January 16
I woke up this morning with a bit of a cough, but it
went
away quickly. I think it was just my body reacting the the cold air at
the
skating rink last night. My workout today actually went really well.
I did
some visualization excercises, and I think that helped. I didn't do
WONDERFUL, but I was more solid than I have been for a while. So long
as I
can keep this calmness for the meet, everything is going to go fine.
Unfortunately I tend to have problems staying calm in meets, especially
on
beam!! I'll do my best though *fingers crossed*! I'll try to do as
well as
I did in practice today, which isn't the best i can do under normal
circumstances but for right now will have to be good enough, and it
shouldn't hurt the team score any.
Tonight Marissa and I are going to be shut ins in our
room
and not let anyone else in and we're just going to play games and watch
a
movie and act goofy (life we always do) and we may even plan some sort
of
fun prank for the trip! I'm SO GLAD she's going to be coming to the
meet,
She's finally doing well after a very disapointing season. And as much
as I
love my squad, it will be nice to be away from most of them for a few
days.
Marissa and I are gunna go visit her family that lives in the area,
which
will of course be nice. It's good to have small breaks away from the
Topo
troup at times! And I'm sure Texas is MUCH warmer than Indiana is
right
now, which of course will be a wonderful change!
But so i'm going
to go
do my run, condition, tutoring, afternoon workout thing and then dinner
and
girls night in YAY! I probably won't write again until tomorrow.
January 15
There's a meet coming up and i'm getting SO
NERVOUS!!!!!!!!
I made the team no problem, but I think I'm still a little too shaky to
actually do well and I'm worried I'm going to mess up and embarass the
team.
I hope that doesn't happen!! It would really really suck. Anyways
today
I'm going to eat lunch with Marissa, she tends to start feeling
abandoned if
I don't eat lunch with her very much. And she's like my best friend at
Topo
so I don't want her feeling bad! It's gotta suck cuz I'm so busy now a
lot
with my squad, we're all so close. And I guess we're a little cliquey
cuz
we tend to do things as a squad and not with other girls. Not that we
don't
LIKE the other girls, just we like our squad a whole lot and we have a
lot
of fun together. It's a new thing for me to have such a supportive
squad!
There's been very little friction in the gym since we've been back, and
it's
really nice to be back to Topo having a nice friendly everyone gets
along
with everyone atmosphere. Ok so there has been SOME trouble but not
like
before, so it's all good.
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So
even though there's a meet coming up and I REALLY should work out extra
this
afternoon, I'm not going to. Because Jennie is having her 16th b-day
party
and we're all going to an ice rink! It's going to be SO much fun! I
haven't ice skated in AGES and I'll have to rent skates but it'll be
fun.
I'm hoping I won't fall, for some reason it's so much more scary than
falling in gymnastics. Oh yeah, maybe cuz its ICE? It's HARD when you
fall
on it! In gymnastics you may fall from higher but you have PADDING to
cushion your fall. This is why I'm not a figure skater! I know some
of the
girls here are real good at skating though so at the very least it'll
be
tons of fun watching them. Gotta go, i'll write more later!
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The party was so much fun!!! I only fell like 5 times,
LOL.
I'm not a very graceful skater, but as i suspected some of my
teammates
are and it sure was fun watching them glide around like it was the most
natural thing ever! Maybe I'd be better at it if I wasn't so afraid of
falling, because you gotta fall sometimes and if you're too afraid to
fall,
then you're too afraid to try, and you can't get anywhere if you don't
try!
I just remembered that this weekend is IFGA worlds! I'm sorta
sad
that I'm not going to be able to compete, since we aren't an IFGA gym
anymore, but my friends at Vega Twisters are going, and I hope they do
well!
I'll have to have someone tape the meet for me so I can watch it when
I
get back from my meet, which as I mentioned earlier i am SO NERVOUS
ABOUT!
Agh, not the nervousness thing again. Ok I'm going to go relax and
sleep.
