Since Saturday

As I've already told some of you. I went to the Angels game on Sunday when they clinched the division. It was pretty fun. Right after the game we headed over to Dromo 1. An indoor go kart track. It was fun. I finished 9\10 but 8 of the 10 had already raced before. I started 7 seconds after my friend whom I beat by about 2-3 seconds. I had a lot of fun there. After that we headed straight to Red Lobster. I had the endless shrimp starting with Buffalo Shrimp and Fried Shrimp. That was fun as well. We pulled up the carpet this past weekend and have hard wood floors throughout the house now(besides my parent's room). So Monday was my schools picture day and while I was there I got a call from another one of the players on our team saying he cant play this year either *pulls all his hair out*. Now all together this season we've lost our goalie (okay not that bad of a loss), the kid who should have been our leading scorer(missed 3 games and only finished 4 points behind me), and now we have lost another kid who came up big in the playoffs with 2 goals and 1 assist (we only scored 5 goals that game). Anyways, its not the end of the world yet. Yesterday I got my first paper from torrey back. I got a 64.2\100 *trys to pull his hair out again, but realizes he's bald*. Luckily we have a re-write that we can do. So my dad decided to go to hockey giant yesterday. I went with him and decided to add another $20 to the order with a Red Wings Practice jersey. Ive wanted one of these for at least 6 years and now I finally have one. Thanks dad! Now as I said in the P.S. section of my post on Saturday, Im going to start a Fantasy Hockey League. Here is the info on that:

League ID #:69843

This is all under Yahoo Fantasy Hockey

Password for the league, you will need it to be able to enter as it is a private league: ajsblog

If you have time please sign up and rank players for the autodraft. The league will pick randomly for who drafts first and your ranks will decide where you draft. Thanks, and good luck!

-AJ

P.S. If you have any questions please comment on this post.

Finding a need to stay on top of this blog......

Wow, I really need to try and stay on top of this blog. I keep on waiting 2-3 days or more to post. So.... Im working on a hockey card set called 2006\2007 SPx. I only have 21 of the 71 cards left to go. I kinda like the rainy days for some reason. The year when it rained a lot was probably the most fun year of my life. I went to the National with my dad the next summer. I played hockey in the rain out in the street on multiple occasions. My friend and I would put leaves in the gutter and see which one would win. One day we made snow balls from a snow machine. We decided to see if we could make one in my chimney for a soda bet. I won.... Mark came running out 1 minute later, saying what has become his catchphrase "AJ....." I wanna tell my cousins Kelly and Aaron congratulations on having their 2nd daughter this past week. I also wish them all the best. As you can tell from how random Im being, there isn't to much going on here. Besides the fact that we pulled up the carpet today. I also got a hair cut today. It's a lot shorter and I like it better this way. We went to the Angels game on Thursday night. It was a pretty good game. Early in the game they tried to hit Mathis in the head, but they missed. Guerrero came up a little later and they aimed for his head. So Guerrero stared down the pitcher and the umpire warned both benches. So the next pitch comes and Guerrero hit it out to "Tim Salmon's Pond." The next time Guerrero came up they tried to hit him in the head again. He walks out there pointing at the pitcher and both benches cleared. Lackey seemed to be leading the charge. Not to many punches were thrown, but both bullpens emptied and security was on the field next to the stands trying to hold them all back. The Angels won 9-5 so it was a pretty good game. They were playing the Mariners by the way. So that's about it. Im going to fan appreciation day tommorow so that should be fun. Thanks for tuning in!

-AJ

P.S. I want to start a Fantasy hockey league on Yahoo, so let me know by commenting here if you want to join. The League ID and Password will be on here in my next post.

Between then and now

Not too much has really been going on.........Okay, maybe some stuff. Let's take a flashback to last year when I was briefed on what Torrey would be like. Here's what the guy said, "We arent going to read 2 books a week or anything like that and we aren't going to push you off of the bus running." Sounds good for back then, right? So 1 week into the school year here is what I've had to do.

Read and take notes on the book of Genesis
Listen to 6 hours of Hermaneutics lectures
Do Writing lab quizes A, B, and C as well as assignement A
Read Mere Christianity
Write a Precis on Mere Christianity

Now I know it's school, and I know its an honors program, but they could've told us what it was going to be like instead of telling us something it's not and throwing this stuff at us.

