January 29, 2012

• 7.

  Another long winded one...if nothing else, Monday is worth reading.

  Sunday - church, relaxing afternoon, church, Anna's house
  Monday - Practice, Teasing Lydia
  Tuesday - Practice, BSF
  Wednesday - Rachael came over
  Thursday - JH bball game, Car Show
  Friday - FRIDAY NIGHT OFF
  Saturday - Practice, Errands, Cousin's bball game, and hanging with Anna

  1. Sunday was a good day. It was nice to just sit in church, despite the fact that I should still be getting footage but I really wanted to listen to a sermon. I really didn't do much Sunday afternoon, a nap, some reading - nothing too ground breaking. After night church, Anna and I headed back to her house and just chatted it up in the kitchen. It was good and needed. It really had felt like sometime since we'd actually had a chance to talk in human form. And after so much HS time, it's nice to spend time around your friends. Not that I don't love my team. I do.

  2. Monday was a really good day. As much as I'm going to enjoy the free time once basketball is over, I'm going to miss those girls.  

  Example number 1.

  Friday at the game, I was talking to them about Temple Run and told them if they got to 5 million before I did they would get out of suicides or something. One girl was fairly determined but I didn't lose sleep over it, seeing how she struggled to get to 5 thousand. Monday during work I get this text and laughed out loud. 

   

   I'm not sure if you can see the score. 18 million. I read it and seriously chuckled, then replied with "Ha! I don't believe it for a second."

   Example number 2.

   I get this text before practice. Again, I can't help but crack up. 

   

  1. Thank you for specifying "legs not baby cows" and 2. what is "spasming"? 

  Anyway, I got to school about a half hour early to shoot around and quite a bit of the team was already there. Every single one of them was in a really good mood. I was seriously impressed that they were all in the gym shooting around, hanging out, laughing together before practice. At one point, they were all shooting half court shots and beyond, obviously very helpful to their basketball game but I joined in with them. I wasn't going to tell them to stop, especially because they were in such good moods and practice hadn't technically started anyway. During practice, they were all still incredibly happy and obviously having a great time. It wasn't as serious as normal practices are but it was good and needed. One girl wouldn't stop singing some random song I had never heard of, to which she introduced me to it. They now come up to me and tell me things, random things about their homecoming dresses and who they are going with...etc. To me, that's evidence that they are really warming up to me. Yep, hanging with highschoolers. Even though we laughed and joked around a lot, we also got quite a bit accomplished. I had a small devotion for them before practice started, they calmed down and we're completely involved in conversation. To me, it's evidence that I'm establishing myself as an authority figure that they respect yet can have a good time with. The adult I've always wanted to be - I think of Marsman as being a perfect example of just that. We scrimmaged up until the guys walked into the gym, so I ended practice but as I was doing that one girl asked if they could shoot free throws. You want to shoot free throws was the thought going through my head. I wasn't going to stop them. As they were shooting free throws the Varsity coach came out and said they would be in the locker room for 10-15 minutes. To which they began begging to go back to scrimmaging. MUSIC TO MY EAR. Seriously. They WANTED to play. I love that. One girl after practice kept talking to me about homecoming, her dress and the mask and such. It was good, seeing how she is one girl who really hasn't entertained much conversation with me aside from basketball. Baby steps. 

  Other than that, I took a pretty bad fall in practice as well.  I'm not entirely sure what happened. We were scrimmaging, I was going up for a layup and lost my footing but oddly - it's almost like I planned it to be funny. It immediately hurt and I just lied on the floor moaning/laughing in pain. Immediately it turned into a limp because of the pain and I sat in bed icing after the below story. 

