jenni_blog | TODAY I AM A COUCH POTATO

Despite the fact that I have a backlog of picspams to do, the games today are wonderful! GOLTV just showed the Celtic vs Al-Ahly game from the Peace Cup and now they have the Spurs vs Barca game! Then they are showing Lyon vs Besiktas and Malaga vs Aston Villa before the Colombian league games start. However, instead of showing these on TV they are having live streams. Which is okay, I don't mind. Atletico Huila vs Santa Fe is at 7:15 PM followed by Deportivo Cali (MY team!) vs Pereira at 9:15. I got my copy of the movie 'Coraline' from Amazon.com yesterday but I haven't had time to watch it! I will have to try to fit it in! My husband asked me if I wanted to go shopping and I said "No way, Jose! Not today!" LOL.

In other news, I was supposed to be in Boston this weekend for the Milan exhibition derby, having bought tickets and reserved a hotel room. However, at the time I bought the tickets I did not know that Toronto would be getting both River Plate and Real Madrid for exhibition friendlies! Also, Olivia and I were going to go together but she ended up going back to Vancouver and is unable to get back here at this time. That would have been okay because Jamie would have gone with me, but my husband convinced me that enough was enough and to cancel my hotel reservation in Boston and try to sell my tickets on ebay. I ordered tickets to both Toronto games and they were quite expensive. The River Plate tickets were $110.00 each. The Real Madrid ones were $150.00 each! The AC Milan-Inter Milan tickets were $125.00 each! The hotel - the Royal Sonesta - would have cost $250.00 per night for two people and I would have had to get it for two nights. The game tickets included the training session today so we would have had to be in Boston last night. And then the airfare would have been another big whack of money.

My experience with ebay has never been good. I did manage to sell the tickets to the highest bidder, a guy from the Boston area, for $102.50 US (which is about $120.00 Canadian). So I lost $130.00 on the deal. I am a bit bummed because I can't go now (and see Jose Mourinho) but also, I never thought to check with my flist and see if anyone lives near Boston. I would rather have given them away for nothing to someone I 'know' than to sell them for a $130.00 loss. And yet I guess it's better than nothing. :(

Some good news - Toronto is offering tickets to the Real Madrid training session on Thursday night, August 6, for $10.00!!! It will be a bit of a hike into the city for that, but WTF. I might just do it! Also, Jamie will be going with me to the Madrid game so I can do anything I want and act as crazy as possible! LOL.

Okay, on to my next picspam!

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:o 10$???? I WANT TO GOO lol but whose going?

The tickets to the training session are only being offered to people who are on the waiting list for seasons tickets to TFC or if you are already a seasons ticket holder. So if you are one of those you would have received an email from TFC. My son Jamie will go with me (he is 22). But I have to work that night until 7:00 PM so if I went he would have to pick me up from work and we'd have to drive there. So we'll see. He has to work until 6:00 so it could work out as long as he can pick me up. Then we would miss only a bit of it - the training session starts at 7:00.

I hope you can go, but you would have to go to the TFC website and register as a wait-list for seasons tickets! It doesn't cost anything to do that! And then on Monday morning they are going to send us another e-mail to tell us when the training tickets will be available online! It will be sometime Monday afternoon!

So you could try!

dfdfjkls dammmnnn there prob isnt going to be any space for it though:(

and ive come to a conclusion that it seems as though the whole team is going to come..not the reserves:( so so..im gonna miss out on albiol and ikerrD: my heart is fullycrushed now

That's totally shitty!

Is it not my fault for choosing to go to an Italian game? LOL. The only reason I did it was because I wanted to see some big teams! And Jose Mourinho! And I did NOT know that River Plate and Real Madrid would come here!

So I guess this is someone or something telling me that I should NOT ever do anything like this again! LOL.

*huggels* I can understand you!

But if someone would present me tickets for the italians I would kick him to the moon! *lol*

Hahahaha! I will never make a mistake like that again!

But you didn't know anout the other matches! I can understand you very well you wanted to see

Deportivo Cali scored and the guy was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo funny!!! Like a seal!

some european clubs. It's not your fault! Shit happens. It's only sad you lost money! *huggels*

OMG! THAT guy! I know him! LOL.
WTF. I went to a live stream and they said the DeporCali game was over! I can't see a replay until July 27th. I am not having any luck!

Damn! And I think the River game might be too late for me too! Maybe not, if I can stay awake!

I'm tired too but the Deportivo match is good! And I wanna see River....

*needs coffee*

i would totally go with you if you're looking for someone :)

Well, thank you for the offer! Since I have to work until 7 PM that night in Pickering, it would take me too long to go home first and then come back out so I am not sure I would be able to go. And unless I drove down to the stadium, it would take too long by GO train. But we can talk about it if you like. I'm going to have to make up my mind about it before Monday morning because that is when I'd have to buy the training tickets.

Not seeing Jose is definitely sad, but I do understand your decision. I was also thinking about attending Valencia's match in Dortmund today, but it would have been another 40€ and I wasn't willing to pay them, besides, I think I'll attend enough friendlies this summer. lol

It's awesome that they are offering tickets for the practice session! I would go to if they would do the same here, but I'm sure they will train behind locked doors. :S

Have lots of fun!!!

They may yet do it!

Funny thing is, I've also received an e-mail from the New England Revolution, the MLS team that is hosting the Milan match in Boston, announcing two training sessions for today that ticket holders could attend. But they only JUST e-mailed me last night and I forwarded it to the buyer who got my tickets.

And then last night I got the e-mail about the Real Madrid training session. So they seem to wait until quite late to announce these 'extra attractions'!

I didn't get anything like that for the River Plate game, though.

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