Bring on the rain!

I have read my wife's blog and understand she told you about our anniversary. Here's my take on the 12 years. They have been awesome - the one thing I cringe at is the "cookie cutter" descriptions of couples that are married for a long time. Some couples get along great for years and years without many problems and they seem to tackle life's challenges together. Give me a break - good for you couples. We have had high points and low points in our marriage/ challenges and rewards! I would have it no other way - it makes us stronger and keeps the years from going by to quickly. I don't want to have one disagreement with my wife every four years and sit on the front porch with only good times to talk about. I'm being serious - I want to make a mistake or get into it a little and learn from it. I don't want a calm to become a storm that is too overwhelming because the rain has never been felt. I like the rain showers and the sunshine. If the showers get to strong and a big storm comes then we are ready as a couple to handle it. Listen I have always worked to have consistency and calm in my life but sometimes its good to have passion and excitement and if I can have all of those things in a marriage then that's great. Guess what - we have them all and there great and I can't wait for another 12 years!
Love ya honey

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Soprano's

Bless your lil soul's homies! I haven't told you about my season five of the Soprano's! Brillance is here and its name is Tony! I started and finishedthe season in about five days, Very good season, obviously, with Tony struggling as a boss, seperated hubby, and father (A.J. is becoming a brat). Christopher is slowly becoming more reliable to help run the family business and Adriana is slipping up on her commitments to the FBI. Ahh the thrill of a well written, well acted show!
We scrimmaged last night and beat my other team - my u-19 club team - 3-0. Wasn't too great after watching the film, we were sloppy. Not sure to chalk it up to rusty or sloppy but any game we score three goals I'll take. The girls have the morning off and I'll work them pretty hard tonight. It was hard to watch both teams play and not root for / against them. My gosh its hot - the girls will die tonight. I on the other hand will simply turn bright red from the sun and be close to death. Fun times in Wichita Falls.

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Coaching

One of my least favorite things about coaching/training players is the assigning of who goes on road trips and who doesn't. We only will take twenty players with us on the 27th when we have our first out of town game. I have no problem confronting and correcting a player but putting a list up that has twenty names on it (who goes on the trip) and leaving ten is a struggle at times. I do want everyone to be happy sometimes - I do know a lot of these players get what they deserve. The cream does rise to the top. I do want to win more than lose and will not sacrifice that for the chance to "make someone's day". I just have to admit that I do feel their pain and embarrassment when they are excluded from the group for road trips. They will go through two weeks of two practices a day and sacrifice a lot of blood and sweat for this program - its hard for them to see the big picture at times.
I lost one of my starting defenders yesterday with a possible broken ankle - GREAT! There's nothing showing up on the X-ray but the will have to re examine the ankle in a couple days. I can't afford to lose too many defenders!
We are finally practicing on the field and itsss humid. A lot of water standing all over and 95 degree heat makes for fun practices!

Rants:
I don't understand Terrell Owens - I know the NFL has some dangerous contracts (they can cut you without having to pay out the full remainder of the contract) but its a seven year deal you signed - you can't renegotiate it after one year!

Glad the NHL is back - but - good gosh almighty who is playing for what team! Everyone is trying to get under the new salary cap and there are cuts and trades everywhere!

Little disappointed with Bravos new show Situation Comedy - a Project Greenlight kinda thing. People submit scripts and Sean Hayes (Jack on Will and Grace) and his producing "partner" pick the best two and present them to NBC. We get to follow all the drama along the way. Not as good as the Project Greenlight show but o.k.

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Cool parents of a third grader

I won't go into much detail about the morning - because Kelly already did on her blog but it was fun. Its unbelievable that we have two in school. I was very proud of the boys for getting ready on their own and for Evan going right into his class. I do feel like we are too young to have a third grader but when the third child comes and they are in third grade we will definately be the oldest third grade parents! I would poke a little fun at the rookie school parents with the video and camera crews there for their childs baptism into school but we were like that so I'll let that go. Fun times had by all!
We have received an unbelieveable amount of rain the last three days! I have now kept my girls off the field for five practices. We cancelled our scrimmage for tonight. The only good thing is we run the stuffins out of 'em on the mile course but no touches on the ball. Still liking this years team but doesn't every coach at this time of the year.
Pregnancy update - Still no morning sickness for me. I had a headache the other day but think the weather had something to do with that. My right knee hurts a little but I have been running everyday so think that may have something to do with it. I hate to brag but this third pregnancy has not been to bad on me. A little sunburn sometimes but thats from being outside. I'm feeling good though - thanks for asking!

