Rrroll up the Rim to Win!

I feel like this will be my year. I say that every year though... The Roll Up odds have not applied to me for a couple years now, with wins in single digits while coffees bought reach the 70 and 80+ mark. Sometimes I wonder if it's a test of my loyalty. A while back I wrote a prayer to say before each cup of coffee. It ran something like this:
"Dear Tim Horton, I thank you for this coffee I am about to drink. Please let it have the success you had in your career and not that of the Maple Leafs."
It didn't work. Then I thought perhaps I'd offended the coffee gods and removed the prayer from my routine. Still losses. But this year, definitely my year. Let the free coffees be plentiful! Not this cup though, it told me to play again. As if I needed a reminder.

Philipp Lahm

This was the original design plan mentioned in the previous post. Philipp Lahm (captain of Bayern München and the national team). I had thought of going greyscale but I don't have enough variants to make it work so I went with black and white and did his kit in colour.

It was only fitting that I eventually pay a proper tribute to Lahm. He is my favourite player. When I started watching football during the '06 World Cup, his was the first goal I saw scored. I followed both Germany and his progress for the rest of the tournament. When it ended and I decided to follow club football, I chose Bayern because Lahm was (and still is) there. Granted, he was on loan at the time to Stuttgart, but I figured he'd come back, and he did. Last year, Ballack was out of the W.C. with injury and Philipp was captain. Wonderful. Last month, Bayern traded Van Bommel and Philipp was made captain. In addition to a contract that runs for the next 5 years, this was all very good news despite Bayern's poor performances. And that is the background on why I love football in general and Philipp Lahm in particular.

Pink Flowers

I kept Rocky and Bullwinkle on for an extra week, despite losing half of Fearless Leader's face, which delayed new nails. When I did get around to preparing for the next design I wasn't at all motivated to spend a few hours executing it. So, laziness factored in, I picked this lovely green background shade that I had never worn before and did partial pink flowers. Another testament to my great desire for a break was that the shading in the dark pink and the white wasn't completed until 5 days after the initial nail painting.

This weekend though, I'll either go with the original design plan which has been mulling about my head for the last month and a half or I'll do a tribute to Liverpool's new #7, Luis Suarez, who scored in his debut game and will be taking on Chelsea's new #9 (he who must not be named) Sunday.