I'm Pretty Excited

Okay here’s the thing kiddos, I had the best practice of my life a few days ago and I can only pray that I’ll play as well this Saturday, yes Valentine’s Day, I’m sorry Dills. So I’m making up for it by hosting him and his family this Friday. Which should be fun because both of our families are a total riot!

Anyway, I have to attempt to keep it together under the pressure of both our parents (yikes!). Not that either are difficult to please or anything like that, it’s just that with my personality, the presence of adults that will be potentially judging me, (his parents aren’t judgey) kinda terrifies me. I tend to get awkward and just unnecessarily nervous. Which is utterly ridiculous at this point. I mean Dillon and I have been together for just under ten months now. TEN! His parents are already like family, and I feel like I fit in just fine, but something about this dinner being the night before Valentine’s Day has sort of shaken me up a little bit. There’s absolutely no good reason for this, I realize, but none the less I am just a tad bit anxious about it.

Maybe it’s because this is the first time I’ll be putting together a gift for someone of my own, instead of helping one of my older brothers. Well, there was that one in seventh grade, but I really only bought him a bag of M&M’s and some little stuffed bear on a keychain or something. I don’t really remember, not that it matters though, (we didn’t work out, in case that wasn’t obvious). 

Here's a screenshot of a folder on Dillon's phone

So this year, I got my little White Girl, (he has an addiction to Starbucks coffee, and I swear every "hipster" app available) something that should appeal to many aspects of his personality. I can’t say exactly what I have for him because I know he’ll read this to try and spoil the surprise, but I can say that it involves puns, and a certain perk of his growing addiction. 

But in the end, it’s safe to say I’m pretty excited.

That Didn't Happen

So you may have noticed that I never posted about the results of my last tournament… Yeah, that’s because we didn’t win. Whoops. But there is always next time right? Of course I’m right. Here’s the thing though, we lost to the one person we vowed not to: none other than a former coach, Bob. We hated this coach, and hated losing to him even worse. You see, the reason for such a deeply rooted dislike for this particular coach is, well his nickname among the players was Boner Bob if that helps to make it clear. Now I had played up with his team my first and second years on Elevate, due to that I had actually become comfortable around him as a coach. Mainly because I liked his tactics: first off, you’re here to play, so show up ready for the game. Second, this is a sport not a beauty show, so stop constantly worrying about how you look. And third, if you want a playing spot you have to earn it. However this was before he started coaching my age group as much.

As Bobby became more involved with girls on my team and the B team, the rumors started. Given that I had never experienced him doing this I didn’t believe it, but then there came the tournament when it happened. After that season however, no one had seen or heard from him, until the invites for the new club he was starting. Unfortunately, we lost a couple of players to him, those traitors!

Aaanyway, enough about the creepy coach. This time, we were gonna get GOLD!! 

My team after taking second in the gold bracket

We did get to the gold bracket, we just didn’t win it. We lost to Apex by less than ten points between both of the games in the match. You don’t understand how pissed I was for every point I gave up. I’m really competitive and I had a deeply rooted need to beat this team as a recovery from last time… That didn’t happen. 

But I did walk away with my medal first medal of 2015, and I can’t wait to sontinue my collection on the fourteenth! (I know, it’s Valentine’s Day. I apologize now to my boyfriend, Dillon)