A Blues Win?

The Blues beat the San Jose Sharks (best record in the NHL) tonight in a shootout. I thought I would say something because they probably won't play this well again for a long time.

A Christmas Story

Tonight begins the most important Christmas tradition of mine...A Christmas Story. For the next 24 hours this movie will be shown on TBS, surely you can watch it at least once.

Top Ten George W. Bush Moments

I really have nothing against George Bush. Many people think he is the worst thing this country has ever seen, I disagree. However, I watch David Letterman from time to time and this is a top ten list from his show.

Fire!

I woke up this morning to the smoke detector going off in the hallway. After checking the entire house for smoke or fire, there was nothing. We cannot find smoke anywhere. However, the smoke detector disagrees with us. It continued to sound as we desperately tried to stop it. It does not run on batteries; so that eliminates the possibility that the batteries are going dead. The only way to stop it for now it to point fans at the ceiling. Strange.

St. Louis Blues

After what seemed to be a promising start, the St. Louis Blues have almost flat-lined. They are so frustrating to watch. I have never seen a team have so much difficulty controlling the puck. In last night's game they couldn't get the puck in their own zone on the Power Play. Four times in a row they had it taken from them before they entered the zone. They're simply terrible. And once they get the puck into the zone they can't hang on to it. The Bruins were in town last night and walked away with a 6-3 win. It's obvious that goaltending is an issue. Our starter, Lagace, gave up 5 goals in two periods. Another frustrating piece of it is their injuries. Three of their top players have been injured for nearly two months. They no longer have a true Center which is why they cannot ever control the puck. We just flat out suck.

Back in 2004 SportsCenter celebrated thier 25 aniversary and asked a trivia question of which professional team was the only team in all of major sports to make the playoffs in every year of SportsCenter's existence (1979-2004 at the time). The answer was the St. Louis Blues. I'm not sure if they have made the playoffs since. It's ugly right now in St. Louis.

Beautiful Disaster

Beautiful Disaster - Jon McLaughlin

Love this song because of the heart behind it. So many people are not happy with who they are. People want to change to be something else because they feel they are not good enough as a person. So many people have self-image problems and would do anything to make themselves feel better. This song speaks about being confident in who you are and not worrying about changing for others. My favorite line in the song is: "She's just the way she is but no one's told her that's okay"

She loves her mama's lemonade
And hates the sound that goodbye's make
She prays one day she'll find someone to need her

She swears that there's no difference
Between the lies and compliments
It's all the same if everybody leaves her

And every magazine tells her she's not good enough
The pictures that she sees make her cry

She would change everything, everything, just ask her
Caught in the in-between a beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home

She's given boys what they want
And tries to act nonchalant
Afraid they'll see that she's lost her direction

She never stays the same for long
Assuming that she'll get it wrong
Perfect only in her imperfection

She's not a drama queen
She doesn't want to feel this way
Only 17 but tired

She would change everything, for happy ever after
Caught in the in-between a beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home

She's just the way she is but no one's told her that's okay

She would change everything, everything, just ask her
Caught in the in-between a beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home

She would change everything, for happy ever after
Caught in the in-bewteen a beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home
She just needs someone to take her home

My gift

Among with some awesome Oregon Ducks shirts this was my Christmas present from Amanda. It is a reference from One Tree Hill and you definitely would have to watch the show to understand. Some are making fun of me for the hoodie but I do not care, I'm rocking it.

Yep...

I tried so hard but it looks like I have failed. My goal was to get through this holiday season without being sick and I didn't even make it to Christmas. I seem to have exactly what Amanda had last week. Funny since I'm the one who took care of her while she was sick. My nose is doing all sorts of cool tricks. My throat hurts because of sinus drainage which is always enjoyable. Oh well, rather be sick now so I'm done with it before heading to Vegas.

Christmas Phase One

Today was our first Christmas gathering. My dad's side of the family came to town. I only see this side of the family at Christmas time every year. Although there is always a little bit of awkwardness, it is great to see them every year. My second cousin has seven-year-old twins and they are so much fun to hang around. Overall it was a good day.

Baseball Money

In the midst of a bad economy MLB teams are dishing out the cash. CC Sabathia just signed a seven year contract with the Yankees for $161 Million dollars. Right after that they signed A.J. Burnett for $84.5 Million over the next five years. The Yankees have just said that they are not done spending money on pitchers this offseason. Must be nice to have that kind of money to throw around.

Bring It!

So Amanda has decided that lately everything has to be a competition. We are competing about Christmas presents. She thinks she has to out spend me, dumb. Now she has taken our competition to the blogs. She thinks she can blog more than me in the month of December. I don't know if she realizes that she has had a blog twice as long as I have and I have more posts on here than she does. This post puts me ahead by one. Most months she only blogs about five times, whereas mine is closer to fifteen. After reading this she will be more determined to keep up, but we all know she can't run with the big dogs (that last line may get me in trouble.)

Red Neck Ice Scraper

Although this video is not from today, the weather is the exact same today as the video shows. This is from two winters ago when two of my friends did not have an ice scraper.

Christmas

Christmas is almost here and that means a big family get together. Our family has lots of fun. I have so many cousins on one side of the family and we always have a blast. Last year Landon and I surprised everyone in elf constumes, laughter spread like a wildfire. I have nine days to come up with something better than last year.

Which team do you play for?

Sports are a real big deal to me. I love to watch, talk, and play sports. It has come to my attention that many people do not even know who I root for; this is because I wear baseball hats of several different teams. So I thought I would run through my favorites.

Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals by default. LA Angels is my team by choice.
Football: Indianapolis Colts. Followed by Dallas Cowboys and NY Giants
Hockey: St. Louis Blues and Crosby and Ovechkin as players
College Basketball: Indiana Hoosiers
College Football: Oregon Ducks
NBA: Indiana Pacers

Cellular Destroyed

I managed to break my cell phone into two separate pieces so now I do not have a phone. I probably will not have another phone for about five or six days. Oh well, it's not the end of the world.

Favorite Movies

For some reason around Christmas time I start watching movies more often. These are my favories...

1. Remember the Titans
2. Armageddon
3. Live Free or Die Hard
4. Cool Runnings
5. Angels in the Outfield

Romantic comedies:
1. How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
2. Made of Honor
3. 27 Dresses
4. The Notebook
5. What Women Want

Blogging Slump

In October I blogged 14 times in 31 days. In baseball terms I hit .452 which is amazing. In November I blogged 6 times in 30 days. My November average comes to .200 which is completely terrible.