29 February 2008

February 29-Happy Leap Year

So, in honor of Leap Year, here's a link to the Leap Year drink.
In case that link ever goes bad, here's how to make it:
1 1/2 ounces gin, a 1/2 ounce Grand Marnier, a 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth, and a squeeze of lemon. Shake with crushed ice and pour into a chilled cocktail glass.

And, of course, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORY!!! I would've called to wish you a happy birthday, since, you know, it only comes every 4 years. But I don't know your phone number. And Rachel's not answering her phone.
You ARE 6 this year, right?

28 February 2008

February 28-Quad City Flames Scarf

So, I WAS trying to figure out how I was going to make a Detroit Red Wings scarf for Rachel, and I finally got the yarn for it, I'm just waiting on her approval of the pattern. Anyway, while I'm waiting, I decided to make myself a QC Flames scarf. Now, the stitch I was doing curls at the edges, so I tried putting a border on the scarf to keep it from doing that. Well, that's where my inexperience shines through. lol. I had the scarf ALMOST done. All I really had to do was the Quad City Flame logo on the end, and I was done. But, it was curling too much, so I took it all out. Yes, you read correctly. Over a week's worth of work, and it's gone. I did keep the logo at the beginning of the scarf in case I ever want to pick it up again. Anyway, here's some pics of what it looked like.
See how it's all curled on the left side? The right side is only flat because I flattened it for the picture. (See how much I had to take out. ugh. That sucks.)
Here's a closeup of the logo.

So anyway, I'm working on a tube scarf with the Quad City Flames logo on it. Maybe I'll post pics when I get a little more done.

27 February 2008

February 27-Awww

We got plowed in today. You can't tell, but where you pull out of the driveway WAS shoveled this morning.
Of course, there's nothing like a bulldozer helping you shovel.

25 February 2008

February 25-Strawberry pie

So I baked a strawberry pie last week. It was my first pie with a full top instead of the lattice top I usually do. Wasn't it just beautiful?

24 February 2008

February 24-Superstitions

So, Friday night, the Quad City Flames won the game 6 to 2 against the Peoria Rivermen.

Tonight, the Quad City Flames won the game 6 to 1 against the Grand Rapids Griffins. (That's Tommy Galvin's team!! Too bad we won't see them again. :o( And, no, he didn't get a goal tonight.)

So, you're probably imagining me jumping in the air, screaming, cuz they were two AWESOME games, right?

Well, you're absolutely, 100% wrong. You see, I got sick of all these damn superstitions that I had. I mean, what do the socks I'm wearing have to do with the team actually winning a game, right? And that's one of the more normal superstitions I had. So I stopped them all. Occasionally, I find myself doing one, but it's not very often, and I make it a point not to do it after that.

So, Friday night, after I got home from the game ( and the jersey auction afterwards) I was thinking about how great a night it was. I mean, even Carsen Germyn got a hat trick that night. I was wondering what it was that had turned the team around. I was taking off my boots as I was reflecting on the night, and that's when I noticed it.
That's right. I was wearing my 'Lucky Duck' socks. These were my lucky socks a few years back for the Mallards (or maybe even last year...I started getting a new pair every year, and I lost track of which ones are from when. lol).

I ended up deciding to wear the socks (without washing them, of course) to tonight's game. I figured I could prove the superstition wrong. And what do you know, the Quad City Flames kicked ass again.

Great. So now I can't wash these socks, and I've gotta wear them a 3rd time. And the next game isn't for another 2 1/2 weeks.

20 February 2008

February 20-Wow

The Quad City Flames played against the defending league champions tonight. Let's just leave it at that.

18 February 2008

February 18-I Love Having Braided Hair

I made my sister, Shorty, braid my hair again. Somehow I talked her into doing it after the hockey game Saturday night. She didn't go home til like 3:30 a.m. lol Sorry about that. I didn't think it would take so long. Anyway, I really need to start waiting til the summer to get my hair did, cuz my head has been REALLY cold!! But it's always this time of year that I get that itch to get it braided. Seriously. The last time my hair was braided was February 20 last year. Anyway, here's a picture:
I can't believe how much my hair's grown in the past year!