Night Night!
January 14
I completely forgot! With all the excitement of Legolas
Greenleaf day, I forgot to check the roster of who's being sent to the
Texas
Fliers invite. But Lois announced it this morning before workout
started,
aloud to everyone. I MADE THE TEAM! So did Marissa which makes me
very
happy and proud. She didn't have the best season before and so i'm
glad
that she's got a chance to start this one off on thw right foot.
I
am
however sad cuz only Jess and I made it from Lilly Squad. Only 2 of
us!
Isn't that aweful? Every other squad had 3 or 4 girls chosen. Luckily
there's another meet next week, I'm HOPING that more Lilly girls will
get
sent! Of course there's probably only going to be the usual 6 sent, So
only
two of us wouldn't be too bad, but it would be real nice if we could
make up
half the team! I'm pretty certain Jess and I will make it, but I know
Dominique has a good chance too! She has a good strong work ethic and
even
though she's been struggling a little bit I know she's got a good
chance of
pulling together.
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Welp, it was freezing cold out today so I kept my run to
only
a mile. It was completely frigid! YIPES! The cold was biting at my
face
and i had a terrible headache by the time i came in. But once i warmed
up
it went away (thankfully!!) So i guess it wasn't too bad... although
from
now on I may check a thermometer before I go out for my run and skip it
if
it's that cold! I can always do something else for an endurance
workout.
My tutor's here though, so i gots ta go! bye for now!
January 13
HAPPY LEGOLAS GREENLEAF DAY! It's been a great day,
very
very busy which is why I haven't written at my usual times. The day
went
really well, and those of us who participated had a lot of fun (those
who
didn't had a lot of fun giggling at our expence but I really don't
mind).
I managed to find a green leo just fine, and I did wear my
ears
during practice. Which worked out well until floor, which was my last
event. Then one of my ears fell of during tumbling. Not so bad
though,
made it through most of the workout with no hitch so the last event it
falling off i didn't much care. I just took the other one off and
glued
them both back on after my shower. They stayed put the rest of the
day,
even through the afternoon workout but i did take it sorta easy and
skipped
vault and only did dance for floor.
I of course didn't have time for
my
conditioning and my run (although I did fit it a few extra minutes of
stretching) and I cut my tutoring short (again, luckily my tutor doesnt
mind
so much). The cutouts were sorta funny, I was taking pictures of
everyone
standing next to them looking all short as usual. The cutouts had both
Legolas and Gimli... a lot of us are more Gimli's height LOL. That was
fun,
I did that during lunch. Then after lunch we set up the targets for
archery. We had someone show us the basics and it was alot of fun! I
royally suck at it however, I only got one bulls eye. Even some of the
girls who thought Legolas Greenleaf day was a silly idea did the
archery
though, cuz archery in itself is a lot of fun.
I tried to learn some elvish so that I could teach other
girls but I didn't have a chance to learn much. All I could really do
was
tell them about pronunciation really, but hey as I learn more if anyone
else
wants to learn to that'd be cool.
My watered down workout went
pretty
well. As i mentioned, the ears stayed on. I also maneged to be pretty
elvishin my floor routine. I wonder if we're allowed to wear
rubberears at
competitions? They helped me a whole lot. The music I have almost
could
pass as modern day elf-ish music. So it could work really! I dunno I
suppose I could always just imagine I have the ears on, that could
work.
Time for bed now though I'm exhausted! G'night!
January 12
So tomorrow is Legolas Greenleaf day and I am very
excited!
I tried out the ears and they seam to be pretty solid so I think
they'll be
able to stay on through preactice. We'll see though, We could have elf
ears
falling off all over the place and it could be disastrous but I'm
pretty
confident there won't be much trouble.
I'm really glad it's the
weekend
though, I still need to work VERY hard today because tomorrow coach is
choosing the team for the Texas Flyers invite and I really want to be
on the
team! So I have to work my hardest today and tomorrow and do my very
best.