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Pre-season

Here's the deal - 30 girls/4 coaches and 2 practices a day. That is pre-season and it lasts from the 10th till the 26th. We will have some days off and some scrimmages but for the most part two practices a day. Its hot in Texas by the way. Things are going well. I am pleasantly surprised by our freshmen and the one transfer. We do have to watch out for injuries - we play the #3 ranked team in the country for our first game - it would be nice to have everyone healthy. There are so many things to stress out as a coach (with my personality traits). I tend to see the negative in everything when it comes to my job. I worry way to much! Every good practice has to have flaws in it! I'll survive though its not life or death - right?
Kelly taped Oprah's after show on TIVO and it was when Barry Manilow was a guest. The audience requested songs and he sung them. I died!! I'lm sorry but people may think I'm being sarcastic - no way! I love Manilow - "he writes the songs that make the whole world sing!!"
Good grief - as part of my reaching out to teach America's youth program, I ask my girls questions about American and World history. It took a Freshman one whole minute to determine who won the Civil War. It was a verbal multiple choice. North or South - "Uhhhh the Nooorrrttthhhh?" She said sheeepishly. Apparently Bunker Hill was a famous battle in the Civil War, a Senior told me. Ohh yea and the Lee guy was a famous general of the war but not sure for which side! Bless their hearts. Oh Well, its only people that died to make this country what it is - who cares. Ughhhh

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Lake Highlands

We're in! We won our game on Saturday and we are in the Lake Highlands girls classic league. Sure its Division 3 but hey its better than the other two league and four divisions we could be in. It was hotter than Angelina in a bikini but we scored three goals and allowed one and made it in!

I'm telling ya what, my peeps, I'm loving the left behind series of books. I have read the first six in July and am working on number seven Indwelling. I have read the first eight books three years ago but then got busy and didn't read the last four. My Obsessive disorder then kicked in and I can't read the last four til I reread the first eight. I'm telling you though I love them. I really think they are well written books and have a great message! I guess Alyssa could compare it to her reading Dr. Seuss.

Preseason starts tomorrow. I will busy checking the girls in and having team meetings then Wham Wed. 10th - Aug. 26th. we will practice two times a day almost every day. I will have two total breakdowns and three acid filled ulcers. Then the season will begins, my stomach hurts just thinking about it!

Pregnancy Update
So far not much morning sickness for me - I think this could be an easy pregnancy. I feel good, actually have lost some weight and working on my tan. I don't know why people think pregnancy is so hard?

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Mr. Bright Side

We had the funeral for Vinny and his granddaughter last night. It was a different experience, obviously funeral's should be, no one should get used to them. I have never been to a catholic funeral and it lasted a while. Wow my ADHD was in high gear but at least we stood and sat and stood and sat every few minutes so it kept us on the move. It was a nice time to remember their lives and that's what counts.
The Lord is in high gear with the Trimble's lives! I have only one club team this year which makes our finances a lot tighter and as you know we have a child on the way. My first thought is what in the world are we thinking! Its awesome that the one year I get only one team is also the year we refinance our mortgage and save a lot a month and the year my youngest gets out of preschool (paid) and goes to kindergarten (free). Kelly will be able to work a little and the club will use me for skills sessions. I am a big time human - all I can see is the stuff I want to worry about and not the blessings or the way the Lord will provide. I guess its easier for me to worry and stress then look on the bright side (ugghhh just typing that makes me want to throw up). Is it possible that I need to work on not being sooo negative? No, not me (sarcasm)!
I have agreed today to watch my two and the two from across the street so my wife and our neighbors can go to Dallas to the new IKEA store. This is big time all day - 8am - 6pm - with four lives hanging in the balance of the wise and honorable Jeff Trimble. As I type I have no clue where the four are but am sure all is well. I'm actually surprised three adults have faith enough in me to allow to monitor four kids with the same maturity level as myself. Bless their hearts - their only human.

