CEDAR POINT!!!

 Woohoo with the weather finally perking up a bit and looking a bit like summer (high of 88 today!) I'm very excited for the summer activities that I have in mind for Summer 2011! Starting with scratching one of my list tomorrow! Tomorrow Brian and I are traveling the 136.5 miles/ 2 1/2 hours trip to......CEDAR POINT! Cedar Point is located in Sandusky Ohio and has been voted The Best Amusement Park in the world the past 13 years in a row, with over 17 roller coasters! I love roller coasters and have been a fan since I was little, my first trip to an amusement park being Kennywood located in West Mifflin Pennsylvania. But to say I'm excited to an understatement. I cant wait to ride the Raptor with its 2 loop-de-loops and the Milliennium with its 30 story drop and my favorite the Magnum XL with its drop that makes you feel like your experiencing zero gravity! Although I am very excited to go, Brian isn't as excited. Don't get me wrong he is happy to be going but he isn't as thrilled about roller coasters as I am. Where I love the feeling of your stomach coming out of your throat when you hit that first dive, Brian hates that feeling. Where I love the 30 seconds of so of climbing to reach that first drop, Brian hates it. So it's always a trip that tests Brian's fears. Last year he did ride the Raptor which was a big triumph for him, so I'm hoping that he will be just as brave this year. Lol I'm sure that he will do fine! I'll keep ya posted on that sometime later this week, maybe even put a picture up! If you been to any amusement park what is your favorite ride?

Rise with the Early Bird

So this is an early post, and mostly because I had to work at 6 am this morning. So while work is exciting and I'm sure I can find something more productive to do rather then posting on my blog I had a very interesting chat with my boyfriend this morning via Facebook. Now my boyfriend is a silly guy and I love him bunches but he does some interesting things sometimes. One being photo shopping a picture of my favorite idol on a fake web-page (A CNN fake) saying he had to drop out with a case of bird-flu totally tricking me into thinking that Scotty Mccreery was going home. I'm embarrassed to admit there were tears.

So this morning when he IMed me asking me if he could interview me I was a little skeptical. Here's how it went.

Brian: Can I interview you?

Me: What for?

Brian: Its a secret..

Brian: When did you start playing video games?

Me: First Tell me why..

Brian: I cannot tell you

Me: Why not?

you know I don't like secrets

is it something silly that you are doing?

and why are you still up?

Brian: fine never mind.........you are no fun

Me:  ok ok

        I first started when I was 7

Brian: What was your Favorite Video Game Growing up?

Me: Zelda (duh)

Brian: What made Zelda so exciting for you?

Me:  The music is really good, always an adventurous upbeat tone to the dismay that Hyrule is having. The Characters and story lines are always unique. I also like the puzzle, they exercised my mind

Brian: You are notorious for hating "campers" and "newbtubers", why such frustrations?

Me: "noobtubers"

       It's just annoying, that's all I can say.

Brian: You are widely known for the expressions "I am the shit" and "You're a bitch". What is your go to chirp?

Me: I'm widely know for that?

       umm 'Oh Man' and 'Don't be mean' and when I'm really angry the "You Bitch" comes out.

Brian: Thank you for your time, before you go can we get your top 5 video game

Me: Ummmm

 Its gonna take a minute.

1. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

2.Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past

3. Resident Evil

4. Mario Brothers

and...hmmm

5. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Are you gonna tell me why now that I have complied to your interview needs?

Brian: nope love you bye

And that is how the interview ended. I will admit it was a little fun coming up with answers to his

questions, but I'm still curious as to why he wanted to conduct this in the first place. I guess I will

just have to wait and see, when I find out you will know!

What Happened to Goodbye?

  So I haven't written in a while, and of course today's post, the first in over a week, is one that hits close to home. Last Tuesday Sarah Dessen, one of my favorite authors since I was probably 14 came out with a new book called 'What Happened to Goodbye' and I just started reading it yesterday. If you haven't read a Sarah Dessen novel before you are missing out, but if you have you probably know she generally writes young adult novels about young girls who are caught at a cross-roads in their life. I think that being a young adult myself and having been at several cross-roads so far in my life it has been easy to relate to the characters that Dessen has written about, and no more so then her most recent character Mclean. From the first couple pages I have read, being sucked into the life of 18 year old Mclean I knew that this particular novel by Dessen was going hit close to home. 

