Can We Erase This Week-end, too?, Human Error = Free Trips to Disney World, and Sabotaging Your Own Marriage

As I sit here on my couch blogging, I'm watching the bills game, there is 3:04 in the 4th quarter and I refuse to give up on the Bills, but it's not looking so hot. The worst thing about it all, we're playing Miami and we HATE Miami in WNY! Trent just ran his booty off trying to get the touchdown! Nice hustle Tredwards! But it didn't count for some odd reason, stupid refs! There was a flag, but I don't know why and why that didn't count. I have to give Trent credit, he's really given 110%, even if he had some rough plays, but hey, we all have our bad days at least ours are broadcasted across the entire nation. I'm glad I'm not in the public eye because the press would have a field day with my bad days. Personally, I really don't understand how athletes or celebrities do it, but I guess the pros out way the cons!

CRAP! So, Tredwards just had an awesome pass and Royal just fumbled.... Oi! Well, you win some and lose some and you can't get tickets to the rest, I guess. Poo, but there's just a little extra salt in the wound because we aren't playing well against the fish! I guess it's just a bad week-end for Buffalo Sports. Sabres lost last night as well..... in a shootout none the less...*cringes*! But, at least the Sabres are still undefeated in regulation and they did have to put up five shooters to lose, so the effort was there, but hey, you can't win them all. There's 82 regular season hockey games, I love the Sabres, but they are human and aren't gonna win every game, as nice in theory as that is. But they are still a doing really well. I didn't watch last nights game because I was chaperoning my church teens at a retreat, but Harley was texting me the game results. I did watch the game on Thursday against the Wild and I felt absolutely horrible Miller. You can tell him scoring that goal on himself really ate away at him, but again hey he's human, as much as I like to think of him as a brickwall and again to error is to be human. I must say the team rallied around him and they won. You can tell in Miller's interview that he felt bad because he was buying the team a five course meal and trips to Disney world. Personally, he's bailed the team out of a lot of when they weren't playing good defense, so they owe him and were just repaying the favor. The Bills officially lost, 25 -16, poo! Oh, well, we're just gonna call this a bad week-end for Buffalo Sports. Can we erase this one too?

Switching to the E! channel, "Love and Cry in LA" why Hollywood couples split up. Yes, I'm watching this stuff and yes, it's a guilty pleasure. The are talking about Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson and how their relationship fell apart. Well, basically if you add a camera and the entire world into your personal life, it's like sticking a knife right in the middle of the relationship and ripping it to shreads. Have you noticed how every Hollywood couple that does a reality show together usually end up divorced/separated after it? Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson, Dave Novarro & Carmen Electra, Hulk & Linda Hogan, Travis Barker & Shana Moakler, so on and so forth. Why is this? Because personal lives should remains just that.... Personal. I would never want my personal open for the world to see. It's bad enough that the media goes after celebrities who aren't asking for the attention, but why invite them to rip your relationship apart? hmmmm.... where is the intelligence in that? Oh, wait, there is none!

Winston the Game Pigeon, Imitating Lindy, and the Goot

A lot has happened in Buffalo Sports news since the last time I posted in six days and I am very proud and pleased to say that the Buffalo teams are incredibly strong this year. Both of them. At the same time. If I was going to recap everything I didn't write about in the past 144 hours, then this blog would take me about entire day to write, so I am just going talk about a few Bills and Sabres tidbits that I found incredibly interesting.

First the Sabres...

I was watching the video, Rick Jeanneret "Voices", on Sabres TV and I'm really glad they have a feature on RJ, because he has been a great part of Sabres history. I'm probably partial, but I have have to say that he is the greatest Hockey commentator of all time. His sayings are so memorable that I was quoting him when I was six years old.... "La-La-La-Fontaine". To this day, that is why Pat LaFontaine is one of my all time favorite hockey players. Below is the video, so you can watch some of RJ's memorable sayings and it's nice to have some of Lindy's input on it.

