Good early morning gals! I got up to go to the bathroom and laid in bed for an hour and gave up going back to sleep so decided to come downstairs and get some work done and set up morning posts. The soccer game turned into a row yesterday. The other coach was one of those win at all costs kind of jerks and he made a big scene when they lost 5-2. He basically accused my dd of cheating and throughout the whole game he would walk over to his wife saying she was crazy and didn't know what she was doing. She tried to shake hands at the end of the game and told him, "Good game, coach." He refused to shake her hand and just kept on and on about how he was a coach of an older team and she didn't know what she was doing and was teaching the kids wrong, etc etc (a side note is that he pulled his goalie for 2 periods out of the goal so they had three players on the field and no goalie. I would ??? his teaching skills on that note. Though perfectly legal, it is not a smart thing to teach to little kids who you are trying to encourage to stay in the goalie box anyway) My dh and her fil got mad and Jack told the guy off and I had to tell Jack that she was not a little girl and could handle it herself. I have NEVER seen my dd's fil even raise his voice and even HE was mad! Now these are 5-6 year olds and Kelly finally had enough and told everyone on our team that they were not to talk to him because it wasn't good for the kids to see it and walked up to him and told him if he wanted to lodge a protest as she put it, "let's go do it now, I am ready." He backed down but continued to berate her and stomped off the field with his wife and kid (who btw continually pushed our kids during the game, which Kelly let go and didn't call) She did tell him that she never saw a 5 year old get a soccer scholarship (meaning it was a little kids game and not something that was hugely important.) She was pretty steamed, but she vented to her dad and I and probably to her husband all the way home. I felt sorry for her because she is trying hard and doing a really good job. I did tell the other parents that if Kelly was as bad as he made out, after 4 games I would have assumed other coaches would have complained. It was really ridiculous and I kept my cool even though I wanted to tell his snooty wife to shut up. My grandson was sitting next to me and she was next to him saying things about his mother. I finally got mad and ask her what she thought my dd did and she said she pushed her goalie and I told her she was full of bologna and besides their team had gotten a goal out of it so did they want to take the goal back and replay it? That shut her up for about 2 minutes. I tell you, parents of these kids take this stuff wayyyyyyy too seriously.
Jean: Sorry you guys didn't raise all that you needed. Sometimes people have tight pockets when it comes to stuff like that. They enjoy the entertainment so to speak but don't want to cough up a few bucks to help maintain the equipment thinking some other guy will do it.
Last night was just not our night. We got a call right before we left for soccer that our shades were in so we went to Lowes after the soccer game. We were supposed to go to the customer service counter and they would handle the pickup. Unfortunately, they had some ding bat who couldn't even handle the computer, we had to stand in line and wait for the other customer service lady to wait on her line of customers, then she pulled the info and called back to the home decor department, hung up, said the lady was cutting blinds for someone and would get our blinds when she was done. The customer service lady then went on BREAK and left us sitting there for around 20 minutes until another woman who was at one of the checkout counter finally helped us and still it was another 5-10 minutes before the woman brought the blinds up. To top it off, they didn't have the receipt that we needed to sign and rather than just print out another one, the original dingy lady told us she couldn't print it out we would have to wait for someone to come and do it. {{{SIGH}}} We finally got home but Jack discovered it was too dark to see to put them up by then so I guess he will be doing it tonight. We did get his valances also so we can finish up his room completely tonight and be done with it.
I am certainly hoping today is a stress free day!
Have a nice day ladies! (PS, thought you might like to see pics of the office now that it is finished. It is hard taking pics of a room, but I did the best I could)
Faye
It's a small world when you run into people from 'home.' Maybe I shared this before, (CRS) but when we were in Maui we ran into two couples that knew someone from our town. The guys had Okoboji shirts on which is where MIL lives during the summer months. Bob just had to ask if they were from Iowa and both live within 100 miles of us. I always enjoy listening to the 60s music! I would have probably stayed with the band rather than watch the game. 
from Iowa!
I did the dishes that wouldn't fit in the dishwasher, read the paper, and have been doing laundry. Tomorrow is Monday and I'm not ready!
Winning makes it even more fun. 
Have a marvelous Monday! 
I've never been in a store when the fire alarm has gone off, but we get enough of them at school!
Her furniture down there is too big for the assisted living apts. here so I'm guessing the grandkids down there might get most of it. I used to get styes when I was a kid and remember how much they hurt. I hope it goes away without you having to visit your doctor.
. . . I'm not familiar with the virus other than the feline leukemia that is highly contagious. We started giving "Mom" filtered water like we drink. Our city water smells like bleach and although they claim it is safe, I wonder. Since we had two cats get sick within a couple months of each other and both had a mass of some sort, I thought maybe there might be some correlation.
and the guys are playing golf.
I wear contacts and also trifocal glasses. I called about Lasik this week and my prescription is too strong, plus my age, so I am not a candidate. 
