I am not giving up goaltending to play right wing again.

Losing 8 – 0 sounds so bad, doesn’t it? Too bad they don’t keep track of all of the saves that I actually make, and from what I heard, apparently I made a few great ones! Even the other team would compliment me when they actually happened. Heh. Too bad we don’t have pictures of those. Both the coach and my teammates keep telling me that I’m doing a great job, and that last night I was just peppered (Coach’s word) with the puck.

The other team had three players who shouldn’t have been playing at our (beginners) level. I’ve learned that since we only play exhibition games, pretty much anyone can play. If they were actual league games, the people on the roster would have to play at their appropriate level. Granted, we have a few women on our team who should probably be playing on the Blue team at least, but they already have a full roster, and the Orange team really needs people.

In fact, there are some team members who play both on the Blue and Orange squads. Our entire team wasn’t there last night, but more than half were Orange players. I think there were seven of us, including me. Then we had three or four Blue players, though one of them is also on the regular Orange roster.

Something Brian pointed out is that because the Tigers have been around for so long, a lot of the other local teams, most of whom are pretty new, don’t have three squads, so the Orange team will probably be facing teams that are just better than we are.

I also heard that “no one” beats the Jets. They practice two or three times a week and have been playing together as a team for a long time. I even heard that the goalie comes down from like, Wisconsin or Indiana to play. During the game I noticed that their defensemen could actually skate backwards and face our wingers when we had breakaways into their zone! Our defense usually ends up chasing after the puck.

Afterwards, a few of us went out for dinner to celebrate one of the player’s daughter’s 13th birthday. It was fun and good for Brian and me to actually socialize, which we haven’t really done since we’ve moved back here. At the restaurant, the White team goalie drew diagrams for me about positioning, which I really need to learn. She said that I improved during the third period. White and Orange are sharing the ice at this Thursday night’s practice and she offered to work with me then.

See the latest game pictures here.

It’s been a just over a month since I last posted my weight chart (click to enlarge), and part of the reason is because I couldn’t get myself to go to the gym for like, a couple weeks, which is where I weigh myself, so for part of the time it looks like my weight hadn’t changed at all.

My lowest so far is 134 lbs., but that was taken on the PCP’s office scale with my clothes on, so to me it doesn’t really count. My lowest and current weight is 134.4, and I haven’t even had a BM today! Haha. Also, I started taking the Pill about three weeks ago, so I’m sure that has something to do with the normal fluctuations.

Speaking of BMs (sorry), yeah, the Metamucil helps. It’s not too bad when you get used to it. I drink one to two bottles of Metamucil water a day.

Anyway, for the first time today I tried the treadmill at the gym instead of the elliptical, which is what Brian and I usually use for cardio. I don’t like treadmills because the few times I’ve been on one, I was convinced that I’d fall flat on my face. I still feel this way, but apparently treadmills have improved over the years, so it wasn’t too bad.

The whole reason we tried this is because of my knees–like, the joints, really–have been bothering me for the past couple of days. Years ago, when I used to jog/run (not often), I’d do it anyway even though it hurt my knees and shins. Surprisingly, the treadmill was easier on my knees than the elliptical, so we’ll probably use those from now on. So now I just have to recalculate my pace for a 20-minute workout because the treadmill measures all of that differently. Right now it seems that I can go at 4.5 mph for at least ten minutes before stepping up my pace.

Back to the knee thing. I’m concerned, obviously, because I don’t want it to affect hockey. On the other hand, I played a pick-up game on Tuesday and went to practice both Thursday and last night. My team only practices once a week, but I was invited to the Blue team practice. (On Thursday night practices, two squads normally share the ice, but the White team had a game that night.) So perhaps I’m doing too much, at least this week.

Well, gotta go. I have a game in just over an hour.

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Ironically, almost a year ago I wrote a post called Bathing Cats about my experience with this. Bottom line: don’t do it.

heh. it’s easier to become a fucking Jedi Master. think all you have to do is click on a link that says “cancel my seller account”? wrong. you have to click a “Contact Us” link to personally tell them. i checked the option for them to send a copy of my request to my e-mail, which you can see here:

Home > Help Topics >Account Information and Billing>Managing Your eBay Member Account>Closing Your eBay Account

Message: Please close my eBay Store. Thank you.

once i clicked the send button while still logged on to eBay, here’s the message i got in return:

My Messages: Contact eBay Customer Support

Green Check Your message has been sent to eBay Customer Support.
You should receive a response within 24-48 hours.
A copy of your message has been sent to your My Messages “Sent” folder and to your registered email account.

you may also have to cancel your PayPal account or bank account or something, which i think Brian already did. that would be a pain in case i actually still would want to buy something there, which i seriously doubt i’ll ever do again.

Jesus fucking Christ. why is this such a pain? wait! i just received a reply from them! here it is:

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i’ve had an eBay account for years now, because i used to buy and sell comic books and Star Wars and Harry Potter LEGO sets. i would still, but money’s tight, plus i wasn’t even online for months and months, remember? (well, if you’re a regular, then you remember.)

anyway, i hadn’t used eBay since like, February at the very least? well recently, we sold our Ohio State-Penn State tickets because there was no way we’d be able to make it to the game (this past September 23, the undefeated Buckeyes won 28 – 6). i realize that there’s a fee for posting the item and whatnot, but now all of a sudden we’re getting these automated billing statements for $14.26?

excuse me? what the fuck am i missing here? the buyer paid the price (he got it as a Buy It Now item) and the shipping and all that, so why are we still having to pay stuff? i got the invoice for this bill just the other day, and the tickets were sold weeks ago!

what the fucking fuck? i’m so tempted to cancel my account since i haven’t used it for months and months, especially if they’re going to charge me mysterious, automated fees. however, i’m not sure if i should really cancel because what if i need to use it? oh, and trying to contact their customer service and look stuff up on their support/help pages? joke. fuckers.