Jenny

Hmmm. No, I don't think I have, unless it was an unremembered dream. The person below me often forgets their warm hat when they go outside in winter.

I have. It was even the kind where I was being checked for a concussion. (Horsing around with a friend, and I wound up checking myself into a wall. Friend kind of panicked and insisted on taking me to urgent care even though I didn't have any concussion signs.) The person below me will be watching the Winter Classic tomorrow.

Fungal. They're gross, but not painful. (But either would be a horror to my shoe-hating self!) Make New Year's resolutions or no?

The look on Perry's face when he says "Really?" at the end is great! But I just can't picture Nick and Perry going anywhere in the same vehicle.

Already ate. The person below me gets tense and twitchy whenever they hear that dreadful Chicago goal song, whether it's in a game or not.

Broccoli. Steamed vegetables or raw vegetables?

Ansar Khan says Nyquist is actually up to replace Helm, who has a minor groin injury. https://twitter.com/#!/AnsarKhanMLive/status/152493906846679041

Cider. I think champagne is just nasty. Apparently I have an unsophisticated palate. Better hockey souvenir: game used stick or game used jersey?

Definitely. But they may be like the Hall of Fame and they're trying to wait until he's actually done playing. Which will be, approximately, never. The person below me has written poetry.

Helene St. James just tweeted that Kindl is sitting tonight and Commodore is in. http://twitter.com/#!/freepwings/status/150022858461024257

1 if I can get away with it, but most need 2. Have your main Christmas celebration on the 24th or the 25th?

I just assumed it was slightly less red than Red # 40. (I once wrote a short parody spy story about a guy whose code name was Red 40, but it turned out to mean he was like a Star Trek red shirt, and he kept almost dying.) The person below me took a second or two to realize that Red #39 was not some sort of reference to Dominik Hasek.

Okay. Conk has something to prove. The rest of the team has something to prove after they played so pathetically last night (except for an occasional good half shift here and there). I'm calling a win. 4-2. Goals by Lidstrom, Miller, Mule, and The Todd. Both Calgary goals by Iginla, stopping him just tantalizingly short of 500.

I was fretting about this last night. I love so much to see the fire that Jimmy has, that he will get up and defend himself. (or his teammates!) But this is just not something he should have to do for himself every single time. If there's anything that will cause him to look at moving on to another team when his contract is up, this is it. That just strikes me as shameful. I am glad he called out his teammates on this. He has their backs night in and night out. He deserves some respect and protection in return. I hope it embarrasses them into making some changes. They don't even have to be big changes, but for cryin' out loud, at least shove the goalie-runners around a little. A face wash. Something. Don't let running our goalie be so damn easy.

How about... an egg nog milkshake! (Steak & Shake was selling them the other day, but I didn't try one so I don't know if they're any good.) Kronwallian or Datsyukian?

Very. The person below me doesn't have to work a full day today.

Then wave off the goal for incidental contact with the goaltender, if you don't call the interference penalty because you can't tell whether the Canuck was pushed or not. Jimmy was physically unable to make the save because there was an opposing player on top of him. We've seen goals disallowed for that any number of times, whether there's a penalty called on the play or not.

If the producers are male, they're probably scared to show too much Lilja for fear their wives/girlfriends will leave them to be part of Lil's harem.

I know what I want to get, I just have to find it! (The guy on the radio just said that 70% of people still have shopping to do, so at least I don't feel too neglectful now.) The person below me is having the sort of workday where they keep getting interrupted by the phone every time they try to do something useful.

North. North or Northeast? (Hey, I can pick up on themes. )

I like the building-wide potluck lunch we do (that was just today, actually), but I don't really like the fancy team-only dinner. The person below me has co-workers who have so much vacation time accrued that they get pretty much all of December off.

Toast. White bread or wheat bread?

I found everyone in Montreal to be very polite the two times I've visited. I started out trying to speak French, and most people could see I was struggling with it so they'd switch to English for me. Although I did get the distinct impression that if they thought I was from Anglo Canada instead of from the US they might not have been so accommodating, language-wise.

I've heard it usually as Keh-beh-kwa.

Not the whole game, but I did tune in for the end. The person below me has out of town family members staying with them over the holidays.