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Sad

This weekend I was back down in Dallas for...you guesseed it... more qualifying games. We won one and lost one. So I went down last night for another game at 8pm - got home at 1am. We lost that one so we HAVE to win Saturday to make it into the league that we want to be in. Then I'm done with club tournaments until November. Then the really fun begins and my college girls report on the 9th. I love preseason! Well I lost the pink eye and now have a sore throat. Ridiculous! I couldn't say one word on Saturday during the games - not fun. I just sat there, killed me.
We had some terrible news Saturday one of our biggest supporters of the girls and guys soccer team passed away in a plane crash with his 10 yr. old granddaughter and her lil best friend. He was flying his plane when it crashed on takeoff, the little girls mom survived but Vinny and his granddaughter and her friend were killed immediately. We will go to the services tomorrow night. Please pray for the Lewis family because it is going to be rough with both caskets up there. I guess I'll stop there - it doesn't feel right to talk about much else. Sorry for the depressing blog but the family obviously is going through a rough time and needs our prayers. I'll blog tomorrow.

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Is it the end for our Super hero?

Its not that I have an ego...well o.k. I may but I have always wanted to known as a super hero soooo here I am. No big time powers or stuff like that. I am going down hill fast. It could be age. It could be the fact that my schedule has slowed down so I have more time for my hypochondriacness to kick in. It could be I'm getting a tad under the weather. Maybe I'm in Love with my wife to such a degree its some strange way of trying to relate to the fact shes pregnant and sometimes under the weather. Anyway I'm headed downhill faster than Kirk's and Dail's fantasy football hopes. (I'm in both leagues so I'm taking cheap shots at both commish's) It started with the famous eye infection on the weekend. That has translated to a sore throat and headache all week. I think the eye medicine irritated my throat. Isn't it weird when I put the drops in the medicine would work its way down my throat ten minutes later. Regardless.... it did. When I swallow my coffee a second ago my ears and throat burned. Brillant! Who knows but the good thing is I'm losing weight like crazy. I' continuing to run and the fact that I hate food at this point and my new "no greasy food" philosophy has me weighing like a toy "dog" that Alyssa has just purchased. Ohh I will prevail my people..don't you wory. I will feel better in ten to fifteen years perhaps. I truly believe when I actually get out of the house and my schedule goes crazy (Aug. 9th - Nov. 15th) I won't have time to cry like the girl that my third child won't be...think positive Jeff...Boy, Boy, Boy! Life will be better for our super hero. I just hope the evil forces in the universe don't all rise up to destroy me before my health comes back.

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Weekend

So I take my new team down to a warm up tournament in the Metro-plex this weekend. Basically this is a tournament to get the team ready for the next two weekends in which we play games to get in the "good " leagues in Dallas. Anyway its three weekends of soccer. I don't mind as much - get a per diem for food and hotel room free. Gotta love hotel rooms no cleaning up and I can get back after games and nap in 40 degree air without interruption. Well to be honest it gets old after a while - the older I get the harder it is with not being home. Well we won three and lost one so good weekend....except for a little friend called "pink eye" that moved into the right eye on Friday night and decided to blind me for most of Saturday. So fun times coaching in 100 degree temps with sweat running down my face and my right eye blinded and burning and itching! Ohh yea you guessed it Mr. left eye decided he was missing out and got a lil infection in him. Thank goodness we have a parent on my team that called in a prescription and the right one is still bothering me today but for the most part starting to clear up.
We did get TIVO this weekend though!! Ben and Alyssa convinced us with the demo at their house. Fun times watching NASCAR last night - how about Rusty finishing second!! Hold back ur excitment folks we still have a bunch more races!!

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memory lane

O.K. here we go - I wrote this once then my computer flashed and I lost it! Good grief Alyssa tagged me to do this so here we go....

10 years ago today- 1995 That would mean I was either recruiting on this day in history or at a soccer tournament with my club team. I was an assistant for the Mens team then.

5 years ago- Getting ready for Preseason with my MSU team - that was our only losing season - thanks for bring that memory rushing back.

1 year ago- My club team was in a tournament down in the Metro Plex. Common theme here.

yesterday- Took the boys to the museum and then went to Rob and Stacy's for my weekly video game fest.

Tomorrow- On my way to Dallas for the fun filled weekend of soccer games.!