Luckily I've been improving steadily, so I think I'll make the team.
Especially since half of us are being sent! That's encouraging.
Hopefully
a lot of girls on the Lilly Squad will make it. I'll be so sad if they
don't! But so it's time for a squad lunch (I love my squad!) So i
gotta
run!
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Lunch was great, and my run wasn't bad and neither was
my
stretching/conditioning. I'm, really glad I've started stretching some
more
because it's really helped me gain back my flexibility fairly quickly.
I'm
still not at 100% but I'm improving nicely, and i'm not inflexible
enough
anymore for it to hurt my gymnastics TOO badly. Strength on the other
hand
is coming back rather slowly, which is a problem for vault and
especially
tumbling. It would also help bars if i could get my shoulders back to
being
a bit stronger. But that's why I'm working on it... That way I can
get
back in tip top shape ASAP!
That's it for today I'm afraid, i'm
going to
go kick butt in an extra workout and I'm sure i'll be too tired/lazy to
write more later. More tomorrow, LG day YAY!
January 11
I can't really write too much today cuz I have a LOT to
do!
There's a meet coming up soon and I have to work my butt off so I can
make
the team and also so I can do WELL at the meet! I know coach Soyon
will be
a BIG help, she really is quite motivational and I like how she can
point
out your weak spots without making you feel like a failure. She's got
this
plan to get Lilly close as a squad and supportive of each other but we
SO
are already so I think we're all on the same page with that one. I
know
what she means though, about not wanting us to get to the point where
we are
only rooting for ourselves, cuz it HAS gotten to that point before.
Luckily
right now we're all so happy to be back at Topo (and some happy to be
here
for the first time) that we aren't as self absorbed as we had been.
Also I
think that all the girls here have gotten closer and gotten past many
old
rivalries and such, and I know I'd grown especially close to the girls
in
the Lilly squad and a few others before squads were even announced. I
was
so happy when they were with who's on the Lilly squad because it's all
of
the friends I have at Topo that could possibly fit onto one squad with
me.
That of course leaves about a whole other squads worth of girls I wish
i
could also have on my squad, but such is life. But it's now time for
lunch,
and then of course my run and conditioning! I'll write more tomorrow.
January 10
Have I mentioned how much I love the Lord of the Rings
movies? I'm so glad I'm going to get to read the books for school!
That's
going to be awesome. I'm sure there were TONS of things that they had
to
leave out of the movies, and I would most certainly love to read about
them
and see what the things they left out were.
Speaking of tutoring, next week I'll be starting a new
psychology subject, adolescent development. It's basically an
extension on
child development, which as I said was rather boring but I'm hoping
adolescent development will be more interesting since I'm an
adolescent!
You never know tho, it could be even more boring! I guess we'll see.
My
tutor has been drilling me like crazy with grammar and such, and I
really am
not enjoying that. I like to talk and write the way I like to talk and
write and that's that! So basically it's pretty much all in vain.
I've
decided that everything I will ever know about grammar I learned in
elementary and middle schools and now it'll be hard to get me to learn
more.
So I'm trying to convince her to let me learn more french instead.
We'll
see how that goes! Ups... time for lunch! The Lilly Squad is eating
together today. It's bound to be fun!
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Lunch was good, as well as my run. I actually ran 2 1/2
miles today, so that was good. My conditioning and extra stretching
also
went well and I can feel my strength and flexibility improving
daily.
Legolas Greenleaf day is soon, and I got the ears and
cutouts
today! I'm going to have to borrow a green leotard from someone, which
won't be much of a problem. Someone's bound to have an extra, and I'm
sure
plenty of people won't cares its Legolas Greenleaf day so they'll just
wear
a normal leo anyways. I really am looking forward to it though, So so
much!
