^^^ What movie? ^^^
Good job, Danni, for getting last post's movie quote. It was in fact Toy Story.
TOMORROW IS MY FIRST COLLEGE TRACK MEET!
I need to go to walmart and get my healthy snacks because I don't have my mom here to supply me with a weeks worth food at the meet. :( I should have gone to A&M Commerce so she could bring me my goodies to replenish myself and to share with all my friends. They even gave us lunch boxes to put our food in. I was rather excited about that. I am going to try and get pictures tomorrow so I can post them on here. I meant to get a picture of Turtle, but you are going to have to wait one more post for that.
We are leaving Spragins at 5:10 in the morning! The meet starts at 8.
Today we didn't do anything at practice except for an ice bath. I like ice baths... I don't see what everyone else is so upset about. They act like it is so terrible. I think it feels good.
I am suddenly very tired. I don't know if I'm going to take a nap, or take a shower to wake up.
I am no longer nervous about the meet. I'm just ready to do it. 24 days until my birthday.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Howdy Howdy Howdy
First of... What movie is the title from?
Starting with last monday, practice was a Bob Jones High School track. When we got there the cross country team was finishing up and it was windy. Coach Cain said the wind started about 15 min before we got there. We started our mile warm up and it was pretty chilly. As the work out went on it just kept getting colder and colder until I thought my hands were going to fall off, and CT told us to just go home because it was so cold. Because the caf was closed (MLK Day) we went to Chilis to eat and it started snowing outside. Tuesday at practice we were inside. While we were warming up and doing drills Leah's arm hit my hand. Leah being the woman of steel she is, it hurt pretty bad. My had was red, but i figured it would go away. About 30 min later I look down and there is a huge lump on my hand. After practice i put ice on it thinking it would go down. it did... for about 10 min. then it swelled up even more and by the end of the night half my hand was blue except for the lump which was purple. now, a week later, the lump is getting smaller, but still there. the blue is now just really dark in most places.
Friday our names appeared on the online roster, and our pics should be up soon. The woman took 3 pics of us and 2 of them I was laughing because my teammates were making faces behind the camera woman. I also had to take my gold and silver sprint spikes back because they were too big. I ended up having to go with some blue Nike sprint spikes. :( I don't want Nike... I want Brooks. But i didn't have to pay for them, so I guess I should be happy. Next year... the Brooks Twitch (size 8 1/2) are mine! Today at practice we ran a full speed 350, 1 min rest, full speed 350, full recovery. then we did it again. I think I did very well. I was rather proud of myself.
Saturday is our first track meet. I'm honestly extremely nervous. I have never been very nervous for a track meet, but this one is really getting to me. CT has created 2 4x400 teams that will probably be in the same heat. Team 1 is Keena to Kristin(german girl) to Leah, to Maegan. Team 2 is Me to Rebecca to Julia to Delicia. Rebecca wants so badly to beat Kristin and has made it very clear. This is what is making my nervous. If i don't do well enough and keena passes off to far ahead of me... gah. I think i will be fine, but it still makes me nervous. I just wish we would be in different heats. It might make me run faster, but i i just don't know if i can handle the rest of the week without going crazy. other than that i will be running the 200 and triple jumping. I'm just ready to get it over with.
I bought Turtle a new wheel this weekend... it is huge! I read that i should get him a 12" diameter wheel. His old one fits inside his new one. Of course he was too big for his old one and could only run a few steps before he had to stop, or else he would flip off. Once he realized he could just keep going in this one he was cruising. he was going so fast and that wheel making a lovely swooshing sound that wouldn't let me go back to sleep. I got him a bigger cage to run around in and I need to find a new box for him to sleep in.
I'm sorry it has taken me so long to post this. I have thought about it multiple times, but I always forget or just don't feel like it.
