Breakers Bandwagon

Me and Miss Shell watched the Breakers game tonight. Chon and Morgan were doing wussie stuff with plays and babies.

The first three quarters of the game were fairly boring. The Breakers looked ugly on offence - clanging lots of long shots, not really working the ball around much. The orange team looked marginally better, but the whole thing was ugly-ball with lots of silly fouls and turn-overs.

Then it got interesting towards the end. There were some really clutch shots from both teams. Just when you thought one team had stuck the dagger in, the other team would answer. I personally hated the Braswell threees (clutch, yes but if they'd missed you woulda said 'Stupid option!' both times). The Dorsal-fin guy's ones were better - he had to take the shots, was waaay out of range both times and nailed them both.

I thought Penney was just getting into his groove in the over-times, working the ball around really well and either drawing the foul or dishing the ball off to someone inside..... but then Braswell and Brunton kept hiffing up one-on-one three pointers rather than actually running an offence. The same shots had kept them in the game earlier on, but at that point in the game we'd just gotten a few great inside baskets and it kinda ruined our momentum. I didn't like it anyhow.

Me and Michelle thought they were both hunguses.

Chewbacca was pretty clutch for his team. Gotta like a player who takes the ball to the rim hard.

Phil Jones and Penney were both veeery quiet all game. Maybe they'll come out blazing in Game 3? I hope so. I prefer Penney to be in charge of the offence - he seems to make decent decisions.

My favourite Breaker of the game was Abercrombie and Fitch. Vercona was active, which I liked, but did a couple of silly things as well.

And that is my take on the game.

I'm sad now because the royal wedding is on at the same time as the deciding game. And I'm already committed to watching that.

I was secretly hoping the Breakers wouldn't win Game 2 because it's way more exciting to have a deciding game (plus they really didn't deserve to win that game - it was ugly most of the way).

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I got new boots. They're swell. They match my bag too. I like to coordinate.

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My favourite thing at the moment: playing Battle Tetris was Florence and the Machine's 'Dog Days' playing. It makes me even better.

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I washed the car today. Inside and out. Including the black stuff on the hub caps. I did this all in my new Kate Sylvester dress and new boots. And didn't get a stain on either one! That's either really stupid or really clever..... not sure which one.......

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I had to renew my driver licence today. The eye test seemed a lot harder than last time. Either my peripheral vision isn't that good or they put a few 'dummy' ones in there that I just couldn't see..... that's mean of them, if they did.... I think I got a 'K' wrong on line two of the sight test - I said H or N... wasn't sure if you were allowed take-backs......

[Pretty sure my photo was weird - I was consciously thinking 'Don't smile - do something that would look good as a mug-shot' - maybe not a good strategy.]

Having driven for six months on an expired licence (five of which were accidental and oblivious) I just couldn't wait for a good hair day to do it. I settled for a reasonably-clean hair day instead.

I am such a conscientious citizen that while I drove to VTNZ, I did park down the street so that nobody in the building would realise I had driven on my expired licence - it just seemed unethical.

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I agreed to take Cassie to the airport today (offered, even).

Then she told me I had to be up by 8am. On a holiday day.

I got so much done before midday. Hung out a load of laundry and watched 'Law Abiding Citizen'.

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My dad missed out some apostrophes on his blog. I scolded him for it. To be fair, they were tricky ones ('its' and 'lets').

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My ankle is still swollen. Things take so long to heal once you're over 30. I can feel my skin cells degenerating as I type. I may have to start wearing shoes that have actual support in them. At least Kumfs have a trendy new label these days..... and Hush Puppies have always been kinda cool in my books (they were my dad's favourite shoes growing up).

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My new vacuum sounds like a jet engine. And it is bagless. I have spoken of the wonder of this to many people already. Cleaning is so much better when there are tangible results (a container full of dust to inspect and measure).

It's so strong that I almost had to wrestle it off when it started sucking up my cardigan.

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I had a pastrami and pickled onion sandwhich for lunch.

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So prezi.com is the new cool thing for teachers to use. Me and a colleague made this prezi - http://prezi.com/b-kgkjxkdcjr/war-poetry-year-12/ . It's on good old WW1 Poetry. If you go to the section with poems by our class, you can see some Miss J poems. We had to take two of the poems we'd studied and blend them into a new poem. A lot of kids took it literally (plus I only gave them 10 minutes to do it - that's all the time we have for non-essential fun in MY class!). My ones are pretty awesome.

Just because I haven't posted any photos of injuries this month. This is my twisted ankle. It got twisted in the dying moments of the indoor netball game last week - we were up by two, the other team had the ball and under a minute to go. I tangled ankles with someone (probably Walter) and turned it... but I soldiered on. Then they got a two pointer in and tied the game. Stink.

My ankle was satisfyingly swollen the next day - very localised to the ankle bone bit, so not actually painful to walk on, but still impressive to show people. Now I have nice bruising coming up too. Jolly good.

(I cut the bit out that was hairy - need to wax my legs.)

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We may be close to finding a new flatmate (to replace Colleen, who's moving to Denmark to get married). We have an offer on the go and an interested second choice if that falls through.

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Shocked by last night's Idol elimination. Nobody picked that in the flat betting pool.

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Had a great night out on Saturday. Bunch of people from work went to see a band (plus Sam). Band gigs are very noisy, though. I do like that I work with lovely people this year - very un-wanky and friendly types. Sam said it was an interesting comparison to the staff at Upper Hutt :) I think the word 'cultured' might have been used - though that may have been a euphemism for something less flattering.

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And that is all for now. Oh, went to an awesome sale at Area 51. I got Kate Sylvester and Huffer stuff for around $60 a piece - bargains! Love a good sale. If it's still there (just a few doors down from actual store on Dixon St) have a look. I think it might've finished on Saturday, though.