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Tutoring went well today. I convinced my tutor to let
me do
less grammar and more french. Something about learning french should
help
me with english grammar anyways as she points out the similarities and
differences. All I care is I get less grammar and more french WOO!
Plus I
have the weekend coming up, two whole days without actual tutoring
(just
some extra studying. No biggie) But I'll be using the weekend to
finalize
Legolas Greenleaf day, of course. I'll have to test the ears and make
sure
they'll stay on. See if they'll stay on through a workout or just
between
them. I hope they stay on throughout! That would be so cool, can you
imagine a gym full of girls with pointy ears and green leotards doing
gymnastics? It's too bad we aren't allowed to wear our hair down,
since
Elves have that gorgeous long straight hair, but oh well. Between
workouts!
of course. Anyways I'm getting tired so I should get my butt in bed!
January 9
Hello hello! Todays morning workout went pretty well.
Nother extraordinary, but some small improvements. I worked a LOT on
beam
and on tumbling on floor, and I plan to do more of the same this
evening
after my tutoring. I am determined to kick my butt consistently and
well
for as long as it takes for me to get back in top shape. I'm going to
stretch after my run today, and before the rest of my conditioning. I
figure that's a good place for it. I'm also going to stretch obviously
before every workout but after as well. Hopefully my flexibility will
come
back quickly.
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Brrrrr!!!!!!!!!!
today was exceptionally COLD! I couldn't believe it when I went for
my
run. I also almost completely forgot that I'd moved my tutoring up an
hour
so I could go see the two towers. I realized it when I got in from my
run
and was doing my stretching and I saw my tutor walking through the
front
door. I convinced her that it was imperative for me to stretch and
condition during my tutoring because i was out of shape, and she went
with
me because a lot of todays stuff was in discussion form. Usually I
also
take notes on what we discuss but today instead i just taped it on my
little
mini tape recorder and i'm going to take the notes tomorrow.
Two Towers was AWESOME! I loved how funny Gimli was,
and of
course i enjoyed my favorite charachter Legolas! I can't wait for LG
Day.
What else did I like in the movie... welp the orcs scared the crap out
of
me, but that's nothing new. They're just so UGLY and vile looking and
YUCK!
The battle scene was great though... and i absolutely adored the tree
beards! Those were so awesome! I so can't wait for it to come out on
video/DVD, and hopefully I'll get to go see it again!
But, since
the
movie was three hours long, i didn't get back here till 1/4 of 8 and I
still
insisted on doing a 2 hour long workout then, so I am tired and I
really
need to be getting to bed. Tomorrow, as always, is a very busy day,
and I
get to start it out with my NEW squad, the Lilly squad (YAY! I'm so
glad to
be on the lilly squad again!) I'm back on the Lilly squad and I'm on
it
with Vada, and I'm actually pretty close with almost every girl on the
squad. There's no one that I clash with, so I'm very happy about that.
But
yeah it's sleep time now! Night night!!
January 8
Today is the day of the intersquad and I'm so nervous!
Excited, but nervous. I know I'm no where near in top shape, and many
of
the other girls here are doing very well. A lot of them didn't get
lazy or
take time off, unlike me. I've been working hard on improving my
skills but
in just over a week there wasn't much I could do. I hope not to fall,
and
not to fall on my HEAD specifically on floor. But I know I'll get
points
off for my difficulties on bars and beam, as well as my low tumbling on
floor. Vault I think I'll do well in, or rather was well as I normally
do
which doesn't tend to be WELL so much as not rotten. My light workout
was
nice, my body is happy with the rest i think, and also it's giving me
time
to make up for the time i lost on my schoolwork yesterday by working
out in
all my spare time. I'm going to skip my conditioning again today,
however I
will go for a SHORT run, probably only a mile or less. I don't think
it's
wise to skip that two days in a row, since thats my only real endurance
workout.
