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Brian Rolston Puts All His Eggs In One Basket

June 15, 2009 by Pookie

Today saw yet another thrilling installment of “As The Devils’ Search For A New Coach Turns”, this time starring Brian Rolston. Devils beat writer Rich Chere picked the brain of last summer’s big Devils UFA signing about the possibility of Jacques Lemaire returning to NJ. After snarking about how Sutter didn’t give him a “fair shake”, Rolston made the bold assertion that Lemaire would be an excellent choice to coach the finally-no-longer-trapping-quite-so-much team. His thesis? That all the other coaches suck. No really, Gentle Reader, his exact quote was: “I think you have to look at the candidates out there. Who is a good coach? I don’t think there are any candidates out there as good a coach as Jacques. That’s my opinion.” Our guess? Lemaire goes to Montreal and Rolston doesn’t see a lick of PP time under Coach Laviolette.

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on June 15, 2009 at 10:41 pm Katebits

Rolston sounds like a Buffalonian! Who could you POSSIBLY get better that ~~Lindy Ruff~~ Lemaire?! What if he goes to ANOTHER TEAM?! ~~Lindy~~ Lemaire is a TRUE DEVIL!
on June 15, 2009 at 10:50 pm Morgan

Fiiiiiive Million dollars a season…
on June 15, 2009 at 11:14 pm Patty (in Dallas)

Fiiiiiive Million dollars a season…

No way.

I’m sure he means to say that any coach other than Sutter would be good for the TEAM. I’m sure that’s what he meant to say.
on June 16, 2009 at 8:34 am Amy

“I think you have to look at the candidates out there. Who is a good coach? I don’t think there are any candidates out there as good a coach as Jacques. That’s my opinion.”

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Marty makes a note to talk to Brian about just what player really is running the show and has input into decisions.
on June 16, 2009 at 8:41 am Schnookie

Good morning, everyone!

Rolston sounds like a Buffalonian!

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And honestly, this is why Brian Rolston is a True Devil — we don’t even have a coach, and he’s coach-killing. How can you not love the Devils? *Goes to slam head in a car door for a few hours*
on June 16, 2009 at 9:26 am sean

“Rolston made the bold assertion that Lemaire would be an excellent choice to coach the finally-no-longer-trapping-quite-so-much team. His thesis? That all the other coaches suck.”

“No really, Gentle Reader, his exact quote was: ‘I think you have to look at the candidates out there. Who is a good coach? I don’t think there are any candidates out there as good a coach as Jacques. That’s my opinion.’”

Your initial statement (the first of the two quotes) is not even close to what Rolston actually said. In reality he said that he doesn’t think there is another coach out there as good as Lemaire, nowhere is it stated that all the other coaches suck. But this all par for the course at this site, all negativity all the time…
on June 16, 2009 at 9:31 am Schnookie

But this all par for the course at this site, all negativity all the time…

Absolutely! :D
on June 16, 2009 at 9:35 am Caitlin

Who is a good coach? I don’t think there are any candidates out there as good a coach as Jacques.

Uh, I might be missing something, but the first sentence that I bolded seemed to imply that the available coaches to hire are not good; therefore, sucky.

Morning, IPB! How’s it going?

*Goes to slam head in a car door for a few hours*

I see we’ve upgraded from the soldering iron to the car door, then. That’s a damn shame, -Ookies.

But this all par for the course at this site, all negativity all the time…

There’s a pure, true love joke in here somewhere.
on June 16, 2009 at 9:37 am Amy

this all par for the course at this site, all negativity all the time…

It may be negative, but it’s “Intellectually Erudite, Topical, and Features Columbo!” You won’t get that combination anywhere else.
on June 16, 2009 at 9:42 am Schnookie

There’s a pure, true love joke in here somewhere.

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I think pure, true love is a lot like humor — someone has to be getting hurt for it to work. Consequently, our love of the Devils is VERY pure and true. :P

(And thanks for backing us up, Caitlin. Heh. I know if I got hired to be the Devils coach, I’d take that quote from Rolston to mean that he doesn’t think I’m a good coach. [Of course, he'd be right, but that's beside the point...])

And as for upgrading from a soldering iron, I haven’t seen the sun in WEEKS. I just don’t have the energy anymore to fire up a soldering iron. (Also, it’s the off-season. I’m going to take it easy during the next couple of months; car door it is! :P)

Say, do you have a house yet?
on June 16, 2009 at 9:43 am Meg

this all par for the course at this site, all negativity all the time…

Including, of course, the 118 reasons the -Ookies love hockey. Man, that was a downer.
on June 16, 2009 at 9:43 am Schnookie

It may be negative, but it’s “Intellectually Erudite, Topical, and Features Columbo!” You won’t get that combination anywhere else.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I think we might have to upgrade our tag line. :D
on June 16, 2009 at 9:44 am Schnookie

Including, of course, the 118 reasons the -Ookies love hockey. Man, that was a downer.

Hee hee! Thanks for having our backs, guys! (I think some of those 118 reasons were pretty negative. I mean, SURELY “schadenfreude” was in there at least three times. :P)
on June 16, 2009 at 9:49 am Meg

I mean, SURELY “schadenfreude” was in there at least three times. :P

I think that once something has been turned into a Broadway showtune sung by puppets and a woman impersonating Gary Coleman you can just go right ahead and count it as a positive. :D
on June 16, 2009 at 9:50 am Schnookie

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I think you’re definitely right, Meg.
on June 16, 2009 at 9:55 am Caitlin

Consequently, our love of the Devils is VERY pure and true. :P

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I just don’t have the energy anymore to fire up a soldering iron.

Better to conserve some energy, you might need it. Are y’all still getting torrential rains?

Say, do you have a house yet?

I’m looking at a couple of homes, but I seem to be dealing with unorganized, silly realtors, which makes me feel very confident about buying a house and getting accurate information!

