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I did not sleep very well the past couple of nights so I skipped my hockey game tonight. I fell asleep when I hit the couch this evening when we got home.  Stupid time change.

John and Crystal are getting married in November! More news to follow.

I am so excited about tomorrow. We get to see John, Crystal, Romain and Sherry! We don’t get to spend enough time with them.

Yesterday Sarah and I went over to Dawn’s for some more home improvement. We painted her game room and mustard yellow color. It looks really good! I also rearranged some lamps and a table to give her more light in the living room. I think her house looks really nice! She is getting new cabinets on the kitchen soon. Maybe she will have a house-warming party pretty soon. We hope.

Tim and I will be decorating for Christmas and putting up the tree, which I’m really looking forward to. I love all the holiday decor, lights and general festive ambiance that the holidays bring.

This is the time of year I’m most like my mom because all I want to do is decorate and bake cookies! We had a three story house growing up and every single floor was decked out in holiday gear. My mom also spent countless hours baking and making homemade candy. I’m not sure I’ve got her skills in that department, but it sure was fun to watch and provided for some fantastical memories of me sitting alongside mom on my bar stool “helping” her create various treats. The sugar cookies were the most fun for me. I absolutely loved rolling out the dough, finding just the right cookie cutter and then applying icing and sprinkles. We would decorate cookies for hours!  Ahhh the holidays…..  I just might need to get some recipes from mom!

Earlier this afternoon I crawled up in the attic and ran some coax cable to our kitchen. I was going to snake it down the and put in a box. I drilled down into the wall above and hit a bunch of insulation that appeared to be foam. I had no way to get the cable down in the wall so I drilled a hole in the ceiling behind the cabinets. It works for now. After my fun in the itchy attic we went to Target to buy a new television! We picked up a 22″ Vizio 1080p LCD for only $250. It’s awesome. We can also take it outside this summer.

We lost our game tonight 5-3. We started to get some things going in the third, but ran out of time. I thought I played really well. It pays not to get sloppy drunk on Saturday night, haha. My jock strap broke so I’ll have to make sure I get a new one next week before our game. I also need a new hockey bag because mine is about to fall apart. Come on Johnny Macs, OPEN!!! At least we had fun tonight on the ice. The refs were still douche bag and did not call a damn thing. We might as well be playing a drop-in if they don’t do their jobs.

Mark says it’s probably related to post – traumatic stress and that his debriefing when he returned from Iraq was one question – “do you feel ok?”. If you said yes, you got to go home and if you said no you had to stay for a “full day” of counseling. A little lacking to say the least.

My prayers go out to the families of the soliders who were just showing up for work and not fighting off terrorists in Afghanistan.

-Sarah