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Dec. 5th, 2010 05:05 pmahhhhhh, reading articles about the Davis Cup. :D And Schalke! God, this weekend really did its best to make up for last on the sports results front! Although actually last weekend I was like AUGH I'LL JUST FOCUS ON CURLING and the curling results this time weren't so amazing. Although I still like the teams in the finals (which are happening now) well enough, which is the key thing with curling.
But yeah, Schalke beat Bayern Munich 2-0!!! Raul was injured but I don't think too badly - looked like a split lip? (pretty bloody, but he walked off of his own power.) And Real Madrid managed to pull out a 2-0 win over Valencia, although they only scored after one of Valencia's players was pretty questionably sent off. I felt bad, it'd be a really tough match for a Valencia fan to watch. (and omg we need Pipita. D:)
I was at home for Hanukkah so we were actually eating latkes and I left soccerstand.com open, it's a gametracking website (with gambling stuff as well I guess XD) and it makes a noise when someone scores so luckily there was a pause in the conversation and we hear this little noise from the computer in the next room and I jumped up and raced over to see what was going on.
So I got to combine delicious amazing latkes with a victory for Real Madrid!!! SO. GREAT. And Schalke won just before we started peeling potatoes, and that morning Arsenal won - not my EPL team but I like them well enough and they're the team of the guingeltwin so I'm happy when she's happy. She was getting really worried about them, they are not having the season the could be. Giving up some games they really should win and stuff.
And then today, Serbia won the Davis Cup!!! AHHHHH I'M SO HAPPY FOR THEM!! Serbia has never won it before and you could really tell how much it meant to all the players, I can't even tell you. I really get the feeling that winning this as Serbia means more to them than winning individual titles might. I know Novak Djokovic, world number 3, is so proud that he can represent Serbia in a positive manner to the world, and tennis in general seems like an important source of positive pride. And they've achieved this with a lot less resources than most of the countries they were competing against - there's almost no national budget for tennis so most of the players, their families have to really fucking work to help put their kids in the position to become top players.
So, I'm really, really happy for them. :D And the finals happened in Belgrade and I follow one of the players, Tipsarevic Janko, on twitter and when they made it to the finals (he didn't have a good match this weekend but he was vital in getting them there) he tweeted "I don't know what's going to happen (party wise) if we win the finals in Belgrade!!" and Katie and I have been saying "(party wise)" all the time since then. XD
Plus, today I went to this huge asian grocery store near my parents house and i was able to get rice because I was getting a ride home, AND I found these char siu pork buns that I've been looking for since i got back from Manchester 4 years ago. SO SO EXCITED!!! If these are half as good they will be amazing, the ones I used to make in England were pretty much my favorite food ever.
PLUS my mom got herself this ridiculously awesome lego set and she let us help her put it together and it was SO SWEET. omg it's amazing and i love lego. THERE IS A LEGO ESCALATOR!!! So, so great. I just love the way they use the limited medium of a few different types of bricks - with some specialty pieces, but really minimizing the variation - and then just design ways to use them to make really specific, realistic looking structures. So, so satisfying to take a bunch of little blocks and put it together to make an escalator or window washer station or cash register!!
Annnnd I finally ordered the guingeltwin her christmas presents and my dad ordered me a new coat as one of mine! I want to make my dad a print of this panel from All Star Superman that he loves but I don't really know how to do it. Plus I don't have any great ideas for my mom so maybe I'll wait til Dad's birthday to do that. . . in July. XD
So hopefully this evening I'll get some cleaning up done on my room and also public my craigslist ad for a new roomie. ::sigh:: My one downer!! I wish I could find the card reader for my camera so i could put the pics of my living room with furniture in, I just have the ones from when I first moved in.
But yeah, Schalke beat Bayern Munich 2-0!!! Raul was injured but I don't think too badly - looked like a split lip? (pretty bloody, but he walked off of his own power.) And Real Madrid managed to pull out a 2-0 win over Valencia, although they only scored after one of Valencia's players was pretty questionably sent off. I felt bad, it'd be a really tough match for a Valencia fan to watch. (and omg we need Pipita. D:)
I was at home for Hanukkah so we were actually eating latkes and I left soccerstand.com open, it's a gametracking website (with gambling stuff as well I guess XD) and it makes a noise when someone scores so luckily there was a pause in the conversation and we hear this little noise from the computer in the next room and I jumped up and raced over to see what was going on.
So I got to combine delicious amazing latkes with a victory for Real Madrid!!! SO. GREAT. And Schalke won just before we started peeling potatoes, and that morning Arsenal won - not my EPL team but I like them well enough and they're the team of the guingeltwin so I'm happy when she's happy. She was getting really worried about them, they are not having the season the could be. Giving up some games they really should win and stuff.
And then today, Serbia won the Davis Cup!!! AHHHHH I'M SO HAPPY FOR THEM!! Serbia has never won it before and you could really tell how much it meant to all the players, I can't even tell you. I really get the feeling that winning this as Serbia means more to them than winning individual titles might. I know Novak Djokovic, world number 3, is so proud that he can represent Serbia in a positive manner to the world, and tennis in general seems like an important source of positive pride. And they've achieved this with a lot less resources than most of the countries they were competing against - there's almost no national budget for tennis so most of the players, their families have to really fucking work to help put their kids in the position to become top players.
So, I'm really, really happy for them. :D And the finals happened in Belgrade and I follow one of the players, Tipsarevic Janko, on twitter and when they made it to the finals (he didn't have a good match this weekend but he was vital in getting them there) he tweeted "I don't know what's going to happen (party wise) if we win the finals in Belgrade!!" and Katie and I have been saying "(party wise)" all the time since then. XD
Plus, today I went to this huge asian grocery store near my parents house and i was able to get rice because I was getting a ride home, AND I found these char siu pork buns that I've been looking for since i got back from Manchester 4 years ago. SO SO EXCITED!!! If these are half as good they will be amazing, the ones I used to make in England were pretty much my favorite food ever.
PLUS my mom got herself this ridiculously awesome lego set and she let us help her put it together and it was SO SWEET. omg it's amazing and i love lego. THERE IS A LEGO ESCALATOR!!! So, so great. I just love the way they use the limited medium of a few different types of bricks - with some specialty pieces, but really minimizing the variation - and then just design ways to use them to make really specific, realistic looking structures. So, so satisfying to take a bunch of little blocks and put it together to make an escalator or window washer station or cash register!!
Annnnd I finally ordered the guingeltwin her christmas presents and my dad ordered me a new coat as one of mine! I want to make my dad a print of this panel from All Star Superman that he loves but I don't really know how to do it. Plus I don't have any great ideas for my mom so maybe I'll wait til Dad's birthday to do that. . . in July. XD
So hopefully this evening I'll get some cleaning up done on my room and also public my craigslist ad for a new roomie. ::sigh:: My one downer!! I wish I could find the card reader for my camera so i could put the pics of my living room with furniture in, I just have the ones from when I first moved in.