So, the Sabres have a new mascot, well, I should rephrase that they don't have a new mascot, wrong word, my bad. They have new traveling companion. The pigeon of the game. It goes to the player that played the best that game. My mom (who was a pre-K teacher for many a years) had something similar to this for her class, except it was a teddy bear. The students in her class would get to take home the bear and they would have to take pictures of where they went with the bear over the week-end, ie. if they went to the library they would take a picture with the bear at the library or Mickey D's, the kids would be shown feeding the bear french fries, so on and so forth. The kids loved taking home the bear, I think his name was hunter? I could be wrong about that one, any who... Maybe the Sabres do that. Like if Drew Stafford has the honor of spending time with the pigeon, he takes it to band practice with him and you have a picture of Drew rocking out on the guitar and the pigeon playing the drums or if Derek Roy gets a day with him, you see a pic of the pigeon and Derek on his boat. Maybe the Sabres are keeping a secret scrapbook of each players time with the pigeon. At the end of the season each player brings in the pages they made for the special scrapbook and then the Sabres put it in a special library and years later new Sabres can look at the pigeon's and the Sabres' alumni special moments together. It's just a thought. Well, now the pigeon is sort of reminding me of the Travelocity Gnome. hmmm.... you know, the pigeon needs a name, the didn't state whether he was donned one by the organization, but since I don't know what it is and I like to give inanimate objects names, I'm going to name the pigeon of the game, Winston, because we are going to be doing a lot of winning this season. Winston. It's catchy I like it.

Winston, the Sabres pigeon of the game.

Jason Pominville has written a new blog and answered a many a Sabres fans questions. I like reading J.J. Pom's blog, it's so polite. A fan even asked him about it.

How do you stay so friendly with people when they are so demanding and ask such strange questions? Sheryl – Jamestown, NY

It’s just the way I interact with people. Sometimes they have funny questions, but if I can answer it I’ll do my best. If I can’t I’ll just say I can’t… like the dancing question. I just don’t think I can! It’s part of the game, the fans like it and as a player I don’t mind it. I think overall it’s actually pretty funny and a good thing to do.

Honesty... a very admirable and attractive trait. You know, Pommer's possesses a lot of great qualities, honesty, politeness, kindness, hardworking, good-looking, and athletic. He's one of those guys you wish they would multiply and pass out to the well-deserving single women of this earth to have as a significant other. But until they figure out how to clone humans, I guess the females of this earth will have to wait and ask the age-old question that all women ask of guys who are great, but in a serious relationship, "Does he have a brother?"

One more thing on the Sabres and Pommer's blog, he said that the best team costume was when Tim Connolly dressed up as Chris Drury in the Little League World Series. Well, that might have been a good one, but my Halloween costume this year is going to trump that one big time. Tomorrow night at 8, when I go to my friends house for a party, I am going as the one and only Lindy Ruff! That's right folks. I'm going as the Ruffinator. I'm going as Lindy during practice, wearing a Sabres ballcap (easier to hide my long hair) and sweats, I'm drawing a Lindy-esque mustache on my face and I don't own a hockey stick, so I may walk around with a clipboard. I'm going to yell things like, "Move your feet, Move your feet, Move your feet... away from the snacks!" and "That's BS!" Ahhhhh... yes... I have been planning this costume for a year and I can't wait to impersonate the greatest hockey of all time.

Second, Bills news.....

They won on Sunday against the Chargers! Kawika Mitchell was on fire! That inception he made was exceptional! I looked for a video of it on youtube, but no such luck in finding it, maybe because of the whole power outage situation. hmmmm.... but if you didn't witness it, take my word for it, he's worth every penny that he's getting paid. Another person earning their paycheck, Mr. Trent Edwards! Watching him play on Sunday, you would have never of guessed that he suffered a concussion. He was on top of his game and then some. I'm glad to see he's back, well, not just glad, over the top ELATED! Yet, Trent is still humble as ever. That amazing catch that Lee Evans made where he held the ball next to his shoulder. Trent gave Lee all the credit saying that it wasn't one of the best throws of his career, but Lee made it look that way. Humble, another quality I have to add to my "Why I am a Trent Edwards' Fan" list. I also read on the Bills' website that Trent might be up to play in the Pro-Bowl, a well-deserved honor indeed. Since his birthday is in one week, he's accomplished a lot before the ripe, young age of 25. Man, he makes me feel like a slacker. grant it I'm a couple years younger (almost), but I have a lot of work to do, if I'm going to accomplish an amazing and detailed resume as Trent Edwards by the time I'm 25. I better get on that.

