Bad Good News

What a weekend!
Lawrence treated me well, as always. It was good to see so many old friends and pick up right where we left off. I love that town! I got to go to a wedding Saturday afternoon and it was great, the bride looked so beautiful and was the happiest bride I've ever seen. She seriously just let loose and had so much fun at her wedding, never have I seen someone that relaxed but she deserved it. However, all you brides-to-be, I don't care about the tradition about not seeing your husband before the wedding, take your pictures before. It is really annoying having to wait around for 3 hours between the wedding and reception so the wedding party can take pictures. Not cool.

I took off Sunday morning from Lawrence at 6:45 CT and made it to Chapel Hill at 12:15 ET. 16 1/2 hours driving straight.. surprisingly wasn't too bad. And 1120 miles (door to door) with only 2 stops! Ya, I'm proud of myself. I may dehydrate and starve myself in the process, but try to beat that. It took my 17 hours to get there with 3 stops, but I think it was more that I went through Kansas City instead of around it.

I'm going to take my pictures today, finally, and send them off to Meredith and hopefully she won't be too overwhelmed at the amount of work we have to do but I'm so excited. I got XRays done Thursday morning before leaving for Lawrence. Good news: Nothing is broken/torn. Bad news: Stay off of it for 2 MORE weeks. That means no soccer this weekend, no cardio (eh, not too upset about that), no lifting, and really no walking more than necessary. I have to wear an air-cast (should've seen that at the wedding!) all day and RICE. Basically everything I knew and didn't want to hear. But I'm going to try to listen to the doctor this time, take the time off and get ready to hit the weights hard when I can get back to the gym. That's May 25th. Way to waste my whole month ya stupid ankle.

Alright people. Go big today. Make the most of your Monday and plan for the rest of your week! Success comes one step at a time!

Some of my Theta sisters and I

 

Katie (Seitz) and Joel Hamilton

New Goals

I'm in Iowa and I'm bored. It's not that I don't love my home and family and dogs, it's just that when I am here, I do nothing.. literally. Today for example. I woke up at 8, after my alarm went off at 4:30, 5:15, and 6:21. I never turn my alarms off when I'm on vacation, because what if I forget to turn them back on? Exactly. Anyway, woke up at 8, played ball with the dogs, made my mom and I some breakfast, and played with the dogs again while picking up their poop. Eventful morning. Since then, I've been sitting on the couch writing my workout plans for the next four months and petting Blizzard. See, literally I have done almost nothing. Have I showered today? No. Am I okay with that? Obviously. And I have the worst headache in the world. Sometimes I think it's because I don't shower and my hair just is weighing down my head. More likely, though, it's because I haven't had enough protein today.

I guess my new goal of competing has been bouncing around in my head for about 13 weeks now. That's how long ago I decided to get serious and start working out and eating right again. And now I am so used to getting 140+ grams of protein a day that when I don't it really throws me off. I love chicken. I was doing a 12-week program I found on bodybuilding.com and it was really great and now that it is over, I'm trying to set up my own program for training. My goal was to compete by the end of this year, but now that I hurt my ankle and can't workout lower body or do any cardio (let's be honest, I don't mind giving that up) I'm waiting to see when I can get back to it to decide when I want to compete. I think I need a good 7 months training prior to the show to be ready, 3-4 on my own and then I'll work with a coach to get the posing/logistics/etc of the whole thing down. But I'm excited to have this new goal in sight.

Lets talk about this dang ankle shall we? So last Saturday (like over a week ago) I rolled it playing soccer in the first 15 minutes. It popped pretty loud, and hurt like a.. well you all know. So I went out for maybe 25 seconds and told myself to suck it up, mind over matter, and all those great motivational tools of abuse we use. Went back in and played the rest of the game because we had no subs. It wasn't too bad playing, hurt to cut but I could run straight. By the end of the game though I could feel how swollen it was and could hardly walk once I took off my gear. The rest of the day Saturday I was on crutches and cursing so much Blizzard thought I was mad at her, poor girl. That week I was able to put more weight on it and was "walking" Sunday and even worked out Sunday and Monday upper body. I drove to Kansas on Wednesday --18 hours just you and a dog.. that's always a good time -- and it wasn't too bad but ever since then it's been awful. Too much swelling and bruising. I started wrapping it to get the swelling to go down and now it's hurting more-top of the foot, back of the ankle, front of the ankle, halfway up my leg, you get the idea. I think I'm going to give in and get an X-Ray when I get back to NC because I have a game in 2 weeks I do not want to miss. Oh the joys of being stubborn.

Well, time to catch up on this past weeks guilty pleasures! Night people!