A Boring Busy Life

The title of this blog pretty much describes my life right now. Boring, but beyond busy. I feel like I run around like a chicken with my head cut off many days. I have several early mornings right now and unfortunely long days that follow. Monday's I open the training room at 6 am, have volleyball individuals from 2:30-4:45, weights from 5-6, then class from 7-9:30. It's definitely a full day to start out the week. Tuesdays volleyball has 6 am conditioninga t Hearnes, so I am usually out the door by 5:30 am. We have open gym from 3-5, then I have class from 6-8:30. Wednesdays I get to sleep in and go into work at 9. We have individuals and weights again this day. Thursdays it's 6 am conditioning again, with open gym in the afternoon. I work doctor's clinic on this day and our doc usually gets here around 5:30ish. If Rex needs us for class then I stay and work that until about 8:30. Friday is another day to sleep in. At work at 9, pretty much a boring day at work until my girls finish with their weights at 6. Thankfully my weekends are free right now so that is nice.

I have taken advantage of having a few days off and been to visit Emily & Kyle twice in the last month. The last weekened in January I went home with Tara on Friday night to help her celebrate her birthday with some friends back home, then drove over & stayed with Emily & Kyle on Saturday and Sunday. (Tara's parents and Em & Kyle live about 20 minutes apart so it's nice to see everyone at once.) This past weekend I went back to visit Emily & Kyle for the whole weekend. Saturday Em & I went and got our hair trimmed and did homework that afternoon (exciting I know), and then on Saturday night we celebrated Kyle's birthday with some of their friends at Dave & Buster's. Sunday we went to church then ate lunch with the James family, which is always enjoyable. I absolutely love the James family, they are flat out awesome and always make me feel so welcome. Then I headed back to Columbia because Emily & Kyle were headed to Atlanta with the leadership team for a church planters conference.

At work, we have had our first wave of graduate assistant interviews, which kinda makes me sad because I know my time at Mizzou is coming to an end. I've thoroughly enjoyed my experience here, although I am excited to get back to Texas. I'm currently looking for high school coaching/teaching/athletic training jobs in Texas. I'm somewhat picky on where I want to live, but I feel like I have enough things to offer that I can be picky. We will see how that goes. I'm super excited to go to the boys state tournament in a few weeks with all the guys that spoil me. We should find out this week if Cooke got a suite again this year. I'm also pumped that Katie has decided to spend part of her spring break in Illinois & Missouri. She is flying into St Louis on a Wednesday and staying with Kyle & Emily until Thursday night, then she is coming to Columbia and hanging out with me on Friday. Rather than flying back she is going to ride with me back to Texas---I know she is thrilled for that 11 1/2 hour drive. I'll spend my spring break back in Texas and hopefully I will have some job interviews set up. If you hear of a coaching job that's open--let me know!!! :)

What A Game

Once I found out I was coming to Mizzou for school and work, I really really wanted to see a Mizzou-Kansas basketball game. Most of you know I LOVE basketball (maybe because we lived and breathed it growing up) and it's a rivalry game. Doesn't get much better than that. Last year I didn't get to go, but really didn't miss much, as we weren't very good last year. I would still love to attend a game at Allen Fieldhouse, but last night was quite an experience. (And I'm still holding out for Duke vs North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium.)

Last night was a history night in Mizzou Arena. #17 Mizzou vs #16 Kansas, first match up of two ranked teams ever in Mizzou Arena. THANKFULLY, Coach McGuire cancelled our class so that we could go to the game or watch it on tv. THANKS COACH!!! The game was absolutely amazing. We started out slow, couldn't buy a basket to save our lives, and only scored 16 in the first half. We average 84 points a game and only scored 16 in the first half, holy toledo. The halftime score was 16-30. We fought back several times cutting the jayhawks lead to 3 several times, but before you knew it we were down 11 again. The fans of Mizzou Arena never lost faith though. With 49.6 seconds the Tigers took the lead 60-58. KU scored to tie the game, but with 1.3 seconds to go Zaire Taylor came up with a HUGE basket to make the score 62-60....which ended up the final. Taylor has come up with game winning baskets in two big games now. He is also the one who scored the game winning basket at Texas. JT Tiller may have only finished with 3 points, but he played his heart out. Coming up with two tie balls in the last 2 minutes of the game to help us out. That makes us 21-4 on the year and an amazing 15-0 on our home court. WAY TO GO TIGERS!!!!

A few pictures for your viewing, ok a lot but it's so hard to pick just a few. You can tell which ones I took and which ones I got out of the paper.

Truman after he repelled from the ceiling

Up by 2 with :50 seconds to go.

Tara & I enjoying the game

Part of the student section.