Okay, deep breath....... Anyways, I have been able to handle all that stuff and have had perfect scores on everything so far in school.

Yesterday the Math Teacher said that Quiz days are also candy days. IMHO wait until after the class to give the kids candy.

Spanish 2 is more fun then I thought it would be. It's kind of difficult, because she talks in Spanish most of the time, but it's not called English 2 for a reason ;).

So after I got home from school it was time for the dreaded dentist appointment. Let's take another step back and look at my last 3 dentist appointments. In all 2 of the 3 Ive had 2 cavities and in the other I had 1. And the part I hate the most is when they stick that sharp thing into your cavitie. You cringe and they say " Oh Im sorry, did I hurt you?" And you try to answer by saying yehhh. Then before you can finish saying it they poke your cavitie again. Anyways, I thankfully had no cavities this time. I cant tell you how many times Ive been in a chair like that. Between braces, wisdom teeth, and Dentist appointements I wouldnt be surprised if it were more then 50.

So anyways I really needed to vent and thanks for the free therapy.

-AJ

Another couple of days

So on Wednesday we went to Sal's with my Uncle, Cousin, and my Grandma. We stayed there for a couple hours then we decided to head home. We stayed at our house for another hour then they left and I headed off to bed. Thursday was another school day. I was able to work ahead on 2 days worth of math so I had nothing to do today. I probably should be working on Torrey and Spanish 2 though..... Anyways, we headed down to the rink last night and messed around for a couple of hours while watching the Bronze Championship while taking breaks at some points. That was fun and always is. Today I weighed myself expecting the worst after eating out on Wednesday and having more pizza on Thursday. I weighed 213.5 so Im down another pound!!! Only 13.5 more pounds to go to get where I want to be.

-AJ

My first real day of the school year

I updated yesterday talking about Torrey. After that I had Algebra 2. The home work was really easy. I did it all during study hall. Yesterday I also found out that the dream team that we all wanted to put together has lost 1 player. One of our players decided he wants to play at Coast 2 Coast instead. So we are going to get another player to replace him. As far as a goalie goes for next season, we are still unsure. Our goalie from last season isn't playing this year for us. We were going to get the defending goalie title winner but the league owner said no. Maybe without Jake he will let us. My father and I went to the 2nd game of the chapionship series last night and watched Ricardelli vs. Cox. Cox had a full roster (8 skaters and a goalie) while Ricardelli had 4 skaters. I was thinking about bringing my gear but I decided not to. So Ricardelli got a sub who led the league in scoring last year. The kid ended up scoring 3 goals total. With 5 seconds to go his team went in on a 2-1. The pass came right on his tape and he hammered in the game winner. Not only was it the game winner, but it was the Championship winner. So that was my day yesterday.

-AJ

P.S. Im down to 214.5!!!

It's been a while

Sorry it took me so long to update. By taking information from last post you would probably assume that we are 1 game into the championship series. But it didn't happen that way. We lost our playoff game 11-5. Now I feel as if I should lay the blame on my teammates. But if you look at the goals they scored, it wasn't their fault. Was it my fault? Partially. I had one point all game and it was one assist. Then it must have been our goalie, right? Again, partially. But I lay the most blame on their team. They scored the most goals, its as simple as that. Every time we would get momentum we would spit it back out by letting in another goal. I always see way to much balme laid at ourselves in losses like that. But what if we won that game 11-5. We would simply say that it was a hard fought game on our part and 3 of those 5 shouldn't have gone in. In the words of Darren McCarty" Why does one goal bounce of 2 players skates, bank off someone's butt hit both posts then go in?" McCarty finished off by saying"Well that's hockey." Yes it was a loss we shouldn't have had, but we also learned from that game. The bounces might go the other way next season. Anyways, onto my life. We practiced the next day (My dad, mark, and I) and we had plenty of fun. Saturday we headed down to my Aunt's house and I spent most of the day in the pool. Sunday was the girl across the street's going away party so we stayed for that after going to First Service in the morning. I had my first day of Torrey today and Ill have to admit that I liked it. I get about a 1:30 break between classes so that's what I am doing here. I weighed myself today and after being at 219.5 last week I am now down to 216.5 again! I am back on my diet and am determined to get below 210 before practices and below 200 before the season. Thanks for tuning in!