You’d think in this home market they’d be jumping on potential buyers like white on rice, but I’ve gotten five e-mails from three different people at the same realtor company within the past 24 hours asking for my phone number and nothing more, no follow up calls at all.

I shouldn’t be irritated, but to qualify to use the tax credit as a down payment, I would have to have an offer on a house by August 30th at the very latest. Grr, argh.
on June 16, 2009 at 9:57 am Pookie

There’s a pure, true love joke in here somewhere.

Including, of course, the 118 reasons the -Ookies love hockey.

Awww, thanks guys! I was going to say, someone didn’t have his funfetti this morning! Heh.
on June 16, 2009 at 9:58 am Caitlin

I was going to say, someone didn’t have his funfetti this morning! Heh.

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And Meg, now I have “Schadenfreude” stuck in my head, thanks to you. Heh.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:08 am Schnookie

I was going to say, someone didn’t have his funfetti this morning! Heh.

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: And BURN! :P

Caitlin, that sounds like you’re having a lot of fun with the house-hunting process! Ugh. Realtors can be really astonishingly annoying, can’t they?
on June 16, 2009 at 10:24 am Caitlin

Realtors can be really astonishingly annoying, can’t they?

Ha, yes! There’s just a lot I need to get done and there’s two or three houses I want to look at. I could feasibly live in any of the three, it just comes down to price points and the like.

Unfortunately I have a very truncated time table; if I don’t get in now, I probably won’t be able to buy a house for a long while. This is also dependent on several mitigating factors… so… you know. I don’t mind if it takes ‘em a couple days to call me, I just find it odd that it takes five e-mails for one company to get my phone number down.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:25 am Pookie

Caitlin, have we ever given you our patent-pending* superduper awesome house hunting advice/check-list? If yes, ignore me. If not, let me know and I can email it to you. It won’t help with the realtor problem, but it helps with the deciding on houses. As far as the realtor problem goes, you might see if any local adult schools ever offer first time home buying classes or seminars. The realtors that teach those classes are used to working with people unfamiliar with the system. That’s how we found our first realtor and she was the bombdiggety.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:36 am KenF

so Brian Rolston is the new Bobby Holik?

all honesty, no cooth?
on June 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Caitlin

Caitlin, have we ever given you our patent-pending* superduper awesome house hunting advice/check-list?

I think you have but I don’t see it in my inbox… would you mind sending it again? That would be awesome!

As far as the realtor problem goes, you might see if any local adult schools ever offer first time home buying classes or seminars.

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the help. No one in my family’s bought a home in twenty years, so even my parents/extended family are all out of the loop, for the most part.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:46 am Schnookie

so Brian Rolston is the new Bobby Holik?

all honesty, no cooth?

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I think you’re right! I never really expected that from Rolston, but the Rolston I used to know was a wee whippersnapper. Now he’s a graybeard and can’t be bothered with social niceties. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 11:05 am Pookie

I think you have but I don’t see it in my inbox… would you mind sending it again?

Sure thing! I’ll try to remember to do that during my lunch hour.

all honesty, no cooth?

When Holik retired he passed the all honsety, no cooth torch to Rolston! That’s got to be it!
on June 16, 2009 at 11:14 am Caitlin

Thanks so much, Pookie!

Now he’s a graybeard and can’t be bothered with social niceties. :P

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on June 16, 2009 at 11:17 am Patty (in Dallas)

I was going to say, someone didn’t have his funfetti this morning! Heh.

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I’m a little offended that Rolston called Dave Tippett a crappy, sucky, loser of a coach. Hmpfh!
on June 16, 2009 at 11:18 am KenF

When Holik retired he passed the all honsety, no cooth torch to Rolston! That’s got to be it!

and hidden in the handle is a tiny vial of Kool-Aid antidote.
on June 16, 2009 at 11:21 am Schnookie

I’m a little offended that Rolston called Dave Tippett a crappy, sucky, loser of a coach. Hmpfh!

That is EXACTLY what he said. Word for word. I mean, we all heard it!

and hidden in the handle is a tiny vial of Kool-Aid antidote.

Gaaaasp! He wouldn’t DARE!
on June 16, 2009 at 11:22 am Patty (in Dallas)

and hidden in the handle is a tiny vial of Kool-Aid antidote.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
on June 16, 2009 at 11:26 am Pookie

Rolston said, and I quote, “Before I play for Tippett, I wear garlic from neck and sleep with cross!”
on June 16, 2009 at 11:30 am Patty (in Dallas)

Rolston said, and I quote, “Before I play for Tippett, I wear garlic from neck and sleep with cross!”

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I used to like Rolston, but now I’m putting him right up there with Chris Pronger and Kris Draper!
on June 16, 2009 at 11:33 am Schnookie

I used to like Rolston, but now I’m putting him right up there with Chris Pronger and Kris Draper!

And that’s just what he said about Tippett. You should hear what he said about you!
on June 16, 2009 at 11:41 am Pookie

You should hear what he said about you!

He said, and I quote, “Patty (in Dallas) is a classless beeyotch!”
on June 16, 2009 at 11:43 am Patty (in Dallas)

*GASP* Oh NO! What did he say about me!? *clutches pearls*

:P
on June 16, 2009 at 11:44 am Caitlin

Rolston said, and I quote, “Before I play for Tippett, I wear garlic from neck and sleep with cross!”

It’s because Rolston knows when he disappeared one day, Tippett would tell the team he sent Rolston to “a nice farm a few hours away”.
on June 16, 2009 at 11:44 am Patty (in Dallas)

He said, and I quote, “Patty (in Dallas) is a classless beeyotch!”

What a jerk! He’s a classless beeyotch! So there!

(I guess I told him!)
on June 16, 2009 at 11:54 am KenF

It’s because Rolston knows when he disappeared one day, Tippett would tell the team he sent Rolston to “a nice farm a few hours away”.

i’m sitting in a meeting right now, and should have known better than to read this stuff. because i almost spit my coffee everywhere. and had to play it off as a coughing fit.

he sent Rolston to “a nice farm a few hours away” – thats great stuff.
on June 16, 2009 at 11:54 am Schnookie

It’s because Rolston knows when he disappeared one day, Tippett would tell the team he sent Rolston to “a nice farm a few hours away”.

