FINALLY they were willing to admit we had a lemon. What a fun time that was! Granted, it was during the kitchen remodel, so we weren’t exactly loaded up with perishables at the time, but still. I don’t recommend the experience to anyone. :P
It is amazing how long it will take a company to admit that something they sold is shit. I suppose they’re just covering their asses, because otherwise people would be asking for replacement stuff all the time.
Guys, I’m totally bored. I’m stuck at work but I think most people assume we’re closed today. I suspect things will pick up a little bit in the next two hours, but since I’ve been here for almost 6 hours I’m reaching “I’ve seen everything there is to see online” point. BOOOOOOORED!
I’ve been here for almost 6 hours I’m reaching “I’ve seen everything there is to see online” point.
I’m sorry!
My dad, for all his involvement in the world of tech, has just discovered GoogleTalk, which is what we are doing right now. So erm, nope, I’ve got nothing.
Oh wait! I haven’t read Amy’s Cutting Edge blog yet! (It wouldn’t load for me this morning.) Woo-hoo! I’m not bored now! Thanks, Amy! You’re a life saver!
Ah, those days when you reach the end of the interwebs are the WORST!
They really are the worst. I looked at so many cooking blogs between 10 and 2 that I’m almost afraid I’ll never be able to look at food again. Before that I maxed out on Go Fug Yourself.
Wow. You’ve hit all the high points, haven’t you?
Pookie, have you been on Cute Overload yet? Or I could point you in the direction of some rather funny knitting blogs if you’re interested.
Pookie, have you been on Cute Overload yet?
I have to admit, I’ve never been a Cute Overload person. It just doesn’t speak to me. Thanks for the suggestion, though! I think I might stare into space trying to think of shopping sites I could look at to get ideas for what to ask for for my birthday!
I have to admit, I’ve never been a Cute Overload person. It just doesn’t speak to me.
Ok, that’s cool. Forget I mentioned it.
I’ve spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out two colours for my new mittens. I can’t decide whether to match the coat I wear a lot (scarlet) or the coat I only wear sometimes, but which is really prettier (dove grey). Ah, dilemma. Or I could just make them red and dove grey, but I’m not sure how that would work out. Or I could forget about the mittens altogether and just knit a beret. And that is my story.
I think red and dove gray would look very cool! And it’s sort of Devils-y.
Late to the party here, I’ve got to say that red and dove-gray mittens would be AWESOME! And they’ll go with everything!
And it’s sort of Devils-y.
The Devils kind of made me buy my red coat to begin with, so that fits :D
IPB: fountain of advice :)
You know what would look cool? If you found a way to incorporate a tiny accent of black, to tie the red and gray together. Like embroider a stylized flower (or Devils logo… hee hee!) or some rustic blanket stitch or something. That would make the color way look very modern, I think.
Woo-hoo! I’m not bored now! Thanks, Amy! You’re a life saver!
Glad to be of service! CE3 is now erased from my DVR.
You know what would look cool? If you found a way to incorporate a tiny accent of black, to tie the red and gray together
That would be cool. The pattern I was thinking of knitting is fair isle and has these two little flowers on the insides of the palm, and tiny little birds on the thumbs. Doing those in black could work. We’ll see!
Amy, was it as bad as the recap made it sound? Because it sounded like someone at Metro should be sending you a personal apology.
Woo hoo!! Just stopped in to say that I got my laptop back! I’m so happy!
Even though it cost me almost $400, I think I’m glad I didn’t just buy a new one instead. I’m going to save my money for a new desktop with a giant monitor and all kinds of bells and whistles that weren’t invented 6 years ago when I bought the one I have.
And that’s my story.
Yay Patty’s laptop! I’m sorry it cost so much to get it back.
was it as bad as the recap made it sound?
That it was. What even irked me more was that I saw it on dvd when I was at Target today. Some poor schmuck is going to waste good money on that movie and be poorly disappointed.
But you know, its all good. Crunchy and Lindy are both cracking me up right now with their off-season exploits. Lindy’s caddying at a PGA Tour event and Crunchy’s talking about chores and plugging his business.
Lindy’s caddying at a PGA Tour event
My dad showed me pictures of that yesterday. I thought it that was so cute! Awwww Lindy, you’re the bomb.
Is anybody watching Mythbusters right now? They’re doing a myth about steel-toed boots. (The show’s a few years old so you might have seen it some other time.)
That actually happened to my dad back when he was about 25 and working on the oil rigs out in West Texas.
That giant wrench that a crew of three turns to feed pipe into the hole (ifyouknowwhatImean) came loose and landed on his foot. His steel cap bent and cut all his toes almost completely off.
He was rushed by his crew about 100 miles to the hospital and they were able to sew them all back on. (They even forgot to give him a local before they started sewing, and he was too shy to complain. That’s another story.)
They “myth” is technically about amputation, which didn’t technically happen, but it was just a technicality.
O. Mygod. The Eurovision Song Contest is on right now, and Russia has Evgeni Plushenko skating around the singer, who is crawling over this tiny little ice surface and striking dramatic poses. Seriously. Russians are so… Russian.
He does always say that he’d still prefer steel-toed boots if he were working on a rig. That was the extreme. Lots of stuff fell on his foot over his tenure and didn’t hurt him.
Lots of stuff fell on his foot over his tenure and didn’t hurt him.
I assume not all of it was as heavy as that giant wrench.
I’m glad they got his toes back on ok! Yikes, that much have been quite an ordeal. Wow. Your dad is hardcore. (like Myra’s dad, but different)
His steel cap bent and cut all his toes almost completely off.
Owwwwwwww. I don’t even want to think about that.
He is, kinda, if you look at it a certain way, Mags. :D
That Russian show sounds hilarious. I think they’re probably making up for all those decades of having to wear gray.
that much have been
Allow me to go back on time and smack myself *smack*
That Russian show sounds hilarious. I think they’re probably making up for all those decades of having to wear gray.
It’s an all European show, but the Russian tend to put on the best performance. Apart from that year the Fins won, with their whacky gothic axe wielding metal heads. I’m sure it’s on youtube. (a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VzdtmrP6Y”>yup) Staffy would’ve loved them.
*smack* curses on tags and spelling and everything. Eurovision killed my brain.
That’s it. Time for bed! Have fun watching the game tonight, everyone!
Afternoon IPB! I survived and I didn’t kill anybody in the process! WahOO!!
Yeah!!! Patty got her laptop back!!!
Sorry about B’daal and bad cake, Mags!
Thanks for the CE3 diary, Amy. Enjoyed it last night! (I have never seen any of the CE movies so I have no point of comparison but it sounded bad!)
Hope your day is picking up, Pookie!
Schnookie, I knew we had been talking about snakes too much, one just had appear after that! Your cake sounds fabulous.
Oh and back when Hubbie had to wear suits to work, he had a pair of steel toed loafers, no lie, to wear when he had to go into the plant. The ones he has now look like regular casual shoes to wear with jeans. Long way from the boots my dad always wore!
Caffeine is a wonderful thing. :D