always forgetting to write in my blog

so as you know i had a friend come out to logan and she was gonna stay till the 23rd, but she caught the flu and ended up flying back home early on monday afternoon instead of thursday night. what a bummer!!!

somehow i ended up driving her to the airport and back on about 2 hours of sleep. thank goodness i had a friend in the car with me so that i did not fall asleep, cuz i could have. i do not suggest doing that. oh yea, and i pulled 2 all nighters the 2 previous nights. once again not a good idea.

on tuesday i went to the oquirrh mountain temple open house. my parents don't know i went, but if they read this they will know. i would not say it is one of the most beautiful temples i have seen, but it is definitely one of them in the sense of all buildings. the san diego one definitely out shines this one. the inside though was gorgeous!!!! although i do not understand why the inside of the buildings are so secretive. even to members. to be to each level you have to be cleared. what really designates someone cleared? they could be lying out of their a$$. but anyways i'm not gonna dig a deeper hole than i have already started to.

then on wednesday i slept the rest of the day after getting back from physical therapy at about 130ish. my plan was to finish a complete draft of my voices paper. did not happen, not even close. it would have to wait til 2mrw. oopsies!!!

so Thursday could hardly wait for. i know i sound crazy. but i have been waiting since last summer to finally do this. i went to an ogden raptors' baseball game. i have a family friend on the team and he was able to get tickets reserved for me and some friends (alice and pe came with). the 2 of them left early cuz pe wanted to play church ball and al was ready for bed...already at 9pm. she's an early bird. well being the only one at the game i just left right after it ended cuz i was there alone. im not one that will just walk up to someone and say "hi, im so and so." i have to warm up to people.

i drove back from ogden to logan and immediately began to finish up my paper. if i did not get it done before the weekend, it would have never gotten done because i was goin somewhere in wyoming near jackson hole and the snake river. i know that is not really that descriptive, but its the best i can do. directions and i dont mix very well. we are like water and oil, it will barely mix if its stirred but the moment the stirring stops it separates.

anyways, OH MY GOSH!!!! the trip was a blast. i was expecting to hate everything about it. i tend to do that with anything in wyoming or outdoors. somehow i come off as this outdoorsy/tough girl, but in reality i am a big time city girl. i have no idea how i pull this off. im at least learning to appreciate the outdoors. its a very slow process.

o have no idea where i am at. i think the weekend camping trip. well we went rafting on the snake. i didnt do that...officially. i lied out during their first run on a large group of rocks near the lunch counter (its a rapid on the snake), but i was asked to be at the big kahuna. oops!!! my one and only job while they went rafting was to take pictures. i was only able to get one pic of the second raft that came through. i wasnt paying much attention and i wasnt near the camera when they floated by. i was working on my last essay for engl 2010. it was due the coming monday. ugh, homework. anyways now i'm done :) but yea. the next run i went a little on the dangerous side, but thankfully i came out ok :) thankfully, but it was loads of fun. i need to still live my life. its been getting way toooo boring.

as for my knee:
monday - i am officially done with the stupid quad contractions :) it was a big waste of 15 minutes
tuesday - jogged for 20 minutes :)
wednesday - no more lateral cones :) i cant stand them. instead i get stupid weight machine 4 ways
today - did nothing special, just talked to kevin the entire time and the workout went by really quickly

i need to remember to update this more on a daily thing. trying to up date it days at a time takes too much effort and my ADD kicks in, rather quickly. i dont even know if any of this makes sense cuz its all sooo random.

pretty fun weekend

well this past saturday i got to go SHOPPING!!!!!!!! at nordstrom's. supper fun. i got 2 new pairs of shorts and a dress (really cute) and some tanks in very pertty colors :) oo and i got a new pair of chucks. they are pretty cool looking. they have the chalk drawings all over them.

after my shopping spree i went to the salt lake airport to pick up a friend, danielle. after an hour and 1/2 drive to logan we chilled, slept and then eventually made it to the grocery store (i've been needing to get food for a while).

