QUAD RUGBY

So anyone who knows me well knows that I am slightly obsessed with wheelchair rugby. If you haven't seen the movie Murderball go rent it! It will explain everything. I think by far it's one of the more hardcore games I've ever seen. I played Murderball, as it is sometimes called, all throughout my first semester here. But unfortunately I haven't got to do it much since because of conflicting schedules. I am SOOOO excited that I will finally get to play again next Tuesday! Now I knew quad rugby can get violent, but I have never seen a hit this bad!

Crazy

Who wakes up at 6 am when they have class at 11 to go walking with their 2 best friends? Me!!! What seemed like a good idea at the time was horribly painful to do. Pealing myself out of bed a that hour to go out in the cold to exercise no less was just about the worst feeling ever. At 5:55 when my alarm went off my whole body was screaming at me, "GOOOO BAAACK TOOOO BEEEED!!!!" Thank God my roommate wasn't here. She thinks I'm on crack for getting up at 9 to go to the gym. She probably would have sat me down and yelled at me if she had known I got up at 6. Anyway, despite all the pain it was awesome! I now understand why people do it. To top off our morning exercise, or cancel it out depending on how you look at it, we 3 stopped at Starbucks and Panera for a fine breakfast of bagels and coffee. I wish I could have known what other customers, mostly men in their 60s and 70s, were thinking of the three of us. While they were discussing work, family, and whatever else it is that men discuss, we gabbed about the fine topics of getting married, dieting, and our plans for the weekend. Crazy... maybe but oh so worth it!! In my opinion it was the perfect way to start a morning!







(We do a little off-roading on our walks. The path is somewhere in the midst of all those bushes!)

One Word: Awesome

Random Pictures

Here are some pictures taken/emailed to me recently. Among the bunch is me with one of the middle school girls I work with at church, a perfect example of how much my friends and I luuuuuuuv each other, one very random game night (don't even ask...i dunno what we were trying to do and it didn't work!), and a picture I like to call, "Good morning sunshine!!"