Happy birthday Paul (from me this time)
go wild tonight, you 28 year old... wow... that's pretty old isn't it???
JK!!!

ahhhh, i just typed this whole big thing and i pressed something else and the whole thing was gone... woops... anyways....

so to sum it all up since i don't feel like retyping it all, My roommate is moving out on me... and i feel bad saying this, but i really can't wait for her to go. I know i am gonna be getting someone new and that will be annoying, but jess, the one moving out, has come to be such a draining person to live with.... ahhhh now ya see, i got into detail about this just a minute ago, but like i already said, im not really in the mood to retype that all up again...

but school has started... classes are boring... we have our first erg test (rowing thing) of the season tomorrow morning, and the miami vs duke men's basketball game is on right now, i should be there, but getting tickets was too hard with class and all so I'm gonna go watch it on TV w/ alex!!!

Go CANES!!!!

wow, the snow flakes are back!!! im so excited!!! i love playing with em... especially cuz i don't really have to deal with them here in miami. but it was cold here today, well, chilly at least.

today was our 7th day out of 8 of our 3 practices a day training camp. i can't believe its going by so fast... i just hope the rest of the semester doesn't go by this fast :( i will be so sad, this is my last semester of rowing... ever :(

ok, but our practices today were running on the beach and then a quick little practice on the water in small boats... meaning, rowing in doubles, little 2 person boats

but as i said, it was chilly today, chilly and windy... wind and small boats usually doesn't go over to well... but i was in a double with a girl named sarah, huge girl... like 6'1" but huge... anyways, so we were rowing along, fighting the wind, everything was going well

and then half way we spin to head back home, i get this big idea that we should start together at the catch (the most shaky position in the stroke) on the square ( completely un supported position)

and what do you know, the boat started to tip and before i knew it... we were swiimming and i was screaming and laughing. we felt so stupid...

so our coach had to come over and get us out onto the launch boat and she, along with a guy she had in the launch flipped our boat, and we pulled it in... well sarah and i just sat there, but the guy held onto it and my coach drove us in... the cold wind was killing me, but luckily for some reason i decided to pact extra clothes today to change into... oh, im so smart, jk...

ok, that was my falling in story, not as exciting as the last time i fell in though... but still a good chuckle

so i got back to miami late last night, plane trouble and all... and went to our first day of our 8 hell days of winter training. the practices were as to be expected, but i totally got burned!!!! i tried to get some color before i went home a month ago and got nothing, but now I'm just rowing and i burn the hell out of my face and yes, i aquired quite a farmer tan as well... i've got thered half arms and 3/4th legs, oh and can't forget the white feet from the socks... ahhh, i even have a mark from my watch!!! this is crazy. well i tried to take a pic of my face but you can't really see the burn all that well and its all shiny from all the aloe i put on it, but this it what the bright sun in sunny miami in early january did to me ;)

(e:amanda) wants me to post this so ahhh, im not gonna get into details in fact it might not even make since, but this is to show just how incredibly stupid i am and the mess my stupidity gets me into.

ok, so yesterday was interesting day, 2 practices in the morning then we ran stairs at 4:00 then we had a fun little apartment rumble consisting of my roommate and i bitching out one of the girls in the other room for leaving the apartment go to hell over the break, no seriously, it was disgusting. ok so then around 9:15 i get ready for bed, make my lunch for, well, today, and then all hell breaks loose

now here is where it gets kinda sick and disgusting, don't read on if you feel you don't have the stomach for it, but go ahead of you wanna know what a moron i am!

so, w/o really getting into too much on the subject, yesterday was the first time i have used a tampon. well i have tried before but somehow failed, i don't know... im not really into them, but with all our practices and stuff right now, i figured it was time to start.

so the stupidity comes in...
you may or may not be familiar with the anatomy of a tampon, but for this story all you need to know is that the one i was using, like many out there have an applicator (either cardboard or plastic) to guide the actual tampon in... but it is not supposed to go "in" itself!!!!

well I AM STUPID!!! because i put it in. in all of my determination to actually figure it out how to use it this time and not fail anymore, i forgot how the damn things work.

well as you could guess, around bedtime when i went to get this little contraption out of me, i discovered my mistake... TOO LATE, STUPID!!! the cardboard had already turned mushy, but the tampon itself came out just fine. unfortunately leaving this cardboard in me. so in my efforts to get that out after it starts to tear, DAMN IT!!!

so at 9:15 pm, with the campus health clinic closed, my only real option was to go to the ER to get this thing out, (but i am leaving other events that occurred at that time out just because i need to forget about them... ahhh, i can't believe i walked in on that)

so of course the ER is full of people , and really now what's the seriousness of cardboard stuck in a vagina??? ahhhh, but the triage part was funny with me trying to explain to a male nurse what i did... hehehehehe

but so after sitting in the waiting room for 4 hours i was finally put in a room, and to avoid any more graphic details, the 1 doctor on staff finally saw me at 3:15 and i was released at 3:30... that's all im gonna say about that 8*

now the stupid thing wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt for the fact that i had only gotten 2 hours of sleep to go row 2 practices and then do a body circuit. so i had to let my coach know i only had 2 hours of sleep so i wouldnt be messing up practice for others, and of course explaining it to her was quite awkward, even though all i told her was that i was in the ER till 3:30... from problems with a tampon. well at least i didn't have to explain the problems to her, she probably thinks i got TSS or something.

so all else went well today, ahh, no it didn't , our boat ran over a dog today... A LIVE DOG!!! we tried to stop in time but we just nicked the back of him, he was playing frisbee w/ some dude and i guess didn't realize a fast moving boat was heading his way... poor dog, but he was ok, carried on playing as we rowed away.

OH OH OH!!! and i too, although don't like Starbucks either, tried that chocolate drinking (e:mike) and (e:amanda) were talking about. i actually had it w/ amanda. it was sooo chocolaty, insane... kinda tasted like i was eating/drinking warm brownie batter. it was soo rich, and i don't even like chocolate, but still, i have to admit it was tasty.

ok, that's it for now, i hope you enjoyed my stupidity... boy, it's long, if you read all the way down to here, i feel sorry for you ;) hehehehe

ahhhh, why on earth am i gonna post this??? i really shouldn't... its sooo embarrassing :( oh well, here goes, (e:amanda), you better like this ;)