soccer update

5/6 - in City Finals @ 1645h Friday

7/8 - in City Semifinals today @ 1645h today

 

5/6 reached the finals last year, and it's great we have  achnace to do it clean this time.  I'll be crushed if we lose again.  7/8 are just SO GOOD, such a pleasure to coach during games, so talented and driven. 

 

I'm hoping 7/8 advances to the Final as well.  Friday could be one of those days that'll flash through my head as i lay dying - we have to win both to make me happy.

The Beatles, and again.....

Broken lp, je sais, mais after the Smiths Spring I just went through, i've now  devolved into the valley of the Beatles once again.  That giant new bio of the group - mark Levistan (?).  I'm on page 450 of volume one - and i'm only in the SUMMER OF 1961.  Incredible.  The only thing (well, besides coaching both of my soccer teams during the game - i love to scream and yell and all that just to make shure everyone knows how smart i am about grammer school soccer ( well, actually, the reason for the yelling is actually to teach the girls the game, to give them positive feedback, and to have them feel good about themselves and how they play) i want to do these days is get home and crack that tome.

The fucking detail.  I've read well and Ive heard heard every beatle story a hundred times maybe less, maybe more - until this book.  The Fooking detail. 

So - one exciting beatle discovery for me was this song I first heard in 2005.  Here is the crappy original, and then - I wish i had a tardis so i could go to the carvern and weep while watching their version.

Here 'tis


 

Playoff bound

And we are in.  First  game, as I figured, we won handily.  5-0, but it coulda been 16-0 if I felt like it.  second game was easier than I expected, but still a contest.  There came the time in the second game where I had to rush in my regular left defender when the other team closed the game to 4-3 - but then two more goals came in and I could re put in all the scrubs.

Favorite moments, besides the joy of the girls on the final whistle in realising we have up top three more games together  (if we win), er to Swas also laughter.  One of my new players, a real force, is more an athlete than a soccer player now.  I yelled out to her to SHOOT THE BALL when she was close enough - and, of course, within 2m she had that chance and she scored.  Got the big smile from her when I yelled out "Hey, ______, sometimes shooting the ball actually works!"  She then later got a header from outside the 24yd box - fun as hell.

Now today is spent scurrying about the school with mapquest directions to the game Saturday afternoon and cajoling players to skip that party or whatever and get their parents to drive them to the game.  And reminding them of the pizza party today as their reward for being double winners of the division and city quaterfinalists.

Now, not just one but a potential of SIX playoff games beckon in my close experience.  I am going to age 60 years these six games.  

Girls Season!!

Has been going ok.  Today is the dayofdays, as in win and out season continues and lose and it's done.  I coach two teams of girls soccer - 5/6th and 7/8th.  We are undefeated, but the playoff qualifiers are today between the two top teams.

I'm not so worried about 5/6th.  We are not as strong as last year, but we will win today and advance.  7/8th, my favourite team this year, has me worried.  Wait - we are good.  We just beat a High school JV taem 3-0. and earlier we beat another one 4-0.  So, we puch heavy.  But reports that the other team is pretty good, and i am missing one outside mid and a forward - both excellent - means todays a challenge.

Playoffs next week.  Last year it was such a rush.  I'm so dead, though.  Want to sleep all the time.

Unhealthy Obsession

With trixie, ths little dog, who I found in the alley in June.  My 9lb Minitur Pincher.  After my terrible bleedings in the past 5 weeks - first my beloved Bolo, then Mom - @ least I realize that I can protect and help this little animal.  And the deal with Trixie is that she is also obssessed with me.  Funny stories of her being so out of sorts when Im gone, and her sheer joy @ my returns.  Runs down into my sisters bed in the early AM while I shower - and when the shower stops, she races back out of bed and upstairs so she can be with me.  And our partings are hard - when I go off to school, she knows she will be alone for the next 7-9 hrs.  When Mom was still alive, we had a caretaker with her - and trixie loved her.  So, I do fear for her lonliness everyday.  And it's not an unhealthy obssession - Trixie is really helping me in these most empty, lonely (where ARE YOU Mom - WHY did you have to leave us???), and cold days.  Everybodies helping, of course - but Trixie is also a huge help.

Happy Birthday Mom - from say 2008 0r 2009

     

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January

He is gone from this Life

And my heart is terribly broken