1 2 3 Goodbye

This weekend has brought two tragedies to two communities. One the Olympic community losing a 21 year old luger from Georgia. I've watching the video a few times of his crash and the only thing I can think is that he was doing something that he loved. Georgia was lucky to have him representing them and I can't believe that something like that could happen at the winter games. The second loss is a girl from Marquette, she was very involved in the Hospitality program at Northern. She had a certain vibe about her and there is an energy that seems to be missing yet still alive. She was in a few of my classes and was a great person, from what I know. Today's class is very tough with the news just starting to spread and all my prayers go out to her friend's and family. The hospitality industry missed out on a great person in the field but now has an angel to watch over.

December, 1963 (oh, what a night)

Updates from previous post:

Elsa's Wedding was AMAZING! It was beautiful and tons of fun! I think my favorite part is that she had a red wedding dress, I can't wait to see how she alters it to wear again (cut shorter to dance). The day was long and exhausting and yet so short. The part that annoyed a lot of us was that the photographer kept taking pictures of us between the church and reception. We just wanted to pick up some champagne and drive around. The reception was great with a pretty cool DJ and a MARIACHI band!!! To start, the bride and groom were introduced, Mr and Mrs. Scardino (I'm going to miss Gonzalez). Then they went right into the speeches! This was pretty good, except that there wasn't much of a toast. So... me being the way I am when the mariachi came in I decided to follow that. HOW DO YOU FOLLOW A MARIACHI?!?!?! I might be able to answer that! Just make a fool of yourself, I focused on a few main points, how do you follow a mariachi, knowing Elsa, un-officially thanking Target for the un-official sponsor, and maybe another point that I can't remember. Anyways, I rocked it and then had tons of fun dancing the night away. The groom's step-dad told me throughout the night that I was the life of the party. Sad to say, I left around 11:30pm because I was tired and I had to wake up early to drive back to the UP. I said my goodbyes and crashed as soon as I got home... well after I chatted with Doc.

The next day I trekked back to the UP and stopped in Green Bay for lunch with my Grandparents. I think that I'm going to try to spend more time with them while I'm in the Midwest. The plan right now is to move down to New Orleans with Doc over the summer and stay there. I'll probably miss the random dinners with my Grandparents when they're in Milwaukee. Back on topic, the hockey game that night was fun, except that the Puckhead section was minimal, meaning 4-ish. I took over the drum cheers and eventually the fraternity boys showed up. One of the boys wanted the drum I had and I just gave him a look like, "HELL NO." It's interesting playing a drum with the Puckheads, being a percussionist as well. When you hand off a cowbell to any of them they look at it like, "how's it work?" Some of them DO have rhythm and know what they're doing. My favorite part is when you know how to do a cheer and you spice it up.. then you get looks! I feed off of those looks of, "stop ruining the cheer" which I'm not, and you would know that if you knew rhythms. So the team won, I can't remember by what but it was weird being at a game without Doc.

That diet thing I mentioned last time... not happening really. My weekends are really screwy so I skip those days and then I lose momentum. I feel like I'm eating healthier and I'm really trying!

On to new business. I forgot to mention that my car decided to have problems when I was home for the wedding so I had a soccer mom van for a week. This was okay, other than paying for gas. Having the van was cool because then I got to go back home the following week to get my car back. Umm... the week was uneventful. No, wait, my best friend is now single, I was scared for the first week of what she was going to do, like crazy stuff. It was okay, she just drank (almost like her birth week, but not, because I wasn't there).

The weekend was EPIC! The Lacee and I drove down to Milwaukee for a weekend errand. When we got to South Milw there was a city water main break that affected the whole city of SM. This was just great, no drinking, no boiling the water. So, all of the grocery stores stocked up on water, like CRAZY! They fixed the break by noon the next day. That night my parents had ticket to a show Downtown so we went to Rudy's for dinner, 2 margarita pitchers and a meal later we were out the door. Lacee and I started at Bar Louie and had a Dirty CEO (olives stuffed with blue cheese). We got a free martini to test out for the Valentine's specialties, it tasted like a cherry tootsie pop! After that we went to Water Street Brewery and I had a beer, Lacee had two. We chatted with some guys at the bar and then went next door to Rosie's. We got a pitcher of Spotted Cow, delish! My parents called me and said they were at Egan's and something about my Grandparents. At this point Lacee and I are pretty gone. We went to Egan's and my parents were sitting there with my Grandparents. So Lacee met Grandma and Grandpa when she was drunk. ALWAYS FUN! The next day I took Lacee around town, shopping, Kopps, Grandparent's old condo, and all the fun things. That night we volunteered at the theatre in town and saw the community players show for free. The shows were okay. After the show me, Lacee and Becky went out downtown to The Safe House. It was tons of fun! We found a spot at the end of the bar and chatted with one of the bar-backs throughout the night, Agent Smith. Lacee had several free drinks, on account of her being so HOT... and the guys swarming around her. Agent Smith mixed a NA drink for Becky and then made an AMAZING drink! Damn Girl, Slap Me Again! It was such a great drink! I got the recipe and I am going to attempt to get it in the UP.

