Archive for November 23rd, 2009

Sweaters or Sweatshirts

November 23, 2009

If you are one of those folks that is never cold, you can stop reading now.

Sweaters or Sweatshirts – which would you prefer?
Before you answer, “Depends on what I am doing,” the question is for when you are in your own space.

I love sweatshirts. They can be really comfy.
But at work (violating the rules, I know) I wear cardigans. I wear one almost every day. I think I am my father, as I seem to remember him wearing cardigans too. And getting elbow patches when they became worn. Working indoors most of the time would seem to make sweaters a choice. But for us cold folks the few temperatures difference between the different parts of the building make an extra layer a necessity. This is so you can change in and out as you see fit.

At home, where sweatshirts normally rule, I am finding myself looking for sweaters more and more often. That woman mid-life thingie is partly to blame. I never used to want to take the sweatshirt off. But now, sometimes I just want to layer down. Taking sweatshirts all the way off involves glasses and long hair. I don’t have a real fancy hairdo, but it does pull those pesky side hairs out of whatever band happens to be trying to hold them in at the time.

In fact I am typing this with a sweatshirt mostly on. Arms not in, but with the cooling cycle upon me I have it pulled down over my elbows with just my hands sticking out.

Soccerrrrrrrrr

November 23, 2009

Today was a soccer day. A wet day to start.
It started with a very small gathering of friends on a pitch. The rain was light and kept many away, so we moved to a different field with others that play rain or shine. Carl did not participate to save his legs for another day.
When the small game ended kids were arriving for the late morning games. One of the first girls to arrive did not have a ball to play with, so Carl shared and kicked a bit with her. He ended up playing goalie while the team waited for balls and more to arrive. Kind of a fun little bit of unexpected play.

Big soccer event of the day – the Major League Soccer Championship: LA Galaxy vs Real Salt Lake. A few pictures:

Start – March to the Match. A Seattle tradition (for all of one year). Passing by. Notice the wet pavement and sunshine in the background.

March to the Match - 2009 MLS Finals

March to the Match - 2009 MLS Finals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warm-ups: the best I could get of Beckam was his butt.

Beckam - LA Galaxy

Beckam - LA Galaxy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start of the game: a bit of the fal-der-al to get things rolling with a bit of pagentry

Game festivities

Starting line-ups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game was tied 1-1 after 90 minutes of Regulation Time. The game was still tied 1-1 after 30 minutes of extra time. On to penalty kicks. Real Salt Lake wins! after 7 kicks. They really deserved to win this game. They seemed to play harder and just had more action going through most of the game. It was fun to be in the stadium. Cold, but dry and buzzing. One of the best aspects was that we were not rooting for either team. Just a good game.