Dillon's HERE :)

Iiiiiiiit's FRIDAY!!!

womp womp womp

Sydni was thrilled as well that it is Friday, but not so much by the fact that there was still the day itself to complete. Such is life, mini... it'll be okay ;)

At lunch, I took Elisa to REI to take advantage of the REI sale that just started. It was my chance to figure out how I would be taking advantage of my membership, and also to assist her in buying her first hammock! [Eno's are on SALE through next weekend, folks.... FYI!!] While she was scouting out the Single Nest that spoke to her, I made notes to share with Becky:

yesssssss please 

We rounded out the lunch hour with lunch itself - sushi!

yummmmmmm! 

Syd's dad and I traded weekends, a switch prompted by Mother's Day that worked out perfectly given that Dillon arrived here in Cinci tonight! It was just in time to head north to Soccer City, where I'd obliged a last minute request to sub in for Becky's team.

This was Becky and me for the few hours we were there:

goalie / forward

This was the boys [Mike, Dillon, Rob]:

sidelining with popcorn... 

Again, this was Becky and me:

doin' work...

And THESE were the boys:

for the record, they got it. hahaha

All in all, a pretty solid night - there was even a PK that I was able to stick in the lower right - I have to admit it felt pretty good to get some laces exactly where they were meant to go :)

pre & post pk! 

The hilarity continued after the game:

you don't wanna know... hahaha

I'm so excited that Dillon made it here safely - it's about to be a great weekend!

xo | cmd

First. Day. Of. SPRING!

Dear Google,

You're right, this is what I would have liked to see on the first day of Spring: 

Instead, it's this:

8am in norwood.
lovely.

Swell, huh.

Fortunately, the day went by as not much more than a blur of ringing phones, interviews, shuffling papers and orders FILLED [because we're awesome like that]. It ended well after 6pm, and I decided after that it was time for a date with the Mister... because it's been one heck of a week and I feel like I haven't seen him at all.

Sushi it was! We wound up at the usual destination of Mango Tree in Mariemont, but not before I made a trip through Ace Hardware to pick up some hard hats and glasses for work. *Sigh. We do it all.. haha.

A couple of fun things happened during dinner.
First, my sister sent me these:

20s flapper party! 

My mom, sister and nephew are probably the cutest ever with this. Let's talk about how my mom for starters looks like she could by sisters with my sister.. She is gorgeous, amirite?! ♥ LOVE you guys.

Oh, and Becky invited us out to soccer after dinner. I debated over taking my gear, just in case, but with this sinus infection still rearing its head, I couldn't bring myself to do it, especially knowing I'm down to 1 week before departure to Panama. An awesome night of kicks isn't worth the irritation of having an extended sinus infection hiking through Panamanian mountainsides. Gahh. Choices.

soccer cityyyyy

I've officially become one of those spectators, who arrives in full civilian attire to an indoor soccer facility. I always said I'd never be that girlish sideliner, but there I was tonight. Talk about the opposite of what I'm usually doing there. Woops. Haha.

Anyway, it turned out to be a good night, but I'm tuckered out. I've already pre-emptively called off for a birthday outing I was set to attend tomorrow, because my body is still going through a fit of being 89 years old for some reason. Graahhhh.

Oh, and I'm due back at work at 8am tomorrow - Saturday - to take care of a couple of things, so yeah. There's that. We'll call it a night for now.

xo | cmd

Friday the 13th...

Gooood old Friday the 13th.

Well, there was nothing specifically eerie or out of the ordinary about today, unless you want to count a 10:20pm game of soccer at Soccer City. No? Ok, well good, because I didn't think that was weird, either.

So there was work: The typical Friday shakedown of wrap up and preparation for next week.
Then there was me, at home alone with a few free hours and Netflix at my disposal. I scanned through and landed on The Family, which I watched in its entirety I think mainly because I'm fascinated with Dianna Agron. I... I don't know.

the family 

Rob eventually made it home for a late dinner, and finally our drive out to Soccer City for the late 10:20 game. We walked away with a 1 point loss :(, but I'm confident we'll track back next time.

TOMORROW... we're off to Indy for Supercross!

It's gonna be a great weekend... here we go! :)

xo | cmd 

Soccer, You Stranger....

Holy WHAT IN THE WORLD is wrong with my body?!

Okayokayokay. Let's get real here. I am nowhere near A) the peak of physical ability that I was this time even 6 years ago, and B) still in college soccer shape.

Like, not at all, apparently. I'm still not over it.
Tonight I was harshly reminded that in spite of any cardio I have currently incorporated into my regimen, and with complete disregard to anything yoga has grown in me, soccer will continue to prevail as one of the most demanding cardio activities ever.

With a mixture of severe disdain for my current lack of field tenacity and a [re-]developing resolve to demand my body to obey a revised course of immediate action, I fumbled my way through 40 minutes of indoor soccer. It was a pathetically-executed endeavor on my part, making the contrast of my field presence in 2004 to 10 years later all that more defined.

LONG STORY SHORT, this year will NOT end with me feeling the same way I do now.

ohhhhh, it's been a while! 

I do want to thank Rob & Sydni for being troopers and coming out to cheer Becky and me on, for the short time we were there. If I had to choose any two to sideline me, it would hands down be those two.

So there's that.... 2015's not gonna know what hit it when I come out on the other side. We can go ahead and label that a New Year's Resolution for the sake of categorization, but it's not going to stop there. Thirty and forward is gonna stay fit.

I'm gunnin' for you all over again, field ;)

xo | cmd