while the sun was out we came up with the idea to go float the canal :) we didn't get our butts there until 1030/11 pm and it was really dark. all the walls, rocks and bushes were like a shadow. all that could be seen were the outlines of everything. every one maneged it pretty well...except for me. i somehow fell backwards off of my tube 3 times (the first times ever). by the way i am ok, not that you wanted to know. the first time i was holding my legs up so that they wouldn't hit anything at an awkward position and i went over a bump in the water. if no one stopped me i would have floated the entire canal on my back and would have lost my tube in the process. the next time i fell off was when we were floating down connected somehow we ended up on one of the edges in the bushes. i once again lifted my legs and leaned back a little and to make matters worse someone ran into the back of my tube and it shot out from under me. once again i ended up being submersed in the water. it was not until the end of the float where everyone gets out that i fell off my tube...again. i have never been so cold in my life.

after floating all of us were pretty darn cold so we headed to friends house for hot chocolate and chicken wings. we ended up watchin the movie fired up. after the movie i feel asleep at some point only to be woken up by music blastin from the computer speakers. soon falling back to sleep i woke up to a garage door opening and was up for the rest of the morning past sunrise. i've never done that before. usually i am asleep for good by at least 3am.

after the pretty much all nighter i slept and relaxed in front of the tv and didn't do much else. i eventually got off the couch in front of the tv to go to a friends house for sunday dinner. it was pretty good. there was some sort of chicken and a risotto thing and salad. then we talked for a while, played cards and started to watch a movie, but went home pretty much as soon as it was starting to check up on danielle. she hasn't been felling very well :(

she might actually go home 2mrw instead of thursday as planned. i feel like i have kind of left her on her own. i feel bad...like really bad. i hope she at least had a good time on the trip. otherwise i would feel really bad.

cant wait for weighs 2mrw morning at 6am...only 3 and 1/2 hrs til i need to wake up...that's if i make it asleep. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no idea what's going on

i really cant remember what my knee has been doing the last couple of days. i've been more interested in investigating whether or not i will be able to actually raft on the green or snake rive next weekend. we won't know which one we are going to til the last minute. blah blah blah!!! man my summer sucks/blows big time!!!! i want to do things i want to do when and where i want to do it. and all i keep hearing in my head like a broken record are all the things i cant do cuz of my damn knee. i want my brace now so i can start living again!!!! i want to play bball again!!!

i guess the only way to keep me sane is to look forward to the next thing, not the end result. i think the next thing is running...jumping...pivoting...noncontact bball...bball and oh yea redshirt falls in somewhere in there with no hopes to play again until march, april or may. in short............someday in the long, faraway future

last week and a half

so pretty much the only cool thing i have done in the last week and 1/2 has been floating the canal (don't think i'm technically allowed to this yet). i have only gone 6 times :). i'm freakin addicted!!! but it is soooo calming!!! it's like taking an ice bath and after it you feel relaxed and refreshed.

i also started weights. it totally sucks. i have to get up at 530am to get there by 6...ugh!!! i never get enough sleep on those nights. just last night i didnt go to bed until 3am and then had to be up for weights the same morning. not smart...at all!!! i've been making up my sleep all day...after we floated the canal...twice :). super fun.

the first time i went on the canal with my guy freinds had me convinced that there was a 15 foot waterfall. it was soooo bad i was about to cry the further we floated. i was worried about my knee. what if i wasnt able to land it and i feel out of my tube awkwardly? but that was all after i hit dustin's sunglasses off his face in to the water. he maade me sit off to the side of the canal while he searched for them. after the first time he searched the tunnel area i told him to look further down it, but his stubborn, stupid head kept looking in the same area like 3 times. by the time he gave up looking for them and i was shivering we started floating again. he found his glasses about 30 more yards down the canal. I TOLD YOU DUFUS!!! it physics (or at least some kind of dcience). with the current and the weight of sunglasses they wont imediately sink to the bottom. it will sink with a curve, as the glasses sink, the current pushes it further with the current. DUH!!!!!!!!!!! and then further down the canal my tube started to float into the rocks on the side, so i pushed off of them. well i guess i pushed a little too hardcuz i bummed into dustin and he hit a sharp part of the cemment wall. his tube popped. there is now a hole the size of a quarter on it. whoopsies!!!! not my fault though :)

