My Life's Ingredients

Sharon came up for a quick visit to Edinburgh, so we met up for lunch and chocolate soup to cover the time between her arriving at Waverley and her meeting up with her parents. Originally we wanted to go to either Quiznos or Subway, but both places (Subway even the 2 around the bridges) were not the best to sit in (hardly any space - too many people around) so we decided to go to The Filling Station - haven't been there in AGES (think last time I was there was when my friend Peggy was over from San Fran with her mum!). Nice Calamari (still don't get the point of tomato sauce instead of garlicy cream/Tsatsiki to go with!) and a cheeseburger. Yum. :) Lots of chatting about just about everything - really miss Sharon a lot since she moved to the Big Smoke! :o Our next stop was at Chocolate Soup where we blethered for 2 more hours. ;) Premium Double Choc Float with Maltesers ... good as always. Meant I was full and didn't need any dinner when I got home. :) The time was great -...

It's quite funny ... was thinking how many North American Players we had through the years at the Wolves ... Charles "Chuck" Avison, Michael "Church" Churchward, Josh Houk, Andrew "Drew" Foster, Sean Mullen, Aaron Karlen (the first one??), Paul "Fergie" Ferguson, Jonathan Sherman plus coaches Jon Bastian and Brian Belcher. A North American Wolves Players/Coaches Alumni reunion would be just soooo great! It's weird how you can get used to people who are stepping into your life for just a couple of months up to 2 years ... I am really missing the lads!!

Just something that popped into my mind when driving back home on Monday. When I was about 15 or so my friends and I suddenly got into Ice Skating. I don't even remember why or how, it just happened. :-) We used to go to the Frankfurt ice rink about twice per month during winter, by public transport with a stop at Mackie D's... Very healthy. Lol. Going for about 3-4 hours. Was fun. And we did that for about 2-3 years. I think I haven't been on a proper ice rink in a looong time. About 17 years maybe? Been kinda skating since I moved to the UK but that only at CenterParcs or in Princes Street Gardens during the "Winter Wonderland" festivities on very tracky ice with far too many people on it. Yes, I've got my standards for skating... Ice needs to be renewed every 2 hours or so. ;-) What still surprises me is that I never made it to a game of the Frankfurt Lions. Huh. Promised Cal and Sarah I'd go to a Capitals game at some point (well.. Sarah reall...

Getting up early, dashing to RIE for a check up scan on my cysts. Lo and behold, no change really, apart it looks like a smaller one has now "morphed" with the big one. Joy!! The whole thing with Dr T trying to get an answer from us regarding fresh/frozen cycle, treating the cyst ... what are we... Doctors??? They are so blimming non-committal, won't give any directions for us. :( Not a happy bunny. We've now decided that we'll look into cyst treatment, but that's a longer waiting time. DH has already looked into the 2 health insurances I kinda have and it seems they are just doing pay outs for smaller amounts. I have to double check my insurance with Reed again though. Used to be BUPA but they changed it this year. This time it's most likely not just a drain but a "hollow out and stitch up" affair, which of course has the usual risks. It all depends, they can only make the decision when the do the keyhole surgery. Dr T suggested frozen cycle an...

..and that with me having printed off photos yesterday from the Glasgow game... :o I am not too sure about the sizes/maps, so am going to look into that for this week. Got my Chinese Whispers done mind, just can't show it on here... which is really annoying!! :o At the moment there's hardly any proof on my blog that I've have scrapped... ;) Well... I am going to look into the Jessica Sprague class I've signed up and see what I can do with that. Getting more use of my CS3 and looking forward using this for some of the Wolves photos. We'll see what I can do with it. :) Might take a while mind you ... I've not used CS3 at all really... :o

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. :)

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...

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 Invernes...

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 ...