Almost Done

If you would've asked me one week ago if summer was EVER going to get here or if this year would EVER end, the answer would have been "not soon enough!!"

I took my last TAKS tests, EVER this week (Did you know you take a total of 27 of those stinkers from 3rd grade till you take your exit-levels junior year).

My best friend is currently at her Prom, and the fact that in a few months she'll be moving out JUST hit.

I take the SAT tomorrow.

In a week and a half I'll be done with all my AP tests for this year.

I only have to show up to school 13 and a half more days this school year.

My summer officially begins at noon on May 28th.

On June 4th, I'll be classified as a senior in high school.

YIKES! I've been waiting to get out of high school for so long, and now it seems like there isn't enough time left to do everything I wanna do.

A song came on the radio while I was driving and pondering today, You're Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins. Totally describes the train of thoughts rolling through my head today.

House Rules excerpt

After TAKS we get to read, such a motivation for book-lovers like myself who rarely get the opportunity to read for fun admist the busyness we call life.

I'm currently reading House Rules by Jodi Picoult, loving it!

You know you have read to many required books that must be annotated when you instantly think to make a note of a line in a book because you know for sure it'll be asked about on a test or open circle at some point!!

When reading I ran across this and I totally connected, and if the taks room was silent I mighta started crying.

"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw" --Jodi Picoult

And the total is...

$2382.16 raised by Cy-Falls for Relay for Life!

Song of the Week: April 26

Today is 6 months since Clay passed away, and after RFL on Friday and seeing the Layla teams, this song has been replaying through my head. "Hope" was a big part of RFL, and so it kinda makes since. I made a video of pictures of Clay after he went to Heaven, and this song is the background. To see that blog post, click here. The song has also been added to the embedded playlist on the right.

This weeks song of the week...

With Hope
by Stephen Curtis Chapman

"This is not at all how
We thought it was supposed to be
We had so many plans for you
We had so many dreams
And now you've gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain
The pain of losing you, but ...

We can cry with hope
We can say goodbye with hope
'Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh no
And we can grieve with hope
'Cause we believe with hope
(There's a place by God's grace)
There's a place where we'll see your face again
We'll see your face again

And never have I known
Anything so hard to understand
And never have I questioned more
The wisdom of God's plan
But through the cloud of tears
I see the Father's smile and say well done
And I imagine you
Where you wanted most to be
Seeing all your dreams come true
'Cause now you're home
And now you're free, and ...

We have this hope as an anchor
'Cause we believe that everything
God promised us is true, so ...

So we can cry with hope
And say goodbye with hope

We wait with hope
And we ache with hope
We hold on with hope
We let go with hope"

Winsor Valley UMC

Our youth group went to Winsor Valley this morning, AKA "black church" and we had a wonderful time!

Amens, hallelujas, testifys, my "brothers" and "sisters" were not of short supply.

I don't know how to describe it other than a 180 from Cornerstone. People ran up and down the isles, danced and clapped the majority of the time. As Megan described it "what CUMC would be like with 1000 of our youth and few adults".

Favorite line of the entire hour and 45 minute service?? "r-a-t right now". Cept when the pastor said "right" it sounded more like "rat" so we all loved it.

Everybody was SUPER friendly; I'm pretty sure I was hugged/greeted by probably 50 different people from the 1000+ people in the sanctuary.

We then headed to Brazos Bend to spend the afternoon. (different story for different time). Overall though?? A great day with great friends!!

RFL: Picture Post!

Relay For Life in 15 Pictures!!!

It was SO cool seeing everybody in RFL T-shirts, and I was really proud to see about 1/2 of the varsity team supporting RFL :)


English class!


Mina: This is the girl who got me involved! We became really good friends over the course of the past 4 months


Andrew Mina and I (Team Cy-Falls Captains)


Matt and his mom, Malissa, who is a cancer SURVIVOR


The balloon release which was really cool and reminded me of Layla Grace's Balloon Release at her Celebration.


Survivor Walk!


