Canuck Gurl

Hey, I haven’t written here in so long, over a month now. Hmm... what to talk about. Well, in case you don’t know, last week I turned seventeen and my art teacher called me an old lady for the week. lol. Well tomorrow, I hand in my final three pictures for the last photo competition. On Friday I will find out my scores and find out if I pass the photo club level one, if I do, I will get a medal. Oh how exciting. :P Another thing exciting, still a ways away, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest! I have been waiting for this for years (literally lol) and July 7 sounds so soon now! A new full length trailer was recently released and you can watch it HERE. I suggest you do. ;)  I also added some new pictures from the movie on here too.

OK, you knew it was coming. Do I ever write a blog without talking about hockey? *smiles big* Remember how I said it would be great to see a Canadian team win the cup? Well not if their name is the Oilers! Sorry, cannot cheer for a Division rival. Ottawa is out now, so I have no idea who to cheer for. I will just cheer against the Oilers and laugh at their mistakes. I know, its somewhat immature, but I can’t entirely give up watching hockey just because the Canucks are out. To think about it though, usually whichever team I cheer for loses. Maybe its selfish of me to be a Canucks fan, maybe if I wasn’t they would win the Stanley Cup.

Anyways, enough of that nonsense. Next year I don’t want to see Weinrich or Carney back, they were more of temporary replacements for Vancouver’s key injured defensemen. I wouldn’t really care if Cloutier of Park didn’t come back next year either. I’m excited about seeing the highly rated Luc Bourdon play for us. This reminds me of the NHL draft in Vancouver, June 24. I want to go so badly. Tickets are only $5 each. I know some say its boring and more interesting to watch on TV with all the statistics and info on the players, but its somewhat conveniently in Vancouver and it would be cool experience to look back on, at least for me.

At last another break from school and I have some time to spill out some thoughts. The last two weeks were pretty busy with school assignments and tests. I basically only had time for homework and of course I fit the Canuck games in. Hopefully sometime soon the weather will get better and I can take some pictures. Alright enough whatever talk, now to what you know I really wanted to talk about . . .

So the Canucks playoff hopes were affirmatively shattered Thursday night. It totally sucks, but they weren’t playing like the rest of the teams in the playoff run. It sucks looking at the standings now, currently one point back of Edmonton’s secured playoff thinking if only we won just a few more games we would be in. Anyways, I’m sure I could rattle of a ton of "ifs" but those are irrelevant now. At least we ended the frustrating season with a win. Although ... I had to roll my eyes when the Avs tied the game, that all looked way too familiar. When the "three brothers line" was on the ice looking to tie up the game, I said show us what you’ve been doing all season long, and Carter answered with a game-saving goal with 43 seconds left :D. I’m pretty eager to see Edmonton play Detroit. Nothing would make me happier than seeing them smoked 4-0 by the Wings. I guess I will be rooting for the Sens, it would be great to see a Canadian team take the Cup. It’s hard to be as emotionally involved cheering for the Sens because I haven’t gone through the highs and lows with the team, etc, it will be nothing like cheering for the Canucks, that’s for sure. This is actually the first year as a diehard fan, I’ve experienced the Canucks not making the playoffs, so we’ll see how I survive. Anyways, I was going to write some thoughts about Bertuzzi and the rest of the team signings, but it’s kinda late, so I’ll save that for another time.

Well, there’s not too much to complain about today other than the Canucks gave up a point in overtime which is becoming more and more crucial as we near the playoffs. My dad went to the game tonight along with his friend who generously let me go to the game in December with my dad, so I was quite disappointed they couldn’t witness a Canucks victory. My dad called me at intermission and told me he was shown on the screen TV in GM Place for the national anthem waving his Canucks jersey and jumping. That’s awesome! Too bad, Sportsnet puts on commercials during the anthem so I didn’t get to see him.

I was really glad to see Mattias Ohlund back in the lineup after missing four games since the Olympic break. The Sedin-Carter line played awesome as usual and were accountable for Vancouver’s two goals. The Sedin Twins have combined for nine points in there last three games and Carter has scored in three consecutive games. Incredible! Nashville really came on in the third period, particularly after some time on the powerplay. David Legwand put the game away just six seconds into overtime, leaving Vancouver with the lone point.

Now on a more positive note. I came home from school and was delightfully shocked to see all the players Nonis acquired announced on TSN! I, probably along with many other fans, were definitely not expecting that much from our GM. The part that surprised me more was Nonis addressed pretty much everything (goaltending and defence) with barely giving up anything. I was a little disappointed to see Steve McCarthy go because he was just stepping up his game and everything. . . I kinda feel bad for him. So Nonis added Keith Carney, Sean Brown, and Eric Weinrich to add some experience to our young defense and Mika Noronen as a backup for Alex Auld. I look forward to seeing the new defensemen play and I can’t wait to see Vancouver’s defense with Ed Jovanovski (even though I’m not that fond of him) and Sami Salo back in the lineup.

A Dog's Diary:

7 am - Oh boy! A walk! My favorite!
8 am - Oh boy! Dog food! My favorite!
9 am - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!
Noon - Oh boy! The yard! My favorite!
2 pm - Oh boy! A car ride! My favorite!
3 pm - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!
4 pm - Oh boy! Playing ball! My favorite!
6 pm - Oh boy! Welcome home Mom! My favorite!
7 pm - Oh boy! Welcome home Dad! My favorite!
8 pm - Oh boy! Dog food! My favorite!
9 pm - Oh boy! Tummy rubs on the couch! My favorite!
11 pm - Oh boy! Sleeping in my people's bed! My favorite!

 

 

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A Cat's Diary:

Day 183 of my captivity. My captors continued to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am orced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of ecape, and the mild satisfaction I get from clawing the furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another house plant.

Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded - must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair - must try this on their bed. Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear in their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was. Hmmm, not working according to plan.

There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the food. More important, I overheard that my confinement was due to my powers of inducing "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.

I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches.The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The bird, on the other hand, has got to be an informant and speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room, his safety is assured.

But I can wait; it is only a matter of time.

It has nearly been a month since I have written and it’s killing me! I have no idea why this is working just now, but I’m glad it is. I emailed MSN about the problem and they better fix it! Well, what do I write about? There was exam week, then I got sick, Olympics began, photo competion, then I got report cards and here I am now mourning for A) Canada’s mens hockey team B) Math test tomorrow. It hasn’t all been bad though. I won a first place in the photo competion for my self-portrait photo and I had a good report card with three A’s and a B (French– surprise, surprise). Canada lost to the "Ovs" (aka Russians), but at least Sweden is still in the run for Gold. It seems nearly half the Canucks are Swedish so I can’t help but cheer for the Swedes and of course, Finland for Salo and Ruutu! Honestly, who doesn’t love Ruutu? Haha, everyone who isn’t Finnish or a Canucks fan. . . Anyways, I love watching the Olympics and not just the hockey, basically everything except curling and luge. Curling is too slow and lifeless and for luge, the cameras switching views drives me crazy! Well, maybe I will hit publish before it freezes and have another look over my Math notes. Goodnight all!

 

 Final Score: Canucks 4 - Avalanche 3