-AJ

STAR Orientation and some other stuff

My dad and I went up to the hockey rink last night, but Ricardelli was practicing so we couldn't play. Today was STAR Orientation. I have a first period class, a third period class, and a sixth period class, so my day is pretty spread out. All of my teacher's seem nice. So that's that. We have THEE playoff game tonight, which is our chance for ultimate revenge. I might talk to their captain before the game and tell him to let me know if anything dirty is going on, and to expect the same from me. Wish us luck and I hope we can pull off a win!!!


-AJ

9\4\07

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away......oh wait that's a Beatle's song. Yesterday I was stressing out over some Torrey home work that I thought would be due tommorow (Thursday) when I found out today after reading the syllabus that it's not due until Tuesday. That was a pleasent surprise. I was in my backyard yesterday and decided to lay out the 30 ft. black tarp and use it as a slip and slide. After almost slipping on the cement I decided just to lie down in it for a while. My dad came home and I begged him to take me to the rink and watch the other gold division playoff game. It turns out that the Green team won so if we win tommorow then we will play Ricardelli in the finals. I sure hope we win, I already have a playoff... well I guess you can't really call it a beard because there's not enough of it, but I have something growing. Maybe I could grow a playoff unibrow. So that's basically every thought that has run through my head recently and everything I did yesterday. Tune in tommorow to see how exciting my last day of summer was.

-AJ

Yet another Recap

Let's see if I can remember it all. Last time I updated was almost 1 week ago after I was pumper from that big game. Other stuff I realized after that was I broke two Idiot records. Most Points in a single season and most assists in a single season. We are going to play that team whom we shall not speak of (Cox). I guess you can say it's poetic justice if we win. Should be an interesting game. Hopefully nothing else starts and we can focus all of our anger towards making them look bad because of many goals. So Brad met up with us at the beach on Thursday 8\30\07. When he got there we went to go play some more Baseball. Nothing to exciting happened. We headed back for lunch. My dad showed up and we had lunch then he went back to work and we went down to the beach. There were some pretty big waves out there again, but the water was freeeeeeezing cold. I was saying upper 40's but now Im thinking lower 50's. It was still pretty darn cold for a 100 degree day. Brad went home then we sat around the campfire and stuff. Then we went to bed and woke up at 7 the next day. we got packed up and out of there before 9:30. That's a record for being out of there for us, usually they aren't even up until 11 or so. When I got home I did some homework, watched some T.V. and checked to see if they updated the scoring yet, they still haven't. Mark came home and we had Mc'Donalds. We had practice on saturday ( It was extremely hot, it was over 100 out there. We went through water like we were fat dogs eating their food. The practice lasted about 1 hour and a half. We came home that day and had some pretty darn good ribs, which my dad made. On Sunday we went to Church and then came home and watched T.V. all day. Around 7 or so we got our chairs out and sat down with Pete and Erhma to talk. Monday (Labor day) I woke up and we went to the rink almost right away. I was stupid and decided not to eat anything before we left. When we got there I downed 3 water bottles right away. I was sitting on the bench thinking I was dehydrated. I felt nauseus and dizzy. Then I got water logged and felt sick again. Shortly after I realized I was in need of some sort of protein. So when we got home I had some pretzel's and did some more Torrey work. I went online to see what was due and one of my assignments said "LATE". So I thought if I did it they might realize the error and correct it. Then the assignment said "OVERDUE" . I was freaking out. That could change my grad by 10 %(You get a 5% Extra Credit bonus if you turn everything in on time and if you don't then you lose 5% off of your final grade). Today when I woke up I went to check it and it said on time. I was more then relieved. Yesterday afternoon we went to Mrs. Knotts for Linner. It was pretty good to say the least.
Well that's pretty much it, Ill try to get to updating daily. When school starts back up I will be updating on the weekends or whenever I get a chance.

-AJ

P.S. Im back down to 217 hopefully I can get to at least 210 before next season, maybe even 200.