Ms. Malissa's Luminaria


My Grandma's Luminaria


The Cy-Falls mascot, Hunter, aka Matt and me after Fight Back


The start of an OSHKA game!! I think this is the most people we've ever had playing one game :))


L-->R: Matt, Andrew, Travis. Our "pimp" Mr. Relay entry!


Luminaria's lining the track


The best picture of the night! One of the proudest (and only) moments of being a Cy-Falls Eagle!


HOPE: The reason why we relay.

Relay For Life was AMAZING

*This is the non-picture blog post :)*

We ended up getting to Cy-Woods around 4:00 for massive confusion. Andrew wasn't there yet, and neither Mina or I had ever participated in a RFL event before, let alone Team Captain one. Once we figured out that people need to check in with us, then go over and sign up to work a certain shift at the registration table, the set up went a lot smoother. We hauled in all of our tents and tables, and got our area set up while a few of Cy-Falls people went and helped Mrs. Cissy set up the luminarias. The 3 hours of setting up went by REALLY fast, Mina and I spent a lot of time on our phones and running around while Andrew directed people in setting up and helping others out.

Ms. Malissa showed up around 6:45, and we all loved having our own survivor for Cy-Falls. I'm hoping next year we can get more people involved in the survivor activities, because that's part of the reason why we RELAY!

At 7:00 the festivities began with Mrs. Kovar talking, the pledges to the flags, a really funny 2-year cancer survivor talking, and then the Survivor Lap. It was really neat to see Ms. Malissa walking, and at the halfway point having Matt be able to walk the second half of the lap with her. After the opening lap, everybody was kinda set free for a little while to run whatever needed to be run. I went back to our area to get people signed in with us to get their service hours, and signed up with the RFL Committee to volunteer. People began walking the track, a BUNCH of our group was helping out with the Carnival games, it was rewarding seeing everything getting done.

After manning our area and booth (we had goodies to sell, face-painting, and a nerf-gun shoot out) it was time for the Luminaria Ceremony. They had some people talk and tell their stories, and lit all of the luminarias. On the bleachers they had empty milk cartons that we lit like the luminarias that spelled out the word "hope". I missed most of the ceremony because we were getting ready for the Fight Back Ceremony, but from the looks on everybody's faces and from what I was told, it was really moving and wonderful. I'm kinda upset I missed it, but I know better for next year!

After the Luminaria Ceremony, Cy-Falls was up the lead the Fight Back Ceremony. We had our well-known state-wide drum-line there, along with a few cheerleaders, and then some more people participating in the Relay to help out perform skits about "pledges" to prevent cancer. Matt dressed up in the Hunter (our mascot) costume and was a GREAT Hunter! He was SO funny, the perfect mascot.

Once the Fight Back Ceremony was finished, we were once again set loose for a little while to walk and work. Andrew got ready for the Mr. Relay pageant, some people volunteered, some walked. Mr. Relay wasn't too far after the Fight Back, so before we knew it Andrew was up as our "pimp" Mr. Relay, accompanied by Matt and Travis. They totally should have won, we yelled louder, and they were much more appropriate than some of the others.

This was like 10:00, and nothing else was planned till midnight, so we all walked the track and played Ninja or Oshka. A bunch of the polo kids walked around the track passing Matt's polo ball which was really fun. Oshka and Ninja was also entertaining, and probably resulted in why I have random scrapes all over my legs... oh wells, it was worth it!!

Around midnight we got the notice to start packing up and that we needed to go home because we were under tornado warnings, and there was hail and bad storms in Prairie View heading towards Cypress. It was a real bummer, but I think my favorite part of the entire night happened when cleaning up.

I went over to help Mrs. Denee clean up the carnival and I LOVED talking to her! She had such interesting stories, and was such a cool lady. I think everybody who was carrying tables for her that night would agree, it was wonderful.

By 1:00 this morning, everybody loaded whatever was left at our area (chairs, tarps, tents, random poles, etc) into my truck and we all left. I got home around 1:35 this morning.

It's a major bummer that it got rained out, but we learned SOO much! I'm so thankful Mina got me involved, and I can't wait till next year when we can make it even better!!

Now I'm off to Andrew's to meet with Mina to sort out everybody's "stuff" that all got mixed up.

