Funk

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Not Your Typical Girl

I’m in a funk.  I hate this feeling.  It is a feeling of emptiness, feeling of being unfulfilled and knowing something is missing.

I know some of it has to do with my professional life, I’ve been working for the same company now for almost three years with no hope of advancement in a small department.  I never planned on being with my company as long as I have.  It is a position I took on to gain more experience and hoping that working full-time would help attract other positions.  Before you start the “well look for a new job” comments,  I have…unfortunately finding a fan development or event planner position in sports isn’t like applying for a job as a bank teller.  Sports is one of the hardest industries I break into and although I have the experience and the degree, the opportunities just are not there.   Lately I have been going to work, and going through the motions of the day and that is not what I want for my daily life.  I want to wake up every morning and look forward to going to work, like I did when I worked for the Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Storm.

I know some of it has to do with my personal life.  Moving on…

I know it doesn’t have to do with my friends.  I am friends with some of the greatest people you could ever hope to meet.  Too many of them live far away, but I know if I need any of them, they are just a phone call, away and if I need them to be by my side they will be there for me in a heartbeat.  Some of them I have known almost my whole life, some I have only known for a few months, but I cherish each one of the personal relationships I have.

All I know is I need a change.  Maybe more than just changing jobs.  Maybe I should move somewhere else.  I love living in the NYC area and all that it has to offer.   I love living so close to some of my family.  But maybe NYC is not offering me the right things. I just don’t know where I would move to.

I need to get out of this funk.  I wish I knew how to get out of it but what I do know it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

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Newest Additions To My Sports Wardrobe

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Not Your Typical Girl

Before the New York Rangers season started I began a love affair with their newest rookie, Derek Stepan.  Not THAT kind of love affair, but the kind of love affair where I appreciate what he does on the ice.  He worked hard during the preseason and fought to make the opening night roster (in which he became the first American and Ranger player to score a hattrick in his first NHL game).  Earlier this year he was the Captain of the USA team that won the Gold Medal at the IIHF World Junior Championships.  Oh…and he also played two years at the University of Wisconsin.  If you follow my Twitter account you know I’m a huge Wisconsin Athletics fan as my brother is an alumnus.

Before the season started I decided I would purchase a Stepan Wisconsin hockey jersey. Unfortunately, the school does not sell player jerseys, so I bought a blank jersey and had letters and numbers added thanks to Gerry Cosby & Co., Inc. Sporting Goods on West 31st Street a block from Madison Square Garden.

 

Front of my New Wisconsin jersey

Back of the jersey. Yes, Stepan also wore #21 at UW

Now for the really exciting story:

Then, on November 17th, ,while watching the Rangers take on the Bruins, I noticed others on Twitter were using the hashtag #amexsports.  A few minutes later some followers won tickets to a Rangers game or the brand new “heritage” 85th Anniversary/ 3rd jersey.  So I began to send tweets about the Rangers and included #amexsports.  Next thing I knew…I received this tweet:

@Stefmara Well, SURPRISE! You won @theNYRangers 85th anniv jersey! Thx for tweeting with us….. #AmexSports
Needless to say, I was just a little excited.  So what does the jersey look like? Is it a blank jersey or does it have a player’s name/number on the back…see below to find out!

Front of my brand new Rangers Heritage Jersey

I didn't get to choose the player, but it's fitting since I wanted Ryan Callahan's Olympic jersey

The unseen details are amazing!

Official jersey means...FIGHT STRAP!!

The numbers above are the Rangers retired jerseys:

1- Eddie Giacomin
2- Brian Leetch
3- Harry Howell
7- Rod Gilbert
9- Andy Bathgate
9- Adam Graves
11- Mark Messier
35- Mike Ritcher

Size 56 jersey means it's HUMONGOUS on me!

I would again like to thank American Express for the jersey, although I will never wear it I will treasure it as it is my first official Rangers jersey…my Lundqvist jersey is a replica.

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Ghosts of IMs Past

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Not Your Typical Girl

I just found myself searching for an semi-recent email within my gmail account.  What a mistake!  While searching for the email, I came across some old IMs from someone I used to be quite close with, ahhh…..the wonders of gmail and gchat.   Anyway, seeing just a tease of what we used to spend our days and nights talking about was hard.  You see, we don’t talk anymore besides the once in the blue moon exchange, so I decided to search for all of the IMs with that person and delete them.

Why is it, if we don’t talk anymore, and this person is all but out of my life, did it hurt so much to see and then delete the IMs? Maybe I miss them. Maybe it’s because for a while they were a major part of my daily life and now they’re just a memory and a sidebar.

I don’t know.

I wish I knew.

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