Wow, busy week!! And wonderfully so.

Tuesday was quiz practice: we have way too much fun! In the past three weeks we've worked on our bible verses together and then done either pilates or tiebo, as well as a whole bunch of crunches when we screw up our verses. As our coach says, we'll all look great come Regionals!
Practice is always a little crazy, especially since our fearless--or is it fool hearty?--coach is only a couple years older than we.
Speaking or fearless leaders, right after quizzing, I dashed off to my book group, where the wonder Katy Banham was hosting a tea party for our book group. Well, we maintained the lady-like charade for about 10 minutes. The rest of the time involved a good deal of shrieking, probably why we opted not to hold this meeting in the library.

Lets see, on Wednesday I took Rachel out on a sistah date, and I ended up buying her some really cute clothes treating Starbucks, before dashing home for AWANA. Because our Cubbies secretary was sick, I ended up doing her job on top of my other duties. Although I did fine, I'm glad it's not my normal job!

Thursday I went dancing with some friends, a couple of whom were able to get their dads to come dance with them--Lucky! My poor father was forced to take disco lessons in junior high, and, beloved geek that he is, I don't think he's ever quite recovered from the the serious psychological damage. (When I learned the hustle last week and then came home and forced him to dance it with me, he wasn't exactly thrilled.) But I'll keep working on him, maybe some day he'll come. . .

Yesterday, Friday, involved a lot of babysitting, first for an adorable little girl in the morning and then for two more little angels in the evening. (The latter's parents had gone dancing at the same place that I had the night before, lol!) Babysitting was quite fun, and a good break from the normal school routine, which normally dominates my day from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon. Oh, I also made fifty dollars. Fifty dollars! For watching cute kids! How cool is that!? But while babysitting in the evening, I also had the chance to review my verses for the big quiz meet the next day.

The big quiz meet that I really don't want to talk about. My team totally bombed, and personally I was far from the top of my game. Since your individual scores for the last three quiz meets (including this one, which was horrible) determine weather or not you're among the top 7 quizzers eligible to go to Nationals, I honestly didn't think I would be able to go this year.
Well, I apparently did better than I thought. Turns out John tied for SECOND place overall! After coming as low as I did, and/or biting off all my carefully grown out fingernails in the process, I was really shocked to end up that high. Omaha, here I come!! Now, as I type this, I'm missing my long, lovely fingernails, and my aching, stubby fingers serve as a reminder for me to continue working hard on my verses, and to not jump to conclusions. Nice going, Lyd.

After the grueling meet, (did I mention my team went from second place overall to second to last? Ouch!!) my teammates and just hung at a friends house for some intense mental destimulation. Miss Congeniality and lots of junk food. Yeah baby!

Well, that about sums up what I've been up to lately. It's almost 11.30 here on a Saturday night, meaning that I can still make up for lost sleep and still roll out of bed at 9 and be ready for church at 10. Bis spater, friends, I'm going to bed!