Thirdly, Steve Guttenberg. Now, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with Buffalo Sports, but I must write about this new little tidbit that I have learned about myself. Now, as I have stated before I love cheesy chick flicks circa 1980 to mid 1990's, examples of this would be my love of the movies, "Groundhog Day", "While You Were Sleeping" and "Father of the Bride part 1 and 2". Well, I was at a flea market two weeks ago and was buying more cheesy, vhs, chick flicks for a buck and I purchased, "Three Men and a Baby" (see where I'm going with this?). Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, and Steve Guttenberg all star in this movie as big man whores who have to take care of the illegitimate of Ted Danson's character. It was pretty good, but I was beat and fell asleep half way through, I'm sure I'll be watching it again some time soon. But before I feel asleep, I hate to admit it, but the Goot was looking pretty good. I mean not Robert Redford good, but sensitive, quirky guy with a baby good. I guess I'm just remember him from Dancing with the Stars last season when he danced with Jonathan and proclaimed his love of dance. But, I developed a mini-crush on him for about 12 hours and so for a 12 hour period, I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I must come clean with my feelings, I had a crush on the Goot.

Kids Who Think They are Capable of Being Adults, A Heartfelt Update, and Reuniting with My Other Half

I need to stop watching shows with topics that aggravate me. I was watching the Tyra show this morning (I really do love this show and I am a Tyra fan) and they were talking about child brides. The first guest on, was a girl who was 15 and wanted to marry her 18 year old boyfriend. (Can we say jailbait?) She met him when she was 12 and he was 15, he was her day camp counselor and they are both currently living in her mom's house, living in her bedroom, sharing the same bed. Of course they are having sex, but the kicker is they are trying to have a baby. She has been trying to get pregnant for a year and since she couldn't get pregnant the natural way, she has bought fertility drugs over the internet. She recently doubled her dosage of fertility drugs because she still wasn't getting pregnant. When asked why she wanted to get married, her response was, "Well, like, I'm responsible for my age, like more responsible than most kids, and like, I take care of my younger sisters when my mom needs me to. I, like, dress them and feed them, and like play with them." Tyra's response, "That's called babysitting. Every girl your age has babysat." The girl's response, "Yeah, that's what I do, so, like, I can take care of my own kid." Tyra asked her who her role model was, the girl's response was Jamie Lynn Spears, because "She is , like, so much more responsible than her sister. Like, she hasn't her kid taken away from her yet, and like she's young, unlike Britney, who like an adult and old. So, I can take care of my kid too." All righty, so I don't even know where to even start critiquing this and I'm not even done summarizing, but let me add a few personal comments to all this. A) Jamie Lynn hasn't had her taken away from her yet. Even she said yet. So, give it a little time and I'm sure the odds are in her favor to have her kid taken away from her. B) Britney has had many personal problems (many is an understatement) which I'm not even going to talk about any of those, but Britney isn't old to be having kids. She had her first child at age 23. I think that's a normal age to have kids. Britney is turning 27 in December... since when is that old? But I digress... They asked the boyfriend why he wanted to get married and his response was, "Well, I really love her and I have a job as a pizza man, and we're already having sex, so why not?" Tyra asked him how much money he made year and he said about $1,000. Then the girlfriend said, "No, you make about $5,000 maybe. Well, you make $8.10 an hour." He replied with, "Oh, that's right". Seriously, you can even do the mathematics on what your annual income is and you are ready to get married and raise a kid. If you are still living in your mom's or significant other's mom house, you are not ready to get married and start a family. If you have to sneak behind your mother's back and order fertility drugs off the internet instead of seeing a health care professional, you are definitely not ready to be married or raise kids. You aren't even a responsible adult. You can't even vote, drink, buy cigs or porno. You can't even drive a car! Marriage isn't all fun and games. It's a lot of work and responsibility. There are a lot of wonderful benefits from marriage that can fulfill your life, but it's not all sunshine and lollipops. When Tyra asked the girl why she wanted to marry her boyfriend she responded, "Well, like, he's perfect, he, like, buys me stuff, when he gets a paycheck, and cleans my room and like I always get what I want." ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How are you suppose to pay for a baby if your hubby's money is all going to buy you stuff. If you want to raise a family, you can no longer be ego-centric. You have to grow up and sacrifice your needs for your children. What Jamie Lynn Spears makes it look so easy? Well, I wonder why, she has the money to pay people to help her. Guess, what if your hubby is only pulling in $5,000 a year (if that) then your butt is probably going to have to get a job and I'm sure at that point you'll be happy if you can buy toilet paper to wipe your ass with. You won't be able to buy whatever you want. I'm glad to say at the end of the show, Tyra talked her out of getting married right now and her boyfriend was getting his own place (I'm sure it's a hole in the wall with his income, but at least it's his own place). She also took a pregnancy test and Praise the Lord she wasn't pregnant. If she was, the only victim in this whole situation would have been the child. What is wrong with kids now-a-days. When I was 15, I still thought boys had cooties. (actually, if you go to such places as frat houses, or places where multiple heterosexual males co-habitat, I still believe cooties exist. There's always something crawling around in those places and the weirdest smells, too) Ok, well, maybe not at 15, but I was more worried about my academics and dancing than boys. And I certainly didn't want to get married or have kids at that age, heck, I'm still not ready for that.

