Busy bee...

CRS (Central Registration System) for the league is back again and I am currently going through all the application forms for BAFL since yesterday and scan the ones I hadn't scanned before (like all the influx from May onwards I think!!). Also realised that I have forgotten paperwork at JKC so will have to provide that next Monday for Debbie who's handling the application process now.

Most forms (due to tons of rookies joining) are 3 pages and I think I am currently scanning application #72? Ok, I have scanned about 35 before May, but still! :) And that's only for the Senior Wolves!!! Juniors are next. :o

Then off to post office to get it sent to CRS.

Hoping to do some scrapping tonight. :)

Music ... :)

I am not sure which is "worse" ... home games or away games. Think this year it's equal, because we have a huge roster right now ... and players keep on coming!! :o SCARY! ;)

Only got 7 hours sleep (which is more than usual right now, but still not enough for a "lie in") as I've been online for donkeys yesterday and listening to my new favourite band ... "Rascal Flatts". Found it through one of the big names of Scrapbooking - can't remember if it was Karen Russell, but kinda think it was... Anyway ... the band is FAB!

The first song I heard from them was this one...




DH probably wonders why I am "suddenly" into country rock ... but hey, their songs are great!! :) And it's not as if I've been "suddenly" into it ... my old friend Trevor introduced me to the Dutch Country singer "Ilse De Lange". I've bought her CD "World of Hurt" and still listen to it. :) Haven't heard any of her newer songs since I bought the CD really, but two of my favs is "Flying High" and "Tapdancing on the Highwire" .

Also added James Morrison to my list of favourites right now - that's TV advertising for you... ;)



I know - the songs are a bit slow and all that, not to mention the lyrics (but I love the songs mostly for the melody) ... :) But I am also listening to a lot of more upbeat and faster songs... LOVING this one from Take That ... ;)



Current playlist on my MP3 Player:

James Morrison - Please don't stop the rain
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Jason Mranz feat. James Morrison - Details in the Fabric
Andrew Gold - Oh What a lonely boy
Bowling for Soup - Stacy's Mom
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Gavin Rossdale - Adrenaline
Gavin Rossdale - Love Remains the Same
Girls Aloud - The loving kind
James Blunt - Carry you home
James Morrison feat Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings
James Morrison - You give me Something
Jared Segal - Over me
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Kings of Leon - Use somebody
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (Can't listen to that without thinking of the "Mime" Version by David Armand though - LOL)
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
New Radicals - You get what you give
Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch me
Ne Yo - Closer
Ne Yo - Mad
Ne Yo - Miss Independent
Ne Yo - Single
O.A.R. - Shattered (Turn the Car Around)
One Republic - Stop and Stare
Pink - So What
Rascal Flatts - Waiting all my life
Rascal Flatts - Here Comes Goodbye
Rascal Flatts - What hurts the Most
Rascal Flatts - I'm Moving on
Rascal Flatts - See me through
Rascal Flatts - While you loved me
Take That -Rule The World
The All American Rejects - Kiss yourself goodbye
The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A
The Script - Breakeven
The Silencers - I can feel it

WOLVES ON THE LOOSE
HERE COMES THE WOLVES

(of Wolves TV and Wolves Home Games Fame!! :) )
There are a couple more I don't have yet, like "Please don't leave me - Pink" and of course more songs from Rascal Flatts. :)


Sooo... what's your current playlist?? :)

What a day!!

I am still totally knackered - yesterday was a looong day again, with Junior game in the morning and Seniors kicking off against the Manchester Titans at 2:30pm.

I had agreed with management that I would like to get time off "behind the scenes" duties from 12pm onwards so I could give my full attention to taping, giving DTM (Deep tissue massage) etc, so this time I missed watching our Juniors playing against the Clyde Valley Falcons. This was a bonus game (i.e. outwith the tournaments and as such won't be counted for the standings) and with the beginning of the summer holidays we had depleted numbers and several (if not all) players were playing both ways.

