What a relief! I'm finally over with the mind-grinder. The mind-grinder is the one dreaded set of 11,ooo yards of swimming in every Whitworth swimmer's mind that comes only once every four years...because it is that horrible. BUT...I was able to make my send-offs every time, although a few times I was cutting it pretty close. God was good to me. My body was prepared for the yardage and did pretty decent actually, but my brain was going all over the place during some of the 300's. I kept getting lost on what lap I was on and would finish at the wall and yell at Gary to tell me where I was haha! It was pretty rediculous. But I had fun and I'm glad to have finally experienced it. I took some pictures of the momentous occasion so you will see them soon on facebook. So last night was New Years Eve, and honestly, I was so tired that day that I went to bed at 8:30 pm and woke up at 8:30 am the next morning! haha! I got 12 hours of sleep! It was amazing! But you can't blame me really cuz I definitely have had to wake up at five o'clock in the morning every morning this past week to drive to practice, so I don't feel THAT bad. :) Now that it's '09 I realized that I graduate soon! Agh! Crazy! I have major denial issues and tend to not look at things the way I don't want to see them, so the fact that I will never have another Christmas Training on the team is so depressing that I can't even think about it now....and I probably won't, till its too late. :/ But, with this problem, it does have it's perks! Now I can enjoy this year for what it is and what God is going to teach me through it....It seems like every year for like the past eight years has had some kind of a theme to it, of either learning something specific that God had shown me that year, or learning something more about myself and others, so I'm excited to see what God is going to do with me this year. :)
Now that the swimming is all done for my time here in Cali, now we get to have fun!!! The rest of this evening we have off, so I think I'm gonna read a bit and just relax, then tomorrow we have our "fun day" where I'm gonna be headed off to a Laker's game!! YEA!!! SO stoked! Basketball is one of my favorite sports to watch live, and I'm glad I get to watch it with friends! Our seating tickets are kind of sporatically placed, so hopefully some kind soul will be okay with switching us seats to sit with more of the swimmers. I'm really excited, it'll be way fun. :)
After that we leave sunday morning and I head back to Seattle, go home and pack up, then I'm off driving to Spokompton once again....I guess by now they have had six feet of snow build-up......grrrreeeeeeeeat. I'm not excited to see snow again. Normally I don't mind it, but in Spokane, it is very accessive, and it NEVER melts away. LAME. So pray for me that I can get there safely and on time that night, it'll be a LONG day. I hope everyone had a great New Years!!! I know I did! :)
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