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Well, i went for my
short run and took a short nap and then dug my competition leotard out
of my
bag and realized it doesn't come CLOSE to fitting me anymore! So now i
have
to order new leotards. I should have realized, since I only have about
3
workout leos that fit, and those are just the ones i got in celebration
of
coming back to Topo. Can we tell i was lazy, since I didn't even
NOTICE my
leotards didn't fit anymore? I guess that happens when you aren't
wearing
them! So anyways I was running around like crazy trying to find one i
could
borrow, and suddenly i hear Marissa yelling at me. She had an extra I
could
borrow, a brand new one since she'd also grown over the break and was
only
an inch shorter than me. It's a bit snug, but nothing compared to my
leo!
Luckily my new leos got ordered today and they said it should take only
a
week to get here. But so it's getting close to meet time, and i need
to do
some relaxation so I don't bug out completely!
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Well, the intersquad
went
about as well as I'd expected! I finished in 11th (tied for 11th
actually)
but i'm not disapointed. I actually did better scores wise than i
thought i
would, except on vault, even though they were all low. Vault I scored
a
little lower than I'd expected but I did have more trouble with the
landing
than i'd expected! My beam routine of course was shaky, I couldn't
connect
my mount so I lost valuable points there, and my back series was so
wobbly i
nearly fell off (i managed to stay on though! barely!) Floor, i
managed to
not hit my head on the tsavdaridou but my tumbling was of course low,
and i
went out of bounds on my last pass (i had competely not paid any
attention
to that problem of being taller! UGH!) Bars of course I had a bunch of
form
breaks and trouble with hitting handstands, so basically i didn't have
any
BIG screw ups but i had a lot of things that just chipped away at my
score.
I felt pretty good actually though, it had been so long since I'd last
competed I forgot what a rush it can be and it's gotten me newly
motivated
to kick my butt into hugh gear! Speaking of which, i should get to bed
early so I can get plenty of rest before i kick my butt tomorrow.
G'night!
January 7
Today I actually have very little time to write. The
intersquad is tomorrow and I have so much left to clean up that I
decided to
skip my run and conditioning and 2 two extra short practices. I figure
I
can skip vault, that's the most solid and I did fairly well on that in
this
mornings workout. Bars i need to work on a few minor things, and that
leaves floor and beam that need the most work. I am determined to get
my
beam mount connected and to not land my tsavdaridou on my head. Tose
are
what I'm the most worried about, but I also need to be more solid on my
back
tumbling series and all my tumbling on floor could be higher. It's
just
been so LOW. So I'm going to concentrate on that quite a bit!
Also January 13th is going to be unofficially Legolas
Greenleaf day here at Topo, because I said so, and because the 13th is
Orlando Bloom's birthday. Jenna and I were trying to come up with some
ideas, and I have some little things to take care or like getting
pointy
rubber ears for everyone. This is likely to take up what spare time i
have
left after my workouts.
Nothing really exciting is going on with tutoring. I
may ask
if I can read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, but I'm really not
sure.
I have some other things to read first and they seam like awefully
detailed books to read. We'll see though. I know they would be quite
interesting though! Anyways i have to run to lunch so i can meet some
of
the girls for an extra workout!
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Welp, I talked to my tutor about reading LOTR and the Hobbit and she
said
she'd try and work it into my curriculum so yay! I won't start reading
them
right away, but i will eventually. My extra workouts have left me
quite
tired though, and I need to be weel rested for the intersquad tomorrow
so I
can't really write much more right now. We had a team meeting trying
to
figure out how squads are going to be divided up, coach asked for
suggestions and we had some and we'll see soon how she decides to do
things.
Hopefully we'll find out tomorrow! Thursday a group of us are going
to
see Two Towers (finally!) and i'm very excited about that! But now I
need
to get myself plenty of rest! G'night!
January 6
So, I will start off with the begining of my book about
Marissa.