5 snacks I enjoy- pringles/popcorn (Orville Redenbacker butter)/ sunflower seeds/ potato skins/ chips and salsa

5 adult beverages I enjoy-Vodka and diet coke/ miller light/ miller light/ miller light/ miller light

5 bands I know the lyrics to-Michael W.Smith/ Metallica/ Guns and Roses/ Barry Manilow/ Garth Brooks

5 things I would do with $100 000 000- Pay Bils off/ big screen t.v./ season tickets to the cowboys/ vacation in Hawaii/ save

5 locations I would like to run away to-Vancouver , Australia, Maine, Hawaii, Cabin in the Rockies!

5 bad habits I have- Cussing/ biting finger nails/ procrastination/ anti social/ running when the phone rings

5 things I love doing- Reading / watching t.v./ playing sports/ reading and watching t.v. about sports/ eating

5 movies I like- Notting Hill/ Godfather/ Star Wars/ Braveheart/ Dances with Wolves

5 famous people I would love to meet- Johnny Damon/ Kevin Muellar/ Troy Aikman/ George W. Bush /Ben Stiller

5 biggest joys at the moment- my wife/ my kids/ starting a new season/ Red Sox in first/ Hockey labor agreement done!

5 favorite toys- remote control/ lawn mower/ computer/ new running shoes/ remote control

5 people to tag- Kelly/ Kirk/ all you people who read blogs but don't comment

What you Doing?

We have been home for about twelve hours and I already miss that question. Corben (Ben and Alyssa's two year old boy) asked me that question for six days straight and I never got tired of it! What you doing?/what's Happening? Hearing him pronounce certain words was pure and simple comedy also. Of course he's probably blogging now about the strange guy who talked to him non stop! I would also like to give a shout out to Addison and Camryn (the Turner girls) for a wonderful time!! Addison actually broke the news that I was going to be a father of a third child to me. She came down stairs and says "Jeff, Kelly has a baby in her stomach". It was great - it didn't spoil it at all, on the contrary, it made the announcement a great story!! I haven't been around little girls a lot and having to sit and watch a tap dancing show or watch as they change into their princess outfits then to ballerina's in a total of three minutes is pretty amazing - especially when I was trying to watch NASCAR. I can't tell everyone how much fun we had in Hawaii and the scenery and events were only the half of it! I actually have to say a nice thing about Alyssa here, so bear with me!! Ben and Alyssa were awesome to hang out with. Alyssa said it best before we left. I think we all were a little like "this could be fun or it could be a little uncomfy" but it was awesome. Besides the fact that Ben and I got shutout when we went deep sea fishing and lost to two inferior opponents on Game night - cheaters! Their friendship and hospitality made the trip what it was - a trip to remember!!
No, my faithful readers, I did not go down into the cage to meet the sharks! It got cancelled because the ocean was to rough and all I needed was a big wave throwing a shark in the tank with me! I did boogie board and came back alive but it was a scary first half an hour!! We saw dolphins when we went deep sea fishing - I was convinced they were great whites until they jumped out of the water - tricky dolphins! By the way, Ben's restaurant that Alyssa makes him "slave away at" is pretty amazing. I know it gets old for him but its on the water and has great live music - I'm sure its not fun waiting on people all the time but its no McDonalds!
Anyways once again we had a blast and we can't thank the Turners enough. Addison - tell your mom you can have all the deserts at 9 a.m. you want. Camryn - thanks for the example of what I have to look forward to, if I have a young tap dancing/princess of a girl that's cool and cute!! Corben - What you doing right now??

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Buckeye Time

We're in Ohio! We left Saturday about 3pm and got to The Buckeye State at 9:30 a.m. I decided to drive all the way until I got to the annoying last two hours and was about to go nuts driving , so I let my beautiful wife take over for the last 120 miles. She got pulled over and honked at (for trying to drive a family in a mini van off the road) in the first hour. We made it though and I went to sleep immediately after arriving. We will split time between Kel's family and mine (they live an hour apart). At my house I get the familiarity of home/Mom's cooking/hanging out with the family/eating lunch with Dad at Rob's buffet!! At Kelly's house I get the reading time/Mom -in- laws cooking/"leave Jeff alone" time. I truly love coming to Ohio.
We're still at Kel's house and leave tomorrow for Hawaii. Watched a special on the animal channel last night - sea snakes are the 5th most dangerous snake in the world and they live in the Pacific!! I'm not really big on airplanes so this will be a joy tomorrow!! Three takeoffs and three landings. I'm going to be a wreck before a shark gets the chance to attack!!
I went to the movies alone - I love that - going with people - always feel the need to talk. Saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith - great film, Pitt's laid back humor in the movie is outstanding!! Jolie - well shes just..shes just.. well wow. Anyway, fun film!!
I made cuts on my club teams before we left and have been on the computer or phone two to three times a day!! Oh well - "its called a job, jeff".
Well wish me luck on the plane - good grief my stomach is in knots already!!

