Soccer Report and the State of the Union

[przed]

I was coaching solo last night since the Sweetie and Ros are up north visiting his parents. It was a lovely night for playing, just the right temperature, but the team sort of completely fell apart. Even our best players weren't playing well, and I had to keep reminding several of our less enthusiastic kids that they were there to play soccer, not tag. I also nearly lost my voice yelling at one of our goalies who was sitting on the ground, facing the wrong way as the opposing team was barrelling towards him. Final score, 6 – 0, and not for us. Oh well, we're still having fun, and I'm hoping this is just a blip.

In other news, I've been spending my time sans famille in reasonably productive and fun ways. I have:

Gone out for dinner and a movie with a friend I haven't seen for ages (The movie was Prometheus, which was middling, but Michael Fassbender was awesome in it, and I had fun picking out the Lawrence of Arabia quotes)

Gone for a pedicure and lunch with another friend

Gone to see Toronto FC play a friendly match with Liverpool FC with a mate from work (As a bonus, TFC held their own and kept LFC to a draw)

Frozen some fresh peaches (I'm hoping to get some actual canning done in the next week)

Tamed the weeds in the backyard

Seen The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX. (My verdict: The film did not need to be nearly 3 hours long, but the climax and denouement knock it out of the park. Loved Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Michael Caine made me cry. Twice!)

Added over 5,000 new words to my Take That Big Bang story (The sucker is going to hit nearly 20,000 words. Crikey!)

Not bad, considering I've been dealing with a stupid pain flare that resulted in not a whole lot of sleep over the weekend. (It was kicked off by me having two white chocolate chip cookies on Friday at a company picnic. Two measly cookies! Clearly, I need to avoid sugar entirely. Which okay, is a healthy thing to do, but still sucks. I've only had ice cream a couple of times this summer! /whine)

Tonight, I'm off to see Magic Mike with a few friends. Then tomorrow night, I jump on a bus and join the family up at my mom's.

Now, I just need to get cracking on the Pros Big Bang story. Zombies, ahoy!

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I've never thought my flares were diet-related but if it has such an effect on you now I'm wondering if I ought to try elimination diets or something... *ponders* Mind you, I'm off a few things on your list anyway due to my heartburn (which is the legacy of two weeks on Diclofenac so kind of the arthritis' fault too) If I 'lost' caffeine I don't think I could move at all, though, so probably not that *g*

I really wouldn't go to a 3 hour film now unless I was expecting to adore it, and whilst I'm keen to see Dark Knight, I'm not expecting it to make me bounce with joy.

It is very exciting that your TT story is so long! And I certainly hope you can vid for the Big Bang because that would be *awesome* I still need to settle on a plot idea for my TT fic - I have a few kicking about that could finally get beyond the first sketch of an idea but then other ideas assault me too. Hmmm. I keep promising elfwhistletree something with dragons in it, for a start... *ponder!face*

[przed.livejournal.com]

My pain issue at the moment isn't the arthritis thing, it's interstitial cystitis, a.k.a. painful bladder syndrome, which is a whole different ball of wax. And not something I'd wish on my worst enemy. Fortunately I have a mild case and I can mostly keep it at bay with diet, but when I cheat or accidentally eat/drink something I shouldn't, it's miserable.

I can just about handle 3 hour films, but I no longer do double bills. Unless it's the film festival, in which case I break out the ibuprofen and hope it doesn't eat a hole in my stomach before the festival is over.

The TT story is ridiculously long. Especially since I initially thought I'd be hard pressed to get even 10,000 words from the story idea. (Which was no more than "what was going through Mark's head during the FTR interview?") Whether I vid for the BB or not, I think when the BBs are done I'm going to go on another writing hiatus and try and finish another vid or two. Must vid TT!

Dragons! TT with dragons! I heartily approve of this idea. Or any other idea you come up with. More TT from you would be a very good thing.