Running and Rent

Another week has flown by. I can't believe how fast the days go by. The great thing is that the sun is up when I drive to Bethany in the morning. It was miserable driving to work in the dark the last few months. Can spring really be around the corner already?
I am two weeks into high school tennis conditioning already! The first day of conditioning they all had scared looks on their faces and I asked them if they were worried about conditioning. Over half of them said they were. I guess the word got out that I am a big believer in conditioning hard! They have worked so hard and I am really proud of them. Some of them are doing things they never thought they would be able to do. I still can't get over how they look at me with big eyes as if I know so much more than they do. They do whatever I tell them to do and just absorb everything I say. Coaching is amazing! I am really looking forward to this season. We start hitting everyday March 13th. It will be here before I know it.
The big plans for this weekend include buying Rent on dvd and watching it again. Seth and I have seen the movie twice in the theater and we both listen to the music at home and at work. I think it is safe to say that we are addicted. The music is phenomenal! If you haven't seen the musical movie we definitly recommend it.

This and That

I guess Seth and I were thinking along the same lines. I was thinking about how long it had been since I'd posted and when I went to post something, I saw Seth had just added something yesterday. I guess I will give you all the updates on me, since Seth covered some of the more recent things in his life.

Work is busy. This is the time of year when everyone is visiting and starting to apply to Bethany. Since the middle of January I have been planning visitor's days every other week and helping prospective families go through the admissions process. I love being busy. I love coming to work and having tons to do so that time just flies by.

Tennis is starting to get busy. I am gearing up to begin conditioning with the high school team next week and this is the heavy recruiting time at the college. I met with one prospective player last weekend and I am meeting with two more today. Luckily I only have a small team. I can't imagine having to recruit for a team that needs more than 7-8 players. I already feel pretty good about GC's team next fall. I've signed a strong player from PA and am thinking the #1 player from Bethany will come as well! I will have conditioning with the high school team for a month and then we can start practicing outdoors in the middle of March. I am really looking forward to it! Hopefully it will start to warm up by then.

All of our leagues are winding down. I have about two weeks left of volleyball. Seth is done with tennis, and he has two more weeks of soccer. They have been fun, but it will be nice to have a few more evenings free.

The biggest news of all is that my Christmas present is supposed to come today! Seth ordered me an elliptical machine that I had been salivating over before Christmas. I thought it was way to expensive to buy, but Seth did some searching and found it online for half price! We have been waiting and waiting and waiting for it! I decided hell would probably freeze over before we got it, but it is supposed to be at our apartment as I speak! Knock on wood! The next question will be, can we assemble it! Hopefully two college degrees are enough to pull us through assembly instructions! We'll keep you posted on our progress!

Sarah

Update

Ok, here is an update:

Tennis - Well, first of all...no one else signed up for the men's 3.0 tourney, so Dad and I had to play in the men's 3.5 tourney. This means the players were better. We were assuming we were going to get killed. However, things went surprisingly well! We lost both of our matches, but they were very close. We lost the first match 6-4, 6-2...the second was even closer 6-4, 7-5. We both played very well (other then not being able to get our first serves in!) and we had A LOT of fun!

Soccer - Still having a lot of fun. Lost our game pretty bad Monday, but we scored a lot of points and had a really good time. We are getting SO much better! I wish we could play ourselves when we started. We would kill ourselves!

Elliptical Machine - It is supposto be coming tomorrow! Yeah....this is what I ordered December 19th, hoping to get it about a week or two after Christmas. Lets just say it has been a nightmare. Never had this bad of an experience ordering something online.

That about covers it! I will try to do the next few posts with a bit less of an extended break!