List #781: A Few Favorite Things from 2012

A Few Favorite Things from 2012

1. Portland visit in the Summer
2. New Puppy at Mom's House
3. Community, Season 3
4. Return to Ravnica
5. Brussells Sprouts
6. Dad's 60th Birthday Party
7. Boot Hockey at Christmas

List #719: 5 Favorite Hockey Games (watched)

List #719: 5 Favorite Hockey Games (watched)

1. Minnesota State AA Final, 1995

2. 2011 NCAA Final

3. The really long one between the Islanders and the Capitals in the playoffs in 1988(?). LaFontaine scored the winner.

4. Minnesota State AA Final, 1998

5. Northstars vs Red Wings, don't remember the year in the 80s, at the arena.

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape, IIRC (West End Piedmont Wingers, AYSA Silver Division Champions U12, circa 1991)

1. Run Riot -- Def Lepard

2. Rocket -- Def Lepard

3. Kickstart My Heart -- Motley Crue (self edited for profanity)

4. Dr. Feelgood -- Motley Crue

5. something by Poison, I think.

List #611: Things I Remembered from the First Time I read Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

List #611: Things I Remembered from the First Time I read Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which I recently re-'read' via audiobook)

1. Characters named "Ford Prefect"

2. That '42' is the answer

3. Don't Panic

4. Don't forget your Towel

5. Dolphins saying "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

6. Not the plot, aside from the earth getting blown up.

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

1. My Teams: Wheeler (squirt D, C), Piedmont (Squirt B)

2. Collecting Hockey card stickers to put on my helmet

3. Crying so hard (at age 6) when I got my first penalty (because I was innocent) that I had to go home

4. Being offered a dollar for a goal and 50c for an assist from my grandpa (career lifetime salary <15$)

5. Awesome Fans

6. Hiding one of our players in a locker in the locker room after he punched someone in the handshake

7. Hanging out with friends between games at tournaments (and the little pom-poms the mom's would make)

8. Taking up skiing when it became clear that I wasn't good enough to keep playing on the same team as all of my friends would be on.

Bonus list: Things I don't remember

1. The outcome (Score-wise) of any game or tournament

2. It being un-fun, a waste of time, or a bad experience, even thought I quit

List #405: Skiing Memories

List #405: Skiing Memories (Because it's been 15 years)

1. Having a back table in the Moosehead Saloon

2. Free ski passes because Mom worked at Spirit Mt.

3. Storing my stuff in the ski shop

4. Jamming my thumb really bad on the death cookies.

5. Skiing 3 days a week sometimes in middle school.

6. Falling off a ski lift (it was at the beginning, and only like 5 feet off the ground).

7. Learning about the "no tucking" rules while on the bunny hill (after watching Pirmin Zurbriggin and Alberto Tomba in the 1988 olympics)

8. First kiss (on a ski-lift)

9. All of my awesome (Then, and now seemingly ridiculously-awesome) ski gear

10. All of my skiing friends.

List #233: Pep Band Memories

List #233: Pep Band Memories

1. everything up an octave
2. Pi
3. "Milk", "Bessie" and other cheers (to taunt and confuse cheerleaders)
4. playing chords
5. "Championship," "Sirocco", "Children of Sanchez", "Winter Games"(!), "Freeze Frame", "Rock'n'Roll part II (the Hey Song", "Centerfold" and, of course, "go, team, go"
6. Torm's keys and "Purple People Eater"
7. The Birchen, and how great it felt to play after a goal
8. State Hockey, Boys B-Ball, Girls B-Ball
9. the Communist flag
10. The Mall of America and Torm's threats to send people home on the Fan Bus
11. The Edina pep band
12. the Apple Valley Game (grrrrr!!)
13. the 95 State Hockey Championship
14. the long-sleeved t-shirts (which I used to still wear for CH back when I played it)
15. playing at assemblies
16. Many more. Pitch in if you've got one

