I'm a member of the gold-medal winning 2010 US Women's National Team, coached high school football and now am in search of a way to live my passion in my 30s. These are uncharted waters ... stay tuned for the results.
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Some photos from my TEAM USA journey.... Left: my new unis.... underneath, someone decided to put all the OLINE in the same bus.
Next row: Vaz, Mia and Kelly; Me and Sunshine (from Chattanooga).
Here: Pickett, Kelly, Menzyk, Tarsha, Jen and me before practice one day....
The spring came in like a lion, and left with Journey. Rewind two weeks to the start of spring football (more on that later) and to the end of our road with the biggest baby I've ever met. I returned from Houston for work and Josh from a wedding in South Carolina to find Ms. J fragile and unable to walk. The next week was spent at the Eastside Animal Hospital - with a brief back-and-forth-field trip. There wasn't much upside to the week which included a giant bill (though substantially smaller than expected), test after test with few answers, a dog blood transfusion from Rex (resident "willing" donor) and heartbreak in eventually having to make a difficult decision to end Journey's life. The great part was meeting a team of people who perform their jobs with love, which we were comforted by during and after we said goodbye. Journey was a modern story of a girl found on Craigslist by an unlikely pair, still grieving from the loss of Brutus (April...
This morning I struggled to get out sprung out of bed at 5:05 a.m. As an adult, I have enough self-awareness to know that I need to shut off the evil buzz at least once. So that was 5 a.m. I've had a good off-season and now with the shoulder season (usually filled by me playing football), my mission is to find a hobby. I've thought about raising chickens, but my good friend Dana made a few good points difficult to ignore so I have a ton of crazy research yet to do. Trip to local organic farm scheduled. There's always gardening, which terrifies excites me - on the one hand you have fresh veggies, on the other you have a giant weed patch sucking money investment which requires constant care. Travel is on hold for the moment - hopefully we can rebound for beach season and summer. I'd like to go to Charleston, visit friends Debbie & Willie in Virginia and maybe take a mission trip to Kenya. I think we'll go whitewater rafting and maybe even buy a kayak f...
so glad you posted photos!!!! keep them coming. good luck!
ReplyDeleteLOL, business as usual - nice bruises!
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