I in Team

Last night's shinny was just a bundle of disappointment.

First of all, the game that was on before us was a play off game. So after resulting in a tie, it went to over time which resulted in another tie, so it went to a shoot out, which resulted in yet another tie, so it then went into another over time, can you guess what happened? Yes it went into a final shoot out and was finally over! Half way into our ice time might I add.

Secondly, there were 'I in team' idiots playing. Justin came up with that perfect title for them.
They were on the other team, and always seemed to be on at the same time as each other.
They were in a league of their own, showing off their skills, passing and skating around everyone.
I'm sure they were having an awesome time! Wow perfect chance to work on their skills around pylons.
Ive played shinny with people like this before, and that's why I don't play shinny with them anymore. The first shinny last Saturday was a lot of fun, because these people weren't there, but this time around? I wouldn't play again if they were there.
It's not fun being skated around constantly and made a fool. There was no point in even trying to do anything every time they skated down the ice so I just let them go. Hopefully no challenge is more fun for them.

Don't get me wrong, I like challenging myself by playing with people who have a greater skill than I do, that's how you get better, but not when these people are just being ridiculous and taking it so seriously. There is no room for improvement playing with people like that.

Anyways, the moral of the story was, everyone I talked to had a problem with the 'I in team' guys, so hopefully they wont show up at the next shinny, because I'd really like to play again with the other people.

Later days

So....

I suck at blogging, I know.

Every time I say I'm going to try to be better at all this stuff, I always fail miserably.
But I have done better than previous attempts! So cut me some slack!

Tonight is shinny, at 11pm. Nice and early... :
Hah! First blog emoticon!

I believe there will one be 3 girls tonight, including myself. Should be exciting.

I am definitely looking forward to the workout, as I have been cheating all week and spending most of my time as a hermit because of the awful weather. I'm pretty sure my Monday weigh in will result in having gained back the weight I lost, and possible even more. *sigh*

Lots of hockey the next two weeks. Mainly clustered around the weekends. The next two Saturdays I have 3 games each day. Then one or so on either the Friday or Sunday.

I will eventually be adding pictures to my blog, I'm just waiting to see the most practical way to go about doing so.

La la la...

That may be all I have to say right now. I had a taco salad for dinner. Yum.

Later days

Time to stop worrying because...

...I got accepted into Animation!!

Oh man, the letter finally came!
It came in a big envelope so when I saw it I was excited! Then I touched it and noticed it was a lot thinner than my usual acceptance letters were, so I got a little worried.
I heard you can get denied in big envelopes too, so it threw me off.

So there I am, standing in the kitchen, knife in one hand, letter in the other, with my mom staring at me waiting for me to gut it open. I open it up, take a tiny peek inside and see the word 'Congratulations!' and I ran into the hall jumping in the air with a giant smile on my face. My mom is dying to know what it says so I yank out the contents and start reading;
'Dear Ms. Tara Lloyd,
Congratulations!
You have been offered admission into the Animation program.' ...etc...
My mom screamed yay and clapped her hands, because she's cool like that, and I just hugged my letter.

I then ran upstairs to log onto ontariocolleges.com to accept my offer, and then post it all on facebook. Obviously, right?

Then! My mom tells me I also got my GST cheque in the mail!
It was like a double good day.

While I was on Facebook, one of my friends from my old Art Fundamentals class who is now taking Animation messaged me.
We were talking about the program and I was getting even more excited. He did tell me how much work is really involved though, and how I probably will be living at the school and have absolutely no social life. He told me that a lot of people who started with him were gone because they got kicked out for not maintaining a high enough GPA. That kind of freaked me out a bit, but I don't think I could let myself do so poorly in school.

I really want to try hard with this program. I want to be able to see myself improve, and I just want to do good! Especially for the amount of money the tuition is going to be.

