No Club Volleyball at All

As I began updating my 2010 calendar (Tropical Islands 2010) I started to realize that the volleyball days were beginning to take over the non volleyball days...and I haven't even received the school schedule of practices and games yet. With that in mind, I wanted to make sure that other things, non volleyball things, get documented here as well. Yesterday was a perfect example.

I was off to Kent to pick up a new washer/dryer and I picked up Kate at mom's house on the way back. After the installation I was all ready for a nice day of college football...but there was Kate "Dad, we need to go shopping for Xmas presents." Me: "No way in hell am I going to any kind of mall today. It's a zoo out there." 15 minutes later we were on the way to Target. I dropped her off and parked at Barnes & Noble and actually enjoyed a nice mocha and a magazine called Travel Africa. She walked back over to the book store and by the time I was done reading about Namibia, we were ready to go.

At home she began working on a gift that required scissors and glue and pictures, etc. I put on some Los Van Van (Cuban music) and caught up on a blogging book. That lead to the first Cars CD and then to Pearl Jam's latest, Backspacer with the Husky game on mute. When Kate's project was done it was down the hill to pick up some terriyaki to feed us while we settled in to catch up on some shows. Popcorn halfway through the movie and when we were shuffling off to bed I realized what a near perfect day it had been.

We're going to love club volleyball, but I don't know that it will ever be better than sitting on the couch with Pearl Jam blaring and looking over at the table and just watching Kate concentrating, then looking up suddenly and smiling at her dad. Now THAT rocks.