List #232: Jazz Band memories

List #232: Jazz Band memories

1. Pete Lee, Legend
2. Super Saxy Swinging Snow Shovel Sea Serpent Story Solos
3. Chameleon and Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
4. Playing at gym class dances
5. Santa Hats
6. Loud and Louder
7. lots of Count Basie
8. the solo's on Li'l Darlin' and Shiny Stockings
9. it being a great way to end each day
10. The #2 Book

List #227: Favorite NFL Memories

List #227: Favorite NFL Memories (that's National Forensics League beeatches)

1. The "Drugs for Creativity" Bill in Congress
2. The Crowbar of Justice vs Grand Rapids
3. Quoting "Bambi," Primus, Miles Davis and "The Lost World" in rounds
4. When Jeremy had to use my Case against me because his briefcase was locked and RB was the judge
5. Pretending to be Jeremy for one round at Zenith City
6. The overly high concentration of pyromaniacs
7. Stanley the Wiffle Ball
8. THEOOTBSC
10. The make-up room and Jackson 5 at the FLake Speech Tournament
11. When Jeremy got a 10th place trophy at Red Wing debate when I actually placed 7th but the ballot room messed up
12. Winning plaques in Congress
13. Getting Tilden nominated for Nationals for Congress (with the "man of great Scope" sonnet)
14. Lakeville Debate Camp
15. Being kicked off the team, and having Dave get me reinstated (and he made the coach cry)
16. 2 years of Creative Depres...I mean Expression for speech using epic Poetry I wrote in Middle School (one was a poem somewhat similar to Lion/Witch/Wardrobe but set in a gym locker instead of a wardrobe. The other began "Now Gather 'round children / and sit at my feet / and I'll tell you the tale of / The nightmare on Sesame street" and involved Freddy Kruger, a lot of Mace and Super Grover)
17. Taking 2nd place at our home meet the first time I did Original Oratory (about dinosaurs, decluttering and stress)
18. Giving back to back aff/neg speeches in congress rebutting myself
19. The mints, the Mint and the still life with silver platter
20. Arguing by analogy (esp. the House of Cards analogy deconstruction against Maggie Weller)
21. Novice meets
22. Trivial Pursuit in a Can
23. Overnight tournaments almost every weekend
24. The girl with the blue hair at the first debate tournament of junior year
25. Writing my case on the bus, with a scissors and gluestick for the tournament in #24
26. Eating a Habanero (and a lot of dirty snow) tagging along to watch NFLs for speech freshman year.
27. Ethos and Toy Store
28. Meeting pretty much all of my best friends in HS! People I still love and respect to this day.
29. Making semifinals at Zenith City my sophomore year
30. Having a Briefcase, Wearing a tie to school, talking to walls
31. Being told by a judge that "your second rebuttal" was a work of art, when I had really just made it up as I went along
32. Passing notes in Congress
33. Getting my Quad Ruby pin
34. Cool people on other teams
35. Enemies on other teams
36. The malleable rules of Seniority
37. Learning that it's a severe crime to make cool goggles out of a coathanger and two hotel-door peep-holes
38. The Shaft of Wisdom, it's Velvet sheath (and the year it spent in a hotel)
39. Learning more useful research/writing/structuring-an-argument/being-prepared-for-college skills than from any AP class.
40. Probably a ton of other awesome memories: if you remember anything, feel free to post!