Pictures WILL be in a following blog post!!

RFL: cancelled.

It's 1:35 Saturday morning. I really wasn't planning on posting this early, but unfortunately there is hail and bad bad weather an hour from Cypress so everybody was sent home. Really a bummer!!

I'll post more later, the event was AMAZING though. Like unbelievable. I can't wait till next year :)

Now off to bed, driving home in a silent truck made me realize how exhausted I am considering the minimal sleep I've gotten in the past few weeks.

RFL in T-minus a year!

RFL in T minus 4.5 hours: YAHOOO!!

So glad I was able to leave school after 6th period today!! I went and planned last minute things with Mina while French braiding her hair, then went and got chickfila :)

Now I'm packing extra clothes and loading up everything we might need tonight before heading off to Woods to set up!!

RFL starts at 7pm tonight and finished up around 7am tomorrow. I'm gettin there at 3:30 though and probably won't be leaving till 8 or 9 tomorrow morning. But I'm SO excited!!!

It was SOOO cool seeing everybody in their RFL shirts and bandanas at school today. I couldn't stop smiling!

Be waiting for tomorrows post!! I'll b including lots of pictures :))

Please pray for NO RAIN!!!

Relay in T minus a few hours!!!

RFL in T minus 1 day: EVERYTHING!!

We passed out shirts today. All but 6 were either picked up before school or during lunch. Insert sigh of relief here.

Cookies have been put into pretty party bags, and the ones that contain peanut butter have been labeled as such. Insert 2nd sigh of relief here.

Grandma's luminaria has been passed on and is good to go. Insert 3rd sigh of relief here.

Truck hasn't been loaded with chairs or tents.

Boondoggles have not been finished.

Nerf guns are still in my room.

My bag of "Heaven forbid it gets cold or rainy" clothes/towels/socks (bc I HATE wearing wet socks) is still not packed. Or in my truck.

My black shirt to wear during Fight Back Ceremony hasn't been located in my closet quite yet.

I need to pack a cooler of drinks/snacks to keep in my truck tomorrow.

My camera hasn't been recharged or the uploaded pictures erased.

And I haven't studied for current events or vocabulary quiz tomorrow for English. AGH!

BUT: this time tomorrow, we will be at Relay and it'll all be good!!

RFL in T minus 2 days: T-SHIRTS, PEP-RALLY, LUMINARIAS & BOONDOGGLES

The boondoggle project is a continuation of yesterday. I have run out of keychain hook's though (the actual circley things that you put keys on) though like 5 minutes ago, so no more starting them!! Now I just have to finish some, but that's not too bad. I can do that at Kole's game tonight, and during class when I'm bored.

We started passing out T-shirts today. Surprisingly it went rather smoothly!! There wasn't a mad rush of people, but a steady stream. I think about 1/3 of the people ended up picking up their shirts this morning, and we talked to a bunch about picking them up tomorrow. We have a system going. I ask for their last name and highlight them off the list, Andrew gives them the "do/don't bring to Relay and Reminders" cards that we made for everybody, while Mina grabs the right size shirt. It was a good system, and worked rather well!! We hand out T-shirts again tomorrow morning, and then on Friday during 7th period (yahoo for Mom writing me a note so I can skip :D) we are hand delivering the T-shirts that didn't get picked up. But we aren't telling people we will hand deliver, because we really want them to come pick them up on their own ;)

Cy-Falls is responsible for doing the Fight Back Ceremony on Friday. Really, it's a "let's not be sad anymore, let's fight back" hoorah to boost the morale (this follows the solemn Luminaria Ceremony where everybody is somber). We have some of the cheerleaders going (the ones that haven't let the popularity go to their heads.. aka the ones I can stand) and the state-known drumline. Then a few polo kids are doing skits, it's going to be really cool I think!! And a good way for everybody to get involved.

At the event, they line the tracks with paper-sacks that have been decorated with people's names of people who have fought cancer, or are fighting right now. They fill the sack with sand and then put a candle in it, so at night the track is lit. We are making one for Matthew Johnson's mom who just finished chemo (HOORAY!) and then I am making one for Grandma Suddendorf. I still need to do that tonight so I can have that done for Mina tomorrow.