Kirk - by the way I commented on your pedicure blog - ughhh
Alyssa - new blog? Good grief its July!!

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Healthy Food High School

hello party people. First of all - sorry for no new blogs lately. I've been a tad busy and big time lazy - won't happen again. I feel as if I haven't visited the therapist in awhile!! Actually I'm not sure anyone reads this anymore - which would be good - then I really could confess stuff. HA !Things have been great, I really love the summer when I can get away from soccer. I'm becoming my Dad - he loves to work in the yard out in the heat. Suddenly I'm loving mowing, landscaping. Who knew.
Jeffy is on a diet! I'm tired of having a gut! Everyone says I don't need to diet but trust me I'm tired of the GUT. So working out everyday, situps til i can't situp anymore and watching what I eat. Get this - No more fried food!! Me, Jeffrey Scott Trimble - no more fried food. I'm crying while typing this! You know how hard it is to eat out and not have fried food? My only concession to this rule is tortilla chips but french fries I'll see ya later (really crying). I'm limiting myself to a baked potato once or twice a week. What do people eat with their chicken or steak if they don't have potatoes?? I'm trying though. Desserts are no big deal - don't like sweets. French Fries/Popcorn/onion rings/chicken (fried)/ Long John'f fish this stuff is who I am!! I don't even know myself anymore!! Grilled chicken/veggies/grilled fish/ diet coke/ salad are my new friends. I feel like I'm transfering schools and hanging out with the uncool crowd - but just like all the uncool kids in school, down the road they will be successful so I'm banking the new diet will help down the road. Grilled chicken actually is pretty cool, good jokes and easy to hang with but salad is a full out dork. This dude picks his nose and is not cool at all. I'm pretty sure that Long John's fried fish pointed and snickered at me in the hall today. This is going to be really hard. Also sure I will have to fight the onion ring on the playground just to save face.

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Summer time

Its been a good week. I have came up to the office a couple times because I forgot I needed to turn like three things in last week. Typical Jeff Trimble stuff - I know about it but why turn it in early when I can take forever and rush at the last minute. I swear its a disease - and Jeff number 2 hates it. The whole split personality thing sorry! I have a on the ball getting it done type personality and also a I've got forever so I can always wait til later one. I always seem to think "I can do that tomorrow" then I will get so behind that it becomes a goal to get everything done - which I do - then the cycle starts all over! Anyway I'm all caught up finally and getting ready for another great week of soccer camp!! After that we have a week off then head home to the great state of Ohio and our vacation! Then back for the fall season. Fun times! The blogs of a out of season soccer coach cannot be any more boring - im telling ya. A lot of swimming and cooking out!! Kelly had her big company cookout yesterday and we all swam. I tried the jump off the bored and let ur butt hit the board flip off the diving board. I was 2 for 3 on that dive and the one mess up was enough to officially retire the dive. So then I ate more steak and sausage and gently dove off the board the rest of the time. It was a fun time though! My wife did about forty front and back flips off the board - show off.

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Report for Jeffrey Alec and Evan Michael

Well Alec and Evan I am assuming that some day you may read these blogs of mine or maybe your mother will tell you about them. So let me tell you about the State of the Trimble Union.

