Ok, no more teasers

I’ve been alluding to it for some time, but now it’s time to officially own up. Mike and I unbroke-up about three weeks ago. It feels a little weird to announce it, because I know when people tell me that they’re back together with an ex my response is always something to the effect of, “are you sure? Ok, well just be careful.” I don’t know, it often seems foolhardy. I don’t want to put all of our laundry out on the line, but I will say that being apart for a few weeks ended up being a good thing, we got some perspective, and we are now Stronger Than Ever. In fact, if I didn’t think it would be tempting fate, I would post a picture of us smiling triumphantly with those words overlaid on the image, “Mike and Willow: Stronger Than Ever.” Okay, maybe I wouldn’t do that, but it is a funny idea. Especially if we were wearing power suits. And hard hats.
Yesterday I went to another Timbers game (after watching 2 World Cup games) with Mike, Josh and Matt McCormick. Man, it is soccer-craziness over at Urban Honking. I have money riding on England, Sweden, and Japan (wildly different odds), so the games are much more interesting to me than they would be otherwise. Plus Mike and his flatmate John have been making match-appropriate food for each major game, meaning that we had braatwurst and bananas for the Germany/Costa Rica match, and a traditional English breakfast plus Paraguayan something (I can’t remember) then next morning. Very cute. And tasty. Of course now it’s Sunday night and I’ve basically spent the whole weekend watching soccer, but then so has the rest of the world. So it’s cool.