Although my reader is now even more terrifyingly overgrown than before, I absolutely loved the blog swap! So many great new blogs! :-D Clearly Ashley is not the only blogaholic around here. I liked her post so much I thought I’d ask her to run this blog for me. But then I remembered that writing in my very own blog is half the fun! And I can go read her wonderful words over on her own blog. So I’ll be carrying on with the best of both sides of the wonderful world of blogdom.
But Ashley? You’re welcome here anytime! :-D
Given the awesomeness of Ashleys post, I wanted to leave it up there as most recent post for as long as possible without actually abandonning the blog. But as always when there’s a great post at the top, my brain keeps on churning out ideas that absolutely have to go on the blog. Do you have that problem too? It’s like busses in the UK: None for absolutely ages and then suddenly loads at once…
I’ve managed to force myself not to post for over 24 hours. I didn’t actually have anything that great to post about, it was just this inconvenient urge…
But now I do have something I want to shout to the world: I’VE FOUND A NEW VOLLEYBALL TEAM!!!
I guess the tale of my volleyball woes got left behind when I swapped blogs (I just realised I didn’t even have a volleyball category yet, how bizarre is that). Let me just tell you, this is GREAT NEWS!
I went to my first training with the village team who play in the league I played in last season (or rather, they’ve been promoted back into that league because my old team disbanded…). I know some of them including the coach from when I played mixed, they used to come and train with us because most of our players couldn’t be bothered to turn up for training, and they liked training twice a week.
So I already know that the coach actually runs trainings in such a way that youu work up a sweat. Yays! Training that’s actually worth going to!
They are pleased to have me, even though I almost knocked out the president of the club with one of my smashes. I’ve never been any good at aiming past people. And honestly? During the hitting part of volleyball training it’s not a good idea to stand with your back to the net! They were all impressed with the strength of my hitting… I so hate when I hit someone! Especially in the head. Can’t you just watch out, people!
So she went home early (they said she has head problems anyway (physical, I assumed, not mental)) which wasn’t a great sign for my first training.
Then, at the very end when we were playing (rather than just doing drills), after the coach has just said ‘Last serve’, I serve, this girl jumps into the air, gets the ball, lands and collapses with a shout. Crap. But that was not my fault. NOT!
She seems to have torn a ligament. Eeeeek! We carted her downstairs and held her foot under a cold shower and it only swelled up a bit.
*shudders*
I’m very squeamish. Hope that’s not a regular occurence.
Oh dear, that sounds horrible. I feel awful for her, I do! I hope both of the victims of tonight’s training session get well quickly.
The coach reassured me: They usually loose players to pregnancy, not injury… ;-)
