Valentines Hockey

As has become tradition. Tonight we ate soft pretzels and watched Worcester lose to Trois Rivieres. On Valentines we try to do Hockey, on our anniversary usually we'll go the drive-in or Funspot, depending. Tonight was great. The (I think "teen", Natalie guessed 22) kid next to us is going to make someone a real fun friend to drink with one day in fancy restaurants. Natalie not withstanding, that "one" friend always draws me. I think I sometimes have been "that friend". She was getting so mad we were dying.

Fun fact, this is the first year in the last 18 years of my job that I'll be able to do something on Natalie's birthday or our anniversary weekends. For several years I had to leave our anniversary weekend at the New England Shake-up in Sturbridge to go to Waltham and do monthly Colo Maintenance from 11pm to 4am Saturday morning crawling in bed at the hotel around 5:30-6 and waking up Natalie. The (often First and-) Second Friday after the Second Tuesday of the month is a cruel bitch with no regard for my stupid holidays.