16 February 2008

February 16-Pardytime Rules-Revised

We had to add another rule to Pardytime tonight. (No, it's not the one I mentioned before...) The new rule is in red:

---Every time Adam Pardy gets on the ice - 1 drink
---Every time Adam Pardy touches the puck - 1 drink {He can touch the puck multiple times, and it's still only 1 drink, UNLESS somebody else touches the puck in between the times he touches it. This can get really fun when he's tied up along the boards with someone.}
---Every time Adam Pardy scores a goal - chug the rest of your beer {If it's the third period and they are no longer selling beer, you can chug up to half of your beer. Meaning if you're on the first half of the beer, you chug so you have half of the beer left. If you are on the last half of the beer...sorry you've gotta chug and you don't have any left for the rest of the game.}
---Every time Adam Pardy gets in a fight - chug the rest of your beer {See above note on chugging the rest of your beer}
---Every time Adam Pardy gets in a scrum - 2 drinks {This is a newly added rule. This is for when he's not quite fighting, but there's a lot of pushing around and stuff. We've always taken drinks for it, we've just never had it as an official rule}
---Every time Adam Pardy gets a penalty minute - number of penalty minutes x 2
---Every time the announcer says Adam Pardy's name - 1 drink {So if he gets a penalty...let's say it's just a 2 minute penalty...we take 5 drinks...4 for the penalty minutes x 2, and 1 for the announcer saying his penalty.}
---Every time Adam Pardy gets an assist - 5 drinks
---Every time Adam Pardy checks someone on our glass - 3 drinks {Now this one, Rachel and I always played that if he checks someone OR if someone checks him on our glass, we take the 3 drinks.}
---Every time Adam Pardy gets one of the three stars of the game (at the end of the night) - chug the rest of your beer

Well, it looks like I've gotta go chug 2 beers!!! He got a goal tonight AND he got the number two star for tonight. Oh yeah, and the goal was the Teddy Bear Toss goal. :o) Well, I'm gonna go get my drink on for ya, Adam.

15 February 2008

February 15-THAT's why?

So, it was Shorty, Lexi and me in the car on the way to one of the hockey games last week. It was REALLY cold out, so my sister was wearing her boots, which are some of those HUGE moon boots.
Shorty: Don't let me forget to change my shoes before we go into the game......I'll feel so weird being so short.
Me: THAT's why you'll feel weird?

14 February 2008

February 14-Happy Freakin Valentines Day

I don't particularly like Valentine's Day, but I suppose that's because I've never had a boyfriend for Valentine's Day before. One year, my friend, Brenda, and I were talking about how neither of us had ever gotten anything for Valentine's Day before, except like a flower from our moms. Pathetic, I know. But anyway, we decided to buy each other something, just as friends (obviously) so we could say that we've gotten something. So, we picked out our boxes of chocolate and bought them for each other. Valentine's day came, and we gave each other our chocolate. Except mine was empty. She had eaten all my chocolate!!! So that's all I've ever gotten for Valentine's Day besides something from my mom. An empty chocolate container. Well, at least it came with a keychain.

13 February 2008

February 13-Wild Wednesday

Since it's Wednesday, I'll go ahead and post this one today. We were at the Quad City Flames hockey game last Wednesday (what's new) and they were starting a new thing called Wild Wednesday. At one point, Lexi said in a very condescending voice "They call it Wild Wednesday cuz they both start with 'L'. "

12 February 2008

February 12-How Could I Forget That?

So, somehow I forgot that yesterday, so I'll just have to celebrate today. Yesterday marked 6 months since I quit smoking. Yay!!!

11 February 2008

February 11-Scott

So, I was talking to Lexi at the Quad City Flames game a couple days ago.
Me: "I think Grant Stevenson looks British."
Lexi: "I think he looks like a Scott."
Me: "Like he's from Scotland?"
Lexi: *no reply*

It took me a couple of minutes before I realized she meant that he looked like his name should be Scott. I was so confused.

10 February 2008

February 10-Hockey Game

Hang on a second...

Ok. Got home from the game a little bit ago. I just had to chug a beer for Adam Pardy's fight...cuz I'm a loser who can't afford to buy beer at a hockey game. ...ok, so I guess it's expensive enough that a lot of people can't afford it.

