I’m Canadian. I am supposed to know an awful lot about hockey. The reality is, though, that I know the bare minimum. I know the basics about the rules, enough to get irritated when people are playing badly and to know when a game is exciting. I barely watch hockey, though. Olympic hockey? Oh yeah, I’m all about that, but it only happens every 4 years. I do also have a sort of irrational attachment to the Maple Leafs. They are the Toronto team, but, you know…. The attachment is irrational because I hardly ever watch them, I’ve never been to a game, and I don’t have enough interest in the team to really pay attention to who is playing for them unless we’re doing well in the playoffs or something. Which brings me to the second reason why my attachment to them is irrational: They mostly suck. But still, I have a fond place in my heart for them. I occasionally wear a Maple Leafs shirt and my girl does too. I like knowing when they’re doing well and feeling a little sad when they’re not. I don’t often browse hockey websites like this NHL Forum but it’s not a bad way to keep up with the games and the buzz around players and teams and such. It takes less time than actually watching a whole game to go to a website and look around at what’s happening. The boards over there are actually sort of hilarious as well as being informative. There’s a whole thread about everything that’s Bryan McCabe’s fault – one of the Leafs players…. The list includes girls who wouldn’t put out, snow, vegetables, and war in Iraq. Also hilarious? The guys who whine about the thread being pointless and that McCabe gets too much grief.

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Be sure to use the proper drawn out whiney tone of voice to read the following:

“You hit me!”

“You licked my finger!”

“Well, you were tapping on my head!”

“You didn’t have to hit me!”

“I just wanted to mix it up a little.”

“I didn’t want to mix it uuuuuupppp.”

Good grief. Twenty-one and seventeen, right? Hmm.

In other news, since D. has started naming all her dolls “Elizabeth” after watching some Pride and Prejudice with us, we’re trying to convince her to name one of her dolls “Mr. Darcy.” We will also find some especially loathed dolls to name “Mr. Collins,” “Lady Catherine de Bourgh” and “Mr. Wickham.”