& that's the way life goes

Happy last day of February! Usually it’s January that I’m happy to see go but this February has been brutal with the amount of snow and crappy driving conditions. Good riddance. That also means that summer is creeping a little bit closer every day. Woofuckinghoo! I miss my flip flops!

I won’t bore you too much more with my Tampa trip. We went to the game and we were amazed by the sea of red. I felt a little sorry for Tampa because when the Wings scored 6 times the place was crazy. It was even so bad (for Tampa Bay) that there were not 1 but 3 octopi (a Detroit hockey tradition for playoffs) thrown out onto the ice. I mean these Wings fans stuffed an octopus in their pants! (I don’t know if it actually came from their pants…) One of the Tampa Bay crew members got fined for swinging one around. I don’t know if he knew that the gesture is disrespectful to the home team or not. You can only swing Octopi in Detroit, sorry Stevie Y. I read an article that even the upper management was embarrassed by all the red in the seats. The Lightning organization vowed not to raise ticket prices for playoffs this year or next season so Lightning fans will buy tickets to avoid the massive amounts of out of state fans.

Water Taxi to the game – It was GORGEOUS out

Outside my favorite Arena – St Pete Times Forum

Sea of Red at the Game

The rest of the time was spent walking around Tampa and spending quality time with C. Oh and of course, enjoying the pool and the view from our balcony!

I’m participating in Gwen Ball’s Best of 09!

Today’s question:

Best Restaurant Moment

Andrew’s on the Corner in Detroit, watching the Wings in the Stanley Cup Finals.

We did shots from the hockey stick and it’s one of the first times in a long time A Panda came out with us!

LP, A Panda, moi, C

I don’t know where to start!  This weekend was seriously loads of fun!  Probably one of my best birthdays.

Let’s start with my vanity.  I got my hair colored on Saturday.

It’s the first time I’ve had real color put in.  She had to lighten it and then put the dye in.  What a long process! LOL but it was fun because my colorist is really cool.  C came with me too.

Friday:

After work a group of us went downtown to a bar to watch the Red Wings in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.  This was our face after the game.

In all honesty, I didn’t watch much of the game, we were too busy doing this…

And by the time I realized just how bad it was, well, I didn’t care so much.  We finished off the night by going back to our house and playing ping pong.

Saturday:

I got my hair did and then rushed back home to put on my new shirt to go out to dinner.  I don’t usually spend $38 on a shirt but I loved it and rocked it.  Thank you Victoria’s Secret.

We had drinks at the bar with some awesome friends!

Sunday:

Was like any other Sunday.  I ran errands and tried to enjoy the sunshine when the clouds didn’t cover it up.  My dad also made me pancit and brought it over.  Yum!

Realization: The older I get, the less I give a Fuck what anyone else thinks.  It’s very liberating and a bit scary cuz really,  I just don’t care.

Because we can’t stand the coverage on Versus we are watching the Wings game on channel 9.  For all of you not from Detroit this is CBC.  Yes Canadian Broadcasting.

Don Cherry and I don’t always see eye to eye.  But I do enjoy him most of the time.  He redeemed himself tonight on coach’s corner after the first intermission

“I don’t often make picks, but when I do pick, I pick Detroit.”
*Editor’s note: I think that’s the quote*

Could it be? Will Datsyuk play tonight?  Loved this video.  It had both my favorite players! Datsyuk and Ozzie.  W00T!!

On being out the last 6 games with a foot injury:

“This is not fun to watch,” Datsyuk said. “I take in lots of beer.”