THE NEGATIVE REACTION

JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. . 


Another year, another set of big changes in my life.  Hopefully this year will see more stability and less dramatic change, but who knows - right?

In case you missed it, here's a timeline from 2006.

This year ended pretty messy.  The Vikes went down in flames, the T-Wolves are .500 at best, and Michigan lost to USC - I HATE USC and Pete Carroll!!!  On the bright side, Texas won their bowl game so that was good news.

My son left early, early yesterday morning.  Getting up at 5am to take him to the airport was hard.  After staying up well past midnight we all had to peel ourselves off our beds to get up - it was brutal.  And of course we got lit up (finally) with some snow and freezing rain, so the roads were less than perfect.  It was cold, it was dark, and the airport was jammed thick with people heading home.  Afterwards I went home and crashed HARD.  We had friends come over at 1pm for the two bowl games, so I woke up at 10:30am and had to snowblow out the driveway and then get cleaned up before everybody shoed up.  They stayed till almost 8pm (the end of the USC/Michigan game) which is a long long day for me.  

I played some SoCom II for an hour then watched the news and then fell asleep shortly thereafter.  If was a long weekend, and was sad to see my son go home, but I'm pretty sure he got all the presents he wanted for X-Mas.  New shoes, a Texas jersey, and I-Pod (so his freaky Mom can control his life just that much more) and some cool stuff like an I-Pod jukebox that pulses when you put your I-pod in its dock.  

Sunday night (new years eve) was hard for my son.  We couldn't stay late to see the ball in NYC drop because we all had to get up early, and then he got pissy with me so we sat down and spoke about a lot of things.  I felt better after we spoke, I hope he did too.

What else is going on?  Been at my job almost a year and am loving it - big time.  This time last year, I was hating life being in inside sales on the West side of the building.  Life kicks ass here at FindLaw.  

Soccer was been a dud.  I though it would turn out better in terms of indoor teams.  I thought my summer team was going to pick me up (Hurricanes) but after telling me they wanted me to play for them, they trun around and tell me the team is full.  Then, my Sunday night team (Harvey's) totally blew me off and I'm gald I'm done with them because they suck anyways.  They only won as many games as they did because I was averaging about 3 goals a game when I was playing for them.  Instead of being one of the top three teams, they're back down in the gutter.  This will set up an interesting situation when summer starts becuase I joined a new team which just got started up by a guy who's going to do things right.  I've waited so long to find a team and a manager that's going in the right direction.  We're going to start in the Bronze division (same as Harvey's) and see what happens.  I think we'll do well, and I'll look forward to kicking their asses when we play.  Playing with the Hurricanes again will be great as well.  It should be an awesome summer.  My son coming back will be great as well.

The other big news is my parents are buying a new house and actually moving out of Edina to Minnetonka.  It's only a few miles from where they live now, but all the same, it's a big move for them.  Of course my Mom's going to do her bit and completely remodel the house - but it sounds like its going to be pretty nice when they get it done.

More calls to make - I'll try and be a bit more prompt on my writing this year and keeping this thing up to date.  Not too many stories to tell right now.

Photo of the day. . .



Paul Scholes - "He scores goals."

Best news of the weekend.  United up 7 points at the top of the Premiership.  I'm hoping they can hold on and usurp Chelsea this year.  It will give me plenty of bragging rights with one of my co-workers who's an ardent Blues fan.


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