At BlogHer, I met Lori Hylan-Cho during a Flickr session, she of Avocado8 and the Ice Hockey Escapades, the latter of which is a highly-detailed amazing chronicle of her adventures in my favorite sport. At the time of our meeting, I was inspired to digitize my hockey journal at some point. But of course, the “at some point” grew farther into the future as “life” intervened.

In honor of the New Year and pseudo-renewed energy, I have spent many hours today scanning in some of the photos from my amateurish album. No, it isn’t a professional-looking Sizzix-machine-created scrapbook of the sort so popular these days. Rather, it is a bunch of stuff-cut-out-of-hockey-magazines interspersed with photos, ticket stubs, tourney programs, and so forth. And, as evidenced by the shot of the opening page of my scrapbook at left, it involves cutesy little quotes and cartoonish figures (a teddy bear playing hockey? Puuuuhllleeze!)

I will omit most of the paper-y things (Snoopy and Mickey Mouse playing hockey, a photocopy of a plane ticket to Toronto) in favor of putting up some photographs of my adventures along with a description or story.

As eager as I am to share, I won’t bore you by unrolling all my tales simultaneously. At least not all today.

Can you picture this naïve little ballet dancer at right deciding to check people into the boards?