I also hope it wont be so demanding that I cant still play hockey once a week, and work 2 days a week so I can afford my car! I cant quit my job no matter what, I wont have any way to pay off my car if I do. I need to figure out a way to make it all work. Hopefully Ill be able to work weekends, because I know during the week I'll be expected to go to extra life drawing after classes.

I think Ive decided the cheapest mode of transportation is bus tokens, vs metro pass and parking. If I get a ride to school every day, I only need tokens for the ride back. Hopefully I'll be able to get a locker this time, so I wont have to lug around a lot of stuff with me, and I wont mind taking the bus.

Anyways, so much to think about and I have 5 months until September rolls around. I really hope I enjoy this program, and I hope it doesn't make me hate drawing like Art Fundamentals did, and the photography course for taking pictures. I just gotta keep thinking about all the things I'll be able to do after it all.

Alright, that's my post for today.
Tonight is my championship game and will determine if we make it to first or second place, each getting a prize! First gets a skate towel and a bath towel, second place gets skate guards....I know..amazing prizes. I'll let you know tomorrow!

Later Days

WooHoo!

Dear Blog,

It's Monday and that means......weigh in!
And guess what...GOOD NEWS!
I am officially down 2.5lbs! What what!

I honestly didn't that Id be able to do it, but so far I'm right on track!
Its really awesome because it makes me want to work harder at this, and really achieve my goals.

I got a lot of sun today which was awesome, although it did make me a bit tired for work.

I neglected to post yesterday, and it seems I'm even too late to have posted for 'today'. Rats.
I'll try to do better!

This post sucks because I'm tired.
At least I did my weigh in, so that's all that really matters.
Hopefully I'll have the drive to post tomorrow before work, so this doesn't happen again.

Gnight Blog.

Quick Update!

Today we had Easter dinner at my house.
I ate ham with pineapple. It was delicious.

I also washed my car today, inside and out. It's shiny.

My legs kill from yesterdays workout. Go me and working out my legs the day before I play hockey. Tonight's shinny should be interesting.

My brother and sister in law promised to come out to a couple of my games in Stouffville this summer, so I'm kind of excited for that.

I still cant find my DVD of Across the Universe that I swear I lent to my brother, but he says he doesn't have.

It's super windy outside right now and I hope I don't get blown over.

That is all.

Later days

La La La

Alright, trying to get an early post in here today.

And with that, I have absolutely nothing to write about.
It's a beautiful day outside today, I can only hope people will be out and about on their day off instead of renting movies and staying in.
I really hope no one comes in tonight, I'm definitely not in the mood.

I also hope I don't get scrutinized by the new manager tonight. I have a feeling I'm going to get yelled at for not asking every single person if they want to pre-order Avatar, or even one single person for that matter. I hate up selling.

Anyways, today consisted of waking up late-ish, having my morning cup of coffee whilst internetting. Hanging out in the back yard for a bit with my dad and the pups, finding out the water fountain isn't working(might still be frozen), and yelling at Baxter for eating bird seed, because he's clearly not a bird. I then went on to fold my laundry that I did yesterday and left conveniently in the dryer. Yay clean hockey clothes and jerseys! (I smell)
Then had some lunch, watched 5 mins of Bad Lieutenant and gave up, and now I'm here.

What fun! Maybe I'll get my bike out, put some air in the tires and go for a ride.
I found a video on YouTube of some workouts for strengthening your legs for hockey, so I may do that for a bit. I really don't want to die in my co-ed division.

Anywho, I cant really think of much more to say. So I'll leave it at that.

Later Days

Eeek!

So I forgot to post today.

Some thoughts from the day.

I'm excited to meet my new team and play some shinny this Saturday.

I am not at all looking forward to working a whole shift with the new manager tomorrow night, although it is time and a half.
I'll let you know if it was worth the extra money.

I bought jello today. I havent been this excited about jello before. Dont ask me why, because I have no idea.

I snacked more than I should have today. Grr...

It's april fools and I wasnt fooled once today! HAH!


Easter weekend coming up!
Dont forget to go egg hunting!

Later Days