Could it be...50?!

Yahoo! I feel like spring is almost here. I'm pretending today that I didn't hear mumbles of snow on Saturday, but today 49 degrees! I can actually see the grass. I've never been so happy to see it in my whole life! We had record snow in Michigan this year. SO. OVER. IT.

Also, congrats to Coach. He got a promotion at his REAL job yesterday. Cheers to you honey, you deserve it.

In the coaching world we've hit a little road bump at the end of the season and let's just say that one of the coaches wasn't exactly truthful and won't be back next year. With women there is usually a reason they aren't playing well. Our family struggled with it all year. Now we know. The coach won't be back next year and won't travel the rest of this year. HONESTY PEOPLE...look into it! Next week starts Regionals. We're going this year. Wish us luck!!!

Splurge

Usually, I only eat junk one day a week. But...today I splurged. Shamrock shakes are my nemesis. They're in at Mickey D's and let me tell you...mine was yummy.

Yeah for Friday!

It's FINALLY Friday! Wohoo! I love Fridays! Who doesn't? The prospect of a whole weekend. For once, mine is not completely packed to the gills with activities. That's a welcome change.

You see, it's this time of the year that's comparable to the Changing of the Guards in England. I get to step down, well almost, and coach gets to be the go-to-guy. 

 Tonight is the LAST game of the regular season. Apparently we have a few more games to play in a few weeks at Nationals, but basically, the end is near.

Now when I say end, I mean more like a month off. The down time is short lived. April is signing day, then open gyms in summer, and camps. Then practice, season, you get the picture.

Still waiting to hear about my grad school application. I'm starting to get nervous! Please accept ME! Thank you.

Rainy Wednesday

Well, I put up a few Easter decorations today and took down a winter village I put up every year. Pretty productive, especially because both above mentioned things require crawling around in the crawl space to get the right boxes. Granted, we have a nice crawl space, cement with stairs leading down but still...

 It is raining like crazy today. Supposed to turn to snow... I hope not. I like seeing the grass, even if it means spring dog doo clean-up is fast approaching. I just want some sun and fresh air! 

Team Update:

We have our LAST conference game on Friday. We lost the last two games. Coach VOWS next year will be different. Me, I'm more the cautiously optimistic, lets wait & see, the proof is in the pudding type girl.

Pop bottle nightmare

Actually errand day. Honestly, I don't know how I get so far behind. I'm almost, (key word being ALMOST) caught up on laundry. But, we have a pop bottle mountain forming in our garage. It's a chore I detest. In Michigan you go to the bottle return section of the grocery store. There you proceed to shove the sticky, goopy pop bottles through a hole in the machine that is even more gross than your sticky pop bottles. Then it prints you out a ticket telling how much you brought back. The getting money part I like, the taking bottles back...not so much.

That's my job for today. Saving my shower for this afternoon, once I'm a big sticky pop bottle goo mess. Hummm...sounds productive. I guess I could also add my sticky gooey coat to the laundry pile? yes?

Funny story...

So, last Friday we went on another recruiting trip, no surprise there. I was pretty happy because we didn't have to travel far to see this player. The trip went well, said player hit a game winning 3 point shot with six seconds left, and the other Coach brought his daughter for Claire to play with at the game. All is well, except for a few Barbie clothes that fell under the bleachers and had to be retrieved after the game...I'm used to this.

The game was so great that went out to dinner with the coaches and Claire's friend.

Upon arriving home I see two eyes glowing when the headlights near our driveway. 

Coach: "Look honey, a deer..."

Me: "I don't think that's a deer." At this point it starts to move. Very short and very dark.

Coach: "Oh, wait, I think it's a panther!!"

Me: (In my head) WHHAAATTTT? Are you crazy there's no panthers around here!!!

Coach: "No, no...that's Summit! (our dog) I must've forgot to let him in before we left!"

Lessons learned: During b-ball season the less responsibilities you give Coach, the better. If we are going somewhere remotely basketball related, you better be the one to take care of the living things, Coach is sidetracked, just count on it. Double check this, ALWAYS! 

So...what's new?

Not much here. It's still winter. The basketball team is still losing. I'm still crabby, and tired and well, pretty much ready to move.

I swear sometimes I wonder why the hell I moved back. I escaped to San Diego once. In a bout of temporary insanity I moved back. It's at this point I've had my fill of snow. And, when you do want to go out among the living, everyone is a bit more snippy in the winter. Then you wonder why you wanted to go out in the first place! 

Today is also the Super Bowl. Honestly, don't care much about it. We're not doing much. Just staying home with family. We talked about having friends over that have kids, but I didn't want to deal with the nightmare of getting Claire to sleep with friends over. She's a girl who needs ALL her sleep or will probably be MAJOR crabby in the morning. Also, she was at her father's this weekend and usually comes back in a rotten mood. Can't say I blame her on that one. 

Team Update: Love my ladies but they are sucking lately. I mean seriously, we come within 5 points of beating ranked teams and can't pull it off. Totally depressing. Also, the refs stink this year. There isn't enough of them since they switched the girls volleyball and basketball seasons. Now everyone is paying the price. So thank you very much to the whiney moms who brought a lawsuit because their daughters didn't get volleyball scholarships and blamed it on having their season opposite to other states in the nation. Well ladies, hate to break it to you, but your daughters didn't get scholarships because they weren't good enough, not because of the seasons being opposite. But thanks for making the rest of us suffer, thanks a million!