Do The Penguin Slide!

Good morning everyone. Hope you all enjoyed your week, and that if you're a Packers fan, you're feeling better today :) We'll get back to that later. It was a busy week, but we had a lot of fun. Earlier in the week, I took Mia sledding. I made the attempt at this golf course real close to our house. The fresh powder was too deep and we couldn't get good tracks to get her down the hill. So, before we gave up on the day, we tried a different hill. Mia LOVED this park's sledding hill! It was big enough to get some really nice speeds down, and she only fell out once but didn't care. Wednesday (later) I took her to this man-made ice rink in New Berlin to do some skating. It was getting dark, so it was a tad cold for skating, but she did skate a little while and ended up being the only person there. She's getting more confident on skates and is starting to really impress me. Friday she had school and got to finish her snow flake she's been talking about. She told me her favorite part at school was when her friend gave her a hug goodbye when I picked her up. Awww..:)

Saturday, I got up and watched the Chelsea vs Swansea game. Wow. Opening 50 seconds and Oscar got a goal. Perfect way to start. He would finish the game with two goals, Diego Costa secured two as well as Andres Schurrle. We finished 5-0 and took the 3 points easily. What made it even better, was that Sunday morning, Man City fell to Arsenal 2-0 giving us a 5 point lead. After the game Saturday, we went sledding again, and Jill came along. They had a lot of fun. Mia discovered sledding on your belly on the sled was a LOT of fun. The temps were upper 30s so it was real nice. A little TOO warm to skate, but we tried anyway.

We should have left it at that, but we tried skating (Me and Mia did at least) The ice was horrific. If I would have remembered, we could have gotten in for free at Eble Ice Arena near our house. They had free skating Saturday. UGHHHH!!!! Saturday night, we all were working on different projects. The girls were working on custom jewelry and I was hand-painting a Tegan and Sara shirt for Mia. I'm going to have to go over the yellow in "Sara" again. I should have done all of the lettering in White. The hot-pint blank shirt was too heavy of a color to paint on. The colors I used were bright neon ones, but they look quite muted on the shirt. Oh well. Mia loves it still.

Sunday I worked. I am so glad I'm not a Packers fan,  because if I was, and had any chance of watching it post-work, every single customer came in talking about it. From the moment they were winning, to the gut-wrenching loss. The moment I found out they lost, was when this guy came in with tears running down his face, in disbelief. HOW does a team blow a 16-point lead? Did they get cocky? Overly excited for what they thought was a sure-thing? Whatever the case is, everyone is going to be hurting today, except everyone in my house. :) That's one of the many things Jill and I came together on on our "date" the first time we hung out together. She didn't like the Packers or American Football, and I clearly don't either. She even made cupcakes and delivered them to my store before the game was over "to soak up the tears and to celebrate LAST DAY OF PACKERS PLAYING" as she was broadcasting.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading!

If All My Days Go By

Good evening folks. Looks like I'm going to have a nephew come 2013. My little brother and his wife found out today they're having a healthy baby boy. Stoked for the kids. They've wanted a baby for quite some time so this little monster is a big blessing for them. Tonight, they should Jill, myself and Mia all the cool clothes they've got for the little dude. Awesome.

So I'm in the process of working on a very cool project. The Major Soccer League includes a lot of major cities all over the country and one state they missed, was Wisconsin. Sure, soccer isn't really viewed as a 'seriously viewed sport' compared to the likes of American football or baseball, but as a fan of soccer, I'd like to create a hypothetical MLS soccer team logo for Milwaukee, WI which would include a home and away kit as well. I've got colours figured out, I just need the damn team name. Any ideas would be appreciated. :) I even found a vector template to play with in Adobe Illustrator and later Photoshop for the finished piece. I promise this will be absolutely amazing.

I also have some rad onesie ideas for my little bro's kiddo but will have time to figure that out. I know what I'm doing for it, I just need to actually DO it.

If I can play in an adult soccer league come Spring of 2013, that would be incredibly amazing. I have this amazing urge to play again. It's funny because my Dad's like "why? why do you wanna play again?" I feel like I should have played longer when I got out of middle school. Come High School, I was heavily involved with band and in sophomore year I tried HS volley ball because I got pretty good at summer league volley ball freshmen year. Well the point is, I want to seriously prove to myself that at the age of 29, I can play soccer again and play real well. Plus, I'd really like to have something to look forward to during the dreaded working week. When I was active playing shows, by Thursday, I was stoked for the weekend to play a show or two with the band. As lame as it sounds, playing live was my drug. Playing in front of a crowd got me to a place only a die-hard musician can appreciate and be familiar with.  Playing in a band, won't be for quite some time. The time it takes to build and polish a band takes a ton of effort and this isn't the best time to start or join a group. One day, these drums will sing again for the masses :) That's all for now. Going to finish this bowl of ice cream and call it a night soon. Cheers!