Tomorrow will just consist of getting EVERYTHING ready to go so Friday runs smoothly!!

Only 2 more days! I'm getting excited!!

RFL in T minus 3 days: BOONDOGGLES!

At RFL each team is responsible for fundraisers and activities that night. We are doing darts, cookie sales, etc... and Boondoggles. They are key-chain type things made out of gimp-string (waxy-like). I really don't know how to describe them. Google it :)

SO we are having a boondoggle station. For $1 you get the boondoggle started (since most people don't know how to do the first stitch to get it started), or for $2 you get a completed boondoggle. So that's how I've been spending my school-day when we aren't doing anything 911 important. Cutting gimp and starting boondoggles.

Tomorrow we pass out T-shirts and have a Fight Back Ceremony practice run-through type thing. Thursday we pass out T-shirts again and get everything we can ready prior to Friday. And Friday: mass chaos before RFL!!!

RFL in T minus 4 days: REALITY

To do before Friday at 7 PM

• Make lots of boondoggle starters
  
• Pass out over 150 RFL T-shirts, while making sure each kid get's the right size and checking ID's to make sure nobody takes anybody elses shirts
  
• Run-through of the Fight Back Ceremony that Cy-Falls is responsible for leading
  
• Individual Bag 200+ Cookies for Friday to sell, while attaching "These cookies contain peanuts" to about 1/4 of them
  
• Print out/make those peanut-allergy labels
  
• Make sure everybody knows what they can/can't bring on Friday
  
• Skip 7th on Friday to help Mina pass out the T-shirts that weren't picked up
  
• Hand-deliver T-shirts to the teachers who are going to RFL
  
• Gather together Nerf Guns for the event on Friday
  
• Set up enough tents for 150 plus people (thank goodness the football coaches are coming out to help)
  
• Figure out who is working what stations and when
  
• Make sure Matt's mom is going to have a wonderful time
  

And that's just RFL stuff! Throw in school and work and church and AHHHH!!! busy week!!

Sometimes you gotta remember to just BREATHE

T MINUS 4 DAYS!

Song of the Week: April 19

It's going to be a hectic week! I was lookin' for a song about "keep on keepin' on" and ended up kinda drifting off that topic and onto a new favorite song of mine. To listen, it's on the playlist to the right.

Live Like We're Dying
by: Kris Allen

"Sometimes we fall down, can't get back up
We're hiding behind skin that's too tough
How come we don't say I love you enough
Till it's to late, it's not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come
And we could make a feast from these crumbs
And we're all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you,
What would you wish you would've done

Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye
Should be so careful who we live out our lives
So when we long for absolution,
There'll no one on the line, yeah

Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying..

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

You never know a good thing till it's gone
You never see a crash till it's head on
Why do we think we're right when we're dead wrong
You never know a good thing till it's gone

Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying..

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying.."

RFL in T minus 5 days: COOKIES!

Today was baking day. I think I ended up making right around 200 cookies. One was a recipe even Mom hadn't made before and she commented that they were pretty good!! Now that's saying something!! I didn't even get help from mom at all!! Except to ask where the baking soda was (supposedly it's not like real soda... that's why it wasn't in the fridge :P) and asking how to "drizzle" some chocolate thing on top of the cookies, which we ended up throwing away the "drizzling" part, so really that doesn't count.

Types of cookies

• chocolate chip
  
• Reeses' Peanut Butter thingies
  
• sugar
  
• M&M
  

T minus 5 days!!

RFL in T minus 6 days: COINS

The past 26 hours in pictures:

Step 1: 45 pounds of coins


Step 2: Dump out Matt's coins (and enlist help from Dad)


Step 3: Get sibling's help in sorting


Step 4: Begin wrapping nickels, dimes, and quarters while leaving most of the pennies in a huge pile when you run out of penny-holders.


Step 5: Gape at mound of pennies and think "WHY did Matt unroll all of these perfectly rolled coins?"


Step 6: Don't get frustrated when the coin-sorter-counter machine breaks and you are only 1/2 done with Matt's coins. (note frustration face. I didn't follow this step very well!)