Tie game

Up by 2 playing some D

TIGERS WIN!!

Celebrating

An AMAZING game

The rushing of the court begins.

Truman repelling again

Great play by J.T. (and an AWESOME picture)

Demarre celebrating after hitting a 3

Coach Self wasn't very happy.

Great guy, I had the priviledge of meeting him and hanging out with him a few years ago at a coaching clinic in San Antonio.

Zaire hitting the winning shot.

Mixed Martial Arts

Normally I am not a big "fight" person, never really have been. Now I have definitely seen my fair share of wrestling matches. I grew up watching and loving Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, etc... When Emily & I would go stay with my Aunt Karan when we were younger, we always rented old wrestling matches on VHS and turned the living room into our own wrestling ring thanks to my cousin Nathan & his friends. I have many memories of those days and it's a wonder no one ever ended up hurt. Then when I was in high school every Sunday night someone got PPV wrestling matches and we would all chip in to help with the cost. These days UFC fighting is huge. I've watch a few matches on TV, but never really gotten into it.

Last night two former Mizzou wrestlers were making their profession debut in Mixed Martial Arts fighting, so Tara and I decided to go. It's something new and different to do so we jumped at the opportunity. I was excited to see two people who I personally knew get to fight. And we ended up getting in FREE--thanks Ben! (It's nice to know people in high places.) The amateur fights were ok. Nothing special, but we enjoyed them. Then the professsionals started. There were 6 professional bouts and Tyron was 4th & Ben 5th. Ben was considered the co-main event. A little background info: Tyron (aka T-Wood) was Mizzou's first ever Big XII Wrestling Champion and a two time All-American in his weight class. Ben is a little more well known. He was a 4 time All-American and 2 time National Champion Wrestler while at Mizzou. This past summer he competed in the Olympics in Beijing. The fights were great. You can really tell a difference in the amateurs and the professionals. All of the fights were fun, but T-Wood's and Ben's were by far my favorite (of course!). They did amazing. T-Wood won in Round 1 by TKO in 1:09. Ben won in Round 1 also by TKO in 1:25. Here are a few pics from their fights. I hope you enjoy!

25 Random Things...

I was tagged on Facebook to list 25 random things about myself, so I thought I would just copy & paste it to my blog as well. It may not be very interesting, but it was the best I could come up with off the top of my head at 6:30 in the morning. Enjoy!

1. I LOVE Texas and everything about it. This becomes way more apparent when you move to another state...4-5 months and I'm moving back!
2. I've been able to travel all across the United States thanks to collegiate athletics.
3. Sports are my life, I never stood a chance being the daughter of two coaches.
4. I miss coaching a ton and can't wait to go back to it.
5. I love collegiate football, but it doesn't get much better than Friday Night Football in Texas.
6. I miss hearing Texas Country on the radio, it is by far my favorite genre of music. (Do you notice a Texas trend yet?)
7. If I could have any profession in the world I would be a professional singer.
8. I love to dance, although I have never taken a dance class in my life. (Other than what Coach Cole taught us in 6th grade PE)
9. My sister is my best friend, we've never lived more than 2 1/2 hours apart...I'm not sure how I will handle her being in Illinois and me in Texas when I move back.
10. I am one of the biggest Daddy's girls you will ever meet.
11. My biggest fears in life are failure and dying alone.
12. I bleed red & black *Wreck 'Em Tech* but love my Tigers *MIZ-ZOU*
13. Most people don't understand how I have so much love for 2 teams in the same conference.....and never will.
14. I don’t have a certain style...I go from tomboy to cowgirl to athletic to girly in a matter of minutes.
15. I am stubborn beyond belief.....meet the rest of my family and it becomes clearly apparent why I am this way.
16. I am addicted to Dr. Peppers....especially from Sonic.
17. One of the greatest feelings I’ve ever felt is knowing I’ve made a difference in someone else’s life.
18. You're always 17 in your hometown has more truth to it than most people realize or want to admit.
19. I love taking pictures and would love to take up photography.
20. I miss playing basketball.
21. I enjoyed high school, most people hated it, I loved it.
22. I really need to be more disciplined about working out and losing weight/toning my body.
23. My life wouldn't be complete without my DVR...I rarely get to watch TV shows at their actual time, which is fine with me, it's frustrating when I do because I am so accustomed to fast fowarding through the commercials.
24. I love traveling. I really want to visit Sweden before I die, mainly because I am an 1/8 Swedish, my great-granddad snuck on a ship to come to America.
25. My closet has to be color coordinated. It is also divided into short-sleeve, long-sleeve, Mizzou clothes, pants & dress clothes. I am pretty sure I am a tad bit OCD.