"We'll have to go with birthing hips..." ---the boys' team, 3/29/03, at the midnight fondue party...we kicked their asses needless to say
"My sister and I had an act that couldn't flop / my sister and I were headed straight for the top " ---from Chicago
April 1, 2003
time 9:54 am feeling sleepy! but very happy reading My Losing Season wearing gray pants, fleece...I'd be wearing my cool new sunglasses if I weren't in a public lab music Chicago soundtrack, Jenny's CD ready fora nap next maybe nap? but probably school
"AW YEAH BABY WE'RE GOING TO NATIONALS!!!" That's what Diana and I said during all of Nationals planning etc. last year and that's what I'm saying again. Nothing like basically another spring break to make you ready to blast through the week!
BUT before that, fun things are happening. It's almost overwhelming, these exciting things; I'm not sure I can handle it. If you know me you know how I run my life, and that is routine, routine, routine. People might say it's machine-like; I prefer to think of it as disciplined! But one way or another, there are great things going on, AND it is now April, meaning that I am breaking out of the bounds of winter and heading into bliss.
When I was in high school I'd always say that during Season I was totally self-concentrated, so disciplined and focused on gymnastics (ha, or something...I know some of you are reading this and thinking, yeah right, she can shut the hell up RIGHT NOW! haha) that it meant for a boring, stressed me during the months of January, February, and March, and that once State came and went at the end of March, I became someone new, brighter, happier, in general less bitchy if you want to get technical. Now my Season is still running, and mind you it's not nearly as huge as it once was, but this phenomenon is continuing. Thus I have realized that this change in behavior comes with the change in natural seasons, not gymnastics Seasons, or else I am just that conditioned that the end of March brings out a more joyful version of myself. It definitely has something to do with the snow and cold being gone, with my favorite season (summer!) approaching, and with the expanded daylight we receive. I must have Seasonal Affective Disorder or something. Well, whatever. Either way it's a good time, and I'm in a great mood.
Getting back to fun things. Let's start with the end of my weekend. So the fondue party was excellent, I had such a good time. I did NOT end up drinking as it wasn't that kind of party, perhaps that is why I had such a good time. There were 'strange boys' there but I wasn't paranoid because they turned out not to be freaks, and I didn't fall asleep. Misty, Sarah, and Susan made some amazing fondue, and everyone brought yummy food. Kristin and her Scotty and I dressed up funny as commanded and then no one else did so we made them. HAH! And I got to see Amber and Misty's friend Chris and his girlfriend. We played a game called 'battle of the sexes' (that's what the quote above is from) and MIsty, Amber, Kristin, Susan, Sarah, and Victoria and I kicked ass. A fun night all around; it was definitely what I needed. I've been randomly not spending time with my friends for quite some time and then this weekend I saw them a ton and we had a wonderful time, so that made me very, very happy.
Then Sunday I got to talk to Jenny for awhile and do a little more homework. It seriously never ends! It's so strange how Jenny and I are connected, I swear, we ARE twins, just she was born 19 MONTHS after me instead of minutes. I can't wait to visit her in May! And then I got to go to church with my HONEY (haha, Diana that is). We are like the MST3K of church, we make little comments all the time and we are probably going to hell for it. And to that I have to say, watch out Hell, here we come!
Anyway now on to current exciting events! (NOT current events, though I AM keeping up on those despite the scarily slanted American media.) Today is my little roommate Kristin's 21st birthday!!! Happy birthday to her! It is very exciting for me for some reason, I think I am also just excited for it to be April because while March was good to me it lasts forever! We are going out for her birthday tonight, I know, I am breaking the routine once again! (Be afraid; be very afraid.) It is going to be a good time. Finally she is 21.
AND Matt tried to trick me today with an April Fool's! But I figured that out ;). This weekend he is coming to visit, so that is sure to be a wonderful weekend! I am so excited, I get to have Matt all to myself for a whole weekend, then two days of school, then Nationals. I will pretend that the remaining weeks after Nationals do not exist in order to save my sanity. YAY what is better than this chain of events.
The only bad, really irritating thing right now is that my foot hurts. A LOT. In case you didn't know, I hardly ever get injured. Besides tearing my PCL and the occasional sprain, I don't get the wear and tear of gymnastics, which is definitely a good thing since I'm not good enough to be able to afford time off. ANYWAY, so the outside of my foot, near my heel, started hurting last week and it's just getting worse. It doesn't hurt when I actually DO gymnastics or ballet but when I run (stupid and tried that this morning) or just WALK it's starting to kill me. I'm not even sure if it hurts that badly or if I'm just so worried about it that I can't stop thinking about it. So yeah, the only thing that I could think it is is a stress fracture as I can't remember hurting it. NO NO NO!!! That would be so bad. And on the bus this morning I finally figured out HOW I would get a stress fracture (since I hardly ever tumble and only run once a week max)...I've been running in clogs all around campus, to catch the bus, make it to class on time, etc. Now THERE'S a way to hurt yourself. I can't believe how dumb I've been. Well I'll get back to you with updates.
OK in other good news my car is fixed and gymnastics is going really well! I am SO excited for Nationals (wait did I just say that again? haha), we are going to TEXAS next Wednesday baby, aw yeah. It is going to be so fun, Mary sent me a link to the hotel today and it's pretty cool, plus it's NATIONALS, plus we frickin' rule as we used to say! So many good things, as I said I cannot handle it.
That all said, I must get to work on whatever's next on the homework list. Never resting til May! Have a nice April!!! :)
---Lexi
Tricks Are For Kids...We're 21