This past week has been pretty crazy for me. Since I am a procrastinator, I had a whole lot of assignments to do in a short amount of time in order to get it all done for grading. These assignments were for my abnormal psychology class. This class is a blended course so we usually have assignments every week or so that are about an hour long each. He breaks up the semester into units so all of the homework for that unit is due by the day you take the test. My test was scheduled for Wednesday and I hadn't even started my assignments until Monday. I had to study, do my homework for that class, and my homework for my other classes as well. This upcoming week I have the same professor for another psychology class and it works the same way. I have a test coming up this Thursday and have to have all of my homework done by Thursday and turn it in. This week is going to be busy as well but hopefully I will end up starting it earlier, like today! This is also my weekend to work so I will be busy during most of the day Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I work 9-6 and Sunday I work 8-4. I work at Woodman's Supermarket in Onalaska. After work on Sunday I have to go home and get ready to go to my end of the season basketball banquet. This will be held at Features in Holmen, one of the girls on my team works here. At this banquet we will get to have supper and whoever got awards will get them at this time. I am very excited for the banquet it should be fun and am excited to see all the girls again. Spending so much time with them and now that the season is over it feels like I haven't seen them in forever. I am also looking forward to the second half of intermurals starting at WTC. I am planning on playing basketball for sure and maybe even volleyball. This will definitely give me more things to do and will be fun. I am really looking forward to spring break this semester. My birthday just happens to fall over spring break and I am very excited because I won't have school! How great of a birthday present is that. My birthday is March 16 and Sunday is the first day of March. Spring break and birthday here I come!

End of the Road

Well as many of you know I have been pretty involved and busy with my basketball season. As of last night my basketball season is over with. This Monday was the start to the State playoffs. Monday we played UW-Marshfield which we have played two other times this season already and have beaten them every time. Before the game started their coach told ours that these girls already decided they were winning this game. Well after warmups that Monday we started out playing amazing! We were all playing like a team and all of our shots were falling. We got up to about a 15 point lead and then by halftime we were still up by 10 points. However, after we came out at halftime it was a whole different game. None of our shots were falling and our team kind of fell apart. This was not good because Marshfield had come out refreshed and ready to kick butt! All of their shots were falling and they chipped away at our lead for the next twenty minutes. With only a couple minutes left they were only down by a few baskets now. The score kept going back and forth and eventually they were only down by two points. Well our defense ended up picking us up for the lack of our offense we were playing. We ended up winning that game and was headed for Madison on Wednesday to play to go to State. At our shoot around on Tuesday, to prepare for our next game, our coach told us he had a surprise for us and we were to meet at the Coleman Center. Everyone was trying to figure out what our surprise could be but everyone was stumped. After waiting in the hall for a while a lady came out and told us we were getting massages by the students here. These massages were amazing and a fun way to have a little team bonding before our game. Well Wednesday comes and we leave in the afternoon to head off to Madison for our big game. Now Madison is pretty good and ranked pretty high up in the nation. We knew this was going to be a hard game to win but we had to have positive thoughts going into it. Right away Madison took a lead and kept us to two points for more than ten minutes into the first half. It was a hard fought game but we ended up losing which put an end to our long battle of a season. I am pretty pleased with how the season turned out and am excited for next year already!

Basketball and Cars

So last night I had the first playoff game of the year. My team traveled to Milwaukee to play Milwaukee Area Technical College. Let's just say yesterday was a long day. I had school all day and then had to get on the bus at 3:30 to ride up there. Our game wasn't scheduled to be played until 8 p.m. that night. The entire game was really close and it was a good game. We ended up losing so that tournament is done. We didn't end up getting back until almost 2 a.m. and then I had to get up and go to classes all day. It is kind of sad we lost right away but we still are playing to make it to state and that game is on Monday in La Crosse against Marshfield. Hopefully we win so we can try and make it to state. One significant thing that has been happening a lot lately is my car has not been starting in the morning. Only one teacher of all my classes is strict on attendance and only lets you miss four classes. Well of course this is the class that everday my car never starts for. My car is a 1990 Mercury Grand Marquis. It looks more like a boat rather than a car. I am really worried that I am going to end up failing the class if my car keeps not starting. Guess I will have to start saving up my money for a new car so this problem won't keep happening. Looks like the only thing I will be doing for a while is working.

Another week of school is coming to an end! This semester is going by pretty fast already. Basketball at Western is almost done and I am sad for that. This week we had a game on Monday against UW-Richland Center. This was the second time we played them this year. The first time was a couple weeks ago and it was one of the most intense games I have played in. We ended up losing, with a little help from the referees, when we played them at their home court. That first game I had a career high of 27 points so I was really excited to play them again. We ended up winning the game on Monday against them and it felt really good to beat them at our home court. This second time we played them I had a total of 19 points. Then on Wednesday we had another game against MATC - Milwaukee Area Technical College. We really needed to beat this team in order to have our season be .500. The first time we played them was in Milwaukee and we ended up losing. This Wednesday we played them on our home court and we were hoping that would make a difference. At half time we were down by four points and we were playing really well in the first half as a team. I managed to somehow have 19 points by halftime. After the half was over we came back out but not good enough. We ended up losing by about 15 points, give or take a few. I only ended up with 23 points by the end of the game. Our team kind of fell apart and it was pretty sad. Playoffs are about to start on Monday and in order to keep going on we need to keep winning every game. The first game we play I think is against MATC - Milwaukee Area Technical College again and I really want revenge after that last game. This week should be pretty interesting and hopefully our season is not over quite yet! Today at practice we are doing a fund raiser called a freethrow-a-thon. This is where we will go out and ask people to pledge some money either a flat donation or they can donate a certain amount of money per shot I make. I then shoot 100 freethrows and collect my money. The money we make is going to the TC basketball program so we can get new things for next year like new jerseys. Wish me luck!