spring

There are many things I don't like about Norfolk. One of the most evident is the winter. The winter in Norfolk is so unsure of itself. There is a sense in which winter in other places is either 50+ or cold, snowing and awesome. A usual winter day in Norfolk is a high of 40, a low of 31 and rain. Vomit. On the flip side, springtime is nice. It comes quicker than other places. While other environments have March weather in the 40s/50s, Norfolk has been mostly sunny with days in the 60s. Beautiful. The weather application on my desktop has Norfolk listed at 81 right now. I washed the car yesterday, played tennis this morning, and I think after I get done cleaning my room and rockin out to Van Halen, a run is in order.

Speaking of my room, my roomates and I are in the homestretch of moving down the street. Pictures are going up, closets are being filled and organization is proceeding. Another thing I love about spring: planting. I started pots of Roma tomatoes, bell peppers, basil and rosemary last Sunday. I get excited about growing my own food. My plan this year is to plant early and then plant again in late May so I can have two harvests.

My hockey team is getting better. We had the lead for most of the game on Thursday before giving it away in the third period to lose 3-2. I scored the first goal of the game which got me more excited than a 5 year old at Christmas. You may be thinking that I did some fancy move and gracefully placed the puck top-shelf. False. I stood my large behind in front of the net and after my teammate shot the puck, I started swinging for a rebound. It came up and bounced off my chest and in. NHL here I come.

Back in the Saddle Again

I've got good news. Hockey season is back. I didn't play hockey last fall because I didn't have the time to play and it is expensive. So after a season off, I started the spring season Thursday night. The games are late at night (10 pm-ish) but so much fun. I have lost alot of core strength since last season and I am sore. I am not a great hockey player and that is evidenced by the fact that 2 minutes in I got called for cross checking. I'm not sure how it was a cross check because I hit the dude with a hip check, but whatever. We lost 5-1 but we didn't have our normal goalie. Apparantly he's nasty good. We have a small team so I'm looking forward to lots of playing time combined with a tortuous workout.

Blacksburg last weekend was awesome, I saw a ton of friends old and new and I even went square dancing. I ate steak both nights. Can't complain with that. Once I find my camera cord, I will show you how awesome mustaches are.

In other news, Big Red is now on the world wide web. Enjoy.
http://www.lmpaintings.com/portfolio.html

Winter Olympics

I thoroughly enjoy the winter olympics. I like them better than the summer ones. I know the gravity of that statement. The summer olympics just don't have enough sports that I enjoy watching. Winter has skiing, hockey, luge, skeleton, bobsled, snowboarding, moguls, and biatholon. I'm not hating the summer olympics because I do like those, but winter is nice.

I know you're dying to know what I thought of the US Hockey team. I was amazed at Ryan Miller. His goaltending is what got the US in the final game. I was excited about our first victory over Canada and was fully confident before the gold medal game. We didn't deserve to win that game but I'm glad Parise made it go to OT. That goal with 25 seconds made me pumped. Crosby's goal in OT didn't make me as happy.

In other news, I'm beginning March with a trip to Blacksburg this weekend and I'm rockin the mustache this week as part of "Mustache March." More on that next post.