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So, I was all pissed off because I didn’t think I was going to get to watch the hockey game. I ended up watching CSI on Demand instead, but THEN! after CSI, I remembered…hey, the game is on! So I searched through all our channels, just to find that we DO get the Versus channel. Just not the HD version. So I’m watching it on non-HD tv and just so freaking happy that I get to see a game since I tuned in when the Stars started their power play. I LOVE watching them play. I love the way they just shoot the puck around to each other trying to get a shot. lol. And now I get to watch an OT! Hopefully it’s a good outcome, though I guess as far as my rooting for teams go I can’t lose, since I now have to claim the Sharks, but damnit… GO STARS!!!

edited to add: WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3-2, Stars!!!

WOOHOO!!

San Jose just kicked Calgary’s ass in Game 7 of the 1st round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. What does this mean? That San Jose is playing Dallas in Round 2, and I’ll actually get to see my boys play some hockey on tv (since I won’t be lucky enough to score tickets. LOL)!!!!

This also means that the Red Wings are playing the Avs. I wonder how many times we’ll all be grounded during that series. *lol*

EEK! I love hockey!!!!

I am in the process of upgrading Wordpress, so if anything goes screwy, uh… well, that would suck. Hopefully you won’t notice anything on your end.. it’s just on my end.

eta: other than the fact that I’m a moron and deleted the folder with my theme in it (so now I have to find it again. damn!), everything seems to be okay. whew! i thought it was going to be a lot worse. lol

Rock on.

In honor of Teresa’s birthday, work let us have half the day off!

Okay, just kidding. It wasn’t for Teresa’s birthday, but I did get half the day off. Next week is Administrative Professionals’ Week, and I am considered and administrative professional. They decided to have an appreciation luncheon, and then let us all off for the afternoon. I thought that was pretty cool. Between S and I, we “trained” her through the morning, and I went about getting stuff ready for the poor suckers people who had to go back to work and our interoffice mail bags & mail to corporate and some other stuff. Everyone kept saying I’m so efficient and the best receptionist they’ve had since they’ve been there. It’s nice to be appreciated.

Things at work before today have been stressful (not for me, just around the office in general), so it was nice to have a fairly relaxing day.

All of the managers got up and thanked their specific teams and gave them a thank you note with a “token of appreciation” in it. I ended up with a $25 Visa gift card, and I have a feeling it will be going towards yarn a bathing suit for our vacation/this summer or new workout/walking pants. Fun. I also won a plant because my envelope had a green dot on it. They had plant centerpieces, and they were purchased by our manager for the tables, and we all got to keep them. Nice, huh? Let’s see how long it takes me to kill it. lol.

What did I do with my afternoon? I came home and ended up hanging out. Joe was off today, and he said “Hey, let’s go to the movies.” We had a zillion dollars in movie bucks, so we went to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It was pretty hilarious. Now I’m at home, knitting & listening to podcasts. I’m not sure what we’re doing tomorrow, but Sunday my 3 Day team and I are going on our first training walk together. Should be fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TERESA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is Cleaning Day at Chez JoeManda, and I got bathroom duty. Ugh. Gross. I hate our bathroom. I’m about ready to die, but my arms feel like they got a pretty good workout. LOL.

Anyway, we also decided to go get some lunch at our favorite burger joint this afternoon, followed by a trip to Fry’s to get some computery-electronicy-networky things. Then we went to Walmart and got a bookshelf/entertainment center thingy for all of our electronics. lol. I’ll say that we’ve done pretty well for ourself since moving in together. We went from 13″ tvs to an entire entertainment center (though not as fancy as it probably COULD be, but still nothing to sneeze at!). It’s pretty insane. It was a nice day. The first we’ve really left the house together on a weekend in a long time. lol.

We also decided on our vacation. Not to Florida, which is kind of a bummer, but since we’re not doing what I thought we were (using free flights & hotel stays. We’re saving them for when we’re in Dallas around Christmas instead.), I wanted to try to make it a cheap-ish vacation. We’re going to Vegas instead, which should be a blast!! We’re staying at the Monte Carlo. NO, we’re not getting married, though I have told him we should do that just to piss people off. We’ll only be there for a couple of days and then we’re coming back. We MIGHT do a couple-day trip down to Disneyland too, but we’re still debating on that. We’re pretty good about the two-vacations-in-one thing, so it just might happen.

I did call TC while we were out to find out where she wants me to send her birthday present, but I hung up when I realized that if she wanted it sent anywhere but her apartment, that I didn’t have anything to write it down on. haah I got a txt a few min later saying she’d call me back when she got out of her movie. If anyone reads this and then talks to her, please tell her that’s what I need, but I’ll try her again tomorrow if I don’t hear from her before then. It’s already almost 9pm there, so I don’t want to wake Gabby or anything.

Annnnyway.. also, thanks to the few of you who have already donated to my Breast Cancer 3-Day fund-raising efforts. If you haven’t donated already, you have until September.

I have signed up to participate in the Breast Cancer 3-Day, benefiting the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure for the Bay Area. The event runs from September 5-7, but my participation starts today, and I’m asking for your help. I am trying to raise a minimum of $2200. This is my first time doing this, and I hope to make it a rousing success. Everyone knows someone who has/had some form of cancer, or knows someone who knows someone. Some people in my knitting group decided to get together and form a team for this cause, and we are walking. 60 miles over three days. I can’t even believe it, but I’m going to do it!!

Please consider making a donation! You can view my page here, and you can make a donation right there on the webpage, or there is a link to print my donation form so you can mail a check.

Thank you so much for the support!!

Happy Birthday, Joe!!!!!!!!
I love you!!