Phone

Sometimes when I'm bored the phone will ring and I get all excited think about who it could be and the fabulous conversation we will have or the fun activities that will be planed as a result of the call.....................then it is a telemarketer.

Potter Post

So I finally finished the last Harry Potter book on the weekend and I would agree with the general sentiment that it was a very enjoyable book and really brought the series to a close in a satisfying manner.
Anne and I have only shared our thoughts briefly on it but we are both happy and sad that it is done. Now we need another series to share together.

Probably the saddest thing for me is that in read somewhere in an interview with Rowling, that she doesn't plan to right any more Fantasy fiction. While I have no dought whatever she writes next will be good. I do hope she does create a new universe sometime down the road. We will see I guess.

Soccer

This summer I have been playing a fair bit more than previous summers. As I am 30 in september I have been able to play regualrly in the 30+ soccer league as well as the usually rec league play. I also count the running around I do at Maya's soccer games.
This Saturday I finally was able to play in a 30+ tournament and we won! Yay. The level of play at these games is usually quite high and fast paced. My defence squad managed to shut down everything in the two games I played and our goalie maybe had a total of 5 shots on him.
The next major tourny is at pumpkinfest in october and I am very much looking forward to that.

Family Photo Cypress Lake

Future Stars GOLD

Here is our soccer team. It is mostly fun leading them. Our kids are starting to get the whole ball in the net concept and thus we are losing 25 to zero. Not that anybody is keeping score. Unoffically we have a few VERY attentive ( loud) parents, whom are ready to sign their kids to a proffesional contract. Maya is still mostly focused on trying to get us to hug her and cuddle her durning the game.

The Potter

I completed the final installment last night- started it Monday. I read every word and did not skim- nasty habit.
Agree with others that this is a full fledged fantasy novel- which is not a theme I typically read unless Luke thinks I will like it. It was violent, again not something I like to read. Felt most of my questions were answered. Some of my gut feeling were correct about characters others not.
Did enjoy the series- but the first will always be my favorite, it has the largest fun factor.

Now if Luke could only read it so we could discuss.

Congrats to IAN and HEATHER

So Anne and I celebrated the marriage of Ian Repetski to Heather Sanderse on the weekend.
I was one of the groomsman so I was involved in a number of aspects, which was a first for me and quite fun. The wedding went perfect and the reception was a ton of fun.

The guys had been super nice to Ian the whole time leading up to the wedding. So at the end of the night we snatched him and threw him in the pool at the country club where the reception was held in order to at least cool the boy down a bit.

All in all it was an amazing event and I am sure they newlyweds will have a long, blissful marriage.

Jailed Kitty

Get the cat back from the vet- $630 ouch! Poor thing has to be confinded to a quiet room for two weeks. Problem is the only rooms that have door that shut are our room and the bathroom.

Amazed

Well I didn't know it was possible, I thought they just lived on forever or become drapes for painting or went to the salvation army to die. BUT we actually wore out a set of sheets.

Poor Kitty

Our cats have this nasty habit of getting outside and not wanting to come in. We have looks to prevent it, but sometimes they just get out. Sometimes they get out and I do not have the energy to catch them, sometimes they sneak out, and sometimes they run so fast we can't catch them.

Last night they got out and we didn't make it a priority to get them, thus this mooring, when Luke opened the porch door to leave for work Carrots ( the one on with his face partical covered by Mango) Carrots come staggering in bleeding from the mouth. Of course Luke has to go right away, can't even hold him while I check him out. So by myself I clean him up and determine he is missing teeth, has a large laceration on his lower lip, his jaw just isn't right, and he is way to lethargic to be normal.

So I take him to the vet, and to keep our loving carrots it is $400 to wire his broken jaw and observe him for a concussion. The vet thinks he was hit by a car.

9 looooong years

So today is mine and Anne's 9th wedding anniversary! Yay!
We are going to make this special day by.....ummmmm....we'll go...hmmmmm....
Well we haven't actually planned anything and Anne is actually working and we haven't bought any gifts for each other...
Oh well, I am sure we'll do something sometime :)

Excitted

I am trembling with excitement over tomorrows date:
07/07/07

Mr. Potter

I have started re-reading sections of the Harry Potter series so I can be prepared for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. In my rush to get through some novels to find out what happens I tend to miss details and due to the rapid reading I do not saver the story and thus forget. Unfortunately, I can not be out at midnight getting it- but I am excited none the less. I think the Wesley twins bite the dust.