We are right now (June 11th at 1:21pm cst.) living in our first house that we not renting but actually own. We have lived here for a couple years. I am 34 and your Mom is ummm..22.. (not really but I would get in trouble for saying her age) she's younger than me and thats what's important, I guess. We have a black lab named Dakota and Alec you and her get along really well. Evan I think you freak her out a little but that's mainly because of you trying to tackle her all the time. We live in Wichita Falls, Texas and I'm the girls soccer coach for Midwestern State University. This job will probably be a lot more interesting to you as you get about 7-10 yrs. older. Your Mom works part time for an energy efficiant company. She is there for you both everytime you need her and you both love her to death.
Evan you still suck your thumb which is cute but will have to come to an end soon. Alec you read books like crazy and love to play Star Wars, you bug me everyday to go and see Star Wars 3 Revenge of the Sith. You both play soccer, a sport I would prefer you neither play. Unfortunately you both seem to have a knack for it in your own ways. Evan you also play T-Ball and really have come to like it. Your Mom and I have tried not to push you into playing sports this early but you both have asked to play and we are more than happy to help you out. Your Mom likes to yell at the games and cheer a lot while I seem to like to watch nervously and try not to get to wrapped up in them. I can be a tad intense at sporting events. You probably (as your reading this) already have experienced this. You both swim like fish and go to the Burney's pool almost everyday. We also are able to go out to their Lake house and go out on their boat. You both are already starting to water ski. You have friends and play with Dillon and Erin (the boy and girl across the street) everyday! You all play Star Wars, Pokemon or whatever all the time.
We are on summer vacation right now but in the Fall Alec you will be a third grader - good grief boy - your growing up to quickly. Evan you get to try a lil thing called Kindergarten in the Fall. Your Mom is going to have a rough day dropping you off! We do have some news for you..we are thinking of trying to have a third. This will definately change all of our lives but I have all the confidence in the world you both will be awesome big brothers. Like your Father - you both have become very proficient at the video games and I am proud. You balance this well with being outside and reading so its not an obsession (as it was for me in College). SEE COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS TO SEE HOW THAT WORKED OUT. Well I love you both and thats what the Trimble's are all about right now. I will give you both updates later in the Fall about how things are going. Love ya both!!

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Revenge of the ....movie stopping

Well camp is done and all the kids survived. One of my coaches had there baby on Wednesday night so I got the opportunity to work with youngsteres for two days and take his group. We also had a goal fall over and I about called Kelly and told her to be ready to write a bigggg check to a set of parents but nothing bad happened. We had a fun weekend. I was hoping Sunday to relax and watch a lil NASCAR with my Long John Silvers meal that I get ever Sunday after church. I can't change the routinue!! Then I get informed we have not one but two soccer kids parties to go to. Alec's at 2pm and Evan's at 6pm. Both Swimming outside which is awesome after a week of being out in the sun! Plus I got the opportunity to talk to parents about soccer and "how did your camp go". I finally make it back to the house at 8pm and get ready to go see Star Wars 3. Get to the theatre and sit down, relax, watch some great previews and the film starts...an hour later- film stops. I'm no Star Wars Geek (actually I am) but that wasn't the ending I expected... oh wait there's a 14 yr. old movie attendant yelling at us to get in the hall. We're under a severe Thunderstorm warning and there's tornado's spotted. I tried to let her know that I didn't care and to start the dang film back up but everyone was already leaving. So I got my money back and drove home in 65 mile an hour winds to watch the Home and Garden Channel.

Oh I know I complain a lot about my schedule but you people haven't seen anything!!

Heres my check list for the week!

1. Watch NBA game 7 Eastern Conference Finals
2. Sleep In
3. Go to Rob's and Watch NBA game 7...oh I already said that
4. I think my son has a T ball game
5. Probably have to cook out and drink a beer
6. Go to bed late and.. oh see number 2


This is nuts, its no wonder coaches have heart attacks!! My head hurts from thinking about this week of torment.

Crap forgot about 7. watch the complete 4th season of Soprano's (for the 3rd time) because.....SEASON FIVE IS COMING OUT TOMORROW!!!! Its like Christmas and Mardi Gras without presents and well I've never been to Mardi Gras but I've heard things get a lil wacky over there. The times are a tad exciting at the Trimble household - now hopefully my wife won't read this and my schedule won't be interrupted by tedious things like "time with family" and "working around the house."

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Rain?

