I just got corner front row Winterhawk hockey playoff tickets for the kids and myself. I must remember to take my camera so as to get some video of the kids beating on the glass and heckling the opposing (Spokane Chiefs) goalie.
I love when they play this at the start of each game...
I remember going to hockey games after college with a friend who taught me the importance of sitting close enough to the glass to be an avid rabid fan.
I still had too much of the Magnolia Blossom genteel belle about me to fully hoot and holler.. but I did my best. Quite the wimp in the overall scheme of things, but it was quite an insight into the total experience.
When a player throws his popped out tooth to you.. well.. then you know you're a becoming a real fan.
I was probably the only person that ever asked him if he felt forced into that whole basketball thing and was it keeping him from doing what he really wanted to or developing other interests.
Gypsy, you should have tried harder to have John find another interest. There were many times, as a Portland Trailblazer fan, that I could have done without the pick and roll duo of John Stockton and Karl Malone playing for the Jazz.
When I drove into Salt Lake City the summer before last with my kids, they were wondering why they heard daddy groaning when I noticed streets named after that duo. And to top it off, as we passed by the Delta Center, I spotted these statues...
To put into perspective how great of a player Stockton was, the NBA record he holds for most career assists (15,806) is 5000 ahead of the next guy on the list.
And let's not forget the positive impact he had on Gonzaga basketball. A tiny school which broke into March madness not because they had basketball superstars, but because they played as a team, intelligently, like Stockton.
And I think seeing how hard a successful NBA player worked while practicing on their court didn't hurt either.
So my XW brought her mother and neice to the USA for a stay of 3 weeks. The day my X MIL arrived, she gave me a nice shirt, short pants and a very beautiful 24K gold pot/flower emblem encased in glass.
Today I went to my daughters school for a going away party for her student teacher and my X MIL was there. I gave her some pants of mine to hem and fix the zipper on as she is great at making and fixing clothes, plus, XW says she has nothing to do at her house. Also, X MIL wants to take me out and buy me lunch tomorrow. That should be interesting as she speaks only a few words of english and my Thai is not good enough for conversation. I will try to print out some pictures of the kids for her that I have taken since the divorce.
I am (and was) pretty lucky on having a great mother in law. And I realize that she too must miss me. I guess the moral of the story is to get past the divorce and old relationships dont have to end.
XW and I get along great coparenting also. I had a nice talk yesterday on routines each of us do with the kids when we have them. It sounds like she is a bit more strict on their routines and responsibilities. I may follow her lead as there are times I think the kids take advantage of me a bit too much and get a bit lazy because they know that dad will take care of it.
