Busy Busy Busy

Sorry its been sometime since my last entry but nevertheless here it is. So whats been happening since my last post?? Honestly, nothing super exciting has happened but it was a pretty good week anyway. Last week began my journey of trying to eat somewhat healthy and not just eating frozen pizzas, mettwurst's, bratwurst's, and the other unhealthy things. Don't get me wrong now those things are still in my refridgerator they just aren't used as frequently thats all. I went to the grocery store and racked up on salad making materials and other healthy foods to stock the fridge and realized its going to take a little more work to prepare my food than normal. I'm used to turning the oven on, throwing a pizza in, waiting for 15 minutes and boom its time to eat! Now to prepare a salad I have to cut the tomatoes, carrott's, peppers, eggs, and so on up and I even have to make the salad dressing! It's normal over here to make your own salad dressing rather than buying it in a bottle. They don't sell to many bottled dressings first of all and you would be better off making your own anyway. Its also heathier. I had some old ranch in my fridge from the states that had been there since last year and I just decided to throw away because they turned my fridge off while I was gone so I wasn't sure that stuff was still good. Also, it doesn't make much sense to me to make a healthy salad and top it off with unhealthy ranch dressing although it does taste good. Well we will see how long this health binge lasts!

Basketball is going well and my team had a scrimmage game in Belgium this past weekend. I know I'm supposed to always think the best but I admit that I went into the game thinking we were going to lose badly since the Belgium league is normally pretty strong. We played a second division team from Belgium and to my astonishment my team played really well! The other team was bigger than we were and had some pretty deadly shooters but in the end we held our own if not better. We ended up finishing the game with a tie. The opposing team was down by 3 points with 4 seconds to go and they hit a three to tie it up at the end of regulation. Unfortunately I'd fouled out about a minute and a half before and could only watch from the sideline. The other team decided they didn't feel like playing an overtime and we ended it there since it was only a practice game anyway. This weekend we have a tournament in France where we will be playing some first league teams and France's league is one of the tops in Europe so it will be extremely hard for us to compete with them not to mention we will be missing three of our startes for the tournament. It will be good exercise maybe to good and definitely a challenge for us but its all in preparation for our season which starts the beginning of October .

Once I returned from Belgium later that night I went to hang out with one of my friends in a spot downtown. That was pretty fun and we stayed out pretty late and I didn't end up getting to sleep until around 5am. I didn't go home since I knew I was going to church the next morning and me driving all the way home just to come back to church right down the street didn't make since to me so I slept on the couch at my friends house. Four and a half hours later my busy day began again. I woke up went straight to church which lasted until about 11:40 or so and had to leave directly after that because my teammate invited me over for lunch at 12:00. I was a little late in arriving but everyone was just sitting around talking and relaxing outside since Sunday was such a beautiful day In Luxembourg. When you have days like that you have to take advantage of them because here in Lux it rains all the time and the weather is always fidgety. We ate outside in the backyard and had a good time and later we decided we would play a little beach volleyball at a court about 15 minutes away. We all got suited up and made our way to the court and what did we see??? Somebody was already there and we couldn't get on until they finished! Well after waiting for 5 minutes we just decided to try and challenge them against us so that we wouldn't have to wait any longer and that worked. At first it was really laid back and the teams were mixed with boys and girls. So one time my teammate set me up and I went and spiked it pretty hard against the other team and the girls started saying stuff like geez we are ladies!! I think they were joking but at the same time I felt kinda bad so I back off a little bit with my spiking and my hard serves. My whole team started to back down and soon after we started losing and the other team seemed like they started playing more serious. Well if anyone knows me they know I hate losing so we had to turn it on again and no holds barred. We too had a girl on our team so they couldn't make any excuses. After a while both teams were playing hard and it was a lot of fun and in the end we won. We talked to them after afterwards and introduced ourselves and just chit chatted for a while before I realized I had to leave once again for the next part of my day....Poker. I jumped in the car and headed to the other side of town to join a poker game which had already started and I was late to but had them just post my blinds until I made it. I got there in time enough where no major damage had been done. I was playing pretty good until I went all in one time with Ace King and a guy called me with a pair of sixes. I wasn't to nervous until one of the guys that was playing folded and showed me he had one of the aces that I needed. Well without having to say anymore I lost and I left there going home finally around 9:30 that night. Ahhhh finally able to relax and take it easy for a while only to realize I dont have any clothes and have to wash. I don't know I guess thats part of life.

Right now Im headed to practice and have to cut this entry short but Ill try and keep you guys updated on anything thats happening. Sorry no deep thoughts for this entry but maybe next time who knows?? Well until then................