Crashing the Creases

The news we've been waiting for...

2008-04-18T08:41:00.000-07:00

The Carolina Hurricanes have signed Sergei Samsonov to a 3-year deal.

From the Canes website:

"The deal will pay Samsonov $2.3 million in 2008-09, $2.5 million in 2009-10 and $2.8 million in 2010-11."

In my opinion, that's a small price to pay for someone who got 32 points in 38 games.

And now Jon knows whose number will be going on the back of his jersey :)

Good news on Coley

2007-11-13T18:20:00.000-08:00

After last night's accident, Cole had a negative CT scan and was cleared to fly w/the rest of the team to Tampa this morning.

What a relief. I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that :)

I'm sure the team docs will be keeping an eye on him for the next little while. But it's good news all around.

Erik Cole

2007-11-12T19:00:00.000-08:00

Watching the FL/Canes game tonight, about 12 minutes into the 3rd period, Erik Cole went headfirst into the ice/Tomas Vokoun.

For those who don't know, he had a broken neck the year we won the Cup.

They took him out on a stretcher... took him about 10 minutes to get him off the ice.

I hope it's not as bad as it looked, and that everything they were doing was precautionary.

Toronto Maple Leafs

2007-11-10T18:45:00.000-08:00

The first stop on our NHL tour was the Air Canada Centre on October 18. 2007. The Leafs were taking on the Florida Panthers.

Leafs tickets are notoriously hard to come by, and we'd gotten ours of eBay. We paid $15 each over face value and were pretty happy with that. Our seats wound up being about 6 rows from the top of the Air Canada Centre, but we could see fine. The only problem was it was absolutely freezing up there.

The game was quite entertaining. We had a couple of middle-aged moms sitting behind us, and I was amazed at how much they just KNEW about hockey. People in NC just don't have those kind of discussions.

Fans booed whenever Bryan McCabe touched the puck...he'd contributed to a Leafs loss a couple of nights before when he scored for the opposing team. He redeemed himself by the end of the night by scoring the goal that tied things up and eventually led to the win.

The format of this blog is changing.

2007-11-06T12:45:00.000-08:00

Clearly, I wasn't getting much use out of it as a dream journal.

So I'm changing it to chronicle our travels across the country as Jon and I attempt to see every NHL team play in their home arena.

Should be quite the journey :)

I'll probably also post about hockey in general here as well, when I get the urge.

2007-09-20T03:19:00.000-07:00

I dream a lot about moving. Typically, we're getting ready to move to a new place, and the house is never packed. It's like one day before the move, and everything is all akimbo, nothing's packed, and everything is in disarray.

What could this mean? My first impulse is to think that I'm unprepared for something.

Dream Moods Dictionary says the following:

To dream that you are moving away, signifies your desire or need for change. It may also mean an end to a situation or relationship and your are moving on. Alternatively, it indicates your determination and issues regarding dependence/independence.

2007-09-15T08:58:00.000-07:00

My regular dream-time visitor came back last night -- Robert from high school. We were supposed to pick out a trip to go on, and he picked one that had something to do with bowler hats. (Yeah, I have no idea either.) Then, he decided he wanted to invited someone else to go on the trip with us, so I was going up and down the street (which was filled with deflating pastel balloons) to find Matt Van Hoose. I'm not sure if I ever found him though.

I feel like I dreamed almost all night. Everytime I woke up, I was in the middle of one.

2007-08-28T12:44:00.000-07:00

Last night, Jerry Seinfeld was going to take me to see Van Halen.

How's that for nuts?

We met somehow at my work (which looked like a high school, and not like my work at all), and he wanted to take me to the Van Halen concert. I told some of my coworkers about this, and they all didn't think he'd be able to get tickets b/c it would sell out so fast. I said, "He's got more money than God, I'm pretty sure he can get tickets if he wants them." Ha!

I tried to go find Jon to tell him, but he was in a training class, and I couldn't interrupt.

Apparently, Jerry was concerned about my wardrobe, b/c I remember him telling me something about how I would be representing him if I was going to the concert with him, and I needed to dress accordingly. Guess he thought I was frumpy :D

2007-08-11T13:25:00.000-07:00

I decided that since this blog is also supposed to include my pipe dreams, and not just my night-time dreams, I'm going to start writing about those as well.

Right now, one of the biggest pipe dreams I've got is to go on safari in Africa. This is probably my dream vacation. The idea of being on the savannah in a Land Rover with no barriers between myself and the animals is just something I can't wrap my mind around.

And I want to do it right. I want to stay in one of the luxury lodges, with gourmet meals and daily excursions. I want there to be a watering hole that the animals come to visit at night. I want to see Victoria Falls.