Step 7: When done sorting all of Matt's coins, begin dumping out and sorting your own!



Step 8: Sort, sort, sort! What?? It's past midnight?? Keep on' sorting!!


Step 9: When you run out of coin-sleeves and baggies, call it a night and stack into your mom's tupperware containers when writing your account number on them


Step 10: Next morning. Call up Mina and have her meet you at the bank. She brings in MORE coins, so spend the next 2 hours sprawled out in the Credit Union bank's floor sorting coins.




Step 11: Be thankful that the bank is also taking apart in Relay For Life, and are very nice to help exchange coins for cash.

Step 12: Marvel at the $321.50 worth of coins that Cy-Falls collected!!

RFL in T minus 7 days: COINS!

We've been collecting coins. I got the lovely task of counting up all these coins and putting into "sleeves" to take to the bank tomorrow.

4 hours later...

$260 dollars worth of coins for Relay for Life!! Plus a huge stack of pennies that I'm going to sort through tomorrow.

SO PROUD!

Wonderin' what $260 worth of coins looks like?

Check out the blog post comin' soon: I took pictures of the counting process!!!

Now... SLEEP!
Tomorrow... bank to turn in coins, Kroger with Mina and Andrew to buy ingredients for cookies/brownies/puppy chow/everything else we need.

T MINUS 6 DAYS!!!

Sheer Exhaustion

Sunday night: 3 hours of sleep
Monday night: 2 hours of sleep
Tuesday night: 4 hours of sleep
Wednesday night: 2 hours of sleep

Typical teenager is supposed to get 8 hours of sleep per night??

Yeah... I've gotten no where near the recommended amount this week.

Which explains why I'm not functioning anymore???

5 minutes ago: filling up a glass of water while talking to my dad about RFL stuff. I'm staring straight at the fridge and the water filling up. All of a sudden, "Ky, the water is running down the fridge and making a mess" --Dad. I hadn't even noticed and I was staring STRAIGHT at the cup.

Tonight's plan? Sleep? HA. I wish.

• Look up every article written on CNN for this entire week. Because knowing what city in Africa Madonna is in, or what the head of Russia's name is is obviously of dire importance. (Guess I'm not too tired for sarcasm)
  
• Memorize vocabulary for quiz tomorrow
  
• 3 Physics worksheets
  
• Go over starting/ending rules of polynomial functions for pre-cal test tomorrow.
  
• Work on 39 page, 500 + APUSH review (No, not sarcastic. Although this torture device deserves it's own blog. That'll be coming soon)
  
• Transfer pictures to flash for projects
  
• Sleep???
  

Oh summer, PLEASE come quickly!!!

Enraged

According to dictionary.com

Enrage–verb (used with object),-raged, -rag·ing.
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate: His supercilious attitude enraged me.

That's the only way to describe how I felt during 3rd period. Enraged.

Who would give a special ed kid something to make them high? Really? What idiot does that?!?!

When he came in to art today we could tell something was up, after 10 minutes the teacher took him out of class and to the nurse or somewhere. Somebody gave him something and didn't tell him what it was, and it made him high. I was enraged.

Then the day went downhill from that. But nobody wants to read a downer-debby blog post.

Going to swim to get out frustration. It's gonna be a long week.

Song of the Week: April 12

Every Saturday night (and Sunday at noon) KSBJ plays a Top 20 Countdown of the top Christian songs in the nation (or world... I'm not too sure), but anywhos, they always play a few songs in there that KSBJ doesn't play, and on occasion, I fall in love with those songs. Last night was one of those occasions.

Josh Wilson-- Before the Morning

"Do you wonder why you have to
Feel the things that hurt you
If there’s a God who loves you where is He now

Maybe there are things you can’t see
And all those things are happening
To bring a better ending

Someday somehow you’ll see you’ll see

Would you dare would you dare to believe
That you still have a reason to sing
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling
It can’t compare to the joy that’s coming
So hold on you gotta wait for the light
Press on and just fight the good fight
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling
It’s just the dark before the morning

My friend you know how this all ends
You know where you’re going
You just don’t know how you’ll get there
So say a prayer

And hold on cause there’s good for those who love God
But life is not a snapshot
It might take a little time but you’ll see the bigger picture

Once you feel the weight of glory
All your pain will fade to memory

It’s just the hurt before the healing
Oh the pain that you’ve been feeling
It’s just the dark before the morning"

I've added this song to my playlist to the right, but if for some reason that doesn't work, here's the youtube video.