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And I can’t believe the name-calling around here! “Classless beeyotch”? Rolston’s even worse than I imagined! I hope you’re feuding with him now, Patty.
on June 16, 2009 at 12:20 pm Pookie

Travis would be all, “I wanna go to a farm! Why does Rolston get to do all the fun stuff! No fair!”
on June 16, 2009 at 12:26 pm Patty (in Dallas)

I hope you’re feuding with him now, Patty.

I am! I hope he grows back his soul patch so I can REALLY feud with him!
on June 16, 2009 at 1:08 pm Amy

Rolston knows when he disappeared one day, Tippett would tell the team he sent Rolston to “a nice farm a few hours away”.

I wonder if Tippett would send Rolston to the same farm that Lindy sent Timmy to?
on June 16, 2009 at 1:11 pm Schnookie

Look who’s all high-and-mighty about soul patches now that her boyfriend Marc Savard doesn’t have one anymore. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 1:21 pm Mike in Idaho

I was never a Sutter fan but I don’t see how Rolston can blame him for being critical or misusing him. Is it Sutter’s fault he shot 5 miles wide of the net all the time on the power play? I don’t see how Rolston can really criticize anyone after this last season.

@Caitlin, make sure you get a home inspection when you are serious and want to make an offer on a house. It’s nice to find out if you are buying a money pit before you actually buy it but less ethical realtors like to gloss this over and tell you you don’t need one. My mother in law has paid over $20,000 in home repair bills in the last year on a $109,000 home after ignoring the above advice.
on June 16, 2009 at 1:25 pm Patty (in Dallas)

Look who’s all high-and-mighty about soul patches now that her boyfriend Marc Savard doesn’t have one anymore. :P

*whistles innocently*
on June 16, 2009 at 1:28 pm Myra

I was going to say, someone didn’t have his funfetti this morning! Heh.

I’m a little offended that Rolston called Dave Tippett a crappy, sucky, loser of a coach. Hmpfh!

Rolston knows when he disappeared one day, Tippett would tell the team he sent Rolston to “a nice farm a few hours away”.

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I was thinking the same thing! Rolston’s really afraid of Tippett. He knows Tippett got rid of Avery in record time. Don’t mess with Tipp.
on June 16, 2009 at 1:31 pm Schnookie

I was never a Sutter fan but I don’t see how Rolston can blame him for being critical or misusing him.

I felt the same way when I read his quotes. I mean, where, exactly, was Rolston hoping to play? What was Sutter supposed to do differently? When Patty and Gio were playing well, it was most often with Zubrus. It’s not Sutter’s fault that Rolston was basically a misfit toy drifting around the bottom half of the forward depth chart. Heh.
on June 16, 2009 at 1:35 pm Caitlin

make sure you get a home inspection when you are serious and want to make an offer on a house.

I will say this; years of diligently watching HGTV have made me paranoid enough to get a home inspection and a termite inspection before I buy anything. Thank you for the recommendation. :)

My mother in law has paid over $20,000 in home repair bills in the last year on a $109,000 home after ignoring the above advice.

GOOD HEAVENS. Really?! Did the house just fall apart around her or what?!

Travis would be all, “I wanna go to a farm! Why does Rolston get to do all the fun stuff! No fair!”

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Marty Brodeur would want to go to the farm, except he knows donuts don’t grow on trees and the rivers don’t flow with a bounty of Sprite. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 1:56 pm andrew

My mother in law has paid over $20,000 in home repair bills in the last year on a $109,000 home after ignoring the above advice.

Yikes. That’s a good one. I dropped $18,000 on the last house I sold. Although that was on the way out, so the funds came from the sale. But still.

Cailtin, also be sure to get a recommendation on the home inspector, your realtor should have one or two go-to guys. There is no licensing or anything for them. Any schmuck can print up business cards and call himself a home inspector, so you have to be careful.
on June 16, 2009 at 1:57 pm andrew

Whoops…I meant $1,800. Not $18,000. That would have sucked.
on June 16, 2009 at 2:01 pm Morgan

All Brian Rolston had to do to get ice time last year was be a better center than Zubrus or a better RW than Gionta. We wasn’t in either case. QED

This still leaves the Devils with the problem that the team’s three top scorers, career sa-tistically speaking, play best at left wing: Elias, Parise and Rolston. Somebody has to play somewhere else to stay on the top two lines. (Or Gio walks as a free agent… sigh.)
on June 16, 2009 at 2:05 pm Schnookie

Cailtin, also be sure to get a recommendation on the home inspector, your realtor should have one or two go-to guys. There is no licensing or anything for them.

Yeah, that’s pretty key — getting a guy you feel you can trust. The people who sold us stately IPB Manor ended up going back and suing the person who inspected the place when they’d bought it, because he missed a bunch of stuff that our inspector found (that clearly pre-dated their living there).

Or Gio walks as a free agent… sigh.

I thought that was a given. (But yeah, it’s not like Rolston was doing much of anything to make anyone think, “If only Sutter wasn’t keeping him down!” Stupid Rolston. And to think — I was all kinds of excited that we’d signed him! :P)
on June 16, 2009 at 2:20 pm Pookie

He wasn’t in either case. QED

Heh. Yeah.

And to think — I was all kinds of excited that we’d signed him!

That’ll learn you! There’s a reason it’s all negativity all the time around here! Too many crushed and shattered dreams!
on June 16, 2009 at 2:22 pm Caitlin

Cailtin, also be sure to get a recommendation on the home inspector, your realtor should have one or two go-to guys. There is no licensing or anything for them.

Many thanks, andrew, I’m having a meeting with the realtor later on this week and I just scribbled that down in my notes for my meeting with her.