Starting with last monday, practice was a Bob Jones High School track. When we got there the cross country team was finishing up and it was windy. Coach Cain said the wind started about 15 min before we got there. We started our mile warm up and it was pretty chilly. As the work out went on it just kept getting colder and colder until I thought my hands were going to fall off, and CT told us to just go home because it was so cold. Because the caf was closed (MLK Day) we went to Chilis to eat and it started snowing outside. Tuesday at practice we were inside. While we were warming up and doing drills Leah's arm hit my hand. Leah being the woman of steel she is, it hurt pretty bad. My had was red, but i figured it would go away. About 30 min later I look down and there is a huge lump on my hand. After practice i put ice on it thinking it would go down. it did... for about 10 min. then it swelled up even more and by the end of the night half my hand was blue except for the lump which was purple. now, a week later, the lump is getting smaller, but still there. the blue is now just really dark in most places.
Friday our names appeared on the online roster, and our pics should be up soon. The woman took 3 pics of us and 2 of them I was laughing because my teammates were making faces behind the camera woman. I also had to take my gold and silver sprint spikes back because they were too big. I ended up having to go with some blue Nike sprint spikes. :( I don't want Nike... I want Brooks. But i didn't have to pay for them, so I guess I should be happy. Next year... the Brooks Twitch (size 8 1/2) are mine! Today at practice we ran a full speed 350, 1 min rest, full speed 350, full recovery. then we did it again. I think I did very well. I was rather proud of myself.
Saturday is our first track meet. I'm honestly extremely nervous. I have never been very nervous for a track meet, but this one is really getting to me. CT has created 2 4x400 teams that will probably be in the same heat. Team 1 is Keena to Kristin(german girl) to Leah, to Maegan. Team 2 is Me to Rebecca to Julia to Delicia. Rebecca wants so badly to beat Kristin and has made it very clear. This is what is making my nervous. If i don't do well enough and keena passes off to far ahead of me... gah. I think i will be fine, but it still makes me nervous. I just wish we would be in different heats. It might make me run faster, but i i just don't know if i can handle the rest of the week without going crazy. other than that i will be running the 200 and triple jumping. I'm just ready to get it over with.
I bought Turtle a new wheel this weekend... it is huge! I read that i should get him a 12" diameter wheel. His old one fits inside his new one. Of course he was too big for his old one and could only run a few steps before he had to stop, or else he would flip off. Once he realized he could just keep going in this one he was cruising. he was going so fast and that wheel making a lovely swooshing sound that wouldn't let me go back to sleep. I got him a bigger cage to run around in and I need to find a new box for him to sleep in.
I'm sorry it has taken me so long to post this. I have thought about it multiple times, but I always forget or just don't feel like it.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
New Shoes
Today there was no practice... it completly messed up my day. I ate earlier than usual, but I wasn't hungry yet. Then during my class I was dizzy with hunger because I had eaten too early. After my last class I went to the shoe fitting for the track team. I got my first pair of sprint spikes. I have never had sprint spikes before, but because I already have mid distance for jumping, I am going to use my new sprinters for my races.
This is what they look like. The inside and outside of the shoe.
This is what they look like. The inside and outside of the shoe.
Monday, January 12, 2009
I <3 Mom & Papi
Hello one and all. I am feeling... wonderful. I don't know why. I'm just in a very good mood at the present. Maybe its because I just watched VlogCandy, and I just love it to pieces. How do you love something to pieces? Like if I loved Danni to pieces... would I have to hug her so much that she fell apart? Even then... she would just be a pile of bits and pieces on the floor. I wouldn't want to have to sweep her up, so she would just make the floor look dirty, and we don't want that... there is already enough dog hair. Moving on. Today at practice we ran 600, 500, 400, 300. Needless to say, I was very tired. I ate in the caf and trudged back to my room. I played a bit of guitar which consists of me just strumming the note once so I can change to the next note and not wait five minuets to continue the song I was singing. I have successfully learned G, D, C, A. No actual strumming yet except the downward motion once, but I think I'm doing rather well. My fingers hurt a little bit, and I had to cut the pinkie nail on my left hand, but its okay. I took a shower and feel very refreshed. There is no practice Thursday. The low for Thursday is 16. I very much enjoyed seeing Starfish and Karen this weekend. I think the team likes you, and I'm sorry that you had to put up with our team pet during practice.