Have an awesome week :)

Music

If you have ever hung out or been around me, you know that I am constantly listening to music. I wake up to music, it plays while I get ready, on the way to school. In 1st and 3rd period. On the way home. Doing homework. On my way to and from the pool. While I'm taking a shower. When I'm falling asleep. I am always listening to music.

Why?? Most think it's because I cannot stand silence. Which is true-- I don't like quiet. I can't concentrate when it's quiet, my mind drifts. But that's not why I love music.

Music to me is a way to unwind, to destress, to calm down.

I love reading into lyrics. To find out what the artist is saying. Most of the time I find a certain song that connects to what is going on in my life, and I cling to that song when the going gets rough. Sometimes it seems like God puts songs into my life or on the radio as a way of saying "hey, calm down. It's going to be okay. You can do this. I love you and I will take care of you."

Music also is a way for me to express myself. When it's just me, either in the shower or driving somewhere, I love to sing the songs on KSBJ outloud, and often turn lyrics into prayers. Lyrics become my facebook status quite regularly, they seem to express myself better than my words alone can.

Music, gotta love it.

And on that note-- check out this song- Before the Morning by Josh Wilson. AMAZING lyrics!!

Learn to Swim :)

My club team, Team YES, has levels for all swimmers, from 4 year olds that can join the Learn To Swim program, up to the Senior group (which I'm in). So, to say the least, we have swimmers of all ages and abilities that swim for TYES. Lately I've been helping out with the Learn to Swim Program, where I get to get in the water and teach private (1 swimmer), semi-private (2 swimmers), and group (3-4 swimmers) to children as young as 4 years old.

And I LOVE it! They are all so cute and adorable. I'm working every week, 1-2 times a week, depending on who needs me to cover in addition to my Friday night lessons.

Last night I had one little girl (I knew her mom and brother) who I got to teach. She was precious, blond hair-blue eyed little cutie. When I saw her for the first time she reminded me of Layla Grace's older sister Claire, who was the same age, and I couldn't help but think that I could have had the chance to teach Layla Grace to swim one day. Not the point, but still, she was on my mind.

I sincerely LOVE teaching swim lessons. I guess the fact that I'm going on my 14th year of swimming, I'm kind of getting tired of that swimmer-role. I love my team, but sometimes I have no motivation to get in and swim a practice, when I know this time next year I will be done competing in meets all-together. But getting to teach lessons is a whole new side of swimming for me, and I love it. I still get to be in the water, and I'm still connected to the sport, and I still get to swim a little bit, but it's so flip-side from being in the water swimming a practice. I think that in a few (or 13)years these little 4 year-olds will be my age and will possibly still be swimming year-round. It makes me happy thinkin' that I'm a part of that foundation for them.

So who knows where this will go, but as for now, I'm loving it!

Chlorine Withdrawals?

Haven't swam TYES in over 2 weeks. Haven't played polo in over 6 months. Haven't swam high school since February (not like I care about that though). Having major chlorine withdrawals!!

But more than that, I miss my Team YES family. Like massively. I honestly think of my coaches as part of my family (some of the little kids think Kris and I are siblings.. haha, and Coach Dennis often finds us calling him "Daddy Denny"), and aside from church, all my friends are at the pool. So I haven't seen them in forever.

I haven't gotten teased in forever. Or picked on. Or laughed at. Although Renee has told me I made a "Wendy face" the other day... Don't worry, I denied it :).

Tomorrow we finally have practice tomorrow, so I'll get to see everybody again, even though I'll be teaching Learn To Swim lessons (which I absolutely LOVE by the way!) so that'll be cool beans.

And I'll get my chlorine back :)