The people who sold us stately IPB Manor ended up going back and suing the person who inspected the place when they’d bought it, because he missed a bunch of stuff that our inspector found (that clearly pre-dated their living there).

Woah. Did the sellers of Stately IPB Manor have to do a bunch of work to get it in order before selling?
on June 16, 2009 at 2:32 pm Pookie

Woah. Did the sellers of Stately IPB Manor have to do a bunch of work to get it in order before selling?

Not enough! Heh.

But seriously, home ownership rocks!
on June 16, 2009 at 2:33 pm Schnookie

Did the sellers of Stately IPB Manor have to do a bunch of work to get it in order before selling?

There was a bit we asked them to take care of, and a lot more we had negotiated into the price of the house. (Also, they didn’t actually DO most of the stuff we asked them to. They made bare-bones minimum “repairs” that all had to be redone later. Which, to be fair, we’d done in the place we were selling. All in all, I much prefer to go the “just give us a credit for this repair” approach. :D) We weren’t very hard-assed about it, though. I mean, if we’d cared about the house being, I dunno, inhabitable, we wouldn’t have been buying this one. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 2:43 pm Caitlin

But seriously, home ownership rocks!

The process to that might give me a stroke!

I mean, if we’d cared about the house being, I dunno, inhabitable, we wouldn’t have been buying this one. :P

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But …Stately IPB Manor looks nice and totally inhabitable!

The main house I’m looking at is purple. Like a cross between a lilac and periwinkle color. It’s not a bad color, I actually like it, but man. I have never seen a home painted that color before.
on June 16, 2009 at 2:50 pm Schnookie

The process to that might give me a stroke!

The process is TERRIBLE. I remember feeling like I was going to throw up through pretty much the entirety of the four months of our first househunt/closing. Then we walked out of the closing, drove over to our new house, and it was all AWESOME. Obviously, it’s not everyone’s bag, but for me, home ownership was totally worth the agony. :D

I think a purple house sounds absolutely delightful! How cool! I bet the person who painted it that color was like, “Whoops. It didn’t look like that in chip form…” after it started going up. Heh.
on June 16, 2009 at 2:55 pm Pookie

A purple house sounds so cool! What it needs is a big orange spot! :D
on June 16, 2009 at 2:56 pm Schnookie

Oh, and:

But …Stately IPB Manor looks nice and totally inhabitable!

Don’t be fooled. Heh. (Some of the things we ignored in the home inspection were countless broken windowpanes and rotting exterior shingles. We had literally every window in the house replaced before we moved in, and as for the rotting exterior shingles… *Waves hand airily* They’re still on our to-do list.)

One of our friends advised us to write a list of everything that needs fixing in the first couple of weeks after you move into a place. EVERYTHING. All the little things that stand out when the place is new. Because as you start living with it, you start becoming blind to most of it. It’s funny how much more “inhabitable” a crumbling pile is when you’re familiar with the crumblingness of it. Looking at houses is scary, because it’s like, “AIEEE! How do people LIVE like this????” But, well… yeah. You get used to it. :D
on June 16, 2009 at 2:59 pm Caitlin

Pookie, you’re the best! Thanks for sending that to me! Y’all are awesome!

remember feeling like I was going to throw up through pretty much the entirety of the four months of our first househunt/closing.

Ugh. So I have more of this vomit feeling to look forward to? Ha!

I think a purple house sounds absolutely delightful! How cool! I bet the person who painted it that color was like, “Whoops. It didn’t look like that in chip form…” after it started going up. Heh.

I can imagine someone wailing about the fact that it was supposed to dry lighter.

But it’s a very nice color nonetheless, unlike the house I just saw online that is painted two different colors of neon orange. I really wish I was making that up, but I’m not.

And man, I never realized until now how much people love ugly ass wallpaper. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 3:03 pm Caitlin

Looking at houses is scary, because it’s like, “AIEEE! How do people LIVE like this????” But, well… yeah. You get used to it. :D

Oh no, believe me, I understand that. Man, you guys are full of great tips! The Irregulars and y’all should write a book on this. ;)

What it needs is a big orange spot! :D

Perhaps I could talk to the people in the two-tone neon orange house and see if they’ve got an extra orange door laying about somewhere?
on June 16, 2009 at 3:06 pm Patty (in Dallas)

The people who sold us stately IPB Manor ended up going back and suing the person who inspected the place when they’d bought it, because he missed a bunch of stuff that our inspector found (that clearly pre-dated their living there).

Man, I wish that had ocurred to me with my last house!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:08 pm Schnookie

Dude, I think a two-toned neon orange house sounds RAD.

And man, I never realized until now how much people love ugly ass wallpaper.

We toyed with wallpaper for our kitchen remodel. We’d found some REALLY awesome arts-and-crafts wallpapers, and figured whatever we chose, paint or paper, would end up being difficult to replace becasue we’re not about to go painting around our cabinetry ourselves (and we’re not about to pay someone else to do it — that’s where we personally draw the line). Of course, everyone in the world becomes AGHAST when you suggest you’d like to put up wallpaper. So I guess what I’m saying is that I probably am one of those people who loves ugly-ass wallpaper. :P (The last childhood house we lived in had MAGNIFICENTLY hideous wallpaper. I think that’s where I learned to love the monstrous.)
on June 16, 2009 at 3:12 pm Patty (in Dallas)

It is totally worth it, Caitlin! Even remodeling is a pain while it’s happening, but once it’s done, the pain is quickly forgotten.

My latest house went pretty smoothly, even though it took a while, and I was pretty convinced it was a bad idea. But once I had the key to it and I could do whatever I wanted to it, I was thrilled. And 7-1/2 years later, I still love it. Maybe even more.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:15 pm Patty (in Dallas)

I’d kind of love to have some retro wallpaper in my little pink bathroom, but I get dirty looks from whomever I suggest it to. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 3:17 pm Schnookie

But once I had the key to it and I could do whatever I wanted to it, I was thrilled.

