Robin wanted to go to the JV football game at school. I have been so frazzled lately that I had a very hard time getting organized enough to make it happen, but we did. The game was ugly. The other team gained more yards through our penalties than they did through plays. We left at halftime and they were only down by a touchdown, but apparently it got uglier after we left. Even though it’s hard making things happen in the middle of a tornado, sometimes it’s fun anyway.
Tag: game
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August 21
We went to one of Billy’s football games tonight. Luckily the storm of the day was during Robin’s dismissal and not during the game. Poor Robin got drenched getting into the car, but luckily not struck by lightning. The game was good – for our team – but I don’t understand why the home team side of the field is always directly facing the sun. It was so uncomfortable for the first hour we were there. The game itself was a blowout. The other team just started playing 11-man football a week ago. Before now, they were playing 9-man football. And they really only had about 11 players. They tried hard, but we beat them 51-0, and the third and fourth quarters were only one second long each. They had one fantastic pass of about 30 yards, but that came back for a penalty. Even our parents were cheering for them. I give them so much credit for playing, and staying in the game. That’s now two weekends of high school football in a row. And I don’t even have a kid in the game.
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August 14
After a week of high school carline drama and what I’m sure was an equally stressful week for Robin, we went to the first home football game of the season tonight. I was surprised Robin wanted to go, but she had a good time and we stayed until the end. Well, almost. There was about a minute left when we left, but they were up by two touchdowns and an extra point, so realistically, the game was over. It was so hot that we broke protocol and sat on the away side for a while because it was in the shade. It was a pretty good game, but the Mandarin fans were a lot more lackluster than the Creekside fans. It was fun, even though I sat alone and Robin pretended I wasn’t there.
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August 9
I had so much fun making this blind beer tasting game for Dion for his birthday. He seemed to like it, which made me happy. We saw them today for lunch at European Street and it was really nice catching up with them. Now I’m wondering whether 8:21 is too early to go to bed, since Robin starts high school tomorrow, and we have to leave at 6:15am. Not get up. Leave. The next two years are going to be rough for this not morning person. I’ll buy her a car if for no other purpose than driving herself to school in the morning. We’ll see how this goes!
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July 29
Christina had friends from dance performing as mascots in tonight’s Jumbo Shrimp game, so we got some tickets to go watch. Unfortunately, this was the weather situation. After about an hour, they called the game. We still got our stadium food, at least. You’d think I’d be annoyed about wasting a night sitting at a baseball game in the rain with no baseball, but I kind of had fun. I love being at the ballfield, game or no game. It makes me happy. It helps that we were dry.
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March 18
Pretty decent drive from NJ to VA today. There were a couple spots with traffic, but nothing more than a few minutes and otherwise traffic was very light. I hope tomorrow is just as easy, but I take nothing for granted. We got to the hotel pretty early, around 3:15. I spent some time telling ChatGPT how disappointed I was with it (for some reason this felt necessary), did some crossword puzzles. Then we went to the Subway at the gas station for dinner, bought some snacks, played some Uno, called Billy. Now I’ve showered, watching some basketball, and pretty soon I’ll be off to sleep. I’m hoping to get an early start tomorrow. Arriving early enough to have time to relax before crashing is nice. Fingers crossed for another easy day. We’ll see. I’m ready for anything. Kind of.
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March 8
Billy mentioned that the Atlantic Sun men’s basketball tournament was happening here in Jacksonville, so on a whim we went to the championship game. It was Central Arkansas against Queens University and it was a pretty good game. When there were 54 seconds left, we all guessed how long it would take before the game ended. We were all wrong, because the game went into overtime, which added another 10 minutes. Queens won, which, even though they’re not from the borough of Queens in NY, I consider a namesake, so I’m down. I think I will also root for them in the NCAA tournament. Why not? I’m glad we went. There were maybe 300 people there. Traffic was a breeze!
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February 25
I’m a big fan of all the family time we’ve been having lately. Tuesday family game night has proved to be particularly awesome. It was my turn to pick a game tonight, so I picked Pictionary. Robin and I are kind of a dream team. You should have seen her picture of a harmonica. I have no idea how I guessed it. Magic, I guess.
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February 4
Tuesday is game night, and for the record, Christina is a sore loser. Draw 20 is the Uno No Mercy death knell and she fell into it. That nearly ended the game for everyone. But… Robin and I made it to the last two in the game and we went back and forth for half an hour before I finally defeated her. I think she was glad to lose, honestly, because that meant she could have her phone again. For a few minutes, anyway.
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October 1
We finally completed the last game in the Harry Potter expansion set, after months of effort. We had done it once before, but definitely cheated that time. This time we did not cheat, and it definitely felt a lot more fulfilling to win. It’s pretty fun, and definitely challenging! Nice way to end a Tuesday.
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August 23
Not a great picture. I give it a zero. We played Quiddler and I pulled it out against Billy in the very last hand. Alexa even played fanfare music off the scorekeeping app I have on my phone. Billy and Christina didn’t appreciate that much, but I did.
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April 13
Christina had a dance competition and did pretty well. Her production dance is amazing and got a couple shout-outs on stage from other performers. It won first place and a golden egg, which really looks a lot more like a chicken than an egg. She said it was a duck… either way, not an egg, but a nice nod from the judges nonetheless. I love how much Christina loves it.
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March 10
We had a really great day that ended with 30 minutes of yuck that kind of tainted it. Got a lot done – cleaned up the house, weeded the garden, went to the Game Haus and played Sorry and Scattergories, got ice cream, went food shopping, and had tacos for dinner in front of the TV while we watched Big Ten wrestling. Then at bedtime there was some snottiness, yelling, and then crying that had to do with messy rooms, peed-on sheets, and a sink clogged with black water with toilet paper crumpled up all around it. I finished the day with regret. Yin and yang, I suppose. I hope for forgiveness.
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November 3
Today was moody teenager day. Want to go out for ice cream, don’t want to go out for ice cream, go out for ice cream, want to play games, play games, don’t want to play games, life is miserable, can we just go home. Life is exhausting.
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August 13
Christina is both excited and nervous for the first day of school. Probably more nervous than excited. Worried about where she’ll go when she gets to her classroom, whether she’ll have any friends in her class, whether she’ll ever see Kiley again… I tried my best to ease her mind, but you know how anxiety is. At least we have table-top curling to take our minds off things. She was a little exuberant with her stones. This one went flying across the room.
