nothing really different has happened the past couple of days.....this weekend, i worked most of the time, and then last night when i got home from work, i went over my gmas for my grandpas bday. it wasnt horrible, wasnt great. oh yeah, guess what!!

MY BABY COUSIN PARKER CAME HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL YESTERDAY!!! :):):):):)
i am sooo glad that he's okay. to think that only three weeks ago, no one thought he was gonna make it, just makes me feel so thankful for the fact that he's alright now. he still has to have two more surgeries in the course of the next year, but the outlook is good overall!! :)

let's see, this morning i went to practice, it wasn't really that hard. after that, i came home, ate breakfast, and took a nap. then i showered and got ready and whatnot, and allison and i went to the mall, amigo's, putt putt, and gokart racing. when i got back home, my mom sent me to the store to buy tomatoes, so i brought my brother and his friend along then dropped them off somewhere. now i'm home, kinda bored...
until next time.......
*~*Sambalina*~*

just a warning...if you're not a swimmer you probably will not really know what i'm talking about....
this morning, i went to practice, and after warmdown, tony goes, "sam, will you stop hitting the water so hard with your feet when you turn? it's getting me all wet"
so i say, "i can't help it, just don't stand so close to the wall and you won't get wet"
(i wasnt even paying attention to what i was doing, so i probably was splashing with my turns)
then tony says, "well what i'm getting at is that your turns suck!"
he was being serious when he said this....so i was like umm okay.....
yeah maybe since he's the coach he could tell me something to improve on instead of telling me i suck, because for your coach to tell you that is kinda a shutdown.....i mean how the fuck are you supposed to believe in yourself when one of your coaches tells you you suck?
and besides that, i know a lot of girls on our team who have worse turns than me, but do we ever see our coaches taking time during practice to work on turns?
No.
so maybe some people should just keep their fucking mouths shut, because they're supposed to be helpful, not say hurtful shit like that.

sam

you know, recently i've come to the conclusion that i develop a crush on a different guy just about every week. weird, huh? i mean, i'm not even exaggerating. in the past month, if i remember correctly, i have liked about five guys. and then after a few days, either i'll forget about it, or start liking another guy altogether. i think i have a problem following through with this type of thing, like if i like someone, and then nothing happens right off the bat, i lose interest. it's not even like i'm getting shut down or rejected by these guys. and since i'm not a psychologist or anything, i don't really know why i'm doing this. i guess it's not really a problem, since i'm not getting hurt or feeling bad about myself or anything, but i think what i want most of all is a relationship. obviously, things like that usually don't just happen out of the blue, without trying, so i think what i'm going to do is this: the next person that i end up liking, i'm actually going to pursue instead of just sort of sitting there, waiting, and then forgetting about it lol. maybe i just have a short attention span, but i'll try to make it a little longer for all the guys out there. haha

here's what i did the past couple days....
~Sunday~
umm that was kinda a long time ago but i'll see if i can remember....sunday i had to work, so i slept in, got ready, and went there for a while. it was okay, nothing really different happened. there was supposed to be the city swim meet but it got cancelled cause the weather was crappy.
so i went and got some subway and came home and chilled for the rest of the night.
~Monday(yesterday)~
i did my usual morning routine: got up for 6am practice, went home and showered after, came back and coached till noon. then i went home and had lunch and was lazy for about two hours. at 330 i went up to the high school for the city swim meet. that was actually pretty fun. me, emily, luke, and pat decided to swim just for kicks....me and margaret tied for first place!! hahaha max swam too and he got a trophy for second place.....he was sooooo excited about it. then after the meet was the swim club ice cream social thing at the westfield center, but we left early so i came home and crashed.
~Today~
we didnt have practice today, so i slept till like 11. then i played with max for a little bit, and went in my room and vegged out until now. i have the championship meet thingy in like an hour, so i'm eating something, taking a shower, and getting outta hurr.
~*~Sam~*~

yesterday was fun. i got up and went to practice at six, and it was sooooo easy cause we got to make up our own set. then i went home and showered really quick, came back and coached till 12. later on i went and bought a new suit, cap and goggles for my swim meet. then whit picked me up, and we went to the dive-in movie to sell 50~50 tickets for our team. it turned out to be fun, and we made like 100 bucks for our team! :) i got home around 11.30 and went right to bed.
then this morning, i got up at six, showered, and emily picked me up for the swim meet in wayne. me, her, and megan met up with luke and drove there. i won my events, and my times actually weren't that terrible! then we came home and i took a nap cause i was exhausted. now i'm about to clean my room so i can go out with everyone later!!!
~*~Sam~*~

