Quite a mixed review of the weekend.
Friday night I wrapped up my outdoor season with a victory. We took 3rd place in the league. There were only four teams in our division, but still...fourth would have been humiliating. We got a nifty plaque and as team organizer, I get to keep it. I will hang it up in the mudroom above the dog bed. Right next to last year's second place plaque.
After taking the victory lap around the field, I had to race up to another suburb to play in the first game of an indoor season. This game stunk. My team is comprised almost entirely of Russian immigrants who had no talent. Usually any team with some international flavor is bound to have a couple of stars who can dance circles around us upstart Americans. Apparently Communism has chosen to focus on baseball and female weight lifters. My God. They were awful. It's going to be a long season.
Saturday I went to a friend's house-warming party. If one can have a house-warming party four years after closing. It was a soccer crowd. We get hives and go through withdrawal when we're away from each other for too long.
Sunday. Halloween. I took The Senator Spiderman and The Governor to my folks house. My folks live in a very liberal neighborhood. You couldn't walk across a lawn without tripping over a "Say No To Bush" sign or a "Kerry/Edwards" placard. (None were vandalized.) I was a bit hesitant to take the boys here, because I didn't want anyone slipping campaign literature into the plastic pumpkin. On the other hand, liberals believe in hand-outs, so I knew I could count on a good haul. I was right.
The candy came in handy this morning. The Senator was having trouble getting up for school until I told him he could pick out a few pieces to put in his lunch box. Today was his first day of "all-day" school. September and October were traditional half-day classes. He will now go two full days and a half day for the rest of the year. He was pretty excited to eat lunch at school. He had hauled out his American flag lunchbox that his aunt and uncle gave him and had it packed on Saturday.
He came home from school tired and hungry. In spite of a snack, the couple of hours until dinner were a bit rocky. I couldn't help but think of how awful life is going to be when he's tired, hungry, and has an hour of homework to do. Yee-ha.
Too much posting. Time to get to bed. Gary - thanks for the videos! I loved them. Dave P. - thanks for the photos. I'll be putting a couple of those up this week.
Posted by Cathy at November 1, 2004 10:42 PM