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More than 1/2 of my Life

July 5, 2014
What we do to love and support each other

What we do to love and support each other

Carl pointed out, that on this 29th anniversary I have been married to him for more than half of my life. The actual date was a few weeks ago – he is the numbers guy doing the math, and I don’t know how he accounted for leap years.

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And I would be remiss if I did not give a shout out to my sibling and in-law with which we share this date. They were very accommodating and did not object to sharing their fifth anniversary with our wedding date.

As for your basic day-to-day activities, we are still actively watching all of the World Cup action. We have done this for years, with or without the US team being in the mix. And yesterday we went out and kicked Carl’s new Brazuca about the pitch. Of course it looked nothing like what we watch on TV except when the shots on goal went wildly wide.

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Carl’s Birthday Suit

July 2, 2014

I can’t believe I did not blog at all in June.

I put it down to being busy, less than creative, and perhaps just plain lazy.

Lately my “spare” time has been spent watching the World Cup. In past World Cup years we have obtained cable TV for the summer, since so little was on regular TV, and then ditched it at the end of the summer. When we moved back into the house last year we bit the bullet and got DirecTv with a sports package.

This year ESPN or ABC has carried all of the World Cup games. They are even on during the day in our time zone. Of course, I usually work during the day. That means my nights and sometimes mornings have been spent watching soccer, sleeping in front of soccer games, and then trying to remember who played whom.  The days when there were 4 games were especially tough.

Now that we are to the knockout round the viewing has slowed to a dull roar.
I did play hookey from work yesterday to watch the US vs Belgium.
It was worth it, even with the end result. A fun game. Howard (goalie) was phenomenal, and our hometown player, Yedlin, got to play a good part of the game and did very well. (So did Dempsey, also a Seattle Sounder, but Yedlin grew up in Seattle.)

Carl was in full Carl mode.

Carl's Birthday Suit

Carl’s Birthday Suit

If you watch any of the soccer, this is nothing. There was no face paint.

After the match, Dennis, Carl and I walked down to Ivar’s Salmon House for dinner. It was 94 degrees (hot for any day in Seattle, and especially for July 1). Carl declared that this is the last 3-sock day for four years.

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