It’s so true! I love looking at this picture of our first meal at our first house. We set the “table” (read: “dining room floor”) with dishes we’d specifically been saving for when we bought our first place, and had a centerpiece of the ugly glass flower bouquet I’d gotten as a Christmas gift a few weeks earlier from my boss, and our Ken Daneyko bobbleheads. We got takeout from our favorite Chinese place, and ate on the floor in a house empty of everything but the first carload of stuff we’d driven over, and it stands as one of my favorite meals of my life. MAN, was that a good day. :D
on June 16, 2009 at 3:18 pm Schnookie

I’d kind of love to have some retro wallpaper in my little pink bathroom, but I get dirty looks from whomever I suggest it to.

Exactly! People FREAK OUT. And it’s like, “Dude, chill. I’m not asking to wallpaper YOUR house.” :P
on June 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm Caitlin

So I guess what I’m saying is that I probably am one of those people who loves ugly-ass wallpaper. :P

Even the kind that looks like the wallpaper in the dentist’s office? Because one house had that.

I draw the line at wallpaper just because I grew up with a mother who hated wallpaper more than anything else in the universe. Also, I’ve had to remove it before and I never want to do it again. :P Painting I can easily do. Heh.

And 7-1/2 years later, I still love it. Maybe even more.

Awww, Patty, that’s so awesome! I still love your kitchen, by the way.

But once I had the key to it and I could do whatever I wanted to it, I was thrilled.

I’m just going to picture this in my head whenever I feel vaguely like stroking out. Heh!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:24 pm Schnookie

I’m just going to picture this in my head whenever I feel vaguely like stroking out. Heh!

That’s the key! You’re going to end up with a home of your own! And it’ll be ALL YOURS!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm Caitlin

We got takeout from our favorite Chinese place, and ate on the floor in a house empty of everything but the first carload of stuff we’d driven over, and it stands as one of my favorite meals of my life. MAN, was that a good day. :D

Aww! That must’ve been so cool. (Y’all also had a nice kitchen in that place. I mean, Stately IPB Manor’s kitchen outrawks everyone else’s kitchen, but that was still a cool kitchen.)

Exactly! People FREAK OUT. And it’s like, “Dude, chill. I’m not asking to wallpaper YOUR house.” :P

Ha! I have no problem with other people wallpapering. I just don’t want to move into a fully wallpapered house. I don’t want to have to take it all down! ‘Cause I’m lazy. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm andrew

And man, I never realized until now how much people love ugly ass wallpaper. :P

Haha…our friends bought a house in S.F. last year and the lady who owned it before them was cuh-razy. The living room was very very loud orange. I said it was like having a creamsicle living room. Then they moved in and all of their furniture was black….my friend said it was like living inside of a jack-o-lantern.

Needless to say the paint has been covered up.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:31 pm Schnookie

Y’all also had a nice kitchen in that place. I mean, Stately IPB Manor’s kitchen outrawks everyone else’s kitchen, but that was still a cool kitchen.

HA! That’s funny you say that — we were DELIGHTED to tear that kitchen out. The one we put in was way nicer. (But alas, we seem not to have any pictures of it…) :D

And I think a creamsicle living room sounds heavenly, especially with black furniture. Heh heh. (Pookie’s bedroom is painted the same color as the muppet Scooter. It’s… very orange. When we were painting stately IPB Manor, the person at the paint store got to know us because we were notable for our fondness for “saturated” colors.)
on June 16, 2009 at 3:35 pm Patty (in Dallas)

I just don’t want to move into a fully wallpapered house. I don’t want to have to take it all down!

Hey, even if you like wallpaper, you still have to take down all THEIR wallpaper. Previous Owners’ Wallpaper is always crappy. :D
on June 16, 2009 at 3:37 pm alix

Buying a house terrifies me.

EEEEEEE!! You guys I got into uni in Vancouver! I can stalk the Canucks all I want next year!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:38 pm Schnookie

Hey, even if you like wallpaper, you still have to take down all THEIR wallpaper. Previous Owners’ Wallpaper is always crappy.

Hm. That’s a good point. Just like Previous Owners’ Paint Choices always being crappy. (I don’t envy the person who gets their grubby mitts on stately IPB Manor after we die. Painting over that chocolate brown in the windowless front and upstairs hallways is going to be a total bitch. :P [It makes the hallways seem like a cave of chocolate. Mmmm... Dank, but delicious.])
on June 16, 2009 at 3:38 pm Schnookie

alix, you’re switching schools? To a place in Vancouver? Awesome! Congratulations!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:40 pm Amy

the person at the paint store got to know us because we were notable for our fondness for “saturated” colors.

Everyone’s life needs a little color. My bedroom is deep red, the kitchen is green and yellow, and the living room is butterscotch.

And I agree that removing wallpaper – especially wallpaper installed by a professional – is a pain in the rear.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:43 pm Schnookie

My bedroom is deep red, the kitchen is green and yellow, and the living room is butterscotch.

Oooh! That sounds lovely! I love houses with a lot of color in them!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:44 pm Caitlin

When we were painting stately IPB Manor, the person at the paint store got to know us because we were notable for our fondness for “saturated” colors.)

The people at the paint store are going to love me, then. :P (Dammit, I’ve always wanted a yellow kitchen and I WILL HAVE ONE!)

The living room was very very loud orange. I said it was like having a creamsicle living room.

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: My parents painted their living/dining area a rosy brown color, which just prompted my younger sister and me to comment that it was like living in a glass of chocolate milk. I’m quite fond of that color, but that’s what it reminds me of.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:47 pm alix

alix, you’re switching schools? To a place in Vancouver? Awesome! Congratulations!

Thanks, Schnookie! Yeah I’m changing my major for like the 10th time to Communications but my school in Saskatoon doesn’t have a communications program. Plus I was homesick for the coast.

