I was a bad girl. I had club access seats and forgot my new digital camera. We were relegated to taking pictures on the cell phone (like many others) and the quality of pictures is pretty poor. Hopefully we’ll get another chance at tickets in the same area in the near future and I’ll definitely remember to bring the camera then.

We do have seats in the upper deck in 2 weeks and will be bringing the camera to get arena and play shots. What I won’t be able to get pictures of next time is Roly exiting the dressing room and heading out to the ice!

It was a beautiful game. After a really slow start in the first, it picked up and rocked in the second. The first goal of the night (Raffi Torres) was ugly, but Edmonton is the king when it comes to scoring ugly goals. I’m pretty sure that’s how they made it into the Stanley Cup last year. Hemsky’s goal was beautiful and made up for Torres sneaker.

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At the end of second period the OIL was up 2-0 heading into the final period. Marc-Andre Bergeron had wings on his skates. Pisani and Smyth scored beauts – especially Smyth’s unassisted goal at 13:56 in the third.

Rolly lost his shutout in the final minutes of the game (4:28 remaining) after an earlier goal was disallowed. The previous goal was batted in by a high stick and the decision to disallow was backed up by the instant replay.

End of the night had some great news. The OIL had just won their 1000th game at home and Petr Nedved is coming back to Edmonton. I’m sure I’ll be scrap booking my night sometime soon.

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It’s a lot too big, but it was purchased to allow me to do an impression of an ogre – and stay warm by layering!

Flashbacks from this summer…

I love Dust my Broom. Hell, I blog or tip my hat to this particular location on the ‘net so often that I really should dedicate an entire category to it. It’s a rare day indeed when I don’t traipse over to view the site, and it’s one of the few sites I’ll post comments to on a semi-regular basis (by my standards).

It’s with particular joy that I announce to any of my poor readers – who’ve yet to make the leap over to the broom – that Darcy has been interviewed. I know, by definition anyone could interview another and it wouldn’t be big news. Darce (if I may be so bold as to familiarize his first name) was interviewed by the Mountain View Gazette.

What attracted me to DMB originally was Friday Night Blues and Beer. What kept me coming back on daily basis was the heart behind the writing. Reading posts from Darcy and later Shere Khan and Raskolnikov, you feel like you have a direct line to the thoughts whirling around in both their little grey cells and their souls. There is honesty, laughter, anger, joy and sorrow in the posting. I aspire to write and inspire as well as the DMB team (now including Lisa) does.

Ridiculously, I feel like a proud mom showing off pictures of her kids.

Technorati Tags: Dust my Broom, Darcy Jerrom interview, Mountain View Gazette

After my lengthy rant yesterday, I’ve nothing to write about today aside from the horrific grammatical errors I made in yesterday’s posting that I’m too lazy to clean up. Maybe I’ll leave them there as a testament to inability to string a sentence together when I’m tired and cranky.

It’s pretty obvious that I spend a lot of time reading certain sites and blogs. After all, there are a few, such as dust my broom, harold jarche, daimnation!, and stephen’s web that I link to or babble about frequently. Today, I thought I’d list off a few of my favourite places to visit this week. Sure, you could find these scrolling random blogrolls or surfing, but isn’t it more fun when a crazed loon recommends a place to hang out?

• The Jawa Report
• The Company Bitch – Re-boyfriend. What an awesome term.
• Farts and Ferns – What happens to Shna when she moves from blogger to WordPress
• small dead animals
• Mitchieville
• Canadian blog exchange
• elemenohpee
• The Torch
• angry in the great white north
• Half an Hour – Stephen is even more prolific than first imagined!

The joy of blogs is that you don’t always have to read them or agree with what’s being said. You can change your bookmarks or feed reader as often as you change your socks. In fact, I might have a mood swing and decide that the entire list of places I visit semi-frequently should change tomorrow…