October 31, 2005

Weekend Wrap-Up

Did everyone else have a great weekend? I hope so. I really hated to see this one end.

Friday night was the start of indoor soccer. We posted an 8-6 victory over Team Mexico. The Mexicans would have whomped us soundly but for the fact that it's a co-ed league and the women on their team were very inexperienced players. That's a polite way of saying they stunk. The men on their team wouldn't pass to them, so in effect, Team Mex. played two players short the entire time. I wish I spoke Spanish. When T.M. lost their lead, they started yelling at each other. I'm pretty sure it wasn't constructive coaching.

Saturday we had our lake cabin neighbors over for dinner. I love having company. It forces me to clean the house. We fixed our favorite company menu: grilled steaks, potatoes, salad, etc. The kind of meal where the thought of dessert actually makes you feel ill.

Yesterday was my final outdoor soccer game of the season. Championship game. The team we played beat us earlier in the season, so we needed to avenge the loss. Plus, this league hands out t-shirts to the winners, so the stakes were high. A free t-shirt is a huge motivator. We squeaked out a 1-0 victory and came away with the coveted Hanes Beefy-Ts.

After the game, I went out to a birthday dinner at a family style Italian restaurant and topped off the evening with a few beers with my neighbors and brother-in-law back home at The Tin Shed. (For new readers, that's our pole barn where my father-in-law stores the tractors and a never-ending supply of Busch Light.)

While it will be hard to top the weekend, I'm looking forward to tonight. The Senator is going out trick-or-treating as an Indian. And were going to my parents highly sensitive, politically correct, ultra-liberal neighborhood for the goods. We'll have to practice our war whoops on the drive into town.

Happy Halloween.

Posted by Cathy at October 31, 2005 09:36 AM
Comments

Cathy, on behalf of the Mall Diva, let me simply say: "Back away from the tee-shirt!"

Posted by: Night Writer at October 31, 2005 10:54 AM

But I was going through withdrawal! I NEEDED that t-shirt.

Posted by: Cathy at October 31, 2005 11:06 AM

Make sure to coach the Senator to say things like ,"Me needum big candy, paleface, or me scalpum you."

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at October 31, 2005 03:11 PM

Umm, don't you mean he'll be dressed as a Native American, or is he masquerading as someone from the country of India? Perhaps as one of those tech support people that we're always being told are stealing our jobs? :o)

Posted by: Brad at October 31, 2005 03:38 PM

Busch Light? Is your father-in-law a penniless college student?

Posted by: Sisyphus at October 31, 2005 07:06 PM

He's just fitting in with the neighborhood - tight-fisted farmers.

Posted by: Cathy at October 31, 2005 10:58 PM

Brad, I think The Senator is going (has gone) as an honest-to-God Red Injun. "Would you please to be re-booting your PC?" doesn't qualify as a war whoop.

Posted by: aelfheld at November 1, 2005 12:14 PM