  Then I get home and Gabe and Beka were over. They were gone all last week, so it was good to see them and the nephews again. I know it was only a week but it's seems like FOREVER. Anyway, I get home and walk into Gabe and Beka teasing Lydia. Gabe had Lydia's iPod and was "texting"  some of her friends. Obviously I joined in right away. We decided Lydia could do a somersault to get her iPod back (which has a good back story to why a somersault - if you don't know that story, it's a QUALITY one). Anyway, she refused and refused and refused. She said we'd video tape it and I told her we wouldn't if she just did it. She kept refusing saying she'll never live it down kind of thing, which is true but we wouldn't admit that. After a couple minutes I told her I'd pay her $10 to do it, we get to video tape it and she gets her iPod back. We only gave her 2 minutes to decide and this went on every 2 minutes, take $2 away each time. At one point she asked mom and dad what she should do, who by the way, we're also eating this up and cracking up. Both of them said to just do it and get it over with but she kept making it a big deal. She finally said something like I'll do it just in front of you (being me). Which I refused at first, then things progressed and she went into my parent's bedroom crying in Lydia fashion. So I went in with Gabey and a sympathetic, cutting you a deal kind of voice saying, ok - it's just Gabey and I and you said you'd do it just in front of me. Gabey won't tell. haha. So she finally does a somersault but horribly uncoordinated into the wall. She begins bawling. And I'm dying and go and show Gabe and Beka the video, which they die laughing at. Then mom goes into the bedroom and comes up demanding I delete the video of the somersault, which we knew would happen. Mom kept saying if I didn't she'd pull out videos of me and show everyone. haha, bad black mailing tactic mom. Anyway, while mom was in the bedroom I sent it to myself and deleted it off my phone. In many years,when Lydia can take a joke we'll bring those videos out. She defaults to crying and it doesn't make Gabe, Beka, or I feel bad for her. Honestly, it wouldn't have escalated as funny as it was if she would have just done it the first time. And yes, I put together the videos on a unlisted link on youtube, meaning only the people with the link can view it. No throwing me under the bus. This is just your average night at the Sanderson household. Loud and out of control. I think my favorite part is at the end, Gabey walks away to tell Gabe and Beka "Lydia did a flip and it was bad." It's a little hard to hear because he walked away, I'm trying desperately not to crack up, and the video cuts out, but listen for it. As you can see in the video, she's laughing the majority of the time and then flips the switch in a second. It's actually still hilarious. 

  3. Tuesday morning practices just make for a long day and with not feeling 100% physically it was a bit rough but you get through it. Nothing too exciting happened on Tuesday. We were in a combined group for BSF and I'm continually thankful for the way Heather leads. Stayed and chatted with a girl that was visiting with another girl in our group, then headed home, iced my butt/thigh some more and headed to bed. Exciting, I know.

  4. Wednesday was a pretty chill day. I had a status update this week which isn't normal. It was about taking a fall in practice. My grandma posted on it Wednesday morning. The status was this, "Oh man. Took a seriously painful, awkward. and pretty funny fall in practice. My past self wouldn't have been phased. Current self is already feeling some serious pain." Her comment was this, "ok dear Boppy - how serious were you REALLY hurt? grandma" She called me an hour later because I hadn't responded. I got a very caring lecture about how I she knows me and how I shrug my injuries off. I had to to assure her that it was just bruising. She asked where and well, I was at work so I said my back. Something about saying my butt wasn't going to come out of my mouth - although, I would have said "bunners" because I was talking to Grandma. Anyway, got home after work to my crockpot orange chicken that I made at lunch. It actually turned out pretty well. I had planned to have the rest of the evening to myself, so I jumped in the shower and did something I hadn't done in awhile. I shaved my legs. Just before I got out of work I got a text from Rachael but didn't get it until after I was home and had eaten.

  

  You'd just have to meet her to understand her. Definitely not like any person I've ever met before. She's wicked funny. I mean, I like to think that I can be pretty funny but my attempts at funny don't belong in the same arena as her level. You'd probably never guess she's 27. Anyway the text progressed into her asking what I'm doing tonight? Which means she wants to grab dinner but I didn't really feel like going anywhere and just ate. So I invited her to come over and watch a movie, something we haven't done before. 

