A 5:00 am wake up call the day after Thanksgiving, usually means one thing: Black Friday mayhem, I mean shopping. In our family, however, it means an early hockey game at rink 50 minutes away. I always love getting up and getting to my destination before the sun rises. It saves me the trouble of putting on my sunglasses. But seriously, who the freak schedules bantams, I mean U14, for early morning games? Pretty sure we paid our dues here, but I digress.
For those of you out shopping in the mayhem, save us some coffee because this mama is gonna need an extra cup! We’ll be enjoying our Black Friday mayhem at the rink. Shoppers may the odds be in your favor!
Unlike many Americans, we spent our Black Friday morning at the hockey rink at not the mall. Quite frankly, I can’t stand the malls down here in season let alone on Black Friday. Unquestionably, the normal rudeness and ineptitude ramps up a couple of notches when season kicks in. If there is anywhere someone would get shot over a cheap TV, it would be here. Needless to say, I’ll be avoiding Best Buy and the mall for the next month.
I think that’s probably why Cyber Monday is more my thing. No crazy people or horrible drivers to contend with as I surf the web, what could be better? Nonetheless, the younger two and I did venture out to Dick’s and PetSmart. Neither store was incredibly packed and both were well staff to handle all the shoppers. My boys left the stores empty handed much to their chagrin. To stores was all I could handle, however, so it’s back to shopping online.
We started out morning at the rink. If you ask me, a 9:45 am game is way too early for bantams. I thought the scheduling Gods would be smiling on us by bantam and we’d get later games. Honestly, I prefer the later games as I am not a morning person. This morning, Goalielocks was excited and relieved to have been dropped off at the right rink at the right time.
Their first game was against the Florida Bulldogs, who Goalielocks played for 2 seasons ago. Our squad went up handily in the first period notching 3 goals and only allowing one sort of shot on their net. The rest of the game was much more even although we continued to out shoot them 2-1. Moreover, our goalie came up with some clutch saves down the stretch. As the final buzzer rang, the boys rushed the Goalie to celebrate their 4-1 victory. We’ll be heading back to the rink shortly for their second game of the day against the Everblades, which should be a much tighter contest.
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After eating my weight in Thanksgiving goodies yesterday, I was committed to getting in a run. Consequently, the Piggie and I headed out for a 3.25 mile run around the neighborhood. As with my last run, it was a bit laborious and a tough go of it. Certainly, today’s run wasn’t fast! Hopefully, these runs will start to get a little bit easier and a little faster.
Today’s song is “Walk on Water” by Thirty Seconds to Mars. I love this song! Who remembers Jared Leto from MY So Called Life? Leto still acts, but has also found success with his band Thirty Second to Mars.