BUT the final result was 56 - 19, and that's against one of the top 2 Scottish Junior Teams. Because of our squad being nearly all rookies to the sport this year - we have graduated our star players to the Forth Valley Fusion this season - and our juniors being smaller than the West coast guys and even Inverness (what are they FEEDING them over there??? ;) ) we are still finding our feet. Our coaches see the desire to win and the improvements in our rookie squad though and are proud of our "Cubs".

As for the seniors game - it was dubbed the "Battle of the Soaps", due to Ricky Whittle (Hollyoaks' Calvin Valentine) playing for the Titans (and not just for a publicity stunt - that guy can play!) and our own John "Wombat" Wilmore hailing from the same town as "Neighbours", Melbourne AUS.

A hot and sunny day, and fortunately the forecast for heavy showers around 4pm didn't come true! We had a good ref crew, got good marks on the "Slavin Award" audit - just a shame our team didn't beat the Titans (who are still undefeated, mind, and a strong contender for Playoffs of the Div 2 North).

But yet again one of our rookies of 2009 (rookies to the sport I hasten to add!!) put all in and will make the headlines (Edinburgh Evening News, at least online if not on paper!)!! ;) Luke Jeacock (#52) picked up a fumble recovery in the 3rd Q and ran it in for a touchdown!!

This stayed the only score for the Wolves as we couldn't convert the PAT (Point after Touchdown - i.e. kick from Billy Mitchell) and didn't get more points on the board.

Our current position in our Division is 3rd (a big tumble from 1st just before our game against the Tigers a couple of weeks ago). Because of our points conceded we're even below the Clyde Valley Blackhawks even though we won against them (it's a weird mathematical thing!).

Our aim now is to win all remaining 3 regular games. We definitely have to WIN the games against the Tigers (away on 12th July) and the Blackhawks (home at 1st August) by more than 1 score between their points gained to be back on the top of the division and make it to the playoffs.

"Heatwave" is taking its toll...

Never thought I'd say that, after me going to Florida fairly regularly for holiday, having lived for most of my life in warmer climate (well... about 5-10 degrees warmer than here on average, and summer temps over 30 degrees no rarity!).

The stupid tickly cough doesn't help of course... when I woke up this morning I felt like a lead weight on my chest - which from experience is a signal of asthma problems. I didn't have an attack or anything, but I contacted work and switched my day today for Friday ... I don't like being out of the house when such a situation occurs (and - to be fair - it hasn't happened that often, maybe once per year now). Fortunately, my boss is ok with that (maybe not too happy, but ok).

I think it's the muggy weather right now ... doesn't work for me. And it doesn't help that I am very sensitive when it comes to cigarette smoke, and we have several neighbours who smoke outside on their patios ... :( And right now I can smell it up here in the bedroom. :(

Currently staying in bed but hope that I'll be fine later to do the last finishing touches to the Chinese Whisper so Pauline is getting it asap.

Not my week really...

I haven't felt like scrapping/crafting at all ... 2 CJs to be dealt with, plus my Chinese Whisper (needs to be done today or tomorrow!! Already a week late!).

Had a check up scan on Tuesday to see if my cyst behaves ... well... let's just say ... it doesn't!! The "usual" is blown back up to 6cm diameter, and on top of that I've got a medium and small size one as well. All 3 on the right ... as usual. :( Not sure what the plan is, as the big one cannot be dealt with another round of Zolly ... the small ones would work, but the big one needs either draining (usual procedure) or removal, which the senior consultant is not too keen of because of the risks involved - but he wasn't available for the scan, so I don't know what the plans are. Don't fancy being rushed to ward 210 again though ... but fortunately no major pain right now.

And on Wednesday on the way from the bus stop to work I think I pulled the gastrocnemius in my bad leg ... wonder if that's because of compensation for the injury in the first place??? Feeling ok right now though.

