rolling shopping baskets

The other day Elizabeth and I stopped by a local grocery store to pick up a few items. We'd never been to this place before, but they had the coolest baskets. They had wheels and a telescoping handle. I had Elizabeth shoot some video of the fun.

he's gonna be a socca player

Photo by Elizabeth Serrano

So I'm on a soccer team this summer, The Henchmen. We have games once a week and we try to get a practice in once a week as well. My friend Kevin has been on that team and they needed more players so he recruited me. It's fun and its keeping me in shape, which is good because since we moved I have not been doing my running. I have a lot of excuses for not running, most are valid but in the end they are just excuses. I hope to get back into it because I'm way behind on the 100 mile challenge - of course it doesn't help that those other guys are doing marathons and triathlons and stuff.

Anyway the Henchmen are fun, I didn't know any of them before but they are cool, we're not the best team out there but we have a good time. I had to come up with a henchman name for the back of my jersey. I chose Dr Badvibes - anyone know what that's from?

Our next game is tomorrow, unfortunately with the US playing Mexico here at Soldier Field at the same time, a lot of the henchmen may be MIA. Thats the life of a henchman I guess.

A cicada in your hand...

Photo @ HappyMonkey

My little sisters graduated from High School last night, exactly ten years after I graduated from the same place. A lot of things have changed there, but a lot also remains the same. It was interesting to see so many of my classmates there. I guess the 10 year sibling gap was a popular one in our community. Anyway congratulations to all the grads. As their last act of defiance or just something to be remembered by each graduating senior handed the person who was handing them their diplomas a live cicada. We have the 17 year cicadas around right now and they are all over the place. They only come out every 17 years so the last time they were around these parts was the summer of the year most of the graduates were born, so it seemed like a good match.

I guess these cicadas will be around for a few weeks yet, you really can't avoid them if you are in an area where they are hatching. Luckily our subdivision is too new for them to be in our trees so we don't have any, but my parent's neighborhood is infested with them. They're all over the place and they're loud. I guess there is a lot of resemblance to high schoolers after all.

Moving Along

Photo @ mrjoro

Wow, it's been a while. We've been keeping busy. We bought a townhouse and are pretty busy with the move in process. We still have tons of boxes to unpack and lots of projects to do. Finally got the internet set up at the new place so I should be able to catch up on my blogs. I have my moleskine full of post ideas so I should get some posts off pretty soon. I also started a tumblr account, for quick easy posts, mostly things I will write about later on this blog. I'll probably post a link to it here soon.