Sometimes the way I figure out what I have done in the last few days/weeks since I last posted is to go back through my Facebook pages and draw from that. I don't keep a journal--I was never good at that sort of thing--but FB is sort of like a journal...just less space and it's pretty public. So, Dad, that's what it is. Simple snapshots of what you're doing or thinking, sharing thoughts and ideas, recipes, and, more of than not, misinformation about viruses and political ideologies.
Since we returned from our two-week boomerang across the country, we did the annual shopping trip to buy supplies for the teachers and students of grades 4, 6 and 10. Can you believe it?! I remember when the kids were 4, 6, and 10 and now...oh, man... I didn't get first-day-of-school pictures this year. It was raining. Maybe I'll get first-week-of-school photos instead. It cost a pretty big sack of pennies to get all that stuff. Notebooks, pencils, pens, rulers, folders...it was over $200 when all's said and done, and we didn't even have to buy expensive calculators or anything.
Ben had a doctor appointment in Bellevue, so afterwards we decided to go to the Crab Pot for lunch. We had never been there before and thought it might be fun to eat our lunch with hammers and bibs. Ben got a kick out of the whole shrimp with the heads on them. I thought they looked like they had long French mustaches, so we called this one Monsieur Petit (although if I had been able to look it up in a French-English dictionary, I would have called him Monsieur Crevette). He made lots of Frenchy accents and then ate him.
This is another thing that I started working on, made from 6" squares sewn into half-square triangles. I think I'm going to make them into pinwheels instead of Broken Dishes (cover up the top row...the purple triangles should be spinning in a pinwheel). A friend suggested making some half-size pinwheels and setting some of those in there as well as large plain squares to create more interest. I'll have to play around with that idea.Kelly and I are continuing to enjoy attending the Sounders games. They played Portland Timbers (boo) a couple weeks ago, and in Sounders Supporters tradition, they came up with a great tifo. Tifo, from the Italian word, tifosi, meaning supporters, is a display of support for a team during a derby match with a rival team. The Timbers and Sounders have had such a rivalry for decades, before they joined the MLS. Each scheduled home game against them motivates the larger of the Sounders supporter clubs, the Emerald City Supporters, to put together these awesome displays that they unfurl before a home game.
There is some debate on our part as to who the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are in this set of banners... In this picture, the stands are full. Over 67,000 fans showed up to witness the Sounders spank the Timbers...and they said that soccer would never be popular in America. Last year's average attendance was a record-breaking 43,144. Compared worldwide, our average attendance would be 6th in English Premier League, 4th in Spain's La Liga as well as Italy's Serie A, and 11th in the German Bundesliga (National League). Normally the attendance is around 43,000, and they only open up the last 25,000 seats for these derby matches against Portland, LA, and Vancouver. I suspect they'll break the record again this year--the season ends in October.Of course, going to the game has its disadvantages for the vertically challenged. This is what my view of the game usually is:
Nice haircut, dude...can you move a smidge to the left? (Standing on tippy-toes)It's tradition to stand for the entire game--the only ones that sit are the people in the first five or six rows. After that, standing. We're more than 15 rows back, so...yeah. Standing.
Posting it on FB, a friend said, "That's amazing! How did he get the teddy bear to do the one-armed push up?" ha ha ha!
Mostly he just liked the cotton candy.
Cammie went "hang gliding".
They fed the llamas, which tickled. 
Played with the tractors (the sign said, "PHOTO OP: SIT ON ME!" so we accommodated them, even though the seat was wet). Not too far from this batch of tractors was a little museum that housed a Geocache in the yard. The employee there helped me find it when my Geo-unit was acting funny.
On a personal note, I started to do yoga. This is mostly to help build strength and flexibility--I just had a bunch of blood drawn and all the numbers came out normal...or pretty close. There was something weird about the kidney function results that I didn't understand, so I'll have to find out what that was about. I know I have a stone hanging out in there, but it hasn't bothered me...it just showed up on an X-ray a while back. <shrug> I've gone to the yoga class twice and while I'm not the only fat chick there, I have to remember not to set up next to the mirrors. I don't need to see my performance in a glorious full-length reflection of my inflexible, clumsy self while I'm surrounded by svelte rubber bands that bend and twist with ease. The first time I did yoga, it took about three days for the pain to catch up with me. I went again today, so I might try to do some stretching and a few poses just to see if that helps reduce the painful effect.
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