oh as for my knee i now have 146 degrees of motion and am movin along in my rehab program. and i am dooin only upper body wieght workouts. im not even allowed to carryy dumbells heavier that 7.5 lbs to my station (a bench). any heavier and i have to ask for someone to get them for me. i feel like a lame duck sometimes, but its slowly getting better :)

i have no idea what week number i am at for my knee. i stopped counting after 8 weeks. the numbers got to big and i have no idea when my next landmark date is...so there is no week to count down to. i'm still months away from even thinking of playing basketball again...

july 4th weekend (delayed i know)

so last time i wrote anything was before i headed out to Kemmerer, WY for the july 4th weekend. omgosh that was an amazing trip in every possible way. first off i have never been to any part of wyoming and really never thought i would in my entire life. my standards of the state were very low (maybe thats why i liked it so much). i always made fun of my friends that are from that state. usually made some stupid comment about how as a state they dont even earn a representative (they get it out of pitty), or how its the shit hole of america, pretty much it all runs under the subject of NO ONE LIVES THERE. not even dick cheney!!! they didnt even know of him til he showed up on the ballot.

anyways back to the weekend. i went to wyoming and loved it to my surprise. we went to a bbq the night alice, Pay and i drove in. the next morning was the 4th. we were suppose to be out of the house by 10am to go cliff jumping, or at least that was what was planned the night before everyone went to bed. well i woke up at 10 (actually 955)and freaked out. i thought we may have been left (at least it wouldnt surprised me if we were). i walked as fast (my version of running) as i could up the stairs...and they were just sitting there waiting for breakfast. whew! so i went back down stairs and woke up al and pay. they didnt want up (they thought it was 2am hahaha). we were staying in the basement. there were no windows or source of light unless we turned one on. pitch black, perfect for sleeping :)

we finally made it upstairs and had a wonderful breakfast (crapes) made by Dustin's (the friend's house we stayed at) dad.i only had...three (2 with only syrup and one with strawberries and whipcream...amazing)and several peices of bacon. i ate soooo much that if i had one more bite i would have puked...yuck.

after breakfast we headed out to the lake/resivior to go cliff jumping. oh and on our way we went on mostly dirt roads so we could shoot (and kill if you had aim...i didnt) prairie dogs. the 2 boys that came killed one each and it only took them each a shot. since i never have even touched a gun in my life, i got to shoot at a piece of trash as my target. i think i shot about 5 feet over my intended target. oopps!!!! they say part of that was cuz i juped when i shot (i blamed it on my eyes and no balance). but with the whole gun thing i didnt know what to expect. i didnt even know how to hold it (it was a 22 i think a rifle thing, not the hand gun. personally i thought that was the only kind of 22) and was expecting a lot more kick back from it, but there was none. after about an hour and a half we made it to the lake. all the girls finished their sunscreening while the boys went searching for the "spot" for cliff jumping.

i was planning to only layout on the truck, but that got boring really quickly. so i decided to climb down (not thinking about the climb up) and floated in a tube while every, well almost everyone (alice didnt even move from the truck). i dont blame her the water was gross. it was green cuz of all the algea that grew on the surface. after everyone was done jumping we headed back to the house to wash up and get ready for the night. i ran into a problem. i forgot to pack enough clothes :| so i borrowed some from pay. while everyone was washin up we played card games. you would have been so proud of me i didnt cheat on any of them :) we then had dinner. all i remember about it was there were 2 types of chicken. i think i only remember that cuz that was really all i ate. then we palyed a board game, settler of...something. i had no idea how to play but i was in second place before we headed out to see the fireworks.