I think I'm going to end this insanely long update at that.

Upcoming: Vancouver Winter Olympics, Hockey games, Rent, UP 200, Abby Visiting!

Hospitality, Hockey and Happiness

Let's see... where has the time gone? A lot has happened and yet it's only been... two weeks?? I have found the love of my life and only met him in October. I can't believe that everything is happening so fast but yet slow at the same time. My classes this semester are all about hospitality and I'm debating entering the field. I actually have no idea what I want to do. Ms. Lee is crazy and fun something that I need in a professor. There's a lot of internet research in the classes so I try to keep focused without being on Facebook like everyone else. God I HATE when people Facebook during class!!! Do that on your own time when people around you aren't paying thousands of dollars for their education!

Michigan Tech still sucks, hockey has been kinda shitty. We were swept by UNO which is upsetting. The game sounded horrid on the radio, even with Danis and Gerdewagen chatting away. On the plus side I got to chat with Doc during the whole game since he was listening to it through Skype, through me. I can't believe how horrid the team was playing. This was the last meeting of the two teams for a few years. UNO is changing conferences to WCHA, LAME!

Like I mentioned earlier, I have found the love of my life to which I am the happiest I will ever be. But, he's moved down to New Orleans and won't be back in the UP other than to visit. His last weekend was fun, we spent all of our free time together. The hockey games weren't all too bad either. We dominated on Friday against Bowling Green, 6-0. This was great for the confidence of our goalie, Stewart. Saturday was a bit nerve wreaking, we were down 1-3 then came back to tie. The game ended in a shoot-out which was pretty f-ing awesome! First shoot-out at home this season. The rest of the night went well. I met Doc's friend Nicole and she and I chatted throughout the night. I think I did good for her not liking me at all... oh well, the time has passed.

Upcoming events: Elsa's wedding (I'm a bridesmaid.), Alaska games (I'll miss Friday's because of the wedding), updates on me working out/dieting, trip to New Orleans to see Doc (Spring Break)

Out with the Old, In with the New

This past year was a great year. I turned 21 and enjoyed the bar scene, became a Puckhead, and have recently changed myself for the better. I had a lot of fun in 2009 but it wasn't what I wanted and it took a great guy to straight out tell me. I don't know what I would do without him and I'll have to figure that out sooner than later, that's a different story in of itself. So, 2009 was fun, I'm hoping to make 2010 all the better.

To end the year my sister and I took a road trip down to Houston to visit our family. The trek down was interesting. Memphis was dead and the hotel was next to an abandoned factory... we think. Beale street was even really dead, then again it was a Tuesday in Winter. Abby and I had determined that everything is closed on Sunday and Monday especially in winter. On the way to Hot Springs, AR we took a 30 mile detour to check out the Louisiana Purchase baseline. This was pretty sweet with the trees parting right where the baseline runs. Hot Springs was fun too, we checked out bath house row and went into one of them to see how people used to bathe. My favorite part was driving through the park, which is a mountain. With Leon, the Neon, I was going around those turns like none other! The only problem was that the passenger was yelling to slow down and is also scared of heights. We had some fun trying to take a picture of us at the top with the timer on my camera. We stayed the next night in Texarkana, TX/AR. It was an odd town on the border of the two states. So of course the following morning we went downtown for the photo op. Finally in Houston we hung out with our cousins, aunt and uncle, cats and dogs. It was definately an adventure.

Come the New Year, 2010! We went over to the neighbors and my best friend Lacee was my first phone call of her New Year and I called her once it hit midnight by me. This year is going to be great!!! The following day all of us went to the museum and saw A Christmas Carol in IMAX. However, durind this excursion, one of the dogs got into my bag and ate my favorite black patent leather heels. These heels are now out of season and I can't get them anywhere. On a better note: Northern Hockey picked up some wins in Minnesota beating Clarkson and then the Minnesota Gophers. This was also the night that Doc and I decided to start to "date." None of the being in a relationship stuff had hit me at all. After Houston we started heading North to Oklahoma City to visit one of Abby's friends, Garrett. We did so much in one day it is unbelieveable! Garrett's Uncle Scott took us around and showed us the OK City Bombing, the OK Land Rush, Toby Keith's home, several big houses, and the OU campus. It was a very fun day and I really wish we had more pictures or photos of Scott. The whole tour in that one day was what made the trip great. After that was the trek back to South Milwaukee. I drove the majority of the way while Abby slept. We made it home safe and I had so much to do in only a few days!

