Yoga Withdrawal

The past week my knees have hurt so much that I dreaded the need to walk. I couldn't figure out what was the matter with me, until I did my Physical Therapy and Yoga stretches and was fine. The coach told me that my intensive stretching and ab workouts the past month have helped me a lot, and while I'm running, the sudden lack of stretching is causing my joints and the spots I worked on to hurt. Plus, I hadn't been eating enough or something like that. Me, not eating enough.

Well, that was easily remedied. An excuse to pig out? Yes!

On Wednesday instead of practice, half the team he picked (and me) went to Viernheim to go scrimmage a german girl's team on a hardplotz (hard plots?) field. It's basically cement-like stuff, like tennis courts, covered in small gravel stuff. Descriptive, I know. Anyways, so we drive there, and it was freezing, but we had warm-ups so we at least had some feeling in our limbs. We practiced for a bit and started, but couldn't wear the warm-ups anymore because, well, we weren't warming up. I went in, but most of us got pulled out really quick because it was only an 8 v.s. 8 game including goalies. They scored, we scored and then it was half time. None of us really had any thoughts left except "cold....cold.....cold..." and gratefully clutched the semi-warm soft pretzels Becky brought while coach blabbed. Then I went in, and I actually did well. For me.

Half way through the second half it started raining, then snowing, then hailing, then we ended. It switched back to snow, and the moment we got into the cars it all stopped. I rode home with Becky so I wouldn't have to walk home from the school. I stumble inside, and my mom's like, wow your purple. This took me a bit to get, and after anxiously checking my skin I realized I had on purple soccer socks, coat and jersey. Heh heh...I'm slow...

Today--

We have a new project for Algebra 2. We have to teach our parents how to use a graphing calculator.

Dun dun DUN.....

We only had a half hour practice today because it was freaking COLD. I got called down to the office after school, because my dad had scheduled me for the Red Cross baysitting thing on saturday, when I couldn't go because of soccer, so I had to go talk to the principal and Mrs. Ward, and eventually just called the Red Cross and signed me up for the next class in a few months. When does my dad think I'm going to have time for babysitting anyway?!?

So we ran for a half hour straight and walked home in the rain. And now I'm going to beat Zelda. There's my life, pathetic as it may seem. Oh yeah, and I put Twilight on the back of my soccer hoodie. It was Kirsten's idea. God...I'm a dweeb. Jacob says I should have put Edward...

(p.s. Anna's probably the only one who got that)