we drove into town to see the city's show, but really to see all the families set them off. the best show including the city's was put on by the Wagners. i would go back to kemmerer just to watch it again (just might, wont know until it gets closer though). i also set off fireworks for the first time ever. the first one was scary cuz i didnt know what to expect. twice through the night the group we were with set off 2 M80s (pretty much a 1/2 stick off dynomite). super scary. no one ever warned me when they were set off and both times i dove to the ground and covered my head (like when an explosion in the movies happens and everyone ducks and covers). my knee didnt like me after that. dont think it can handle any quick movements yet.

the fireworks in town all ended at about 11pm and we headed back to the house. pay wanted to leave and get home as soon as possible. i just wanted to sleep. it was a busy day for someone who just started walking (officially) 3 days ago (as of july 4th). but she got her way since she was the driver. so we headed out with some resistance from Dustin. he could probly fortell that we were gonna get lost on the way home since he knew the roads and how well we didnt. even with that we decided to leave. we "would" get home at 1am, no big deal.

well the roads we not lit at all. the only sources of light were our high beams and the moon. not only did we have to worry about not falling asleep (cuz if i did then most likely so would pay), but also all the stupid animals. we came close to hittin 7-10 deer, one badger or wolverine (we dont know) and we hit a bunny. pay yelled uh oh and i just thought she didnt see one of thos cattle things, but it was actually a bunny that jetted out as we drove by.

we started off fine and in the correct direction. it wasnt until we were near Bear Lake (i believe 12 miles away) that we had a problem. pay saw a sign that said Logan and an arrow pointing left, so she turned. it wasnt until we were driving for about 15 mins in the wrong direction that i commented about seeing something about Bear Lake in 12 miles at the same point that we turned. we just wanted to get home so we didnt turn around (we probly should have if we had any idea of what we were about to go through). the drive was suppose to only take about 2 hours. we would go from kemmerer to bear lake to logan. but by taking the wrong turn we went from kemmer to randalf to woodruff to huntsville through the cache national forest to ogden to logan. it was the longest possible way we could have taken. it ended up taking us 3 1/2 hours to get home. we had no idea where we were going. we just knew that somehow there was still a way to logan whatever roads we took that were in a similar direction.

i was so tired that at one point in the cache national forest i was getting delutional. i thought the reflector poles were cars coming in our direction. i was wrong. we werent gonna see another car for over 50 miles when we got near a city. the entire time i was praying that we wouldnt get stuck for any reason cuz we didnt go the way that was intended and there was no cell survice. if we got stuck we would have had to wait til morning when Dustin got cell service cuz he went in town for church, but then again if he didnt get a text saying we made it from us it probly wouldnt have crossed his mind that we actually didnt make it. he would have thought i just forgot to sent it (it wouldnt have been the first time).

anyways we made it home at 230. we only stopped once in ogden for a snack (bato's) and directions. the dude in the drive through window didnt even now how to get to logan. its only 30-40 mins away. how the freak do you not know how to get there if you live in Utah? Dang man!!!

yea it was a really, really, really long trip and dustin wont stop making fun of us for it, but it was rather fun since both of us were never really "there" while in the car. we said a lot of stupid stuff and thought everything was really funny...even us getting lost. what do you expect us to do? get mad at the fact that we got lost in the middle of no where? please that ain't our style :)

sleepy right now

i went to my first drive in movie (that i can remember, my mom says i've been to one when i was younger). i went with a couple of friends and saw public enemy and year one. it was one of the last ones to finish up, both movies were about 2 hours. we could have gotten home about 2ish but the driver (TJ) missed the exit to logan so we got off the next one. we then went the wrong way for a good amount of time and then had to turn back. we eventually made it to sardine canyon and got to logan at about 230am. late night/early morning ugh!!!
i'm going to kemmerer, wy (why does it need an extra er?). never been to wy. don't know why i would go there other than some of my friends are from there.
COMPUTER DYING AHHHHGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hip hip hooray

yea i get to WALK!!! i got official word from dr. king. he told me no brace or crutches. hell yea!!!

now it is the early morning of the next day. i have had a whole day of walking and it is killing me. i have no strength in my leg at all. it SUCKS!!!!!