So I go to Dallas again this weekend for our last tournament!! We are supposed to play on Saturday at 10a.m. and 2. We get the first game in and BAM rain.. the tourney doesn't get cancelled - oh no that would be to convenient - it gets suspended for twenty hours!! I have to spend all day Saturday in a hotel room watching T.V. which doesnt sound horrible but... there's forty different things going on at home I could be doing! We ended up playing the number 3 ranked team in the country for this age group on Sunday at 2pm and we tied!!! Well I put everyone of my players on defense and held on but..we tied!! The guys loved it! So Sunday morning it resumes and we play two games and of course my team picks the one weekend I want to be back in Wichita Falls to play their best so we win two games and tie one (see the above sentences) qualify for the quarter finals that night at....9pm! Who plays soccer at 9pm? well the rain messed everything up and we did! First ten minutes of the game one of my players gets a red card (automatic ejection) he talked back to the ref. in a negative manner. So we play 75% of the game a man short. Yea we lost 1-0. So I roll into W.F. at 1:15a.m. for 5 hours of sleep before opening day of our soccer camp. The only thing that will ruin a soccer camp is thunderstorms and there's a chance of them everyday this week. Are you kidding me - we're in Texas! So hereI sit typing with my eye on the accuweather website to see which storm is getting near. I am blessed to have a great camp staff and the Lord gave us great numbers this year to make our camp a success. My wife is about to kill herself answering the phone and listening to problems. Kel and I know we're lucky/blessed to have this so please don't think all I do is complain..which is close to being the truth. We are blessed and appreciate it!

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My ......day

9:00a.m - drop my son off at preschool.

9:10a.m. - drive by our soccer fields and discover four nets missing off the goals. We have camp next week and would love to have nets on our goals...awesome

9:30a.m. - Go to the athletic department to ask about the absence of nets.

9:31a.m. - Compliance officer sees me and lets me know two players are ineligible and two have to take summer school to get eligible - phenomenal

9:45a.m. - Get to my office to e-mail four coaches and tell them I have over committed the number of coaches we need so we can't use them next week- Greattt

10:10a.m. - club manager for team calls and has heard a good player on my team might be trying out for a team in Dallas - Typical

10:30a.m. - Get a call from a player who wants to talk about her role on the team - Yippy

12:00p.m. - Lunch with my wife at On the Border - Halftime!

1:15p.m. - Met with player who might not be excited about my definition of her role on the team - not surprising

1:45p.m. - met with another player to discuss her ineligibility because of bad grades - Fun Times

2:30p.m. - receive information that other player who was thought to be ineligible because of transfer rules is actually eligible for next year - hope!

2:45p.m. - couple of the coaches actually understand about the camp issue - gaining ground

5:p.m. - At club practice have the boys put up a net so one down three more to go! - Alllrighttttt

5:50p.m. - my player confirms he is not leaving to tryout for another team - here we go

6:45p.m. home for a great supper - thank you Lord!

Romance+Comedy=brilliance

Well once again blockbuster DVD through the mail service was a success. I found a romantic comedy that I enjoyed. I have to admit that I really like a good romantic comedy. The good ones are awesome - the bad...Well are just chick flicks. Well the movie I watched was The President's Daughter and I liked it/not loved it but liked it. It was somewhat uneven, kinda "where are they going with this" type at the beginning but really got its legs and had a great middle to end. Loved Katie Holmes and Michael Keaton plays a great Dad/President. I won't go into to it to much - wife hasn't seen it. Oh yea - I'm man enough to admit that I watched it without the wife. Back to the movie - it was good and not some cheesy live happily ever after ending a good solid realistic ending!!
How about that extreme makeover: Home Edition on Sunday night. Good Grief people, it about kills me. Did ya see last week. The police officer who's wife got Leukemia and died at like 27. Leaving him three boys all under the age of four. Ouch it was happy/sad/depressing/joyous. It wore me out. They made them a great house and the community raised $150,000. for the family. It was greatttt. I bet Burgess even got emotional if he watched it. Well that would require him to stay up past 8pm. It would be a close call.

Best and Worst Romantic Comedies

Best
1 Notting Hill - all time greatest "just a girl looking for a boy to love her"
2. When Harry Met Sally - Love the quirks of both characters
3. The Notebook - straight rip out your heart love story
4. My best friends Wedding - gotta love the plotting of Julia Roberts
5. Pretty Woman - gotta love Julia Roberts
6. Four Weddings and a Funeral - British humor is the best but the language (40,000 F words) got it a lil lower ranking
7. Sleepless in Seattle- Tom Hanks is flat out the best actor to play everyman

Worst
1. You've Got Mail - disappointing - expectations way to high!
2. Addicted to Love - Ryan/Broderick ughhh
3. America's Sweetheart - Cusak/Julia Roberts - missed on the comedy