And THAT’S for making me come to Mars!
Today I took the boys down town to a hockey game with the cub scouts. Since there was no school the Winterhawks hosted a 2pm game and offered cheap tickets to cub scouts. It was cool. On the way there i was reminded of a scene from Total Recall where Sharon Stone is beating the hell out of Arnold because he made her go to Mars- and she HATES Mars. So as Arnold is down on the ground she kicks him and says “AND THIS IS FOR MAKING ME COME TO MARS!” The reason this came to mind is because we took public transportation down town- aka the MAX. I do not, do not, do NOT like the Max. I seem to always forget this until I step onto the Max and catch my first whiff of pee. Today, was no exception. We met friends at Gateway and got our tickets and waited for the Max. As soon as I got on I saw a drunk, farting woman sleeping on two of the benches. I knew she was drunk because I could smell alcohol on her. I knew she was farting because she kept doing it out loud. So I shuffled the boys and my friend and her kids to the next section of the Max. Just my luck some guy was there who immediately noticed the boys uniforms- which triggered him to start repeating various boy scout laws, phrases, etc…. Then he informs us that he was an eagle scout and was STILL active in a troupe even though he has no children and he was 35. CREEPY, CREEPY, CREEPY!!!! I was like ‘that’s nice- move along boys” and we scooted to the next section. So we finally arrived and met up with the other dads and enjoyed the 2.5 hour hockey game. The boys loved it. While we were there some of the dads took pity on me and offered to drive the boys and me home so I could avoid the max. My friend didn’t have that kind of luck and no one offered to drive her or her kids home. SO she guilted me into riding the awful Max home. (WHICH by the way is how she got me to ride the max in the first place…) So it started raining little tiny freezing cold pellets as we were walking to the Max. Yes, i know this is Oregon and it always rains but it just made it that much worse. We missed two Max trains because she couldn’t get her money to go into the machine-. When we got on it was super crowded since all the working people were on their way home. Needless to say it was packed and I was starting to feel ill from motion sickness. My friend started laughing cause apparently my discomfort was funny to her. I then said ‘ have you seen Total Recall?” and she said no. So I explained the scene to her and then I said “right about now I want to kick you for making me take the Max” …… HA HA HA now whose laughing! 
anyway, it was a fun day. No big fights in hockey. The refs don’t let the players fight it out anymore. The refs are more aggressive than the players. It was kind of disappointing.
Graham kicked some serious 7-8 year old ass in basketball on Saturday. He got major ball time and totally knew what to do. I was shocked, and extremely impressed. No pushing, no aggressive blocking, no attitude. I am so hoping practice will be better than last week. The games are never a problem, the practices kill me. I talked to one of the dads today - whose had to take anger management classes for his job. He said he’d talk to Graham and try to come up with a few solutions for him for when he gets frustrated and angry. Graham is excited as he respects Mark and thinks the world of him. I can only hope it will help. we’ll see, tomorrow is practice!
And that’s all of my story for today.
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