Superstar

I love football!!!!

Yesterday we had our second game of the season. It was a nice day, a little windy with rain on the forecast, but it stayed nice the whole time. Game time: 2:30. I got a good warm up in with coffee and an energy drink as my fuel. Position: starting safety on d and inside receiver on o. Second offensive drive of the game, I get this short dump pass over the top in the seam on the right hand side about 5 yards from the line of scrimmage. I deek and jive past 5 defenders, spinning my hips to avoid getting flagged and run 50 yds for a touchdown. Our first of the season!!!! And you will later find out, our only one of the game! Rosie our quarterback runs in the extra point. Score: 7-0.

Awesomeness. I played both sides non stop with my only break being at half time. Our quarterback also got hurt right before half time and in the second half I had to step in to play quarterback. Now that was interesting. I hadn't done that before. I almost threw a couple interceptions. We did gain a couple yards, maybe 1 or 2 first downs in total. It was a cool experience and I will be practicing that a bit more now in case she gets hurt in the future. I just need to learn better how to read the defense, be more agile rolling out and spotting my players, and getting the right techniques down to huck it far. I am glad that our coach had confidence putting me in like that. He calls me superstar.

Pretty much the rest of the game we don't even get into the red zone and keep them out of there's as well. I pulled in an interception for about 10 yds gain. I knocked down 8 or more balls (wish I could have reigned those in a bit more) and had so many "tackles" that I would have been the leading scorer for that on Defense. I did through an interception off of our halfback play, but the ball did get to where I wanted it, about 20 yds down the field. Near the end of the game, our punter kicked the ball through the endzone for an extra point. WE WON! We were playing the worst team in the league, but we were also one of the lowest and didn't want to be titled that. Final score: 8-0.

As for life in general, this week has been busy with me finding out that I am kind of the new opener so I will be getting up before 4 am at least 3 times a week from now on. It's okay while I am working but I get grumpy very quickly when I am done and all I want to do is sleep. Not tomorrow though as I am planning on going to the States with Jackie cuz my passport finally arrived on Friday! I went to Aduro (my college and career) this week on Thursday, had practice on Wednesday, closed the store on Friday. Today I hope to clean the apartment a bit, watch a lot of football, go to the gym and just relax.

As for the coming months, every weekend consists of football on Saturday and then no work on Sunday so it's nice. Then starting October 31 I am taking a personal training certification course that will run 5 weeks on Sat and Sun until Dec 5. I am so super pumped for that and can't wait! After that I will be a personal trainer and hopefully get a full time job doing that at a gym and then work my way up to going out on my own with my own clients. I have way more ideas and aspirations about that floating around in my head, but as for now, that's what's going down! Well off to church on this rainy-stay-at-home-with-a-good-book kind of day!

Later days!