Friday, January 9, 2009
R.I.P.
One of my team mates, Rachel Joseph, has not been back to school with us this semester yet because her mom was dying of cancer. She had gone into remission, but then during Thanksgiving break she found out it was back and really bad. When she went to start her chemo they told her it was already stage 4 and that there was nothing else they could do. Since then they have just been waiting. This morning I got a text message from CT saying Rachel's mom died and to keep her and family in your prayers. Just last night we were preparing Rachel a care package to let her know she is loved and we miss her. Julia talked to her, and she is having a Really hard time with this. She was extremely close to her mom. Just keep her in your prayers and hope she returns to us safely.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
:(
Well yesterday(Tuesday) I made a video as I was going to class, but its not wanting to upload no matter what I do. I'm sorry. I'm to tired from practice to type right now. I'll be back later.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Just Another Manic Monday
I went to my first class this morning. I like the teacher. I think it will go well.
At track practice we did our usual mile warm up, stretches, and drills. Then we ran 6 300s. I was pleased with myself. I did rather well. CT told us that the next 4 weeks are going to be hard, but once we start the season we ease up into competition mode. Tomorrow we have 6 250s. Wednesday is our easy day: block starts. Thursday we run 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100... gah. She couldn't remember what Friday was though, so I don't know what torture Starfish will have to see. After practice we went to lunch as usual. The food was good... much better than the end of last semester. We have a team meeting tonight at 8. I don't know what we are going to talk about other than the track schedule and try on uniforms. I must say it is going to be weird wearing blue. I am so used to black and "gold" uniforms that it will be a bit awkward at first. I bought air fresheners so Turtle doesn't make my room stinky. They are working very well. I replace his newspaper every evening so he can rough it back up at night and sleep in the paper wad all day. This morning at 7:30 I woke up and watched him rearrange his room for about 10 min. Its kind of amusing.
While I was organizing my bookshelf I found some writings that Danni and I did. Each one of us would write a line and pass it back and forth. I'll post them and change the color for each of us.
My heart ticks and tocks with anticipation. As the hands go round and round I see the sky. My fingers turn to water to quench my thirsty mouth. The water flows through me but passes unnoticed by the lungs. My breath dries my body and rings me out like a wet rag. But lo, the rag slaps at the nape of my neck like a tidal wave. Flooding my eyes and face blocking my nostrils and suffocating my soul. I pull myself to the break of water and inhale the crisp air like a last breath. Pollution poisons my lungs and I spat in my hands. But it is a trick of the wind and I am filled with cleanliness. Pure and lovely. I lay to rest in peace.
This one cracks me up.
When you sing you must ding like a bell at a wrestling match. But ark! My heart peels away the layers of an onion like a chia pet. What pet does jet in and out of the zoo? Causing havoc in the marmalade jar. But pull, pull, and lull it does on my heart strings. The orange light does fade into the bead. Green and black and orange and blue, those women knew of the colors that slay. Lo, grey eyed Athena wanders to and fro yet she wonders why she must go. She knows that he wants the ankles of all to dance in mud and flattened frogs. Tired. Aching. She holds the cliffs edge, until her momo pulls her into a field of poppy seeds and lull. Eating and sleeping she grows round and lazy, and only wanting to find the holy grail in her dreams. Rolling through the land as a holly wolly she ends up in Bollywood, where she falls off the very cliff of her past and sleeps forever more.
At track practice we did our usual mile warm up, stretches, and drills. Then we ran 6 300s. I was pleased with myself. I did rather well. CT told us that the next 4 weeks are going to be hard, but once we start the season we ease up into competition mode. Tomorrow we have 6 250s. Wednesday is our easy day: block starts. Thursday we run 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100... gah. She couldn't remember what Friday was though, so I don't know what torture Starfish will have to see. After practice we went to lunch as usual. The food was good... much better than the end of last semester. We have a team meeting tonight at 8. I don't know what we are going to talk about other than the track schedule and try on uniforms. I must say it is going to be weird wearing blue. I am so used to black and "gold" uniforms that it will be a bit awkward at first. I bought air fresheners so Turtle doesn't make my room stinky. They are working very well. I replace his newspaper every evening so he can rough it back up at night and sleep in the paper wad all day. This morning at 7:30 I woke up and watched him rearrange his room for about 10 min. Its kind of amusing.