Good things - had another meet up with Aisha at Chocolate Soup, this time Doug and Wombat joined us as well. Really like the 2, shame they're only here for 2 years... Just my luck! ;) Was a lot of Football Talk (sorry, Aish!!) but at least that's not the only topic we can talk about. ;)

Weekend is very busy ... tonight is Poker Night at Dave & Nikki II (LOL) - we're just going for the banter/PS3, neither of us is playing. Will be fun though. :)

Off to look into scrapping, and then it's dinner cooking time plus making a Chocolate Banana cake a la Jackie - one of our Juniors has birthday tomorrow. :)

TIME OUT!!

(imagine me doing the "T" sign for the Refs)... :)

3 games in 3 weeks can drain the life out of you. Add to that a Junior tournament (i.e. 3 games in one day, but obviously shorter than senior games) and an impaled leg, 3x sunburn/sun strokes and that's about that. :o

*I*AM*SHATTERED*

My face is totally red, my legs were jelly yesterday after the game and for whatever reason my bad leg compensates for the pulling skin in front with sore calf muscles at the end of the day!

Would all feel better if we'd actually won yesterday ... or not lost at such a small margin/with just seconds in the game. :o

Well... so I decided to take TIME OUT today ... no housework (will do stuff tomorrow). I am currently catching up with SKY+ series and want to do some scrapping later. The only thing I do "work wise" will be sending some e-mails for the Wolves and scan/e-mail the roster sheets. Plus checking on Paulie's jersey...

...We decided to play in white yesterday due to the hot weather and the fact we managed to print the spare jerseys and had now enough numbers. Last season we hardly wore the "away" jerseys so they are in better knick than our "home" jerseys (cardinal red). And what happened yesterday, with the first day in the white jerseys this season??? Paulie got some small scab pulled off by a defensive player during the game and while it was very small wound on his elbow it was bleeding all over the place ... including on the WHITE jersey!! :o So that's soaking since yesterday in a bucket of cold water with washing powder ... wonder if I have to resort to bleach.... :o

Yesterday was a game day of little niggles - I don't think I've ever put so many small plasters on small wounds and handed out ice bags for small scraped knuckles etc. Really weird!!! :o Fortunately only one bigger injury (touch wood) and hopefully that player will be better in time for the next game on 4th July.

The coming weekend will be football on Junior & Youth level for me ... Junior tournament in Glasgow on Saturday (with hopefully some wins this time) and on Sunday it's the Forth Valley Fusion vs. Gateshead Senators - and I will go over to Fife to see my ex-Juniors play ... after I missed them playing at Meadowbank at our first home game!!!

Crop Day!

Today was crop day - and the first time I had to use our own key and code for the church! :) Everything went fine though, didn't set the alarm off. :)

I even managed to print off photos for the Chinese Whisper - but forgot the patterned paper and even had to borrow lime green card stock from Lisa (ok ... didn't really think it through ... give you that!). I printed some photos from the Hull game as well to do some inroads with the Wolves layouts  ... but didn't plan that either, and a couple of the photos were not printed nicely (I need to replace printer cartridges) and in the wrong size ... so I didn't really scrap today.

However, I managed to do 2 cards and the "One Stamp Swap" (some people in the crop decided on a stamp (but every single one I received so far was more than 1 stamp - either individual stamps or stamp sets), created something (card, mini layout blank etc.) and passed the stamp on to the next person. It's designed for stamps where you don't know what to do with it (like my Charles Rennie MacIntosh stamp - I don't like Rennie MacIntosh stuff, but thought it's a versatile stamp for cards for OTHERS). 

This month's stamp set was from Elaine - cats. Her plan was to make a mini-album for her sister for pictures of her cat - it should have a "peek-a-boo" section for photos, so I used a library file tag.

 

 

 

 

The other 2 cards were for a friend of mine who's undergone knee surgery this week and a father's day card for my FIL (I *think* Father's day in Germany is next week Thursday... :o  ).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crop itself was very quiet today - we were only 9 people out of the usual 16. Several call offs.  I kinda expect the same turnout next month due to summer holidays.

As for the Chinese Whisper - I am planning on finishing it on Monday. But of course I cannot show it to you as it's a secret until the swap is finished.  :)