whoo hoo!!!!!!

so yesterday i got news i can run, well actually to fast walk/jog, and today i did that for the first time in over 4 months. :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! super happy

oh and this was the first week of school, and i am already behind on reading. oops!!! im so bummed i actually have to read my books for my classes. DAG NABBIT!

and preseason stuff for bball start next week. im so sad im gonna miss conditioning...no im never going to miss that. i only mss playing bball and being able to do whatever i want to do. i cant stand being told what i can and cant do or how i should act. sorry just had to let that frustration out.

1st day of school

ugh!!! my day started with me waking up at 845 am and still hasn't ended, technically. i had 2 classes from 930-1120 am, physical therapy from end of class til 1255, team meeting at 1-3 (in actuality it ended at 325ish), had another class at 330-415, picked up my books under my pseudonym chelsea barns (only system in the world i'm know as this, don't know why), talked to lorie to get an understanding of what i'm suppose to do for pt now that class has started, went to the grocery store and was finally able to put my feet up and relax. that was until i made baked mac and cheese again. it came out a lot better than the last time i tried. i am such a great procrastinator. i have not cracked my books open yet to read. i should probably get on that. i don't need to start the year behind cuz i can guarantee that will eventually happen a all the stuff starts to pile on. gah lee i can't wait til i'm done with school, but then i have to get a...JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!

ummm....

well i planed on writing every day of the road trip , but obviously i did not. i really suck at writing on this thing on a regular basis...ugh!

so after i went to the l.a. area to visit my grandma on my dads side and all the aunts, uncles and cousins for scrumdidlaliumpshous tacos, we drove up to san luis obisbo. i saw my moms sister and her family. we had dinner and all that comes with that occasion. and then the next morning we drove up to san jose. and guess what....saw more family. we stayed in san jose for a couple of days. when we got into san jose i was on my wits end with everything that has to do with california. then we were off the berkley. WOW!!!!! i dont like the city. its so cabobled and too city like. its pretty much everything i cant stand that has to do with a town i would want to live in. at this point if i wasnt so cheap i would have moved my ticket to leave that very moment.

i am so glad to be back in logan. it is my home. and where my family lives is exactly that, where they live. i think i have officially decided that i do not want to live anywhere in cali. there is something i just cant stand.

ahhhhh!!!! im super tire. good night....or should i say good morning?

road trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! day 1

so from aug 6-11 my family was in town. first my mom and brother showed up and then the 9th my dad flew out. their job was to move me from one apartment to another. im still not allowed to lift much weight. i have a max of 40 lbs over my body weight. makes me feel ubber ridiculously weak, especially when i am in the weight room and i have to carry one dumbbell at a time if its 22.5 or over.

we all flew home the night of the 11th. i visited my few friends i still have in the san diego area and totally relaxed in the house. i stayed up late/early every night and slept til my alarm goes off or it got to bright in my room like at about noon. it is sad to say, for my family's sake, i dont miss home and i enjoy being on my own, with friends in Logan.

well anyways today we packed everything in my gramps honda odyssey and you could still see out the back window. now, my brother is going to college. this whole road trip is to take him to cal berkley and there is a lot of room in the back of the car for luggage. i think he only has enough clothes to wear every article of clothing in about 2 weeks. i think my dad scared him with the little amount of room he would have in his dorm room. i was able to fit about 5x the clothes and stuff....then again there were only 2 people in my room not 3. i mean you just make it all fit....maybe thats why i hated cleaning my room...

so we were suppose to leave by 10 am, at least thats what mom wanted, but we ended up leaving at 1130. not surprising. at least i was ready by 10 cuz if i was the one holdin everyone back i woulda got yelled at...most likely. once we got in the car, we were on our way to cammarrillo. we first had to stop at King's Hawaiian BBQ for lunch. got chicken katsu, my fav. then out of the blue my mom wanted to meet with a family that we havent seen in years. it was not part of the original plans cuz she didnt put they live in la and we are driving through, together. we did not reach cammarrillo until about 5 and tacos were at 6ish. all the aunts and uncles came along with all but one cousin. we caught up on all the college life stories and how the parents are dealing with us gone. we did that for a few hours. the only time the dinner table was quiet was when we were shoving down the tacos down our throats. everything was loads of fun. i wish i could hang with the extended fam way more often, but all the sports and life schedules dont match..........EVER!!!!!

oh as for the knee....im not doing anything stupid anymore. i promised jess. but i have not been doin too much pt. hope that does not set me back too far. then again i have a year to get back to strength. dont worry i will still be working my a$$ off to get back on the court. i just needed a simple break

new twist in life...not really

so i finally got a job, but i get teased about it constantly. i guess you could say its my first job -ish. my senior yr i worked at the local rec center on saturdays, but everyone that i hang with say it doesnt count because i didnt do anything. i thought a paycheck that you get cuz you worked counts as work. you learn something new everyday. so what i do now is clean a friend's house with pe. its not considered work cuz i can clean the house whenever i want, there are no set hours. i can show up and leave as many times as i want til the job is done. my kind of job :) it works with the hectic basketball schedule.

i would say everyone i tell i have a job they go in shock. they cant believe i have some sort of job, if they will even call it that. poppy kosh I HAVE A JOB!!!!!! it only took me and pe about 4 trips to the house and about 4 hours to finish. we had to find all the stuff for cleaning and then we had issues figuring out the vacuum. the guy had a central vacuum system. the filter is in the garage and the vacuum hose plugged into the wall. WEIRD!!! so i vacuumed the downstairs and the stairs without the hose plugged in, thinking it was doin its job. we then left the house after completin the downstairs, or at least we thought we did. at least i used the right vacuum.

the next day we went back to finish the upstairs and we debated which vacuum to use. i ended up using the steamer. oops! it looked like a normal vacuum, at least more than the actual vacuum. tricky! while i was steaming, thinking i was vacuuming pe was doing something. i cant really remember. oh she was dusting stuff. we finished that and left thinking we were completely done. guess again :)

pe ended up talking to jensen that same day about the whole cleaning thing and somehow the vacuum thing got brought up. he began to talk about how you just plug the vacuum into the wall, therefore hooked up to the central vacuum system. what the heck is that?!

so that same night pe, alice and i went back to the house to try to find that darn plug in and how the vacuum worked. alice made both pe and i feel really stupid cuz she found it so fast...and then called us stupid cuz we didnt know what we were even looking for. later we found out she had no idea what was one except she had one in her aussie house. not fair!!! we've only seen a vacuum that gets plugged into an outlet and does everything else on its own. oh yea we also realized the bathrooms didnt get cleaned. oops, not good.

so then the next day we were only expecting to clean the bathrooms and then leave and finally be done :) didn't happen. instead before we showed up we found out i vacuumed the entire upstairs with the darn steamer. so guess what i got to do...yep revacuum all the upstairs. we officially finished the house. it took about 4 hours, but should have only taken about 3 except we had to redo a lot of stuff.

the rest of the week was full of weights, physical therapy, sleep and relaxation in front of the tv. im super interesting...not