So, I know I've been blogging a lot on how Ryan Miller has been slacking on updating his blog, but I must say when he updates, he updates. There was definitely a lot of thought put into his latest blog. Of course he talked about the success of the Sabres, but not too much, because as he pointed out you can find out how well the Sabres are doing on various places on the internet. He preceded to talk about his cousin Matt who passed away about a year ago from cancer. It was a very heartfelt entry and I'm not going to even begin to summarize because I can not even begin to give it the ounce of justice that it deserves. But, I truly do recommend taking the time to read it. It made me want to go and comfort everyone who experiences this heartache of losing a loved one much too early in life to such a dreadful disease. Ryan stated that The Steadfast Foundation website (www.thesteadfastfoundation.com) will be having a link on their website on how you can help out.

A good time is had by all at The Steadfast Foundation's Catwalk for Charity. Having fun and helping other what in the world could be better. I mean Jason Pominville is having a good time with his yellow canary boa and even though the puppy looks a wee bit sad, it went to a good home with the Thibaults. (editor's note, this isn't my picture it belongs to CSINickStokslvr I pinked out her face because A) I wasn't sure if she wanted her face displayed on my blog and B) Pink is a fierce color, I was thinking of going with canary yellow to match Pommer's boa, but decided it would be a wee too much.)

Speaking of loved ones, I get to see my Chi Chi tomorrow! *overcomed with great joy* Yes, I get to see my other half tomorrow and it may only be for about 20 hours, but I am in great need of a Chi Chi fix. I haven't seen her in 7 months and that is far too long. Grant she lives about 1,000 miles away and since we are both poor fairly recent college grads who majored in dance and do a have career in our chosen field, but our chosen field pays us mere peanuts, so we can not afford to travel and see each other as much as we would like. But, the reason I get to see her is for a very special occasion, our dear friend, Tallie, is having her Bridal Shower and Bachelorette Party all in the same day. The wedding is in another six weeks and I'll get to see Chi Chi again! Yes, I'm going to another wedding event, but I get to see so many of my beloved friends and dancers, I fun time should be had by all. I haven't seen Tallie, Luan, and Chevelle in 7 months either. It feels like eons. After tomorrow night which will turn into Sunday morning, I'm sure I'll have many stories.