In the story Mclean moves around from town to town with her restaurant consultant father after her mother gets involved in an affair with a famous basketball coach. In each place Mclean re-invents herself, with a new name and interests never willing to form any new attachments, until she moves to Lakeview where she falls into friendship and love- The parts in the book that tug at me the most are the ones when Mclean is battling with herself on whether to forgive her mother for tearing their family apart. Some parts Mclean is willing to forgive her mother and try to remember the way things were in the past, only to realize that these were long gone memories that she would never be able to have again. Other parts she is angry with her mother and wants nothing more then to have space from a mother who wants nothing else but to be apart of her life, and have her apart of her 'new' life. 

I felt a pang of remorse reading these parts cause I have been in the same situation and I know how it feels to battle with yourself over something so confusing. When I was 17 my parents got a divorce because of an affair and I didn't know how to re-act. I was so angry at one parent for doing something so hurtful and was siding with other parent because I knew how bad they were hurting cause I was feeling the same way. It was all confusing because I was close to both, my mother for obvious mother-daughter bonds and my father for the connection we had with sports. It was a different relationship with both and I felt it was all lost because of a decision somebody made. I didn't know what to feel, I wanted to be angry at my father for being so selfish and never considering what us kids were feeling but at the same time he was my father and I wanted him close by and wanted to still be able to do the things we did together. I felt like I was being riped down the middle and didn't know which way to go. Its been several years and I still haven't totally been able to come to grip with what has happened. My father and I didn't talk for a long time and even talking now is guarded because I don't know if I can entirely forgive him for what happened. Which is the confusing part, I want to go there but at the same time I feel like I would be hurting my mother. So when this story line became present in ' What happened to Goodbye' I knew it was going to be one of the better Dessen novels. I'm only about half way through and still have a ways to go but I think it will turn out good. 

So that's all for now.

Will the Wings Make it or Break it?

With the NHL playoffs getting closer and closer to the coveted Stanley Cup Finals I'm starting to shake a little in my boots with the horrible (and forbidden) thoughts that each game could be the last for the Detroit Red Wings who are now fighting for their lives, and their spot in the Stanley Cup Finals. Will this year be the year that the Wings bring the cup home for 12th time? Previously bringing home 11 Stanley cup victories, the last time being in the 07-08 season in a 4-2 series win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. But the real question being, will the Wings survive this current series against the San Jose Sharks?

To say that the start of the series with the Sharks was rough would be an understatement, I would have to say that it was downright brutal. Wings fans were out-raged and disappointed when the Sharks took an 3-0 series lead leaving the Detroit Red Wings fans wondering when they returned home to Joe Louis Arena would they play like the team who swept Phoenix Coyotes in round one. Where was that team when the Wings were now teetering on the edge of having that same fate as the Coyotes in round two? I was surprised (and still am) that we have allowed the Sharks to race ahead in such a great lead over us. Detroit swept the first round, and that was without 2 of our power players Henrik Zetterberg (out with lower body injury) and  Johan Franzen. But with both returning for game 1 of the series vs the Sharks didn't help much, losing to the sharks in over-time 1-2.

Killing power plays has always been a strong suite for the Wings giving up 22 penalties to San Jose, allowing 3 goals to be scored off of those in the last 4 games. Not horrible but not great when those 3 goals have been crucial in 3 San Jose wins. The Big question looming on all Wings fans minds is, Will this series be a repeat of last years series where San Jose eliminated Detroit in game 5? I guess all we Detroit fans can do it hope for the best from our team, hope Howard continues to play as hard as he has been playing and hope that the offense works the puck tonight like they have never done before. If Detroit can play like they did in game 4, in which a 360-spin from Todd Bertuzzi resulted in a goal for Detroit and the killing off of 8 power plays resulted in a win for Detroit, then possibly the Wings could come back. Find out tonight what happens, The game will air at 8 p.m eastern time on Vs.