Part I, Marissa Farts -Marissa, As I have told
people, farts in her sleep. Sometimes as I lay there trying to sleep,
she'll just fart REALLY loud and i can't help but giggle. And then I
can't
sleep for a while cuz I got all hyper from giggling. However, this is
not
the only time that Marissa farts ohhh no! If you pay VERY close
attention
when she is on bars, she farts a little fart every time she does a cast
handstand, right when she hits vertical. Someone should tell the
judges to
put up a microphone by the bars, cuz they'll know for sure if she got
vertical or not by whether or not she farted. Butttt... don't tell I
said
that. I think she's a little embarrassed, and it's a new thing since
we
came back to Indiana. Maybe it's just a phase, who knows! And in any
case
you have to pay REAL close attention. Unless she's sleeping. Cuz then
they're loud farts.
Enough o!
f that for now. My mom sent me the first LOTR movie, to hold me over
until
i can get out to see the new one. I'm probably going to watch it with
whoever wants to watch it this afternoon or maybe right after dinner.
I
went to see it with my family last christmas, and I missed getting to
see it
with them this year because I had returned to Topo by the time they
went to
see it. I heard this one is even better than the first! So I really
can't
wait to see it.
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Look at that I
went and
didn't say by... Atler sorta DRAGGED me to lunch so I had little choice
but
that's ok i'm back! I found some people to watch Fellowship of the
Ring
with, and we may go see Two Towers soon too. Now though it's time for
my
run and my conditioning, and stretching.
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That was a great movie!! That elf guy...oh my goodness he is such a
cutie!
Ok so I never saw what the draw was with that whole guy thing, but i
think
now i got it.!
he is so cuuuute! I heard he doesn't really have blond hair and
blue
eyes but that is just fine with me! One of these days I'll have to
look up
and find a picture of what he really looks like. And I think i need to
read
the LOTR books now! Maybe start a group of us and learn Elvish that
would
be fun and it would drive Lois nuts cuz we could say stuff to each
other and
she'd have no clue what we were saying! I'll have to discuss this with
people I think! But since the movie is so long, it is now late. I'll
write
about more tomorrow (like tutoring and stuff) I promise!
January 5
DAMN GROWTH SPURT! and DAMN COMPUTER!!!!!
I hate my growth spurt I absolutely positively HATE IT!!!! That and my
recent laziness have made my gymnastics TERRIBLE. You can really tell,
everyone else is doing SO MUCH better than me and I'm struggling like
crazy!
It makes me want to CRY. I haven't even missed a workout so far or
anything but I'm still only 17th in the rankings, out of 20! It's
rotten!
I've been in the top 5 at this gym i can't even count how many times
and now
I'm struggling just to keep up! Oh great there i go crying!! Good
thing
Marissa isn't here right now so I can shut the door and no one will
know the
difference. I don't like crying and most of all I don't like it when
people
know I'm crying. I hardly ever cried before this whole puberty thing
hit.
Damn puberty! Why can't I stay wee little forever? It's just plain
NOT
FAIR!!!!! I think during my run today, when i get way out into the
middle
of the woods, I'm just going to SCREAM my bloody head off for a while,
and
hopefully that will!
make me feel better.
Now on to why I hate my computer. It's simple really, just when I had
started to write this entry the thing crashed on me. Not that this
should
suprise me, computers all seem out to get me. Any time I'm on one, it
crashes. So I tend to avoid getting on other peoples computers! I
swear
it's nothing I do, people have even watched me and said it was nothing
I
did, so it must just be that computers in general do not like me.
As I mentioned before, tomorrow i start back with my tutor. It'll be
nice
to see her, and I hope to impress her with how much i learned sitting
around
reading all the time at Cascade Locks! At least my brain didn't go
soft,
even though my muscles all did! That will be good. Since I got ahead
in
math and I was allowed to start elective coursework, I chose psychology
and
I finished a whole intro psych textbook and one in child development.
The
one in child development was MUCH more boring, but still pretty
interesting.
It had a lot of dry facts, that I really have no need for right now.
