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

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I think my favourite part of the TFC/Liverpool friendly is how much more interesting the match got in the second half when all the regulars were off and it was mostly just academy players (on both sides, really). Some of those kids are hungry, and it's encouraging to see the up and coming talent TFC actually has!

Aaaaaaand thanks for reminding me I really need to buckle down and write my Big Bang story! I've only got around 2,100 words written... doesn't help that yesterday I had to rewrite most of that because it just didn't feel right. The boys are not playing nicely in my head right now, or maybe they're protesting because I'm putting them all through the ringer.

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It was really great how much heart the younger players showed in the second half. And it was awesome that the kids were the ones who scored for TFC.

I'm sort of amazed that my story has come together so well. It's been a rare story where I've had no earthly idea what the end game was, but each scene kept falling in place, and I've now just got two scenes to go. I'm off up north tonight, but I think I should reasonably be finished early next week. Of course, that leaves nearly half of what's looking to be a 30,000 word Pros story to write also by the end of the summer, but I'm going to try not to think about that.

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that the boys start playing nicely for you. And I have to say, I'm eager to see how you're putting them through the ringer.