While I was organizing my bookshelf I found some writings that Danni and I did. Each one of us would write a line and pass it back and forth. I'll post them and change the color for each of us.
My heart ticks and tocks with anticipation. As the hands go round and round I see the sky. My fingers turn to water to quench my thirsty mouth. The water flows through me but passes unnoticed by the lungs. My breath dries my body and rings me out like a wet rag. But lo, the rag slaps at the nape of my neck like a tidal wave. Flooding my eyes and face blocking my nostrils and suffocating my soul. I pull myself to the break of water and inhale the crisp air like a last breath. Pollution poisons my lungs and I spat in my hands. But it is a trick of the wind and I am filled with cleanliness. Pure and lovely. I lay to rest in peace.
This one cracks me up.
When you sing you must ding like a bell at a wrestling match. But ark! My heart peels away the layers of an onion like a chia pet. What pet does jet in and out of the zoo? Causing havoc in the marmalade jar. But pull, pull, and lull it does on my heart strings. The orange light does fade into the bead. Green and black and orange and blue, those women knew of the colors that slay. Lo, grey eyed Athena wanders to and fro yet she wonders why she must go. She knows that he wants the ankles of all to dance in mud and flattened frogs. Tired. Aching. She holds the cliffs edge, until her momo pulls her into a field of poppy seeds and lull. Eating and sleeping she grows round and lazy, and only wanting to find the holy grail in her dreams. Rolling through the land as a holly wolly she ends up in Bollywood, where she falls off the very cliff of her past and sleeps forever more.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Back in Bama
Well here I am. Beth and I arrived at the dorm at 5:20 yesterday. I drove the entire way... not because Beth didn't want to.. she did offer. I just prefer to drive because it makes the trip go faster and because I wanted to be able to say I did it. Turtle is well... except for the fact that his water bottle dripped everywhere during the trip and his box was ruined. I tried offering him a couple new boxes, but he hasn't like either of them. So instead he goes and sleeps in the opposite corner. I'm a bit worried though, because it is bloody cold in our rooms and I don't want him to die. I need a way to keep him warm. I thought about a space heater of some sort so I can be warm too, or a light over his cage. I would really appreciate some assistance with this as soon as possible because I love my little pokey pet and I don't want to have to bury it anytime soon. In other news, I start classes tomorrow. I'm ready. Track practice also starts tomorrow. I'm going to die. I am rather excited about pole vault though.
I need to finish unpacking today. I did most of it yesterday, but I got tired of it, so I'll finish today.
If I can remember to do this each time, I am going to use a quote from the book Danni gave me "Enduring Words for the Athlete".
"The man who has no imagination has no wings"
- Muhammad Ali
I really want to go into the Peace Corps, but right now it looks like I'm going do AmeriCorps instead. Its strictly in the US, and it pays off student loans. I have to look more into the student loans and which branch I would want to go into. I figure that if I like this, then I can do the Peace Corps later. It would be a 2 year commitment like the PC, but I wouldn't leave the country. I have to research more though before I make any decisions.
I need to finish unpacking today. I did most of it yesterday, but I got tired of it, so I'll finish today.
If I can remember to do this each time, I am going to use a quote from the book Danni gave me "Enduring Words for the Athlete".
"The man who has no imagination has no wings"
- Muhammad Ali
I really want to go into the Peace Corps, but right now it looks like I'm going do AmeriCorps instead. Its strictly in the US, and it pays off student loans. I have to look more into the student loans and which branch I would want to go into. I figure that if I like this, then I can do the Peace Corps later. It would be a 2 year commitment like the PC, but I wouldn't leave the country. I have to research more though before I make any decisions.
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