LUUUUUC!!!!

I was so excited to go to Tip A King this year! I was on a mission! The mission being to catch up to Luc Robitaille and let him see how much I have changed!

So I stood in his line for 2 1/2 hours! I was thrilled when they closed the line right after I got in it! As I waited, I thought of the last 19 years! The first time I met him outside the Forum with his then girlfriend Nancy Mckeon waiting for him......standing out in the rain at Culver City Ice Rink to sing Happy Birthday to him in French..... all the gifts and pictures........the charity softball and hockey games...how he would call me by name and ask how school was going....how proud I was when he went home to Montreal the Kings first trip to the Stanley Cup finals.......the heartbreak when he was first traded....the joy when he came back to Anaheim as a Ranger and came down from his hotel room to say hi to me....... all the amazing goals and games won.......how I cried like a baby watching him skate with the Cup and wishing like Hell he was doing it here.......

I finally got up to him and was thrilled he recognized me and asked where I had been. I told him since the team moved downtown he was a little harder to get to. When I showed him the old picture of the two of us and told him that was 95 pounds ago he said three words I will NEVER forget: "You look amazing"! I was thrilled! We talked a little about him winning the cup and how we both wish he does it again here! After we took a current picture I told him he was going to be my "before and after" pictures he laughed and told me not to be a stranger! I said ok and he told me again how great I look!

WOW! WOW! WOW! I think I floated to the back of the line and couldn't wait to tell Shannon! I tell you, I will live forever on this one compliment! This is why I have loved Luc for 19 years and he will always be in my heart! What a sweet and classy guy!

I am going to work hard so this time next year, at Tip A King 2007, I'll have a new picture to take with Luc. The final weight loss picture. God willing, I will be at my goal weight and he will have won his 2nd Cup, this time with the Kings!