So here we are in Abilene, TX for our last tournament of the season.  Next season we are moving down to a 96 team instead of a 95 team.  We have played up the entire year.  So we just finished our first game and wow, the girls we played against were really good.  We played OK, but they won.  They had 2 girls that were like 5’10″.  They must have used their best diet supplements, cause they were in shape.

I lost count but I think the final was 0-8.  The other team had about 5 of these players that were on the ODP team.  ODP is the Olympic Develoment program. So it was tough.  Next game is in a little over 2 hours.  I hope we fair better in that one.

We have been preparing for this weekend’s tournament.  We thought it would be fun to have a season ending tournament.  So we said what the heck and entered our team in.  Most tournaments we had played this past season, yielded a minimum of 3 games.  Usually one Friday night and 2 Saturday or 2 Saturday and 1 Sunday.  Well this one is slightly different.

We got our schedule a couple days ago and then they changed it yesterday so we now have 3 games on Saturday and 1 on Sunday.  Then if we are in the top 2 we play a fifth game Sunday afternoon.

Either way we finish up, we should all have fun this weekend.

I sure am.  Although I have a busy schedule, it will take my mind off of the 40 + hours I spend doing my work.

I think tonight I will play some Wii (which I did *fifa 09*) .  I got a new game recently and haven’t had a chance to play it yet.  Tomorrow morning I will wake up and I might actually head to the gym.  That way I can avoid weight loss products. Then I’m off to another soccer game.  Hopefully we will do good tomorrow.  After that, I’m off and running to a friend’s to learn some Adobe Illustrator and I’m going to teach him some web skills.  Then a small break before heading off to dinner and then to the Chris Tomlin concert.

And that is just Saturday.  Wow..  Of course I hope to get some rest in there somewhere.  Sunday just has two things on the agenda outside of the house and about 3-4 things in or around the house that need some attention.

Oh and I’m sure I will need to remote into work and do some of that too so my Monday won’t be that crazy..

What are your plans?

What a long but short weekend.  I know that really doesn’t make any since but that is what it felt like.  The first half started off really busy and the last half seemed to disappear rather quickly.  Friday night after work I started the weekend off by heading out to our soccer tournament.  It was FREEZING out.  I didn’t dress quite warm enough.  After the game (which we lost pretty bad) I cranked the car heater most of the way home.  My buddy Tim from Seattle called and I talked to him most of the way home so the time seemed to go by pretty fast, plus it helped to keep me awake.  Since the soccer field was about 1 hour from the house I didn’t make it home till about 10:35pm.  The bad news is I had to be back by 8:20am for our next game.  (hmmm why didn’t I just get a hotel room?  well probably the $$)

Our Saturday morning game was nothing short of a disaster.  0-10.  I can’t really explain what was said but I’m pretty sure the girls were not really happy.  Oh did I mention that Saturday was just as cold as Friday night?  yes it was, so I had about 1 hour to kill before the next game so I went down to Starbucks and got some hot chocolate to thaw out and write up some speech notes that I was going to deliver to the team after the next game.  We lost the next one also but it was 1-2 and they played much better than the first 2 games.

The rest of the weekend was rather uneventful.  Except the Flattening of Texas Tech by Oklahoma..  That was so awesome..

Anyways hope everyone had a good weekend.

Well the Fall season came to an end last Sunday.  We finished up with 2 wins and 10 losses and 0 Ties.  Please remember that this is our first season playing competitive and we are also playing up 1 age bracket.  So as the fall season closes, we have a 2 weekend break from games and we can now practice hard for an upcoming tournament.

When the spring season arrives (In march I believe) they will split up the one huge division we are in and we will be placed in division 2 essentially.  I believe with a couple tournaments and our continued practice that we will have a better season in the spring time than we did in the fall.

Well last Sunday we had our #2 league game and well the results were pretty much the same as Saturdays game. [Lost 0-4] – The girls are getting better every game, but there are some things they just don’t seem to retain in their memory.  The drawback to that is it’s one of the most important aspects of the game.  And it doesn’t help that we had a huge rain storm that cancelled practice last night, so again, only 1 practice this week, unless it rains again tomorrow (which I don’t think it’s supposed to).

So I hope they all come ready to practice really hard tomorrow to prepare for this coming weekend’s game.

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