  

  I'm really beginning to see how God continues to work all things out for His good. It's not that I don't know that He does or He is but sometimes you get glimpses of realization. My time with Rachael lately has been continually showing me the way God brought mine and Anna's friendship into being and the testimony that alone is to God's faithfulness to the introducing to BSF, snowballing into the relationships I've made there especially with Rachael have all been for His glory. Not that I ever doubted it and know He will continue to use these things. That probably didn't make much sense but in short, Rachael kind of knows Anna because of BSF and has been coming to the realization that Anna and I are actually really good friends through gifts Anna has given me, which causes her to ask questions, which gives me the opportunity to show her in a very practical way God's faithfulness and love through the friendship Anna and I have. How awesome is that to use such a blessing and encouragement in my life and have it stand as a solid example elsewhere. I love that.  

  5. Mom is coaching the JH basketball team this year - not sure if I've mentioned that yet. They are undefeated but she went into this game with full confidence they were going to lose. They won and mom was overjoyed, as she should be. She couldn't help but hug each of us at the end of the game (before she went into the locker room) and said something like "I hope Bethany isn't mad" to dad. I think she thinks I'm partially jealous she keeps winning but I'm not. I'm genuinely happy for them. In all honesty, it's a completely different coaching style and basketball game from JH to Varsity. It's just the truth. After the game, Dad, Gabe and I headed to Devos Center for the Auto Show. It's not often that it's just the 3 of us just because of how life is, which is fine but it's nice to get out with them here and there. Lsat time was tracking my dear in November. Obviously Gabe and I are both adults but dad still takes care of us like we're his kids when we're with him such as paying for our tickets and getting us dinner. It's just his way of showing us love even though we're technically adults. We got home and mom was in bed but hadn't talked about the game. She was calm before we talked to her but by the end she was hyped up again. I can completely understand that - even when we lose, I still get hyped up. It's hard not to. Oh and another fun fact, during lunch mom announced that dad and her had discussed that the only way I'm allowed to move out is if I get married. haha, this is there way of saying they aren't kicking me out which is appreciated but at some point, if I'm not married I'll be planning to purchase a home and move out. It's just part of life but I appreciate not being pushed out the door.

  6. It's not often that I get a Friday night off. They have been few and far between since November, and I spent it at home watching movies. I probably could have initiated some kind of hang out but at this point, kind of figure Anna finishes working on BSF on Friday. If she was free, she probably would have said something. It was alright, worked on basketball stuff and watched a movie. Thrilling Friday night. Oh and one other noteworthy thing,l ate Friday night, ok...11 pm, which is late for me now...Rachael randomly texts me "I love you" - my mind instantly thanks God. Why? For using me. I'm not worthy. I'm inadequate - not anything special but He uses me as His vessel. It's humbling. Look at the people in Scripture who gave excuses for why they couldn't do something and God says didn't I make you?  I don't have any idea why Rachael while she's in Chicago has the urge to text that to me (as she never has said it in any form before) - God is good and the glory goes to Him, just as it should be.

  7. Basketball practice in the morning with just my post players and mom asked me to bring Lydia to practice to work with her. Lydia doesn't have the natural skill that I had, so it's taking more work to get her going -- no, she isn't being forced. She wants to play but sometimes I wonder if it's because I was so good and mom coaches. At this point, she hasn't expressed anything like that.  I came back, got ready for the day, ran some errands (returns and such), then to my cousin's basketball game. And the best part of the day meeting up with Anna for dinner, Meijer to pick stuff up, and going back to her house and chatted with the parents for a bit. I just love them and I can't say that enough. I love how at home I feel the second I walk in the door.  We then checked off a movie from our list, which turned out to be a really well done film. Afterwards, Anna and I chatted it up a little more. It was good to just chill. It's no ones fault necessarily (mine more than anything) but you combine our schedules and they are just busy. 

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