We sometimes get asked by friends and colleagues how we manage to be so happy all the time (they clearly don’t read this blog), and our answer is always that we just happen to be very good at letting the little things in life delight us. And when we say “the little things”, we really mean it. For example, we’re having spaghetti with a simple tomato sauce for dinner tonight, one of our favorite meals, and we had this exchange about it:
Schnookie, smugly: There’s a special surprise ingredient in tonight’s dinner, Pookie.
Pookie, excited: Oh? Really? What?
Schnookie: What ingredient can turn a weeknight… into heaven?
Pookie: SAUSAGE!
Seriously. It takes so little. It really makes us wonder how the Devils have gone so wrong by us.
Spaghetti sauce with sausage FTW!
You said it, Pam!
I should add that I wrote a post on UFA day and then wondered why no one was commenting on it (not that it said anything or was interesting at all — it was supposed to be pretty much just evidence that we were still alive). Then I realized I never posted it. And that’s my story.
Schnookie: What ingredient can turn a weeknight… into heaven?
Pookie: SAUSAGE!
My inner 13-year old can’t stop laughing.
My inner 13-year old can’t stop laughing.
I should certainly hope that’s the case! My inner 13-year-old has been laughing pretty much nonstop since we had this exchange. Heh.
My inner 13-year old can’t stop laughing.
Mine hasn’t stopped either. I’m glad we all can be immature together.
The day my inner 13-year old doesn’t laugh at that, is the day I don’t want to go on living.
Hey, Frisby, have you finished Red Dead yet?
No, not yet. Still getting strung along by the people in Mexico. Haven’t been playing much lately, last weekend was double XP on Black Ops so I’ve been kicking butt and not taking names on that. Prestige level 9! w00t w00t!
Prestige level 9!
Ooh la la! I’m assuming that’s not on a scale of, like, 100. I say that because I think our gamer score on Grand Theft Horsie is something like 5. One of my co-workers is an achievement whore. I think I’m an achievement puritan.
I think I’m an achievement puritan.
I have a ps3 trophy level of 10 which I think makes me the video game equivalent of Tim Connolly.
I have a ps3 trophy level of 10 which I think makes me the video game equivalent of Tim Connolly.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Mike, you slut!
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: to both of you!
Is anyone else getting a little concerned about little Teddenby? Skipping all those optional practices, and now skipping development camp because he had the wrong birthdate on his visa application? Are we looking at the new Petr Sykora?! Heh.
I’m not that concerned about Tedenby. Hey, so he can’t get out of bed and he doesn’t noice that his birth date is incorrect, he’s still smarter than Clarkson…OK, so it’s a low bar.
What really concerns me is the fact that Lou still hasn’t hired a coach. Prospects camp opened – still no coach. I have this horrible feeling that there will be no coach and the lunatics will be running the asylum (more than usual) this season. Marty will play every game, Chuckles will never leave the ice and will refuse to backcheck…I think I need a drink. At least the Blues made sure Lou couldn’t re-sign Langer.
At least the Blues made sure Lou couldn’t re-sign Langer.
AND Arnott! Dude, I can take not having a coach as long as we also don’t have Langer. (But seriously, Lou? Get a coach.)
Everyone needs sausage in their life! RAWR.
I’m SO glad the Canucks didn’t get Langer. Shudder. I was a bit worried.
Patty (in dallas) darling, did I do something to accidentally offend you? You stopped following me on twitter…
(But seriously, Lou? Get a coach.)
Apparently, no coach this week. Why won’t Lou just admit that what he really wants to do is save money and name Pando and Andrew Peters co-coaches? What a mess that would be. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse than MacLean….
Sue, :^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I suppose Lou’s finally just admitting that there’s no point hiring a coach because he’s just going to fire him within a year. Although you’d also think that, with all the practice he’s had, hiring a new coach would be really easy to get done. I mean, sure, no good coach is going to want the job, considering how little security is in it, but aren’t we long past hiring good coaches? I thought the only job requirement at this point was having previous NHL experience and a pulse.
First Langer comes to Dallas, then we move to Missouri and he goes to St Louis. I’m not thrilled.
I’m not rooting for you, Langer, no matter how much you follow me. Just get over it already.
And that goes for you too, Arnott.
Why won’t Lou just admit that what he really wants to do is save money and name Pando and Andrew Peters co-coaches? What a mess that would be.
What? Come on – that would be AWESOME!
And yeah, what is up with the Blues hiring NJ’s moldy old garbage? Maybe Langer’s new job is “Official Keeper of TJ Oshie’s Alarm Clock.”
First Langer comes to Dallas, then we move to Missouri and he goes to St Louis. I’m not thrilled.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: OMG, Myra, I hadn’t even considered that he’s stalking you! If you often get phone calls where the person on the other end does say anything, we’ll know it’s him, just checking up on you… :P
I have this horrible feeling that there will be no coach and the lunatics will be running the asylum (more than usual) this season.
And if the lunatics are running the asylum, they’ll just be training the new baby Devils that this is how things are done and the cycle will continue in perpetuity. Won’t anyone think of the children?
the devils have just signed cam janssen (again)…why, lou, why?
Wait, WHAT?????? don, tell me that’s a joke. PLEASE TELL ME THAT’S A JOKE.
Cam Janssen?! Are they trying to force me away?
PLEASE TELL ME THAT’S A JOKE.
tom gullitti’s “fire and ice” blog sez that he has been signed so i guess that means the joke is on us
It’s a 2-way contract and they traded Pierre L3 to Calgary (who actually gave a 5th round pick instead of a bag of pucks). I suspect Cam will be in the AHL.
the Land Zhark re-signed. So, we can watch him continue to not score next season.
so i guess that means the joke is on us
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’m laughing because if I don’t, I’ll just cry the rest of the summer away. (Although that’s very reassuring that he might just be an AHL replacement for PL3…)
the Land Zhark re-signed. So, we can watch him continue to not score next season.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: That’s something to look forward to! But wait — what if not having a coach means he’ll fuck that all up and end up scoring a lot? That would be HORRIBLE!
the joke is on us
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: It’s funny because it’s true.
the Land Zhark re-signed. So, we can watch him continue to not score next season.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Woo-hoo! I love seeing Land Zhark not score!