Aleen and Michael’s Blog

With the Leafs officially being kicked out of playoff contention last night, you would think that would bring gloom to the local sports fan.  But, with temperatures slowly rising that only means that it will be soccer season here in Toronto very soon, as part II of MLS’ Toronto FC kicks off it’s season this weekend in Columbus.

As some of you may have heard, about 2500 TFC diehards will be making the 7 hour trek down to Columbus, and yours truly will be one those idiots..I mean fans.

I don’t really have high hopes for the team this year, but I just hope they put on a good display and not make the trip down a waste of time.  Either way, me and the others will be in full voice cheering on the team.  Look for us at 4pm ET on Sportsnet.

The first road trip of the year and we’re pretty pumped. GO TFC!

• Crew braces for crowd

Came across this on the web…before the Indian Wells Master Series event a female reporter in a pre-tournament interview asked Andy Roddick about his love life, kinda funny, seeing Andy is quite quick witted and has a funny sarcastic humour.  It’s half way through the video after Roddick talks about Djokovic [video].

I’m getting pretty annoyed the last couple of weeks, as I’m finding that I am getting a lot of comment spam on my blog entries.  Every morning I wake up and see like 10 of my entries have been spammed with useless comments of a word or two with weird URLs.

It started with traceback alerts and then comments.  I shutdown comments and forced users to login to comment, but I was still getting them.  I took the site down for a few days and when I brought it back up it didn’t take long to get hit again.

I read online about something called Traceback Spamming and how they attack WordPress blogs.  It made me look through some of the blogs that keep getting hit and I realized that I didn’t turn comments and tracebacks off properly, which was odd cause I thought I did so for every entry.

Anyhow, I now set things up right I hope and I have a spam filter setup, so we’ll see what happens in the next few days.

After over two months of haggling and damaged or incorrect parts, SEARS finally came for the last time yesterday and installed our new freezer door, which was in fine condition.  The installation took less than 10 minutes and now we can say we are done with SEARS.  Needless to say, you won’t see us buying anymore big ticket items from SEARS, way too painful.

So I woke up this morning ready to go.   Seeing I didn’t move since Friday night I knew I had a challenge ahead of me.  That was probably the most snow I have ever moved at one time, it was up to my waist nearly for the most part.  My piles are now taller than I am!  Anyhow, that’s done with and now I am resting the rest of the day seeing I can’t move anymore.  I tried to jump in the jacuzzi but that didn’t help the sore muscles.  I really hope that’s it now, no more snow please!

Will the snow ever stop?  This has to be one of the worst winters in years in terms of snow and the last 2 days sums it all up.  Like every other day pretty much I have been shovelling here, and without a paved driveway it makes things worse.  We’re lucky we have no one living next to us, so I can just dump some extra snow there, cause my piles are taller than I am now.

Looks like this year we will have the most snow in over 70 years in Toronto and this one storm since last night will break the total snowfall record for all of March!  Anyhow, just a couple of pics, which really don’t do the situation justice:

I haven’t shovelled yet today and I just looked out the window…looks like I got a fun morning ahead of me.

Haven’t posted for a while so some people were wondering if we are still alive.  Honest truth, nothing special has really happened.  Keeping busy still unpacking stuff at the house.  Bought a Blackberry Pearl, which has kept me busy too.  Pretty cool gadget, getting used to all of its many features.

Aside from that we’ve done some more wedding stuff.  Aleen found a florist, we registered for our tuxes and we also booked our honeymoon.  The latter was probably the most fun of all the wedding things so far.  We booked a 1-week all-inclusive trip to the Sandals Grande in St. Lucia.  We’ve always been intrigued by the island’s exotic landscape, but the cost has always been a bit higher than what we normally wanted to spend on an “average” trip, but since this is for our honeymoon, we decided to splurge a bit and make sure it’s a trip to enjoy and remember.

With the wedding being in September and that still being hurricane season, we delayed the trip until the end of November this way we avoid any disappointment.  With the recent crappy weather here, wouldn’t mind going on that trip now!