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Sunday, May 17, 2009

What a relief!

Joelle had soccer tryouts this weekend. It was rough. She had decided to tryout for the team she played spring ball with, not her old team. This was a huge leap. All the teams have tryouts at the same time on the same days in different locations. Basically you choose a team to tryout for and then pray you make it because you can't tryout elsewhere. The team Jo tried out for was very competitive and has a very good coach. I was really worried. But it was her choice. The coach called last night and asked her to join the team. He is taking 16 players (originally I had heard 14) but 16 is better. The thing is the coach said Joelle is a developmental player- meaning he sees her as someone he can coach and develop into a good player. He would like to see her more aggressive and taking more shots, These are things Mitch and I already knew she had to work on. Basically he said she would not be getting much playing time, until she earned it. We talked about it and Joelle decided that she still wanted to be on the team and that she did think she could earn more field time as the season progresses. We will see how it goes. Mitch and I are happy she made the team- because it is what she wanted. We will just see how she does with it.

My news is that I have been kinda a wreck. I think with my weight change, my dosage on my hormones also needs to change. I am going in on Wednesday to see my doctor and hopefully get all squared away.

Words of Wisdom

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans"

~John Lennon

"Accept the things which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings together, but do so with all your heart"

~ Marcus Aurelius

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give"

~Winston Churchill

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher"

~Victor Hugo Les Miserables

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved"

~Victor Hugo Les Miserables

"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible,complex, mysterious, infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea,and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."

~Victor Hugo Les Miserables

"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."

~Dostoevsky

"Wanting to be a person you are not is a waste of the person you are"

~Kurt Cobain

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

~John Milton

"A great flame follows a little spark."

~Dante Alighieri

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

~Dr.Seuss

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

~Maslow

"Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside."

~Chris Messina

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

~A.A. Milne (this one is for Mom)