Brrrr...it's been very cold here lately in vancouver! It's officially November 1st, 2006, 22 min. pacific standard time i guess.

What is new? hmm, something new but not really significant ...

Well, lately it was pointed out to me that I was in 4 sports pools amongst friends and/or family! i even outnumber my husbands sports pool participation by 1. Most recently I've joined a basketball pool, and man am i glad i got dwayne waaaade.  *sigh*  and prior to that i joined 2 hockey pools, 1 with friends and 1 with family! (And i'm not last in either, last time i checked!) *yippee*  And the 4th and most long-standing pool i've been a part of (3 yrs. atleast in age) is NFL pool with family. That one is the least involved in some ways 'cause you pick teams instead of players and you pick weekly winners instead of picking your roster at the beginning of the season.

So why the involvement in all the pools?! 

It all started with the football (NFL) pool i joined with my husband and his family. And at the time i guess it was just another thing to do, another topic of conversation with family members... and it even got cumbersome at times to pick weekly that i even had to choose teams during a sermon at church....i know, i know! but anyway i would stop participating if i was discouraged by finishing last but lo and behold i even won it the first year; maybe not regular season but playoffs still count!

And i've never been a hockey fan really but everyone knows my husband is so this year he thought maybe i should try and join the family pool..and that was quite fun, eating pizza, listening to the barrage of comments thrown at cousins, picking players based on their appearance and forecasted numbers "points" which lead me to participate in our church hockey pool. Yes, I was the only girl there but from my experience it wasn't like the guys' testosterone were flying across the room and made me uncomfortable, in fact, they were pretty good about it. I guess to me it was more entertaining than watching Greys on TV...(no offense to greys fans) so why not give it a try with my husband's help along with a hockey draft magazine at hand.

So i guess for a short answer it's purely entertainment why i ended up joining these pools. And i'm glad to say that out of the 4, only 1 has a trophy. Yep, that's right, we can still have fun and incentive enough to join these pools for no other prize or trophy other than bragging rights.

Ask me a week ago and I would have never thought that I would write anything to do with sport pools but here I am. I guess it's just something to talk about while waiting for my photos to upload...