World Juniors today!

So taking a break from all the sincere and deep posts I've just published today, the World Junior Championships start today, along with pickup hockey again! I've literally been waiting all week for this, and yes, that means even more than Christmas. As my friend Bobby said, he imagined me saying, "Christmas? Screw that, I want some hockey!", which more or less is the case here. And the best part is, I have enough shirts to cover the teams that I want to win today (go Latvia, Czech Republic, and the US!).

- Latvia vs. Canada. As much as I'm pulling for the perennial underdogs the Latvians, realistically this could be ugly. But hey, that's always why they play the game.
- Czech Republic vs. Sweden. Sweden is one of the favorites to play in the championship game and the Czechs have been tapering off in their recent showings, but I'm gonna support them to do well, for this game and in general for the duration of the tournament.
- US vs. Slovakia. This is huge, as Slovakia beat us and knocked us out of medal contention. This should be a very intriguing matchup; however, the Slovaks don't have Jaroslav Janus this time around, and the US's goalies are highly thought of.

Remember back in the day?

Another pretty deep thought I had was last night when I was attempting to fall asleep. I remembered back when I was like 6-ish when I was at my friend's house and we were playing hide and seek throughout his house. Anyways, it just reminded me how pure we were a long time ago, as well chronicling how much we've grown up. I guess part of me doesn't want to give up that innocence that we all possessed back in the day, especially since I'm going to be going to college very soon.

So there was another part to this thought that I had. When we were in the theater and watching Avatar (great movie by the way, I highly recommend it), there was this preview for Toy Story 3. And in it, it was how this one kid had a blast with his toys when he was young. And I mean that they were the defining part of his life as a kid. However, now that he is going off to college, that meant that he has to give up what was an integral part of his life. In a way, that embodies what I'll have to do. My stuffed animal cat, Eeschwee, has been with me for 17, almost 18 years now, and I don't want to give him up. My fear is that when I'm off to wherever I get accepted to, something bad will happen to him. Should I take him to the dorm or should I leave him behind at home? I don't want to lose him, because he really was there for me my whole life.

The Real Chrystanthemum in Winter

So yesterday was Christmas Day 2009, and I'm just going to be reflecting on my opinions of a rather, in my humble opinion, unspectacular Christmas this year. I saw on Facebook that people were getting Wii's, 360's, PS3's, and even cars. I feel that it kinda defeats the purpose of Christmas. Has America really become obsessed with receiving rather than giving, and at what cost will this have when it's time to enter the real world? Maybe I'm just bitter that other people to the lavish gifts while I got a hockey stick (to replace my old broken one), a bath robe, and a long sleeved American Eagle shirt. These actually are practical cause hey, I can use them for practical purposes. I dunno, I just feel that most people, or at least a good portion of them, forget the initial charm and goodwill behind these gifts. Me? I personally believe that Christ's birthday has been turned into a mass consumer shopping spree. That, and I just like sticking it to the man and not asking for much.

One a semi-related note, I'm planning on asking to go to work at a soup kitchen for my birthday; I feel that I should celebrate by good fortune in life by helping the other less fortunate people out there. Yeah, there probably are stuff that I'm going to want to get, but really, if I actually wanted them badly enough, I'd go buy it myself; it's not like I wouldn't have enough money to do so anyways. Besides, I don't want anybody to go out of their way to make me feel happy for one day when I'm not really that special at all.

Anyways, I'm going to conlude this little thought of mine by saying that I hope everybody else had an awesome Christmas!

My First College Acceptance

I just received the admissions decision from Randolph-Macon College today saying that yes, I got accepted there! And they're going to give me the Dean's Scholarship of $12,500 a year (provided I keep up with my grades), and then the FAFSA $3,000! Life is feeling pretty good cause of this!

It doesn't get randomer than this dream did...

I've got to chronicle this dream I had last night. I don't recall the beginning or how it started, but basically I think it was about trying to drum up spirit, as a worker for a small newspaper company in a small southern town ( I'm pretty sure it was in Louisiana, and in a muggy and swampy area at that). I remember Evan being in it too, oddly enough, and the only memory I had of him was him enlisting me to help paint a rowdy bear (don't ask, it STILL doesn't make sense to me, even in a dream) in LSU colors. Yeah. Don't ask. So after that, everything was a blur until the morning, where I actually am able to string together the images of last night's dream with what I remember happened. Um so what I do remember is I was partnered with a female member of the paper staff where evidently I worked at. And I'm pretty sure we were supposed to do a story on a flying paper epidemic (don't judge...dreams are supposed to be weird...I think...), and by that we were supposed to fake it. So um I pretended to be two residents of a town that was devastated by this alleged "flying paper epidemic". And if I recall, it was pretty successful, according to my female colleague. The first time, I was an older guy more or less who stated the facts, but in the second of the two interviews I was a younger guy who was in tears who was talking about it. So, after these two interviews, the female colleague of mine who was attractive kissed me, because she was so pleased. And then we got the news from the editor that we had to cover something in a big city, which amazingly was pretty reminiscent of London. And yes, the dream went from the backwaters of Louisiana to the big city of London. And then I woke up. Stay tuned for the next bizarre dream of mine, which may or may not be tonight.

I wish October 24 was here

So I got news that there are tryouts for two Major League Roller Hockey teams on the 24th of October, albeit at the minor level at that, and no contact. Still, I'm pretty pumped up to at least get the opportunity to try out for these two teams (Virginia Wings and DC FiliBusters). I mean, it's not every day that I get to try out to be a professional, especially at the tender age of 17. Stay tuned for it, cause hopefully (knock on wood) I make it. Thanks for any and all support, I'm stoked for this!

The Girlfriend =)

So today was the second time that I'd been over to Alexis' house, my very amazing and very beautiful girlfriend, and I just have to say, it was soooooooooo much fun. I went to her house over to Columbus Day holliday, but this time was even better. We played Wii for the first half, which was the first time I'd played one, and we had a lot of shenanigans happen. Namely, me tickling her when it was her turn, her scoring on herself in air hockey, her beating the crap out of me in cow riding (she's an expert at that, from what I've inferred), and us tying in billiards...only for me to lose from my accumulated "fouls". Oh man that was a blast! And for the second part, we were watching Star Wars: A New Hope. While doing so, along with Monday's movie/cuddling shenanigans, we were cuddling up and were intertwined, something I really enjoyed (=]). And thus, I ended up leaning over and kissing her, leading to at least a minute or two of solid kissing time. IN conclusion, it was a VERY fun time today!