The Saskatoon airport will be so relieved.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:47 pm Patty (in Dallas)

My living room is the color of a moca-chino. In fact, when I was still hunting for the perfect taupe, I was showing my mom a bottle of that Starbucks frappaccino to show her what I was looking for.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:49 pm andrew

Everyone’s life needs a little color. My bedroom is deep red, the kitchen is green and yellow, and the living room is butterscotch.

For sure. Per the wife, we’re not allowed to have any white walls in our house. We’ve pretty much got every color in the spectrum represented on one wall or another…except in my room. I didn’t bother painting. I just plaster the walls with posters and pictues and shit. Can’t see the walls anyway.
on June 16, 2009 at 3:49 pm Patty (in Dallas)

That’s so great, alix! Be careful not to catch the attention of the Vancouver airport now!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:50 pm andrew

You guys I got into uni in Vancouver! I can stalk the Canucks all I want next year!

Congrats alix! I hope they treat you well!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:52 pm Caitlin

Oh, congrats, Alix! WOO!
on June 16, 2009 at 3:53 pm Pookie

Congratulations, alix! The Vancouver Airport is quite nice, as I recall. I bet it’s standards of decency are a little more loosey-goosey than Saskatoon!

Caitlin, you’re welcome for the checklist! I hope it helps you out!

I hate, hate, hate it on House Hunters when the people at the end say, “We repainted the whole house…. beige!” WTF? WHY?!?!?
on June 16, 2009 at 3:53 pm Amy

I’m changing my major for like the 10th time to Communications

Whoo! Yay for a fellow communications major! Good luck with the new school and the Canuck hunting. Just watch out for cabs!
on June 16, 2009 at 4:01 pm alix

Thanks, Patty, Andrew, and Caitlin!

Congratulations, alix! The Vancouver Airport is quite nice, as I recall. I bet it’s standards of decency are a little more loosey-goosey than Saskatoon!

Thanks, Pookie! Hee. Yeah, the Vancouver airport is like off in the corner smoking a giant doobie with Michael Phelps and is all “Oh you’re having an orgy with a midget, a llama, and a pot of spagetti? That’s cool dude, carry on.”

Whoo! Yay for a fellow communications major! Good luck with the new school and the Canuck hunting. Just watch out for cabs!

That’s so cool you were a communications major, Amy! I’ve been fascinated with my course descriptions and am totally nerding out. Heh.
on June 16, 2009 at 4:18 pm Caitlin

I hate, hate, hate it on House Hunters when the people at the end say, “We repainted the whole house…. beige!” WTF? WHY?!?!?

God. If I never have to see a beige painted wall again ever, I will be a lucky girl.

I’m beginning to really dislike neutral browns because I see them everywhere.

Yeah, the Vancouver airport is like off in the corner smoking a giant doobie with Michael Phelps and is all “Oh you’re having an orgy with a midget, a llama, and a pot of spagetti? That’s cool dude, carry on.”

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

I hope you enjoy being a Communications major, alix! (I never majored in anything that foxy. I started out at boring Journalism and moved right into musty, totally unhip History.)
on June 16, 2009 at 4:26 pm Amy

the Vancouver airport is like off in the corner smoking a giant doobie with Michael Phelps and is all “Oh you’re having an orgy with a midget, a llama, and a pot of spagetti? That’s cool dude, carry on.”

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::

I’ve been fascinated with my course descriptions and am totally nerding out.

Do you know what branch of communications you want to focus in?
on June 16, 2009 at 4:47 pm alix

I hope you enjoy being a Communications major, alix! (I never majored in anything that foxy. I started out at boring Journalism and moved right into musty, totally unhip History.)

Thanks Caitlin! Heh. I was history for awhile. English. Psyc. Journalism until I found out I’d have to transfer to Regina, the armpit of Saskatchewan.

Do you know what branch of communications you want to focus in?

Hmmm…not really yet. I’d love to be able to write. Maybe work in PR. Did you focus on one branch?
on June 16, 2009 at 5:19 pm KenF

did i miss the end of the wallpaper conversation?

one of the houses i looked at about 10 years ago still had 60s/70s felt wallpaper on curved walls in the living room, and the bathroom wallpaper had different shades of blue, grey and chrome silver circles.

i loved it. wish i bought that house. in my mind, if the wallpaper can survived 30+ years and still look perfect, then that house was well built.
on June 16, 2009 at 6:14 pm Patty (in Dallas)

the bathroom wallpaper had different shades of blue, grey and chrome silver circles.

Oooooh! That sounds pretty! If the blues were pinks, or dinner-mint green, it would be PERFECT for my bathroom.
on June 16, 2009 at 6:19 pm Mags

Yay for geeking out over your new major, Alix! I know how exciting that can be :D

My whole studio is painted ice blue and white, and one wall has silver wallpaper with a huge, light blue brocade pattern on it that matches the curtains. Because the place is so high (like, 3.5 meters or something) and the brocade pattern goes over several rolls of wallpaper we had to have someone pro come in an do it. It was totally worth it though, I love the way it looks. But I really don’t want to be the person who lives there after I do. That stuff is going to be a bitch to take off.
on June 16, 2009 at 6:40 pm mcguffers

Yeah, the Vancouver airport is like off in the corner smoking a giant doobie with Michael Phelps and is all “Oh you’re having an orgy with a midget, a llama, and a pot of spagetti? That’s cool dude, carry on.”

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I saw llamas today!

Evening everyone! I just got back from a mini vacation that was incredibly relaxing and awesome. Except it started with a deer and a three car pileup. But hey, if killing a little wild life ensures a great vacation, show me the bunny! (mcguggs=worst vegetarian EVAH!)
on June 16, 2009 at 6:42 pm Mags

But hey, if killing a little wild life ensures a great vacation, show me the bunny! (mcguggs=worst vegetarian EVAH!)