What Kind of Man Are You?, 400 Notches on the Ruffinator's Belt, and Quote/Unquote Friends

I hate to admit I was watching this today, but I was. I was watching 'Maury' why I was trying to take a nap on the couch before work. I wasn't feeling the best and was trying to find something that put me to sleep. Mission accomplished. When I woke up 'Judge Judy' was on. I'm not going to even begin to talk about how infuriated I was on the topic Maury was talking about, 'Guys who treat their wives or significant others like slaves, and abuse them physically and verbally'! *face turning red with anger* Guys who beat their wives, girlfriends or any woman for that matter should be castrated. It doesn't make you a man, it makes you very insecure that you have to take your anger out on another human being who is physically weaker than you (not mentally or emotionally or personally weaker though). Women are also not your slaves. Just because we don't have a penis doesn't mean we are less of a person than you. We're equal. *getting even redder in the face, to the point where smoke may come out of ears* I have to stop talking about this topic, I will just infuriate myself if I keep going. In any event, one of the guys on Maury's show who was the abuser looked like the guy on Judge Judy's show that was complaining his ex-girlfriend did something or other, didn't really care all that much what they were arguing about. Made me think.... hmmmmm... coincidence? I think not. Maybe all the people on these shows are actors... just a hunch. I mean some stuff is so absurd could it really be true? hmmmmmm... just some food for thought....

Have I ever mentioned how awesome I think Lindy Ruff is? Yes? No? Well, he is and he now has 400 notches on his belt of wins as coach to prove it! The Sabres got Ruff his 400th win after ruining the Rangers undefeated streak (but keeping theirs, Buffalo isn't looking so bad is it now, Drury, oh but apparently we don't need you, look at our team and look at yours. I know it's nt right to gloat, but every once in awhile it's nice to indulge) by beating them 3-1! Yeah Sabres! and Conrgats Lindy, but I figure you'll have another 400 within 5-6years with the Sabres dream team we  have going on right now, I really don't predict many loses. And yes I did the math. There are only 410 games played in 5 years, so I really plan on the Sabres losing 10 games in 5 years. That averages to two year. I mean come on they are a Hockey Dream Team, but they are still human, they are allowed to lose every once in a great while. I won't hold it against them.

I found this article on msn.com, about surprising signs you'll live longer than you think. It was very interesting and I recommend reading it. I'm not going to point out all the signs, but I'd like to comment on one of them. If you like your friends, apparently you will live longer. Well, I like to say this is good for me, because not only do I like my friends, I love them! So, maybe that doubles my shot of living a longer, healthier life. Here's the thing if you didn't like your friends, wouldn't they not be considered a friend? Unless you are one of those people who is friends with someone who really annoys the poo of you. You really don't consider them a friend, but you let them think you are their friend. I had a "friend" like that in college named Darla. Me and Chi Chi started talking to her, because no one would give her the time of day and we felt bad, so we decided to have dinner at the cafeteria one time. Well, we soon realized why no one was giving her the time of day. She started almost stalking us and annoying us 24/7. We would have one obligatory meal with her a week and then avoid her like the plague the rest of it. It may sound mean, but our psyches couldn't take anymore time with her than that. Maybe you are suppose to rid your life of those annoying people that are quote/unquote your friend. Apparently it will increase your life span, now if only I had the heart to tell those people to leave me alone.

Finishing What I Started, Lindy Ruff Never Fails, and I Didn't Think Mr.Edwards Had It In Him

All right, so I'm not gonna lie, I need to vent about my morning first before I write about important things like the movie "While You Were Sleeping", Buffalo Sports, or Hugh Hefner's love life.  But first things first, I'm not sure if I mentioned it in another blog yet, but I'm way to lazy to check past blogs, but I got a puppy on Friday. She's absolutely adorable! She's a min pin and her name is Lib. She's only six weeks old and a really sweet dog. My Sunday School class loved her! ...