The wedding fever has only just begun. I tried on my bridesmaid dress and it looks amazing! I'm so much more excited about Elsa's wedding now that I have my dress, and it's paid in full! Elsa also gave me a pair of shoes for the wedding that I get to keep. I'm so pumped. Elsa and I chatted for a while, as we always do, in the cold Wisconsin weather and then headed our separate ways. The Bachelorette party was the following night and it was ablast except when I couldn't find parking due to an event at Uhelin Hall and the Bucks vs Bulls game (damn FIBS!). I finally made it and got my reservation sorted out. I got Elsa up on the piano and she got sung to, in traditional Lucille's manner. I also bought her a Jello injector and one of the bouncers gave it to her. This was very entertaining for everyone. After the piano bar we went to Buckhead's that is a dance club but to me it felt more like a sports bar with the dead animals on the wall. Elsa got drunk at the this bar and the Bachelor party found us. She and Dan were cute but broke all the rules for Last Night Out parties. I was upset about this but I met the guy that I'm walking down the aisle with, Blake. He and I chatted the whole night and decided about 3 or 4 times that we disagreed too much and we couldn't walk together. I think that the wedding will be fun anyways. After bar close Elsa went home with her maid-of-honor, Amber, and Blake walked me to my car. I was going to take him to Dan's place but first we had to find Dan. Turns out Dan thought he was walking North when he was really going South. Once I found out where I was, we found Dan and I got both of them home safe. I got home around 3:30am.

Today, I drove back to the UP. I've been waiting to get back since I found out that Lacee was going to be back. I really wanted to be there hanging out with Doc and loving it. The problem is that Doc is moving to New Orleans in 8 days, well 7 now. I can't get over the fact that he won't be in the UP anymore. He came over while I was unpacking and things felt kind of awkward since we were both waiting for something to happen. We both had the first kiss of the New Year and then he said something I never thought I would hear for a few years, "I love you." This kind of freaked me out and I have some thinking to do. I really do Love him but I'm not sure I can bring myself to say it. I hope that stopping by his work and saying that I'm Doc's girl made him feel a lot better. I think I need to get used to being together with him, I have a week to do it. I hope to make the best of it.

The New Year brings lots of hockey in very little time. Northern plays on Tuesday against MI Tech at Houghton. Then a home series versus Bowling Green. Can not wait for the games this semester!

what a wonderful life

my life has changed so much with in the last month. for starters i had at least one drink every day for 19 days straight. it's time to take a break and focus in on my life. a lot of the things that happened were probably due to the alcohol. i almost hate myself for blaming my actions on alcohol. i should know better than to let it take over my life. since so much has happened i will give the highlights.
my best friend won a karaoke contest and i was there as her number one fan! i was cut from a show in the theatre, this made way for hockey games. i became a member of the loud, hard-core fans of hockey. i met a few of the players. i celebrated thanksgiving with my family. i spread the game of pub golf in marquette. i met some new people.
i'm sure that i'm forgetting some things but that's okay. my life has just gone in a completely different direction that what i expected. i hope that i can get myself back on track. i think that a few days in the UP with minimum plans will help me figure things out. i just need that time to myself to think. maybe i'll make use of my snowshoes and go out to presque with an mp3 player and an open mind. the outdoors and fresh air will probably do me some good.
to end this post i have a poem that i wrote last year:

living in the moment

some people plan their lives out,
every minute something is planned,
free time, work, sleeping.
i've lived this life. . .
it's sickening.
no chance to be free from life and all the schedules.
i will live life by the hour,
no minute, no second
actually, i will live life by the moments as it brings me to them.
New plan: live in the moment
make decisions when you really know.
(because who really knows)

hockey

at matt butchers and not sure what to do, more to some eventually...

what a day this has been...

this semester has been an odd one. i have had a lot of stress and a lot of conflicts going on. i have decided to stop working in the theatre at school. every time that i am in the theatre i get stressed out and angry. the atmosphere is not at all like i would like it to be. no one is really in charge of anything with the whole no director of theatre. this really angers me because my education is not at all what it should be in the theatre. i am so glad that i am done with my theatre degree this december. if lacee and hockey weren't at northern i would leave now! next semester should be fun. lacee and i are taking a swing and salsa dance class together. i also have the lowest number of credits and NOTHING in the theatre. i think that next semester will be really good for me since i am also dropping the theatre scholarship. i don't need to deal with all of this stress during my final semester of college. i can deal with all that shit when i am in the real world.
on an even more negative side of theatre i found out that i can't do half of the stuff i want/need to do next week. why the theatre dept thought it would be a good idea to have a show tech week conflict with thanksgiving i have no clue. this is a whole bunch of bullshit. tech week starts on thursday and lacee is singing on thursday around 9. i don't care if the theatre looks down on me for this because the show will still be there the next day. i will leave the theatre and go cheer on lacee so that she can win $700! then on friday and saturday there are hockey games... which go figure conflict with theatre. does the theatre think that people don't have realy lives??!! my life does not revolve around the theatre... it revolves around sporting events! who the fuck cares about the theatre, definately not this girl. i can not believe that i have to wait till december to really become a puckhead (officially) i fucking hate the theatre.
I QUIT!