It'll come in handy though when I'm a LOT older and I have kids! But
enough
about that because i am HUNGRY so I'm headed to lunch!
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Wow did that run help! I
was
planning on doing a mile and a half, and i ended up running 2 and a
half cuz
it was just so theraputic. I didn't actually end up screaming, cuz
just
running in itself made me feel a LOT better! And then of course I did my usual conditioning, and
amazingly I
wasn't too tired or sore after it. Soon I think I'll be able to start
my
extra afternoon workouts, I should be able to at least by the day after
the
intersquad. That way I can use the intersquad to see what I need the
most
work on and I can concentrate on that in my extra workouts. I really
am
determined to do well this season, especially since it's my last year
as a
Junior. Sort of scary! I've been an elite for just over two years
now, but
it seams like so much longer! And before I know it I'll be a SENIOR,
wow!
That is, if i can make it through this growth spurt! Not only has it
effected my timing and my technique, it's also effected my flexibility.
I
should get into an extra stretching routine to gain my flexibility
back! I
think I'll start that right now, and once I start back up with my
afternoon
workouts I can just include it with
that.
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I had forgotten how good stretching feels! Especially toe touches, the straddled
kind.
Those are the best! Also splits aren't bad. The only stretch I REALLY
don't like are bridges. They didn't used to be so bad, but shoulder
flexibility is one thing that hurts a bunch as you get older, which of
course I am finding out the hard way! Most people don't notice it,
because
either they just plain never checked their shoulder flexibility or they
didn't slack off with their working out and stretching. I suppose part
of
this is just from slacking off, but I know a lot of it is from growing.
Thats the thing with growing, muscles just get stretched. So they get
tighter. Because muscles have the same number of muscle fibers, they
never
get more. So when you grow, the muscle fibers just stretch out and get
tighter, and so especially if you aren't stretching every day you lose
a lot
of your flexibility, which is exactly what I've done and exactly when I
had
to try and reverse now!
Ok so Marissa is looking at me like I have 3 heads because I've been spending
so
much time writing today, so i may as well go and be social. And by the
way,
MARISSA FARTS IN HER SLEEP!
January 4
My workout today didn't go so badly. I've noticed some
weaknesses in bars that I hadn't noticed before, that were caused by my
growth spurt. I'm having trouble getting quite to vertical on my cast
handstands, which also makes it hard to pirouette! I'll work on it
though
and hopefully I won't have trouble on it for long.
I had a lot of fun doing my conditioning with Sammie yesterday. She's
really nice, and not much like her sister but that's just fine with me!
We
ended up making snow angels/devils when we were done with our run. Of
course i ended up being damp for the rest of my conditioning, since i
dont
change between my run and my conditioning. It was a little annoying,
but
not too bad.
We're planning a ski trip, Sammie mentioned how she liked to ski and
wanted
to learn how to snow board so i found a ski area not too far from here
where
we can do both as well as go tubing. So we've got a trip planned for a
week
from today, and it looks like most of the girls will be going which is
exciting. I might even ask coach Lois to come along!
other than the ski trip there's lots of other things going on! Closer
to
the end of the month is Alana's ballet, which I'll be going to. Also
coming
up soon is Jennie's birthday and she's having a party at a skating
rink, so
of course i'l be going to that too! Plus Sammie is supposed to be
getting a
tape from Alana with Alana and her Pas de deux partner so I'm going to
watch
that with her and some of the other girls.
It's SO nice to be back here. It's odd not rooming with Vada, since
we've
roomed together for quite some time now, even at Cascade Locks, but I
am
with Marissa and I know we'll be getting ourselves in some trouble soon
enough! I can't wait! Anyways lunch time, and then time to do my run
and
my conditioning, as always.
January 3
Hello journal! Thanx mostly to those new showerheads, i am
not
quite so sore today and I have much more energy. Enough to up my run
to a
mile and a half i'd say!
