mi esposa

our friend deb-o-rah in illinois complained that i don't write enough stuff about my lovely wife, jenn. well, it is my blog after all, but i thought i'd dedicate a post or two to jenn.

jenn and jamie are headed down to fort collins this weekend for a sand doubles volleyball tournament in fort collins. which leaves me all alone tonight and missing jenn. but big pants plays mambo again this evening, so that'll be a good distraction. anyway, jenn and her sister both played college volleyball - jenn at university of south carolina spartanburg and jamie at elmhurst college - and they both still play whenever they can. (check out jenn's peach belt conference player of the year honors for 1994). they'll play the breckenridge tournament the weekend of the 13th, then end the summer with the motherlode in aspen over labor day weekend. i like to crack open a beer, put a wide-brimmed hat on, and watch 'em kick butt from a lawn chair. that's about all the volleyball i play these days.

some funny things about jenn:

* she has an addiction to product: lotions, hair care, perfumes, you name it. as a general rule, she won't buy any of this stuff if it comes from a grocery store.

* she cannot keep the interior of a car clean. impossible.

* she demands that you tell her crucial plot points in books she is reading that you've already read. case in point: she is reading the new harry potter book, which i've already finished, and was genuinely upset with me for awhile because i would not tell her who harry's love interest is.

* she has so much stuff that she carts between home and work that she has given up on bags, and now uses a laundry tub instead. no joke.

in good will hunting, robin williams character talks about how it's the little eccentricities and idiosyncracies (sp?) that make up the meat of a relationship. that is so true. these things greatly endear us toward our respective others as the years go by.

at least i hope they do. if they don't, then i need to stop talking at the television and letting my fingernail clippings fly all over the living room.