List #211: Memories from Senior year at Carleton

List #211: Memories from Senior year at Carleton

1. Sevy 211, and the 211 Boyz
2. Jazz at Carleton independent Study
3. Field Hockey trip to chicago (Arby's)
4. The Wall of Faces moved into the bathroom
5. Radiohead and Ramen Noodles and a Coke Bottle graveyard
6. IMing Jason across the room while writing our Comps
7. Wiffleball the night before graduation
8. Andrew's domestic dispute / toothpaste money incident
9. Being woken up every sunday morning by KRLX djs looking for andrew because the phone numbers were wrong in the phonebook
10. the "I love you very very very very very very very very much" caterpillar
11. the couch
12. Floor Hockey (USA)
13. Not getting to play Spring Concert in the Arb, and having to do it at Olaf instead :(
14. Astronaughty
15. Come Sail Away in the concert hall
16. Andrew's screen play ( best quotation "Everytime it rains, it is because I ordered pornography")
17. Positive resolution of the Jason and Annemarie saga
18. Woodchuck Wednesdays
19. The Humiliation of Social Dance class
20. New Nic
21. Professor Rhodes' Intro Composition class
22. Playing with Bob Brookmeyer in jazz band
23. Midwinter ball
24. the "House of Cheeses" answering machine message ("Arms and Legs?")
25. experimental soundscapes with "Teenage Dirtbag"
26. Field Hockey banquet
27. Robot of the Week featuring the man with the Yellow Hat and a animated soft-serve machine
28. Lindsay eating cucumber sauce for money
29. Passing comps
30. Valentines Flowers
31. The view from the window by my computer
32. Jason and me being mistaken for "partners"
33. Softsserve at the snackbar
34. John Edward Hasse's convocation (and getting to go to two convo lunches!)
35. Andrew and the bathroom vents
36. Working (aka drawing with crayons) at Cowling
37. "Dowds" East Dining Hall
38. Jason playing Madden ("They used to put stick' em on their hands. Now they just wear those gloves")
39. The Archives Comps crew
40. The old people going to college characters

List #120: The top 5 most wonderful things I remember about my childhood that had something to do with my mom.

List #120: The top 5 most wonderful things I remember about my childhood that had something to do with my mom, in no particular order(As requested by my mom)

1. Being forced to take piano lessons (yes, they really do thank you for it when they are older)
2. Going to the Zoo and being read all informative signs
3. Being sung "The Christmas Song" (barely remember) and "Mr. Moon" (in the car on the way to Iowa)
4. Having many books, including "The monster at the end of this book" read to me
5. Getting free ski passes and getting to ski at Spirit Mountain (and having a table at the Moosehead).

6. Obviously there are more, but These are the 5 I picked for now

List #41: State Tournament Memories

List #41: State Tournament Memories (Minnesota State High School Hockey)
(East went to state all four years when I was in HS, and the year after. and I went down with the band. So much fun )

1. The "Apple Valley Game" 5-overtime Debacle in 1996 (with the unseen goal)
2. Three games, three Hat Tricks -- Dave Spehar in 1995 tournament (champions)
3. Being Forced to wander the Mall of America all day long waiting for the games
4. "Duluth East 5, Bloomington Jefferson 0, Any questions" 1995
5. The called back high-stick goal in the 1997 Championship game loss to Edina
6. Making friends with the Edina Band in 1997
7. Getting together with friends to go as 'civilians' in 1998 for the championship
8. Waving Communist Russian flags at our enemies.
9. Being taped-in by Torm... "You'll go home on the Fan Bus"
10. Going down on the Fan bus as freshen for the BJ semi-final in 1994

(11). Wondering how the 'Hounds are losing 4-2 to CDH right now even though we're out-shooting 30-10...

List #29: Favorite Wales '99 Memories

List #29: Favorite Wales '99 Memories (10 of many many great ones)

1. Whistlestop tour of N. Wales with Skippy (Harlech, Snowdonia, Beaumaris, Pen Mon, Dolwyddelan, the "Lost Film")
2. Thanksgiving in December
3. Pub Quizzes at the Ffesant and Firkin and the Albion hotel
4. Trip to Ireland
5. Going out with the Field Hockey team
6. Visit from Hannah (that led to her Ph.D.)
7. Playing pool at the sports bar at the Ffridd site
8. The Questionable cheeseburger cart
9. Glenrafon Hill
10. The view out my window

Also, March is International Nic should try new things month (we'll see how long that lasts...):
Today's New Thing: I ate Kumquats for the first time.

List #9: 10 Second Myers Memories

List #9: Second Myers Memories
1. The "Words You Can Make From Your Names Wall"
2. The "Pizza Box Art Installation"
3. The fact that I lived on Third Myers
4. Jimmy the Jive Talking Robot / The Penguin / Jimmy Stewart in Hell/Dr. Mindgames
5. Jeannette's Exorcism
6. The Golden Flying Machine
7. Gnomo (who lived on West Side)
8. Darth Vader breathing
9. The Lighting in Myers 236
and, of course,
10. Pop America