Hockey, School, and other stuff

So my dad and I went to the Red Wings vs. Ducks Game last Monday. It was a dissapointing loss at 6-3. I told my dad that if we sat by the penalty box we would've seen a lot more action. 17 penalties and 0 fights. Holmstrom had 5 alone. For my hockey team I look a lot better this season and so does our team. Our goalie looks great as well as our new aquisition on defense. Everyone else has improved as well. School has been going well. Torrey hasn't let up at all and is still being Torrey. I need to improve on my writing, but that's about all. In Algebra 2 it looks like I will earn an A for the Quarter. In Spanish 2 it looks like I will earn an A as well. As for Torrey it looks like I will earn a B. My diet is still going well. Even after eating out a whole lot more I'm still dropping weight, Today I was at 205.5 only a 1\2 pound over my lowest. So everything has been going pretty well. It is very windy today and Malibu has a nice fire going. Our back yard is almost finished. The grass is getting greener and greener everyday. I have a Precis due for Torrey on Tuesday that is going to be about 1,000 words. I am almost half of the way done and will be completely done by tommorow. We had practice yesterday and we only went for 2 hours :( . I have to tell you that I have a heck of a lot more endurance then last season. If it were last season I would have been wanting the end at 30 minutes into practice. I will be getting my permit in the next week or 2 so that should be nice. I definetely want to get it by December for 2 reasons.

1. To have my license by summer so I can drive myself around

2. So next summer I can go to the rink every single day!

So that's pretty much all I can think of. Sorry for taking so long to update.

-AJ

Updates on School, Hockey, and everything that happened since Friday

Since Friday we have done more work on tearing out the fence in the backyard. We have also planted some new grass back there and are having lots of fun keeping the dogs off of it. For school we had this thing we had to do in preperation for our term papers. We had to come up with a title. And then we had to write 15 note cards where we cited stuff from books. We did the note cards, which stressed me out, before our title was even approved. So Im sitting here with 15 note cards on a subject that Im not sure if Im going to be writing about. Thankfully it was approved and the next step is to come up with a thesis statement. So the update on hockey is that my youth team picked up the 3 time defending #1 goalie and one of the best defenseman in the league. So that's always nice. I've now lost 17 pounds on my diet which brings me down to 208.5. And thats after eating a lot of pizza last night. So I think that's everything. Thanks again for reading and Ill try to keep you as updated as I can.

-AJ

Still cant think of a title.

Well The Wings edged out over the Ducks 3-2. Its just to bad we had to go to a shootout. I wish we could've taken care of it in regulation. Ive been drowned out with schoolwork recently. But the good news is that Im doing well (notice I didn't say good ;) ) . Im pretty positive that Im going to get straight A's this quarter. Or at least I hope so. As far as my youth team goes. We look like we are going to get the #1 goalie from last season to add to our squad. But that might be all we add. We are probably going to end up with 6 guys and 1 goalie. I actually would like that better then adding a new guy. If you take out everyone that's leaving from last season I would've finished 2nd in scoring (I finished 7th last season). Not to bad in my opinion. So I started the fantasy league. Sorry to any of you that didn't join. It should be fun. Thanks for tuning in for another post.

-AJ

(Insert creative title here)

Well let's try to recap since last wednesday. Not to much has been going on. I had school on Thursday. My mom's birthday was thursday. Hockey season starts wednesday (The Detroit Red Wings vs. The Anaheim Ducks) it should be a good game, but Detroit will edge out 6-4. As far as the fantasy league goes, sign up soon as I will hit the auto draft button on Tuesday night at 9:30. You may have seen some of my earlier posts where Ive been talking about my diet and how much Ive lost. Im only going to give you milestones on that one now. Im at 210 with a total of 15 1\2 pounds lost. I've got another 2 papers due for Torrey tommorow. Well I guess you really should call it one considering that one is a re - write. We watched the Ducks\Kings games on Saturday and Sunday. The Kings won game one and the Ducks won game 2. That's basically it. Thanks for reading and tune in for my next post which will hopefully be tommorow.

-AJ

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