The last few weeks have been great, and although I have neglected this blog, I am determined to pull my finger out and write more.

Over the last few months, I have been more and more interested in different sporting events, and have been amazed and bewildered at some of the things I have witnessed.

I am actually surprised at how much I enjoy going to these events, because it is something that I never considered in the past.

I have attended a few football matches that have really gotten me interested in the sport.
It isn’t just the game that fascinates me, but everything that goes along with it, especially the atmosphere.

There is one instance in particular, where someone was giving running commentation, that I cannot fail to mention.

Boxing Day (the day after Christmas), I went to a Hull City game that I will never forget.

We played the Wolverhampton Wanderers, and one of their players happens to be a gypsy - apparently part of his contract states that he has to live in a house. Anyways, some of the guys in front of us were doing a great commentary, and one shouted out “I bet you had roast hedgehog for your Christmas dinner”. It still tickles me to hear this.

I have been happily surprised to also see that a majority of the negative connotations about football are untrue. I have seen very little racism, only a couple of small fights in the away stands, and generally a great love towards fellow team supporters. Sure there is swearing and some taunting, but all in all, I wouldn’t miss a thing. This is definetly a sport you want to encourage the whole family to get involved with - I cannot wait to take Ariel to a game.

A couple of weeks ago we went to see professional darts in Sheffield - what an eye-opening experience!

I expected to get there and see lots of old men smoking pipes and drinking ales, but that misconception couldn’t have been further from reality.

The crowd was a very young, and very chavvy (white trash) clientele. This made it all the more fun, as everyone was relaxed and there to have a good time.

We supported a darts player from Canada called Darth Maple, and took along light sabres to cheer him on with.

We had a great time with these, and the guys in the rows next to us were using them as microphones to sing into when the players made a good score.

And last, but not least, the hockey. We went to yet another game yesterday, and had an absolute laugh!

It was the Hull Stingrays vs the Manchester Phoenix, and man did we annihilate them!

We got to meet the mascot:

Cropper made ordering hotdogs look sexy (too bad they weren’t REAL dogs):

We got to meet some of the Player’s wives (I should go into a rant about the type of person minority sports attract - i.e. obese, socially retarded, LOUD, etc. but I will leave that for another time):

We then got to see a fight:

Went for a drink with the buddies, and then we walked back to my car in the snow:

(check out my new AMAZING bag - thank you honey)

All in all, a great time was had - and although in the past I have slated sport and never understood it, I am really into it now.

It’s something I haven’t done in awhile, so I thought I’d try answering reader questions today.

You can ask me anything you want, from the personal to the professional to the philosophical and anything else you can think of.

I can’t claim to have expert answers on anything, but I’ll do my best, and will profess ignorance when applicable.

Today I’m going to expand to answering 50 questions. If I get busy, I might not answer them right away. If I don’t get to your question, I apologize!

After I answer the 100 questions, I’m done!

I hope everyone enjoys this fun little feature.

So: Ask me anything you want!

One of today’s secrets at PostSecret really touched me (click to open full size):

Today, both myself and The Mister went for a walk at lunchtime to relax, unwind, grab a bite to eat, and laugh at the substantial amount of Meffs that seem to be about during the school holidays.

We had the delights of a Subway meal deal lunch - mmmm gherkins and olives. Why I love this combination with ranch dressing I will never know.

I then went into Blue Banana and bought some more really bright red hair colour - of which I will be using tonight, and was served by the campest butch-looking man. Ever. His nametag said Lady M. I bet he likes it rough.

We then bumped into a friend, who happened to have a really cool purpley neck tie on, it reminded me of Quality Street and was very shimmery.

Went to the shops and I bought ANOTHER pair of gloves - I have 4 other pairs, all missing the left glove. Either I am extremly forgetful with gloves, or Michael Jackson is stalking me - again.

I understand there has been sightings of a Michael-Jackson-look-alike, who looks like they have been run over by a fleet of VW Beetles, all around Hull. I haven’t seen this person yet, but I hope to… If you see them, please send me a photo!

As we were walking back to my office in the glorious sunshine, we noticed two terrier dogs tied up outside of WHSmith. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that this dog’s WEINER was poking out.

Yes, you read right, THE DOG’S WEINER WAS POKING OUT.

It sure made me laugh, and generally improved my mood (I have had a dodgy tummy the last few days and it’s left me really fed up).

I predict that Hull City will win the Norwich game tonight 3-1. I also predict that some dodgy fella will attempt to collect other fans in a layby that he has a very unnatural fondness of - perhaps he has some great memories of dogging there?

Les has actually given me a LOLCat update (wtf?) - he likes this one:

Spring has Sprung, the sun is shining, Hull City will win, and the weiners are abound.

Life is good.

I read the following over at tipnut, and totally agree with this philosophy.
I intend on setting myself these goals.

11 Goals To Enhance Your Life This Year

1. Choose One New Thing To Learn: Take a class for something you’ve always wanted to know how to do…knitting, woodworking, embroidery, gourmet cooking, first aid, oil painting, wine making.
2. Eliminate One Negative Distraction: Media gossip capturing too much time from your day? Spending too much time complaining with others? World news haunting you hourly? Cut the negative noise, focus on weeding out one distracting habit at a time.
3. Embrace One Positive Influence: Focus on making room for more time for something positive in your life. Nurturing friendships, seeking uplifting discussion or information, spiritual reflection.
4. Honor Your Family: With your time, laughter, forgiveness, respect, generous acts, support and encouragement…then enjoy what blossoms from that.
5. Nurture Your Home: Determine areas that need improvement–cleaning, baking & cooking, organize. Make pretty the best you can with the resources you have. Appreciate.
6. Develop One Healthier Lifestyle Habit: Exercise, eat better, cut fatty foods and snacks, quit smoking, cut the soda pop, walk more.
7. Stretch Yourself–Do Something Terrifying: Public speaking, belly dance class, volunteer for your political party of choice, fundraise for a good cause.
8. Teach Something: Volunteer to teach a community class, start a blog and share your experience or knowledge, share family recipes, history and traditions with younger family members.
9. Reduce Something: Clutter, debt, overspending, household waste (recycle).
10. Focus On One Area For Increased Independence: Make more instead of buying ready-made (food, gifts), learn how to fix more instead of hiring or purchasing replacement, grow more of your own food–even if it’s just kitchen herbs, work on debt reduction.
11. Stretch Your Generosity: Regularly do something a bit painful that helps someone else–give a co-worker a ride home, offer a helping hand to an elderly neighbor, donate clothing and household items to a struggling family–all with no strings attached.

Some goals you may let go of over time, but some will flourish. The fun is appreciating the journey–and where it leads you to next :).

Sacramento, Calif. resident Sara White, 20, faked being kidnapped to get out of a blind date. From the looks of her (i.e. crazy) and the sound of her elaborate hoax (i.e. crazy) she seems like a person who ought to be scared to go on a blind internet date because she probably also sent a fake picture and the numbers “36-24-36″ to her suitor before being sufficiently convinced he loved her for her “personality” to let him meet her “real” self in a local park, and anyone who would be lured in by that sort of person is probably a rapist in the first place.

Source - NBC news

Has she met Ann (Shoustal AKA Griffith AKA Raff)? Maybe they are related?

Perhaps she should have tried the popularity dialer in my links section?

I love my electric toothbrush, but never understood how scary that can be for a small child until I read this article on Dooce.

Poor Leta!

I predict that within the coming week, there will be an announcement that Britney “Ya’ll” Spears and Kevin “been a great dad” Federline will be reconciling.