I should really stop trying to type after chugging a beer. I really keep messing up. I should just stop using the backspace to see what it looks like.

Anyway, the Quad City Flames won again tonight in refula...regulation!! That's 2 games in a row that they'e...They've won in regulation!!! And Rahce...Rachel finan...finally came to a game! It was just like the old days. The duck blind chicks are back in effect. lol. I don't thiink ...think I've ever even said that in real life, let alone typed that.

**Ok, so my typing isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but that's because it took so long typing the first parat...paragrapy...parap...paragraph that most of the beer is wore off by now...Or not.**

08 February 2008

February 8-Hockey game

Ok, so not a whole lot that's blogworthy from tonight's game. I mean, there was, but my sister does the blogs about the game (at least she used to....when she actually blogged). So I'm just gonna ask a question. Why on earth, when the opposing team scores, would they play the song Loser by Beck... You know, the part that goes...

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?


P.S. We won tonight. In regulation. :o)

07 February 2008

February 7-I HAD to post this

Ok, You just have to watch like 16 seconds of this...



The chick's name is Foon!!! AHAHHA!!!

P.S. This is part 2 of 7 of the Christmas Special of Doctor Who. It's called Voyage of the Damned.

February 7-The Beatles in Space

So I was reading some news articles online, when I came across this one. Apparently, they're going to beam a song directly into space. At the North Star (Polaris). I think that's pretty cool.

They suggest everybody listen to it at midnight GMT on Monday night. So is that Monday night/Tuesday morning, or is it Sunday night, Monday morning? I'm guessing it's the first, but I'll try to do both just in case. :o) If I can get up. It'll be 6:00 a.m. here in Central Standard Time. I've just gotta download the song now. Btw, the song is 'Across the Universe' by the Beatles.

February 7-Hockey Game

So, the Quad City Flames lost tonight (the 6th). In a shootout. But it was a close game. Oh yeah, and it was 'Wild Wednesday', so there was $2 beer. And I didn't even have the money for that. Not even when Adam Pardy got that goal he's been trying for. But I do have a beer now, so I'm gonna chug it for the goal...right now.

There. I finished it. That's my Pardytime for tonight. :o)

Oh yeah, and that last shot that the Flames took in the shootout...well, haven't they made them retake the shot before when the goalie pushed the net? I swear it happened earlier this season. And I know tonight's wasn't on purpose. I guess I'm just a sore loser, and I always find a reason the Flames shoulda won.

I have a whole lot more I could say about tonight. A whole lot more that I WANT to say about tonight. But the beer calmed me down. I'm not so pissed off any more. :o)

***I added links to some videos from the game. My sister took the vids. There's a link to her blog on my sidebar as Shorty's Blog. I'm also adding a link on the sidebar to her youtube page that has lots of great videos from the Quad City Flames games.

06 February 2008

February 6-Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow

So yesterday they were saying we were gonna get a TERRIBLE snow storm, and we'd be getting like 20 inches of snow. (sorry, but I can't find the link to the article any more) So I was going to blog last night with a picture of how deep the snow was. But the last time I went outside last night, there was maybe an inch. Ok, probably closer to 2 inches cuz there was already some left from the last time it snowed. So of course I'm thinking about how they always say we're gonna get a TON of snow, but we never do. They're wrong again.

I get up this morning, and there's a TON of snow. I measured it:
If you click on the pic, you can kinda see that the snow is up to 8 inches. I took that measurement in the middle of the yard, so there was a bit of snow from before, but still. That's a lot of snow.

04 February 2008

February 4-Only In Iowa

Only in Iowa can you go to bed after just having shoveled 6 inches of snow (no exaggeration) and wake up to rain and thunder.

03 February 2008

February 3-A Little Late

Ok, so I'm an hour and a half late, but I figured out how to get around not having a scanner. duh. I'm an idiot. I took a picture of the drawing. :o)
(click on it to see it better)

02 February 2008

February 2-Happy Groundhog Day

So I have this comic that I was gonna scan and upload here that Rachel drew last year for Groundhog Day. Problem is...I don't have a scanner.