Many Exciting Adventures.

I sincerely apologize for the lack of writing. This year has been a busy one and will continue to be.

These last couple months have been good ones. I have been on many exciting adventures with my friends. We are definitely living the college life. Rather than write a novel about my adventures, I will just make it a picture story. So enjoy.

Here in Thatcher you have to make your own fun on the weekends since it is such a small town. Something we do for fun is go mattress surfing. You hook up an old mattress to the back of a truck and pull it on dirt like you would a boat pulling a tube on a lake. It's so much fun. Sort of an adrenaline rush too. You get very dusty...We wore goggles to protect our eyes. Hence the outline on my face.

Something else that I do with this set of friends (which includes two of my roommates, Tesia and Stephanie, and the boys Dakota and Logan) We go shooting sometimes.We take glass bottles that we have saved and random crap like old T.V's out to a dirt mountain and shoot at them with different kinds of guns. It was so much fun.

For Homecoming week they had a parade. There are a lot of people that are in the parade line. A lot of the school clubs, all of the sports, other school groups and non groups. It was fun to be in it as a tennis team. We hitched a ride on the back of the firetruck with the basketball girls so we didn't have to walk the whole time. We know how to work the system.

Random thing, but you all know I love catching frogs. Check out the difference in the sizes that I've caught here. I have yet to catch a lizard. Those guys are just too fast! ....Yes I'm wearing gloves...it freaked me out a little.

Sometimes for practice we have a pool day. Which sounds like it'd be fun right? Na...Its not all it's cracked up to be. We often have to swim laps forever then do little swim exercises. I'm not a great swimmer so I get tired fast. It is nice to be in the pool where it is nice and cool though. After one of our pool days, Sally, Patricia and I took some "Sophomore" photos. I may not have a tan stomach but I have great abs. 

Two weeks ago it was my beloved 20th birthday. Everyone jokes about my age..."How old are you now? 16?" What's funny, is most the people that say that to me are younger than me. I'm one of the older people of my age group. But either way I don't look 20. Which is fine by me. It allows be to still get stuff on the kids menu. Just kidding. My roommates did a lot for me on my special day. I didn't mention anything about my birthday at all. I didn't want people to know. I mean it's nice when people know, but I hate all the attention. Days leading up to my birthday I didn't say anything. I thought I had done a good job. Only to find out that they all knew and had plans for my day. They decorated the house and my roommate Stephanie decorated our room with athletic pre-wrap and ankle tape. You know you're a student athletic trainer when...haha I didn't even wake up to her doing it. At practice Kindra and I were the only ones on time. We were so confused about what was going on. Everyone showed up a couple minutes later. We were waiting on Sally though. I called her and she said she was on her way. No joke..20 mins later she shows up. She apologizes for being so late and what not. Coach tells us to run to the baseball field and back for our warm up run. We do so and when we get back to the courts coach tells us that for practice we are just going to eat pizza and chill since it was my birthday. Pizza and a dessert type pie was sitting on the bench. I was surprised. Everyone was excited and happy that it was my birthday. Sally had gone and gotten the food. That's why she was late. Her and coach had planned this. It made me happy. We ate then just hit around a little after. Coaches left us to mess around. What an awesome practice. After practice Sally and I longboarded around campus and went to the Post Office to check our mail. Later that night there was a home volleyball game which I was super excited about. I love the volleyball games. I am their biggest fan. I cheered my heart out! My roommates and I went to the game together. I always stand up during breaks and timeouts and dance to the music. During the break between game 2 and 3 one of the volleyball players went to the announcing table and took the mic and said, "We would like to wish Loni a Happy Birthday and we want all of you to join in with us to sing her happy birthday." I was already standing up on the bleachers and I was not expecting that, so I couldn't sit down. My face was super red. I loved it though. I love the volleyball girls so much. After they all came and gave me big hugs, I thanked them all. Having them do that for me seriously made my day. I loved it. Later I found out that it was Sally's idea for them to do that. They knew I would love it. They got Logan to talk to one of the volleyball girls and he asked them if they would do it. Best birthday present ever! Later that night my roommates had made brownies and they stuck 20 candles in it and sang to me. Then my best friend Katie who is stationed in North Carolina for the army video called me and we talked for hours. That honestly was the best birthday present I could ever ask for. She is my best friend and I miss her so much!

Being college students we are often spontaneous and do things spur of the moment. Last weekend, my roommates and I were talking about how we wanted to get a ping pong table for our kitchen area which is big, open and empty. So I got on Craigslist, found one for $40 in Tucson. My roommate called the lady and she said it was ours if we came and got it. Logan, Tesia, and I loaded up in Logan's truck and took off. It's about a two hour drive to Tucson. We arrived at the ladies house, loaded the table into the back of Logan's truck, payed the kind lady, and headed back home another two hours. Granted it wasn't that quick of a process, but you get the idea. Now we have a ping pong table in our house and play it often. We have so much fun! Our next investment, and I'm not joking, is a trampoline for our backyard. We have big plans for our house. 

One of my roommates dog had puppies and the other day she took me and Stephanie to see them. I love dogs so much, and miss mine back home. They are little boxer mix puppies. They were so cute!! I needed some dog interaction. It is a calming relaxing feeling.

The volleyball coach gave Sally and I some of their team volleyball shirts to wear to the volleyball games since we cheer every game for them. I can't thank Coach enough. I honor this shirt. Not everyone gets one of these since they are the girls team shirts. Coach loves my cheering and I love them.

School is going good, EMT is great, tennis will forever be my favorite and I'm working really hard this year. I'm loving life and all it has to offer me.  

 

Be Strong. Live Free.