.... sooooooo.... I've gotten into this bad habit of starting blogs, but not finishing them. I wrote the above paragraph yesterday, but then had to teach my kids dance. So, I didn't finish and I'm really not wanting to vent about my day yesterday. I did at the time, but not now. Since it's my blog, I'm just gonna leave it at it started out a craptacular day, but ended being a-okay. I will take about the "more important things" that I promised to talk about in the above paragraph. First off, the movie "While You Were Sleeping". I was watching this the other night, curled up in my bed with Lib, and talking to Chi Chi on the phone. I've come to the conclusion that I now have a new mini-crush on Bill Pullman, yes the dad from 'Casper'. I want to be Sandra Bullock in that movie, well not the whole working as a token taker in a Chicago Subway or being orphaned or pretending to be the fiance of a guy in a coma, but getting to fall in love with a guy like Bill Pullman's character, Jack and having his family be as fabulous too. Let's face it, sometimes the guy is great, the mother-in-law or rest of the family, not so much. So, for the next few nights, Robert Redford, Rob Lowe, and Adam Pascal are going to have to take a back seat in my dreams as I dream of Bill Pullman.

When I dream about Bill Pullman this is what I see.

Not this! I don't dream about this... *shivers*

Next important topic I promised to talk about, Buffalo Sports. First, the Sabres. I'm upset that I had to work during Monday's because apparently after checking out the recaps online, it was pretty fierce! From what I can conclude, the Sabres were kicking ass and taking names. 7-1! That's incredible! Harley texted me to tell me that one of the Islanders towards the end of the game took a white towel and put it on the end of his stick as almost to say, "We Surrender!" incredibly awesome. I think I'm going to try to track it down on youtube because I need a good laugh. And what about those penalty minutes! Did I read right? There was over a 150 minutes between both teams during that game? Incredible.... Kaleta and Rivet having to be ejected from the game just shows the intensity of it. This is why I love hockey. You can do this in other sports, start wailing on someone's booty because they ticked you off. You can just feel the testosterone raging when they drop the gloves, it's just fabulous and pure entertainment.

I was checking out other Sabres Fans Blogs today and I found this article about Lindy Ruff on 'Is This My Life Really?' blog. Only the Ruffinator. Anyone else attempted to do that, they would have failed miserably. You could have put the video on that fail blog, but Ruff beats all those odds. He succeeded and with flying colors at that! My favorite part is that he acted like it was no big deal. That's why the awesomeness of the Ruffinator can't be matched by anyone. I repeat anyone!

Now onto to Bills news. Trent Edwards is playing Sunday! Praise the Lord and then some! *Big Sigh of Relief* I'm so glad A) That he is okay and B) That we need him at the helm, calling the plays, because we all witness the tragedy that happened when he wasn't! I throughly enjoyed Trent's press conference from today on buffalobills.com. He was giving the media smart (as in smarta**) answers, but he did them very professionally and downplayed them that you had to be paying close attention to catch them. Personally, I'm not going to lie, as you all know from my past blogs, I'm an Edwards fan, but I really didn't think Trent had a smarta** side in him. It's great to see. I personally love it considering people actually use the term smarta** to describe me, my eighth grade principal actually told me that I'm a weisenheimer (he would have used smarta**, but I went to a Christian School) and I could get away with it because I was smart enough to know when to stop and when I did stop, I just batted my blue eyes and acted like the most innocent girl to ever grace God's green earth. I love being a girl, if I was a guy I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten away with nearly as much. I haven't done anything terrible, but I would have been in the principal's office more as a child if I was a guy with my smarta** remarks, but since I'm a cute girl, they let it slide... but, back to Mr.Edwards. I must say it was a well-played verbal judo battled between the media and Edwards today and Edwards one. I especially liked when Trent made the media elaborate more on "Who feels that way" and "General, who's general?", you can tell as he's saying it that he's got their number and knows he's being smart. I don't think the media enjoyed this as much as I did, but I do have to admit, Well-played, Mr. Edwards, well-played.

Onto the last topic I promised to talk about, Hugh Hefner's love life.  Ah, yes, who doesn't love to talk about an 82 year old man's love life. Apparently he has broken up with his girlfriend Holly Madison (from the Girl's Next Door fame) and is dating two 19 year old girls. I think they maybe twins, but not sure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Holly and Hugh were going to get married? Wasn't that the rumor last year? And what happen to Bridget and Kendra? Has he broken up with them, too? Or do they get to stay and Holly has gotten the boot? Personally, I don't even know why I care, but it's like a train wreck, it's just so disastrous you can't look away.