:^::::::::::::::: You don’t EAT it, do you? I once had a girl tell me she was so concerned with animal welfare that she couldn’t dream of eating meat… while she was eating a steak. I just went with it. It was too weird to comment on.
on June 16, 2009 at 6:48 pm carolbrowne

Be careful not to catch the attention of the Vancouver airport now!

The Vancouver Airport kicks all kinds of ass. With Free Wi-Fi! W00T!

Yay Alix! Going to the grown up University of UBC! Killer. Me? I never did go to UBC. I hung out at Capilano College and got the very useful and helpful Outdoor Recreation Certificate, followed by a Tourism Management Certificate. Yay! Am I working in tourism? Uh no. Never have.

Also, after all that hiking in and camping, I never want to hike and camp again. I’d rather just drive in and camp. Less walking that way.
on June 16, 2009 at 6:48 pm mcguffers

You don’t EAT it, do you?

One of the hillbillies involved in the car pileup goes to Sheriff, “Whaddya gonna do with the deer?” My friend and I just looked at each other and shuddered.

I once had a girl tell me she was so concerned with animal welfare that she couldn’t dream of eating meat… while she was eating a steak.

:^:::::::::::::::::::: I would have been at a loss for words too.
on June 16, 2009 at 7:06 pm Patty (in Dallas)

But hey, if killing a little wild life ensures a great vacation, show me the bunny!

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
on June 16, 2009 at 7:34 pm Pookie

But hey, if killing a little wild life ensures a great vacation, show me the bunny!

Nice one!
on June 16, 2009 at 7:48 pm Schnookie

Next time we’re in the Vancouver area, Carol’s in charge of our vacation. She’s the best tourist manager I know!

And :^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::, mcguggs! I’m glad you had a nice mini-vacation, and even gladder that deer bit it. Stupid deer. Grumble, grumble, grumble…
on June 16, 2009 at 8:40 pm Amy

Did you focus on one branch?

I focused on advertising and PR, but the interpersonal communication stuff was really fun as well.

if killing a little wild life ensures a great vacation, show me the bunny!

Hee! Little Bunny FooFoo better look out when mcguffers is around!
on June 16, 2009 at 8:55 pm SueNJ97

I hate, hate, hate it on House Hunters when the people at the end say, “We repainted the whole house…. beige!”

LOL. I don’t watch HouseHunters, but I do watch “Sell This House on A&E. It’s hysterical, because with houses that have all beige walls, Roger makes them re-paint w/funky colors, “because you need color to sell”. But, if they have funky colors, Roger makes them re-paint w/beige, “because you need to make it neutral”. I swear, I can script it.

Sorry I missed the original discussion, but, apparently Rolston missed his dose of Kool-Aid to make him say the usual, boring, NJ-Devil platitudes. So, when will Lou have him killed? And, does his contract come off the cap if Lou has him killed?
on June 16, 2009 at 9:38 pm Schnookie

So, when will Lou have him killed? And, does his contract come off the cap if Lou has him killed?

Hm. I think the former depends entirely on the answer to the latter. I mean, if the answer is “yes”, I think Lou will have Rolston killed yesterday. :P
on June 16, 2009 at 9:48 pm Patty (in Dallas)

I would NOT be surprised if there’s a paragraph that covers that in the CBA. :D
on June 16, 2009 at 9:50 pm Schnookie

I’m sure I read about it that time I got bored at work and read the CBA. It was in the section about how much teams have to pay for their players’ housing, I think.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:03 pm mcguffers

Uh, in case anyone’s looking for a summer sport to watch, I definitely recommended Australian Football. I’m not sure of the rules yet, but I can tell you the basics. One extremely hot chiseled guy kicks or passes the ball to another extremely hot chiseled guy. How do you say “I’m going to take you behind the barn and do ungodly things to you” in Australian?
on June 16, 2009 at 10:07 pm Schnookie

How do you say “I’m going to take you behind the barn and do ungodly things to you” in Australian?

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’m sure it’s a lot like the American version, but with some kind of really incomprehensible slang thrown in.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:13 pm mcguffers

I’m sure it’s a lot like the American version, but with some kind of really incomprehensible slang thrown in.

I’ve been sitting here slack jawed and drooling for 20 minutes, so incomprehensible should come pretty easy for me. Does everyone in Australia look amazingly hot? I can not find one fugly dude on either team. Nucking Futs.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:31 pm mcguffers

The game’s over. The really fucking hot guys beat the ridiculously smoking sexy beasts in a very close game. I will volunteer to rub both teams down in the locker rooms though.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:35 pm Schnookie

Does everyone in Australia look amazingly hot?

I wish. The VP of my department at work is Australian. His admin sent me a photoshop she made the other day of his face attached to a raccoon body; it was the most apt comparison between a person and a human that I’d ever seen. So maybe everyone in Australia is amazingly hot except for the raccoon-man hybrids.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:40 pm Pookie

Sounds like Australia is the perfect place for Mr. and Mrs. Pando!
on June 16, 2009 at 10:45 pm mcguffers

So maybe everyone in Australia is amazingly hot except for the raccoon-man hybrids.

Sounds like Australia is the perfect place for Mr. and Mrs. Pando!

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’ve heard rumors that they were the ones originally cast for “Australia” but he had to pull out due to team conflicts, so Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman got the parts instead.
on June 16, 2009 at 10:49 pm Schnookie

Mr. and Mrs. Pando were so excited to make their big-screen debuts, but at the last minute, Lou was all, “Blah blah blah team commitment, blah blah blah.” It’s so sad. Although considering how widely-panned the movie was, it’s probably for the best.
on June 16, 2009 at 11:03 pm mcguffers

Maybe the movie would have done better with the original casting. And Zach playing the Aborigine boy orphan.
on June 16, 2009 at 11:19 pm Schnookie

Zach is all, “Well, I WAS a standout performer on the stage in high school. Look no further than my starring turns in ‘Laughter On The 23rd Floor’ and ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’!”
on June 16, 2009 at 11:20 pm Pookie

Just because it’s June doesn’t mean I’ll find that funny, Schnookie. :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
on June 16, 2009 at 11:29 pm Schnookie

Yeah right, Pookie.
on June 17, 2009 at 12:22 am Patty (in Dallas)

What channel was this game on?
on June 17, 2009 at 12:52 am mcguffers

I think the channel is called TWC for Time Warner Cable. They usually play local sports teams, but I guess in the case of an off night, they play Australian Football. Which, is not me complaining by any means!
on June 17, 2009 at 8:49 am Amy

“Well, I WAS a standout performer on the stage in high school. Look no further than my starring turns in ‘Laughter On The 23rd Floor’ and ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’!”

