May 5, 2009
Tue 12:47 AM
Moscow on the Potomac does it again... Caps win tonight! Well, actually, I guess last night, seeing as how I'm posting this after midnight. whatever. It was a good day, I got out of my evening class early and was able to watch the third period, got to see the two final goals by Ovechkin, the god of hockey. First career playoff hat trick for Ovie, I even threw my hat at the TV in celebration. Makes me wonder if people bring spare hats to hockey games in the event of a hat trick, or are people that willing to part with their hats? I certainly am not, throwing my hat at the tv was hardly a sacrifice, I wouldn't throw it on the ice had I been there. And the Brewers won, 16 in a row wins against the pirates. So, both my teams won tonight against pittsburgh teams, alright.
I'm glad that i have positive things in sports to celebrate, seeing as how it's almost a certainty that asshole brett farve (yeah, i know that's not how his name is spelled, but because he's such a prick now i'm gonna spell it like it sounds) is gonna play for the vikings next year. when that happens, he'll become benedict farve. i think its quite a good analogy really, brett farve and benedict arnold, people will say well, think of all the good he did when he played for the packers. yeah, i won't deny that once upon a time he was a good quarterback, a quarterback i worshipped. but it's all about what you've done lately. everybody forgets the fact that benedict arnold was undoubtedly the greatest american revolutionary war general not named george washington (just as you could say brett farve was the greatest green bay packer quarterback not named bart starr). he captured fort ticonderoga and was a battlefield mastermind who won the battle of saratoga, which (aside from being strategically significant) almost singlehandly convinced the french to aid in the struggle, which was pivotal in american success during the war. but nobody remembers all this, they remember him for switching sides and attempting to surrender West Point to the British. thus, his name is synonymous with traitor. and soon, too will be brett farve's name to packer fans when he goes and plays with the vikings. ugh, just typing that name makes me ill. the minnesota vikings, no team is loathed more by packer fans then the vikings. all you farve lovers, defend him now! well, ok, defend him shortly when he signs with that purple team that plays in that crappy dome! i am a packer fan, and as such, hope to see him fail miserably. nah, not fail, get hurt. yeah, i hope he comes to lambeau field and one of our new defensive guys (raji, matthews, either or, i'm not picky) smashes him in the mouth. hits him so hard his agent bus cook and all those sycophants farve surrounds himself with in mississippi feel it. i want a joe theisman type injury, somthing for the reels of history. anything less than that will not satisfy me.
here are a few articles i've read lately, i think they're amusing.
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/11704772/rss
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/brett_favre_just_chucks
gotta love the onion. oh, and here's another two... they're not exactly relevant to the above issue, but fascinating nonetheless (if you're a packer fan that is).
http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_2103_The_definitive_list:_Top_10_NFL_quarterbacks.html
http://coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_402_You_take_Rice,_we
ah yes, coldhardfootballfacts.com, a great website indeed.
enough about football, it's may anyway, can't get myself worked up until at least the end of august. oh right, today after class i went to get milk, my sis has been bugging me for several days cause its my turn to buy the skim. it wasn't high on my list of things to do, i really don't use milk like she does. and i mean use, not drink. she doesn't drink milk, she simply lives off of cereal, and i can't blamer her, its good stuff. so, she was getting pretty upset cause she had very little to eat the past few days.
so, i went to the store to get milk. just milk, or so i thought. while i was waiting in line in the soda case near checkout i saw pepsi throwback. what the heck is this, i thought to myself. i hadn't heard of this new pepsi. so i grabbed a bottle and checked, it said pepsi made with natural sugar. Natural sugar? Wow, that which i had complained about a few weeks ago (the fact that american soda can't contain real sugar for whatever reason) had been resolved. well, half resolved, it was still in a plastic bottle. but, take what you can get. (i think maybe my blog has magic powers, i complain about soda not being made with real sugar and pepsi comes out with pepsi with sugar, i complain about never getting an opening shift at work and the next day i get an opening shift... hmmm, i must ration these powers accordingly, you know, can't get greedy). i just had to try this stuff.
so i buy a bottle and put it in the fridge. after about 15 minutes of watching the caps-penguins game (and 15 glorious minutes i might add) i feel parched, so i reach for my pepsi throwback. the first sip was fine, nothing worth noting. after a few more sips i came to the conclusion that, unlike standard pepsi, this "pepsi throwback" hit you with full flavor at the beginning of the taste and then fizzled out at the end. a few more drinks and i was already unimpressed. it was beginning to taste flat and then it hit me... this tasted like diet pepsi! seriously, like diet pepsi. and i hate diet pepsi. apparently i was barking up the wrong tree on this real sugar thing (i'm still not backing down on the glass bottles though). high-fructose corn syrup, i'm sorry. please accept my mea culpa. (sidenote, i just read that canadian and american sugar prices are, apparently, twice the global levels... thus the reason for using corn-based sweetners, makes sense). my sister, getting fed up with my constant commentary about my feelings on this bottle of pepsi, decided that she had to try it in an attempt to get me to shut up. yep, she agreed, tasted like diet pepsi, and she should know, she loves, as she calls it, d p. wow, pepsi made with real sugar tastes like diet pepsi. my taste buds are disappointed and feel let down. so too does my wallet, on the 99 cents i shelled out for this experiment. and my stomach, a diet pepsi with 260 calories... great. here is the proof
vintage is not in when it comes to soda, but, i did finish it. oh, and another thing noteworthy, today i had to do something i haven't had to do in quite awhile, i had to wear a belt with my jeans! i'm starting to win the battle, all that eating healthy and working out apparently can work. good, i'm glad. my goal is to lose enough weight so that i can buy some nice jeans and not have to wear a belt. buy some nice jeans from the buckle, they're expensive, but they hem them for you, a must if you're as lacking in height as i am. and it's completely worth it to shell out a few more bucks for jeans there than at kohls or target, because they do a great job hemming them, take your jeans to a normal tailor and they just cut off some fabric on the bottom, fold them up and do a basic stitch. you look like a square, its incredibly obvious that you had to hem your jeans. i own two pair from the buckle (they don't exactly fit at the moment, but that's neither here nor there) and they did a fantastic job at hemming them. you can't tell the stitch at the bottom of the legs isn't the original. and, another good thing about the buckle is the fact that their women's jeans are sold by waist size, i mean waist measurement like mens jeans. its so stupid that women's pants are sold by arbitrary numbers, you can be a size 12 at one store and a size 16 at another... and i should know. mens jeans, a 36 is a 36 no matter where you go, cause its a unit of measurement. in fact, i own a few pairs of mens jeans, just because they fit better. mens clothes just fit better, its not fair, why can't women wear clothes designed for comfort?
ok, i should really get to sleep now, i actually have stuff to do tomorrow.
salbrent
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