Uruguay!
Friday, July 2, 2010
Poor old Classic 99 was in its very last days. 10:00pm on July 6th would record its final notes after 62 long and wonderful years… Everyone was saying goodbye on the air and thanking the station and its announcers. Even the music, suddenly… it was as though they had saved all the best for last. How could a city like St. Louis survive without its Classical station? Oh, woe the day.
“They’re going to take away our radio, Puck,” Collette told him sadly.
Puck turned his voice into a high pitch, “Don’t take me! I just want to stay here with Mama and Daddy and Puck!…Oh no, they’re gonna take away our radio and our beautiful music. But that’s ok, ’cause we got another radio in Daddy’s room.”
In other news, OLeif had a day off… well, sort of… A day off from Brown Shoe. A full day of website design at home. Once he finally woke up at 8:00, due to a bad headache.
So while OLeif was working hard, Collette and Puck visited the park where Puck immediately made friends.
“Come on, everybody!” he called. “Let’s climb the slide!”
Late in the morning, when Brazil lost to the Netherlands, Collette was really starting to become baffled as to how she could always root for a team that would loose, aside from Argentina that one time…
Later in the day, after a bubble bath for Puck, it was time for Uruguay versus Ghana. She was rather wondering if she should just not watch the game at all. She was going for Uruguay. At halftime, when Ghana made the first goal of the game, Collette called it quits. She couldn’t keep up with the level of stress and the cold sweat each time Ghana came too close to the goal. As soon as she stopped watching the game, of course, Uruguay scored their goal. And the game ended as a win for them when they got four out of five spot-kicks. While Ghana had only two.
That evening… out to turn in coupons for the free Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches from the cow at Vacation Bible School the previous week. Plus one from Carrie for her chubby nephew.
But first, a stop by Target for Simply Apple juice and Sun Chips, all of which they ate around the fountains half-circle before heading home while Collette read aloud travel essays from Iceland and Bhutan.
And that was why, when OLeif had still been working from home in the winter, every day felt like a vacation.
At 7:30, Rose came over for a movie night. Sixlets. Cosmic Brownies. Doritos. Bourne Identity, which Collette probably hadn’t seen since its original release. It was just that kind of night. And a glass of cold milk for Rose to top it off.
“You got dyed water. Didn’t you,” she asked skeptically, examining the red mug.
“1%.”
“Oh. So there’s a little bit of cow in there.”
“Respected archaeologists fight over his discarded apple cores.”
~ The Most Interesting Man in the World