so i thought i'd just fill everyone in on why i haven't been on here much this summer.

well, my day starts at 4:30 a.m, so i can prepare for my morning swim practice (coach's orders). all the older people on the team (i think there's about 6 or 7 of us) have to do extra work, including cross training. practice starts at 6:00, and since i live so freaking far away from town i have to wake up before the butt crack of dawn. i actually watch the sunrise in my rear-view mirror on the way there.

swimming goes from 6-8 a.m. at our athletic club. at about 8:15 we all go for a mile-and-a-half long run. when we finally get back to the athletic club at around 8:45-ish we lift weights or use work out machines until 10.

at 10 every day the club has different cl***es going on, and so far we have done body combat (its like kick boxing, which is something i totally love doing!), body pump (a super intense weight-lifting cl***, and body flow (a combo of tai chi, yoga, and pilates. also something i love doing!). a lot of the content in all of them is something i'm familiar with because i took a cl*** at school that provided all three exercize techniques. there's supposed to be a new one coming out this week called body attack. just the name of it makes me nervous...it sounds painful. :|

anyway, those cl***es last until 11, so i get home around 11:30 or later depending on traffic. then i eat lunch, shower, etc. and then have chores to take care of around the house (feed the animals, do the laundry, do the dishes, that sort of stuff).

at 3:15 i have to leave the house again for my afternoon practice from 4-5:30 p.m and i get home about 6:15. the good news is that afternoon practices are only on monday's, wednesday's, and friday's! then i eat dinner with the fam and hang out or whatever until about 9:00 (sometimes i take a short hour-long nap too), which is about the time i check out the forums here on tv(dot)com. then i end up going to bed around 10, but can't fall asleep til around 11:30-midnight. and the cycle repeats itself all week, starting at 4:30 in the morning.

so yeah, my schedule is packed! BUT, my birthday is tomorrow (the 8th) and i'm turning 17. so i'm meeting the whole fam at red robbin for dinner and then my cousin and i are going to a rated r movie, and i won't even have to sneak in!!! it's exciting.

oh! and yesterday i dropped off my sister at summer camp, which is where i used to work. i saw so many of my (former) co-workers there that i wanted to cry, because i hadn't seen them in like a year and as much as i wanted to work there this summer i just couldn't. :cry: i have to focus more on swimming this summer, so i can't work there this year. so i decided to go back to next year for sure! and 2 of my friends/former co-workers married eachother! its totally adorable.

funny story...i had to fill in last year for the hike leader at camp, so i got to carry this radio with me so i could contact the camp director/administrators/nurse if something happened to a camper. and i also had to radio in at certain points during hike to let everyone know that things were going smoothly. so automatically i thought, yes! i could be all svu-like when i radio in! yeah, well that didn't work out so well. all camp staff has their own camp name and mine was bubbles. the person i had to contact's name was sunshine. so our radio conversations were more like a care bears movie (i love those movies!) than svu. when i talked to her the first thing i had to say was, this is bubbles to sunshine! :P haha...it was fun tho.

wow uummm...sorry this is so long, i didn't realize i had so much to say (or type, whatever) :D