Exciting!!!
I have actually decided to color my hair. I bought the stuff this afternoon and it's very, very exciting. I am going for a "real red-head" red, and not that scary fake stuff.Now, because I am a wimp when it comes to all things like this I am only putting a rinse on it. That way if it looks like total butt all I will have to do is wash, wash, wash the ugly away. At least, that's the plan. Plus, my hair is fairly long and I don't want to not like it and have to cut it all out - that would so not be fun.
Can I tell you how much I'm loving my LAUNCHcast today, btw? It's been fantastic. I've had Jet, Mazzy Star, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Cult, Nina Sky (to name a few) and NOW I'm listening to Beck. Wow, just so dang good today...
In case you couldn't tell, I'm feeling very talkative as well.
So this weekend the weather completely sucked butt, yet both my games were played. I got to spend all day Saturday driving up to Gettysburg in the rain, and then refereeing in it. The rain would slack and make you think it was going to go away, just to then pour as if from a bucket. Not fun. And the turf field (as in artificial surface turf) seemed to breed worms.
Hooray - new Jack Johnson!
Where was I? Oh, worms. A little background. I have a garden in my front yard that I have done a lot of work on, including to almost doubling the size. Sounds impressive until you realize that I have a townhouse, and thus a very small amount of space to work with. But whatever, the point is that I did it and I am proud of myself.
Prior to putting it in I did not like to even think about touching bugs and worms. That's just gross after all. And I'm still not all excited about it, but doing it there wasn't really a way not to so I got over my disgust. Then whenever it would rain and I looked down to see a poor little worm just struggling on the road trying to make it back into the earth I couldn't help but stop to pick it up and put it on the grass. Yes, people used to call me a tree-hugger growing up. Whatever.
So there I was on this (artificial - I don't think I can stress that enough) field doing a pre-game check and I found this gigantic worm. Out of habit I picked it up (because it couldn't crawl into the plastic ground of course) and walked it over to the dirt. Good, problem solved.
When we (my partners and I) got to the other end dang if there wasn't another monstrous worm in the goal cage. Ok, strange but whatever. I picked it up (much to the dismay of the entire team of girls who were completely grossed out) and walked it to the dirt behind the field. I teased them, saying "at least this way you won't have to step on and squish it.
And now we have the Depeche Mode - I'm so having high school flash backs at this point...
We finished the pre-game duties and were just hanging out waiting to do the captain's meeting chit-chatting with each other. There was another monster worm. Ok, so now I'm wondering what's going on here and where were all these freakishly huge worms coming from??? Whatever, I picked it up and moved it to the dirt (which is on the opposite side of the regulation size track mind you).
When we went out to the captain's meeting (you know, where you do the coin toss and pick sides) there was another one. The girls from Gettysburg were talking about them and how they're everywhere. They had no idea how the worms found their way onto the artificial turf either. Well, it was at this point that my conscious and my mind had a small fight.
You see, once they pointed it out I noticed that there were literally at least 100 (well, maybe only 50 but still you get the point) worms all over the field. I was there to officiate; not pick up worms. I was there as a professional and it would not be appropriate to run around the field removing all the little (big) guys in the last 3 minutes before game time. I had to give up hope and just be satisfied with the ones I did manage to save from the crushing, cleated feet.
It still makes me feel bad to think about it though.
OMD - I'm really having (at least in my opinion) great music karma today...
posted by Ali @ 2:02 PM
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