I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Spring break starts tomorrow so the focus is getting through the day today. It has been a long week and it seems like I have only been home to sleep as of late. Monday was the track meet, Tuesday I taught class and didn't get home until after 9, and Wednesday I taught class and got home close to the same time. One more night of teaching class and I am done for the summer.
Drew went to the doctor yesterday because I noticed he hasn't been running or walking well over the last year. He is always on his toes and is just not right. He had a heal problem during football season and he just has never gotten better. The doctor said the bones are growing faster than the tendons so he has problems in the achilies area. He has to wear a brace at night to try to get the tendon to strech and match the bone length. The doc said it would have never corrected by itself so it was good he came in.
It looks like the weekend is going to be decent on the weather front so I will finally get a chance to get the yard cleaned up. We had a bunch of tree branches down from the big snow fall and I need to get my chainsaw out and cut it all up. I also need to take down my Christmas lights. (I know, what the hell have I been doing that they are still up...)
I ordered a quarter beef last month and it arrived this week. It will be nice having all of that available for BBQ as the weather gets better.
It doesn't seem like this post has anything interesting in it but that is kind of how my life has been lately.
ps - I plan to get some pictures up this weekend!
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Who needs Florida?
We are having some awesome weather here in the state of Iowa. It was in the uppper 50's yesterday and will hit 75 today! We are having Florida weather without the attitude and violence (ha ha). The only problem we are having right now is the water levels are high and we are having a bit of flooding and a bunch of water in the fields from all the snow melt.
Jessi did well at the track meet last night. In the Sprint Medley relay, which is a 100, 100, 200, 400, they did pretty well. Jessica was the 400 leg and pasted two girls to pull off first place in her heat. There were 11 heats however, and they ended up 31st out of 74. It was a huge meet and a bunch of big schools - Des Moines East, and Hoover and other big 4A teams. 74 teams from all over the state. I think there were over 700 girls participating. They ran a time of 2:03 and the winning time was 1:54. They are all young runner so they will have a chance to do much better in the future. That team consists of 3 freshmen and a sophomore.
She also ran the 4x400. It was ugly! We came in 4th in our heat and we were not in the fastest heat. By the time Jessica got the batan she was in a distant 4th place. She closed the gap and but couldn't make up the distance on the 3rd place runner. They don't have a good group of 400 runners and I don't see that getting any better this year. Jess may be better in just the open 400. They didn't have that event at this meet.
Drew and I rode up to Ames for the meet and he spent most of the night playing on the high jump mats with a bunch of little boys. When it was time to leave he was all sweaty and happy as a clam. We left after Jessica ran her last event she was heat 3 out of 9 and didn't get home until 11:00 pm. I rarely see that time of night especially on a weekday.
I forgot to take the camera so I have no pictures to post of the track meet. I will try to do better in getting pictures on the site.
Miss you all.
Jessi did well at the track meet last night. In the Sprint Medley relay, which is a 100, 100, 200, 400, they did pretty well. Jessica was the 400 leg and pasted two girls to pull off first place in her heat. There were 11 heats however, and they ended up 31st out of 74. It was a huge meet and a bunch of big schools - Des Moines East, and Hoover and other big 4A teams. 74 teams from all over the state. I think there were over 700 girls participating. They ran a time of 2:03 and the winning time was 1:54. They are all young runner so they will have a chance to do much better in the future. That team consists of 3 freshmen and a sophomore.
She also ran the 4x400. It was ugly! We came in 4th in our heat and we were not in the fastest heat. By the time Jessica got the batan she was in a distant 4th place. She closed the gap and but couldn't make up the distance on the 3rd place runner. They don't have a good group of 400 runners and I don't see that getting any better this year. Jess may be better in just the open 400. They didn't have that event at this meet.
Drew and I rode up to Ames for the meet and he spent most of the night playing on the high jump mats with a bunch of little boys. When it was time to leave he was all sweaty and happy as a clam. We left after Jessica ran her last event she was heat 3 out of 9 and didn't get home until 11:00 pm. I rarely see that time of night especially on a weekday.
I forgot to take the camera so I have no pictures to post of the track meet. I will try to do better in getting pictures on the site.
Miss you all.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Who remembers who came in second?
It seems like we are going through a phase in which the number 2 is playing a key role. I play in a co-rec volleyball league and we ended up 2nd in league play. Jessica's AAU volleyball team came in 2nd this weekend in thier tournament. To top it all off we lost to the first place team in our co-rec volleyball tournament. We still get one more change at the bastards though. So it aint over yet! So to answer the question of who remembers who came in second.........the teams that came in second, they remember!
It was a decent trip to Marshalltown for the tournament, the weather was good. Jessi played well. I think she had 8 kills in one of the games. They had to play 5 teams back to back without any breaks. It was good that they held up for the championship game.
It was a busy weekend. Friday night I had to go to a school board retreat from 4 pm until about 8:30. Marshalltown on Saturday. We had the Drew's basketball team over for a pizza party on Sunday afternoon. I went into work on Sunday morning to get the servers set to the new daylight savings time. Last but not least we played co-rec volleyball from 4 to 7. It was a marathon weekend that I am happy is behind me.
Here's the rub. This week isn't any better. Tonight I am going to Ames to watch Jessica run in her track meet. I teach class Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights this week. The oasis ahead is Friday....the start of Spring break. There is no school for a week so that will be good.
It was a decent trip to Marshalltown for the tournament, the weather was good. Jessi played well. I think she had 8 kills in one of the games. They had to play 5 teams back to back without any breaks. It was good that they held up for the championship game.
It was a busy weekend. Friday night I had to go to a school board retreat from 4 pm until about 8:30. Marshalltown on Saturday. We had the Drew's basketball team over for a pizza party on Sunday afternoon. I went into work on Sunday morning to get the servers set to the new daylight savings time. Last but not least we played co-rec volleyball from 4 to 7. It was a marathon weekend that I am happy is behind me.
Here's the rub. This week isn't any better. Tonight I am going to Ames to watch Jessica run in her track meet. I teach class Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights this week. The oasis ahead is Friday....the start of Spring break. There is no school for a week so that will be good.
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