2007-08-08T22:04:00.000-07:00

Last night was strange. Jon and I were in Canada. We were in Toronto, and were supposed to be flying out of Vancouver, but I had booked our tickets wrong so our flight schedule was all screwed up. Jon got really pissed off, and went out drinking w/people he doesn't even hang out w/anymore. I was upset that he was mad at me, and I was trying to fix the flights, but we were supposed to leave the next day, and no other flights were available.

Then all of a sudden I was riding the tram at Disney with some Asian or Indian guy (who I've never met in real life), and I remember telling him after we got in the park, that I needed to find a quiet place to call the airlines to try and fix our flights.

Very bizarre.

2007-07-29T09:06:00.000-07:00

Last night's dream was terrible. I don't remember many of the details, aside from the fact that Jon had cheated on me 6 times. Just awful. I woke up feeling sick to my stomach. Not a good night's sleep.

2007-07-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

Last night was interesting.

Jon and I were in prison, but it was a Disney-run prison. We all got to wear our regular clothes, and we had to go through Traditions, just like working at Disney.

Adebesi (from Oz) was a prisoner too, and I was trying to figure out who his Traditions mentor was. I felt sorry for that person :)

Cookies

2007-07-15T12:26:00.000-07:00

Last night, I dreamed I was making chocolate chip cookies.

Chocolate chip cookies with coconut. And triscuits.

Yum, yum.

But now I want to make cookies, so all is not lost. I think I'll make some to take to the beach w/us.

2007-07-05T21:20:00.000-07:00

Last night, I had some weird shit going on in my sleepytime brain.

I dreamed my friend from high school Jennifer Beckner came over to my house at like 6 in the morning, followed soon after (about 8:30, if I recall) by her Nannie, who brough cupcakes or some other such baked good. In the meantime, I'd gotten a call from the people I babysat for 1 summer in college (who, incidentally, worked me like a rented mule) to see if I could watch their kids that night. I agreed, but after I hung up, I was very confused as to how they'd gotten my number. I also realized I didn't know where they lived now, and that their kids would now be like 12 and 17 (or thereabouts) and they really didn't -- or shouldn't -- really need a sitter at this point in their lives. I then decided I would call to cancel, but I hadn't gotten their phone number.

Then, somehow, I wound up in Old Navy, who I was very happy to see had started selling LLBean stuff.

2007-06-30T12:48:00.000-07:00

A couple of nights ago, I dreamed I was back in college living in my old dorm. I was rooming with a lot of people from high school -- and I mean a lot. There were like 20 people in a room.

I think I dreamed this because we had been watching the Oz episode where everyone from Em City had to move to GenPop... and there seriously were like 20 people in a cell.

Funny how the mind works...

2007-06-25T14:37:00.000-07:00

I haven't been remembering my dreams much lately. That might have something to do w/the drinkies consumed in New Orleans. I do seem to recall having a dream a few nights ago where I was in the military and wound up killing 4 people, and I had to tell Jeff, my boss.

2007-06-17T07:55:00.000-07:00

I know that I *did* dream last night, but I have no recollection of anything. I slept hard...was quite tired when I went to bed. I probably could have slept about 3 or 4 more hours.

2007-06-16T09:17:00.001-07:00

I slept very restlessly last night. Lots of waking up and tossing and turning. My dreams were not all that lucid as a result. I do remember dreaming something about being in prison (yikes!) as well as something about my ex-boyfriend (yuck).

2007-06-15T06:54:00.000-07:00

Last night, more of the moving dream, except this time, I managed to get everything packed up.

It would seem that this whole ongoing series would indicate that something needed to be resolved or finished in my life, but there hasn't really been anything going on lately that has come to a conclusion recently.

I'll have to wait and see if this series continues.

Last night's dreams are fuzzy.

2007-06-14T06:32:00.000-07:00

I recall dreaming about the TV shows Oz and The Simpsons. Not so much that I was watching them, but I was interacting with the characters. Guess I've been watching those shows maybe a little more than usual lately?

I also dreamed (again) that we were moving, and I had one day to pack the house beforehand, and was naturally in a bit of a panic. This is about the 3rd time I have had this type of dream lately.

Right before I woke up, I dreamed I was at some kind of school...I'm not sure if I worked there or if I was attending classes. Anyway, I was continually getting emails and voicemails from this creepy guy who was interested in me, and I was trying to avoid him. He eventually found me, and I remember he had long, dirty dreadlocks. I had to tell him that I wasn't interested in him. As that was happening, the dogs woke me up.

New blog.

2007-06-13T18:41:00.001-07:00

This blog will be a dream diary for me, where I can write down and keep track of all the weird stuff that goes on in my head while I'm sleeping.