In other news, I miss Alana like CRAZY, but I may as well get to know
her
sister Sammie. It'll be very weird, because I always used to call
Alana
'DeBrinski' mostly cuz i was afraid I'd spell her name wrong, and now
there's another DeBrinski! I'll just call her Sammie though and keep
calling Alana 'DeBrinski', since I'm sure she'll be here to visit
sometimes
and I'll be going to see her dance soon.
I start back up tutoring with my old tutor on monday. It'll be nice to
be
back into the swing of things again, and I was doing correspondance
through
another tutor with this tutor, which got to be a little confusing. My
family and i decided it would be good to keep the same person in charge
of
my education so there wasn't a discrepancy, and that caused a little
friction with the other tutor who was used to being his own boss. He
didn't
like feeling like a babysitter i guess, since really all he did was
give me
assignments my old tutor had assigned and he made sure i did them and
he
reported back to her on my progress. It's much better here with my old
tutor and no middle man!
Anyways, i should get to lunch so I can do my jog and my conditioning.
I
want to try and get the run in before it starts to cool down even more
outside (like it's not already cold enough!) So time to bundle up for
my
run! Oh, and there's Sammie maybe i'll get her to run with me. More
tomorrow!
January 2
Well I sure was right about being sore today! OW!!!!!!!! I
didn't even want to get out of bed! But I dragged myself up for
workout and
I made myself work hard. I need to get myself back in shape! I hit my
head
on the tsavdaridou a few times. Bad habit to be back into! Let me
tell
you, i'm lucky I don't get permanent damage to my neck by doing this.
I'll
start putting some extra padding on the floor for them, until I start
doing
them better.
My shower after the morning workout felt GREAT on my muscles. There's
these
new massaging showerheads and they are WONDERFUL! I'm really going to
enjoy
those, let me tell you that much! They were a great surprise, I wonder
if
anyone else has noticed them? Who knows.
I think I'm going to take a short half hour nap after I eat lunch, and
then
I'll start my conditioning routine up again. All I did of it yesterday
was
the run, and I only ran a mile as opposed to my usual 2. I'll probably
stick to 1 again today, since i'll also be doing all my pushups and
situps
and all that fun yuck.
It was SO weird waking up here today though. Like waking up in a dream
almost. A GOOD dream of course! I'm so glad to be back
here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's great it's almost better than being at
home!
(well, it IS winter, not exactly swimming season at home haha)
Anyways time for lunch, Marissa is getting all huffy waiting for me I
should
probably go.
January 1
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I can't believe it's 2003 already! It
really
is great to be back at Topopolilly. No where else keeps me as
motivated as
I get here. I went to train at Cascade Locks but spent most of my time
in
my room reading. I got SO lazy, and out of shape, and on top of that i
had
a growth spurt and grew to 4'8"! I grew almost a
half
a foot!
My workout didn't go too badly today, considering I am terribly out of
shape
and I'm getting used to my new height. Bars is oddly the event I'm
having
the least trouble getting the hang of, I'd think my height would make a
bigger difference there. Speaking of bars I got this annoying rip
today.
UGH! I hate them, they always make me so lazy on bars! But at least I
have
the least work to do in that event.
I'm so used to doing nothing, I am going to be SO sore tomorrow! At
Cascade
Locks I kept up my daily run, but for the most part that was it, so I
have a
lot of making up to do. I don't see myself doing well at the first
intersquad, but I'll just have to keep working hard so i can do well
after
that. Today I'm only going to do a mile run, since I'm still tired
from my
workout. I'll start my conditioning back up tomorrow, and then in a
week or
two I'll add my afternoon workout. Of course I won't do bars in my
extra
workout until my rip is better, which it should be by the end of next
week
but by then I'll probably have a rip on my other hand. They always
come in
twos for me it seams.
I should get going now, I haven't finished unpacking so I should
probably
get to that. I'll be sure to write more tomorrow!