RAVE: Had a great Christmas seeing my family and nephew. One of the best in a long time. RANT: The water pump on my car went bad, about halfway into a 4 hour trip home. I just had that fucker replaced less than a year ago.
Rant: Three quarters of Rodgers and two quarters of Reggie Wayne. Rant: Beaten by 47 combined points from Roddy Fucking White and Brent Fucking Celek. Seriously. Having your season ended by a guy named "Roddy" has to be one of the five most humiliating things that can happen in fantasy sports. Rant: Five years this league has been going: one third-place finish and three second-place finishes. I feel like the fucking Bills.
Found out my Dad didn't have a heart attack. It was a blood clot in his neck. Still needed to be taken from Green Bay to Milwaukee and will be there for another day or two. He's responding well to blood thinners to get rid of it but is still far from being ok. It would be nice to be at the hospital with the rest of my family but MEPS was nice enough to lose my fingerprints, so I get to spend the next 2 days taking care of 5 minutes of work.
Rant: Fucking hell. The heat isn't working for some reason in my girlfriend's house. Its 59 degrees in here right now.
RANT: I swear to god, if I ever see that Jimmy Football guy (who had the balls to give that puny shit that name), from the Bud Light commercials, I will beat him with my 7-iron. Thank god I have a mute button.
Major RANT: My knee is completely dead. I tried jogging earlier today, since I've been doing that for the past...well, since before Thanksgiving...and something was not right when I tried this morning. I can't even walk right now. Deja-fucking-vu all over again. I mean, I've only been going to physical therapy 2-3 times a week for the past year, but that's all shot to hell now. Bring out the crutches, have fat perverted men drive me to class everyday, bring back my miserable old shit life. And there's snow outside, so I'm not going to get any better. That's my biggest fucking enemy right now. Snow and ice are the main reasons my knee isn't already completely healed. FUCK. Oh, I'm also sick with a sinus infection, double ear infection, and step throat. I didn't even know it was fucking possible to have all three at once. I'm so pissed right now I could: a) cry b) break my fist on the wall c) kill someone d) both b and c Rave: .......
Rant: I fell of the fucking treadmill at the gym this afternoon. Holy fuck was it embarrassing. I was running at a 6.3 speed, with a '3' elevation, and was 17 minutes into my 25 minute run when I went to switch the song on my i-pod. I lost my footing, and fell face-first onto the ground. Chin? Scraped. Both knees? Scraped to shit. Burns on both arms? Abso-fucking-lutely! Full gym to witness this hilarity? Mmmhmmm. And to ice the cake, I knew four people in the gym at the time. All of them ran to my aid when I fell, and in hindsight it could have been worse - yet I'm still embarrassed. At least I swallowed my pride and finished my run. Rave: The girlfriend bought a sex book on the weekend. It's got a different sex position for every day of the year. So far we've tried the first two, and to quote Cleveland Brown: "The gettin is good!" Rave: It's going to be a very short work-week for me. I work tomorrow morning, and then I'm off to cover the World Juniors in Saskatoon. After the game, I'm meeting with a good buddy for numerous drinks while the girlfriend goes to a play with her parents. I go back to work on Thursday morning, and then we're hosting our traditional New Years Eve party. I plan on drinking a shit-ton of bourbon, and hopefully contributing something valuable to the Christmas Drunk Thread.
This song depresses the hell out of me. Also, it always leads to a Cat Stevens binge, which is a rant because it's 5:20 in the morning right now for me.
RANT: Flying back to Vancouver this morning and we got dumped on with snow. Flights are delayed all over the place. Joy. Increased "security" measures are a bullshit annoyance. Actually had a chick get mad at me because I have carryons. Yeah, I'm not going to the US so I can. She didn't know it was for us-bound flights only and got pissy with me because I knew that and she didn't. Just about kicked her in the cunt. Because I'm fucking sick. As in pneumnia coughing up a lung sick. Security dude tried to confiscate my 120ml bottle of cough syrup and I wouldn't let him. It was the smallest I could find, and without it I will not make it home. I thencoughed up some awesomely green phlegm for him to prove my point. He relented, so maybe the terrorists haven't won after all. But if it were me, I'd be sending the chronic care fucktards on the one-way missions as they'd probably get away with more at checkpoints. Just sayin. Can't wait to get home.
RAVE:. UWO female volleyball team just checked in for their flght. They're making the waiting room suck way less. They're all traveling in sweats. Awesome. RANT: security busted me for taking pics of them.
RANT: Had to miss my traditional monday night at the bar to work a shift for someone afraid to drive in the shitty weather we have here in CNY. Rave: Off the clock as of 8am, working on a Unibroue Don De Dieu (9%), there's a Maudite (8%) in the fridge, as well as a 750ml Ommegang Rare Vos (6.5%). If I have to go snowblow, I'm doing it with a buzz.
It would be foolish to call this a "rant." I just found out that my boss's only child, his daughter, was killed in a car accident on Christmas Eve. He's a great guy, and I can't imagine any family having to go through what he's going through. Something similar happened to my family two years ago in November, and you never get over something like this. Having to live through this kind of pain must be unimaginable, and having done it myself it breaks my heart that anyone else should have to go through it. Everybody, please be very, very careful this week. The roads are shitty, it's New Year's, and everyone likes to party. Remember how valuable your life is and how tragic any loss to your friends (TiB members included) and family would be.
Rave: Slowly but surely, I will be getting my husband back from that dirty mistress that is football. He just got eliminated in the playoffs for his fantasy league, so now his obsession with ESPN and EVERY FUCKING FOOTBALL GAME THAT IS ON will slowly diminish. Rave: I'm actually going out on New Year's Eve. I am typically a "fun-hater" in terms of going out on drinking holidays, but I'm looking forward to getting drunk and crazy with my girlfriends this year. Oh, and don't drink and drive.
RANT: Avenged Sevenfold's drummer, The Rev, aka James Owen Sullivan, was found dead last night. He was 28. RIP.
Rave: last hour of my sailing race, we have been hit by winds and swell hard enough to break the stove off the gimble, and been becalmed so hard we were circled by a 2m shark, couldn't get to my iPhone fast enough to get a shot. Will post some photos soonish... Happy new year to all, be safe.
RANT: My grandpa with alzheimer's/dementia has good days and he has bad days. Today was a bad day. RAVE: Inglourius Basterds (or however fucked up way you spell it) on DVD. Bad. Fucking. Ass.
Yeeees indeedy. "Donny! We got a German here who wants to die for his country. Please oblige him!" Awesomeness. RAVE: Spent the past two days with the classic dude movies. Nothing but Scarface, Dirty Harry series and The Godfathers. Hells. Yeah.
Rant: Still not feeling even a tad bit better. Rave: Cough medicine with codeine. Night night fuckers.
Rave: Dexter. I had extremely high expectations for this series, and those expectations have been exeeded. I haven't been this mesmerized with a show since Breaking Bad. I love movies, I love books, but in my opinion you just can't beat a good (great) TV series.