Go Caps!

They hockey awards were tonight (I know you all watched it, right? LOL- no worries. No one watches it... except for dorks like me who tape it!)

But two of my caps won awards! Olie got an award (the King Clancy Trophy) for all his charity work, and he delivered an amazing and very touchy speech. It was so very sweet. And gods he looked cute in a tux! *fans self* His wife and mommy looked lovely as well, of course.
http://www.nhl.com/trophies/clancy.html

And then Alex (after losing the 'hockey players vote for the best guy among them' award) won The Calder Trophy for Rookie of the Year. He delivered a great speech, too, but I'm blinded by love. He's just far too adorable. I'm soooooooooooo glad he won. That Sid the kid had nothing on Alexander the Eight, I swear. He received 124 of 129 first place votes!
http://www.nhl.com/trophies/calder.html

I'm soooooooo proud of my boyos. Thornton got the Hart trophy for NHL MVP. And Kippers got the Vezina (which my Olie has won already)- though I had a hard time deciding who to root for for that one because I love pretty much every goalie in the NHL (except maybe Eddie the Eagle because of the whole Stars thing). Teemu got something for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. And Sabre's Lindy Ruff won for his lovely coaching.

Twas a very nice set of awards given out... and the awards show was freakishly strange as always. Very painful and funny to watch. There's nothing like it. Especially if you're not Canadian and have NO idea what they're talking about half the time or who the strange people performing are! LOL But, yes, I'm so proud of my boyos!
http://www.nhl.com/news/2006/06/275488.html

My favorite part, apart from the speeches, was probably the red carpet bit at the beginning with Vechy and Sid. Lots of adorable from the Alex boy. And at the end, the interviewers asked them if they bought or rented their tuxes. Sid answered and then they asked Alex who said "I don't know what you're talking about" and they had to explain the question to him again. He's SO adorable with his limited grasp of English, though it's SO much better than it was last year at this time. I totally love the guy.

Random news

So just random news about me...

My aunt's dog died this past weekend. We're all very sad around here. The dog was never sick a day in its life and then started having trouble breathing and standing and eating, only to find out he had cancer and a few weeks to live. He was good for about a week and then got bad and had to be put down. Poor Rocky baby. I got to spend some time with him on the trip out to Cali last year, luckily. But we're all sad and my aunt & family especially.

I start my new job Monday, with an orientation on Tuesday. I've got a probationary period and I'm very nervous, but I'm happy, as well. I really hope I like it and do well.

My parents are closing on the sale of the old house tomorrow. I visited it yesterday and took a few pictures of empty rooms and said my goodbyes. Lived there for 20 years. I'm sad but it hasn't really hit me yet, you know? That my house isn't... my house any more. Even though we haven't lived there for months... we've been going over every day... it's so strange... and sad. So many memories- good and bad. It was sad to say goodbye.

Accordingly, the movers came yesterday while I was at work and moved a few large pieces of furniture to the new house (sofa, huge china cabinet, bookcases, treadmill, pingpong table). One of the pieces was actually a giant TV cabinet from the old basement that is now going in the new basement- my room. So I'll have my own big (not 11 inch) television set and entertainment hutch (not the $20 rubbermaid shelves bowing in the middle under the weight that I'm using now). It's, unfortunately, sitting in the center of my room right now blocking my view of the current tv. But hopefully this weekend I'll get it all sorted out.

I finished GWT's holiday giftfic last night. And I'm making SLOW but steady progress with Legolas093096's LOST giftfic. With any luck, I will be able to post them all for a 6-month-late Christmas on Sunday :-)