Staffy: “Two high school plays do not make you the second coming of Laurence Olivier, jackass.”
on June 17, 2009 at 9:39 am Pookie

Zach: Burn!

Heh.

Good morning, everyone! The sun is finally shining here! Woooooo!
on June 17, 2009 at 9:49 am KenF

I once had a girl tell me she was so concerned with animal welfare that she couldn’t dream of eating meat…

i love people who say stupid things without even realizing it. I, on the other hand, say stupid things while cringing internally and with the complete inability to stop myself.

I was once at a bar and some wanna be tough guy was trying to chat up some girl i was hanging out with. The coup de grâce of his attempt to get down her pants was to brag that his grandfather built movie theaters and invented stadium seating.

he walked away shortly after i calmly remarked, “huh, thats funny, i though the Romans invented stadium seating”
on June 17, 2009 at 9:51 am KenF

and as much i like to think hockey players are sports tough guys, Australian Football players take the prize.

although, i cant for the life of me figure out the rules.
on June 17, 2009 at 9:51 am Schnookie

I, on the other hand, say stupid things while cringing internally and with the complete inability to stop myself.

High five! I’m right there with you!

he walked away shortly after i calmly remarked, “huh, thats funny, i though the Romans invented stadium seating”

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

And good morning, everyone!
on June 17, 2009 at 9:52 am KenF

“Well, I WAS a standout performer on the stage in high school. Look no further than my starring turns in ‘Laughter On The 23rd Floor’ and ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’!”

Staffy: “Two high school plays do not make you the second coming of Laurence Olivier, jackass.”

Zach: “just let me pencil on this little mustache and i’ll give you Laurence Olivier”
on June 17, 2009 at 9:56 am Pookie

Zach: “just let me pencil on this little mustache and i’ll give you Laurence Olivier”

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::: *gasp* :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
on June 17, 2009 at 10:15 am Caitlin

Zach: “just let me pencil on this little mustache and i’ll give you Laurence Olivier”

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Morning, everyone! Glad to hear the sun is finally out in NJ today!
on June 17, 2009 at 10:41 am Schnookie

Glad to hear the sun is finally out in NJ today!

Hee! Thanks. No worries, though — it wasn’t out for long.

I am going to be so disappointed if Zach doesn’t have a penciled-on mustache next season.
on June 17, 2009 at 11:11 am KenF

I am going to be so disappointed if Zach doesn’t have a penciled-on mustache next season.

Travis: “nice mustache Zach, thats a spot on impersonation of John Waters”
on June 17, 2009 at 12:27 pm Patty (in Dallas)

Zach: “just let me pencil on this little mustache and i’ll give you Laurence Olivier”

Travis: “Zach, honey, it’s supposed to pencil-thin, not penciled on.”
on June 17, 2009 at 12:43 pm Mags

I, on the other hand, say stupid things while cringing internally and with the complete inability to stop myself.

No, I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. None at all. Nope. Never.

Travis: “Zach, honey, it’s supposed to pencil-thin, not penciled on.”

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
on June 17, 2009 at 1:55 pm Pookie

Travis: “Zach, honey, it’s supposed to pencil-thin, not penciled on.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Oh, those crazy kids!
on June 17, 2009 at 2:16 pm KenF

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Oh, those crazy kids!

but wait, it gets crazier, unbenknownst to Zach, Travis switched the pencil with a Sharpie.

oh, Mrs Parise is going to be so upset when Zach gets home for dinner, she just may have to call Mrs Zajac.
on June 17, 2009 at 2:29 pm Schnookie

oh, Mrs Parise is going to be so upset when Zach gets home for dinner, she just may have to call Mrs Zajac.

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Travis is gonna be in troooooooouuuu-ble!

(We actually had a firm belief that Jeff Friesen’s playoff mustache in 2003 was drawn on with a sharpie. That he’d fallen asleep on the team plane and some prankster drew it on him. It was really a fantastically awful mustache, and that’s the only explanation for it that makes any sense.)
on June 17, 2009 at 3:12 pm Amy

Mrs Parise is going to be so upset when Zach gets home for dinner, she just may have to call Mrs Zajac.

That’s after she chases Zach around the house with a nail-polish remover soaked cotton ball to remove the Sharpie ‘stache.
on June 17, 2009 at 5:15 pm Pookie

Whew! I just finished unstapling 50 handouts for my lecture at the old folk’s place tomorrow, replacing one page, and then stapling them all back together again. I hope the old folks appreciate all the hard work I did for them!
on June 17, 2009 at 5:24 pm Schnookie

There is no way the old folks will appreciate that. It’s not like you were playing a string quartet for them or anything.
on June 17, 2009 at 5:53 pm Pookie

Dammit! I didn’t even think of commissioning Katebits to play blogging lecture accompaniment!
on June 17, 2009 at 6:21 pm Schnookie

And now she’s at Bat Shack Camp, and there’s no way of bringing her back. You’re so lame, Pookie!
on June 17, 2009 at 7:10 pm Patty (in Dallas)

Just keep it in mind for next time, Pookie!
on June 17, 2009 at 7:12 pm Schnookie

The old folks would be like, “We asked for a librarian, and instead we got this infernal racket!”
on June 17, 2009 at 7:22 pm Pookie

You’re right. They’d probably through their carefully stapled handouts at Kate until she stopped playing.