Broadcasting Life

sunshine!

the sun is finally shining and the heat waves are acommin. i love summer. this past weekend i was out camping at cass lake with my dad's side of the family. it was a perfect weekend for camping. it was filled with good food (way too much good food...i literally added 5 lbs. this weekend!), campfires, boat rides, sunshine, laughter, joking, marshmallows and so much more. i enjoyed it. camping is the "bomb-digity." (who did i get that word from??? hmmm...)

i need to get back into a running schedule. i got off after this whole moving thing and hopefully i can continue tonight. i will have the meet info turned in and i can run and return to my mess to get it under control.

the swim kids amaze me. and not so much in a good way right now. i have a good handful of kids who completly slack off. pulling on the lane line, goofing off, not listening, etc. i know that not all kids are listeners and that they are kids and that will happen. but when this one girl sits and gives up half way through and then looks are you and squirts water out of her mouth and after you yell at her to get swimming, she STILL does the same thing, all the while looking at you? yeah, kind of annoying. and then the group of 12 year old boys who can't stop splashing at each other and then expect you to repeat the set because they can't hear you? and then they can't swim in a straight line and they run each other over and...yeah. the one i really hate is when they LIE TO YOU ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY HAVE DONE. i ask them, are you done yet with that set? and they nod there heads when i just know that they aren't. o, well. they're only hurting themselves by doing this.

the rest of the kids are good though. they listen. i had one girl write me a note on her swim meet entry form that if she had to swim backstroke, distance or IM she wouldn't swim those events. she can only swim one event on sunday then. so yeah, i need to talk to her. she needs to be a well rounded swimmer and that means that sometimes you may have to swim events that you don't exactly like. she said that if she swam events that she didn't like it would be a waste of money. if you find swimming a waste of money, why do you sign up to swim for the summer? i need a punching bag.

they need to understand what swimming is. it's gonna be tough. it's gonna be hard. and they aren't always going to get there way, but that's life. unfortunatly, i'm gonna be the one to tell them this. great.

i wish i had the guts that my coach has. i think i need a couple of shots of testosterone. that should do the trick.

i should have internet tonight! i can't wait to be able to talk to square and nate and squeak tonight at home. i've missed that.

i'm pretty tired...the phone's been ringing like crazy here at work and i'm sick of typing up little reports on each phone call. i need a nap. wish i could sleep...

hope you all had a great weekend!