Goalie Miller, after the OT Gold-​​winning goal by Team Canada

Whew. I can breathe again.

What. A. Hockey Game!! Of course, it wasn’t the out­come that I wanted … but it was sooo excit­ing! AND, at least I got to prac­tice singing the Cana­dian National Anthem. And I’m sure that Lori­beth & Mrs. Spit are more than happy to see their National Team win. AND that the entire nation of Canada can now breathe a sigh of relief.

But still … would have been nice to see the US, the under­dogs in the tour­ney, win. Would have been nice to see the MVP, Ryan Miller (and some­one with Michi­gan ties, to boot) get the gold.

Well, at least Canada’s team was built and coached by all those Detroit Red Wing staff! ;-)

At least Canada can, once again, con­tinue claim that that Hockey is still *THE* Cana­dian sport. Next to Lacrosse, any­way. But just like hockey, that sport has his­tor­i­cally been more pop­u­lar in Canada than in the US (although it’s gained much more pop­u­lar­ity since Hubby played back in high school).

Yami doesn’t want the Olympics to end, either …

I guess … well, I guess it’s the Red Wing fan in me that just reaal­lly doesn’t like Cindy — oops, I mean Sid­ney Crosby. Don’t get me wrong, he’s tal­ented and incred­i­ble. BUT … this goes back to the whole “this is a team sport and not a Superstar-​​plus-​​Team sport.” And Crosby? Well, in the NHL, he’s that “Super­star” that the league seems to be bank­ing on; plac­ing all their prover­bial eggs in the bas­ket. I know that it’s not nec­es­sar­ily his fault that the media places him in such a huge spot­light, but yet I’ve never seen him redi­rect the empha­sis back on the team and team­work. Who knows? Maybe he has … and I just have never seen it.

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With that out of my sys­tem, tonight is offi­cially the last night of the Olympics. But more impor­tantly, tonight is the last night for Feb­ru­ary’s NaBloPoMo.

Which means that I’ve offi­cially posted a blog entry a day for the past 28 days. While it’s not an Olympic Medal, at least I can put this “medal of honor” on my blog.

And well, hey; since I still am going to be post­ing daily until Easter, which is April 5th this year, I might as well just sign myself up for March’s NaBloPoMo. But before I do, let’s at least fin­ish up on this entry:

Good Deed O’The Day. This one is a “good deed” (if I can call it that) for myself; which, and fol­low me here, will ulti­mately be a good deed for those that I work with. And that good deed is this: I did NOT do any work today, or any day this week­end. In fact, I mostly relaxed this week­end (with the excep­tion of gro­cery shop­ping, of course).

While it seems like a rather “self­ish” good deed, I know that this is a deed that needed to be done. Quite frankly, I’ve been run­ning myself ragged since the end of Decem­ber and work­ing pretty much 7 days a week. And even though I’m not quite work­ing the whole 8 hours on the week­end, the fact that I am doing any­thing work-​​related on those days I should be relax­ing is a sign that I’m over­work­ing. SO … by doing noth­ing but things I liked to do these two days allows me to unwind a bit so that I’m charged up and ready for the next week.

I think Rain looks bet­ter in a tiara than Julia Mancuso

Grat­i­tude and Thanks: As I men­tioned before, things have been pretty tight with our monthly expenses. Hav­ing both a monthly rent and mort­gage pay­ment has been killing us. And see­ing as the hous­ing mar­ket in Detroit ain’t turn­ing around any time soon, we don’t see any res­o­lu­tion with this issue in the near future. SO … what I’m grate­ful for right now is that: #1, I have a job dur­ing these dif­fi­cult eco­nomic times; and #2, I have fam­ily that love and sup­port us. Because if it wasn’t for all that they pro­vide, Hubby & I wouldn’t be able to pick our­selves up and forge for­ward dur­ing this dif­fi­cult period.

So there it is. Last post of Feb­ru­ary. Look out, March! Here I come!

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