notice how i only write when i'm pissed about something??? well today im not!! :) summary of the past couple days:
~Tuesday~
Me, Whitney, Megan, Mark, Emily, Luke, Alisha, and Chanel went to Mark's cottage for the day. At first the weather was crappy but it cleared up and turned out to be a fun day. We got back at like 11 and went to the swim marathon for the last hour.
~Wednesday~
When I got up yesterday I was soooo sore from tubing and stuff. Practice was at 7 instead of 6, so I guess that was a good thing. It was kinda hard, but not very long. After practice we had swim club pics, then i went home really quick to get my stuff for work. i came back like 45 mins. later and coached till noon, then lifeguarded till five. Interesting things that happened at the pool: well for starters, there was a simulation drowning, for which me, luke and sean ended up in the pool....lol that was a good time. also, fedorovs brother was at the pool, i guess that was interesting.
~Today(Thursday)~
I got to practice late, caught up with everyone, and finished running. Then we went to the weight room for a little bit. I came home, ate breakfast, played guess who with my little brother, took my car in to get fixed, and now i'm about to go in the shower......

~*~Samantha~*~

ugh....today was not the greatest. let's see, for starters we had an incredibly hard practice in mind-numbingly cold water because the heater was broken. then i coached and worked till five. yes, let's talk about work. they tried out this new rotation-thingy on us today, and it sucked some big balls. it ended up that my break, which should be like 25 minutes, turned out to be only 5. yep, that's right, 5 minutes. and in case you didn't know, for every five hours you work in the sun, you're supposed to have a half hour break. so yeah, that was fucking bullshit.....lol okay now that i'm done venting, i think i'm okay. tomorrow should be good cause i dont have to do anything all day!! :) i'm gonna go take a shower so i can do something tonite.
~*~Sam~*~

soo yeah....today was fun....haha. umm let's see, this morning i got up for practice at 5.30 as usual, and it was pouring rain when we all got there so we had to wait a little bit.....then we stretched, ran 4 miles, and i went home and changed and got ready for the meet in like five minutes. then at the meet at park colony i swam a couple events, and let me tell you, running four miles, not warming up, and swimming two races feels real goooood.....riiiiight. then after the meet i came home and relaxed for a bit, then i went and got my hair done, then i went to prestige for my senior pics. yeah my appt. was 3.30 and they didnt get me in till 5.00. that was cool, esp for only like 10 minutes of actual picture-taking. then i came home, ate some pasta salad, and headed downtown to volunteer with my youth group helping with parking for the street fair. that was okay but it was kinda boring and lasted till like nine. now i'm sitting here eating (finally) and then i'm prolly gonna go to bed cause i gotta get up early again tomorrow.....until then......buenas noche

so, the past couple of days have been not the greatest, but i guess you have to just roll with the punches....
my baby cousin parker was born last week. on sunday, the doctors found out that he was born without the entire left side of his heart, and that he would die if he didn't either get a heart transplant or this one surgery called the norwood procedure. so we're thinking, okay, this is really bad, but he can get surgery and it will be fixed.
not so easy. i went to the hospital yesterday to see him, and as i got there his parents had just found out that his heart was so weak that he was not a candidate for surgery at all. obviously this was terrible news, and we all felt pretty devastated. i mean, why in the world would god create this tiny perfect human, and then stick him with some disease that he has no control over? it's just not fair. to see him laying there in the ICU, with tubes coming out of his mouth, nose, hands, feet, and belly button, being kept alive by machines, i felt like i was suffocating. this poor baby was completely helpless, and there was nothing i could do to save him. i guess it made me realize how incredibly huge the world is, and how there has to be something bigger than us controlling it.
so last night, before i went to bed, i did the only thing i could think of. i took out the rosary that i had never used before that i got on my first communion, and i prayed. not like one of those prayers that everyone knows. it was a real plea to god or whatever it is up there to save my cousin. i think that was when i realized that my life is never completely in my control, and it was extremely confusing. i mean before this, i dont think i had ever really said a prayer and meant it like i did this time. talk about deep.
so then this morning, i was looking into parker's defect on the internet and i came across this pediatric cardiologist guy at u of m who is supposed to be one of the top five in the world, and he had operated on my other cousin last year when she was born. so i decided to email him and ask if he could help. he emailed me back, and now parker's going to u of m to be treated there. i guess things are looking a little better, so maybe my first real prayer helped!

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so yeah....yesterday was fun. i got up around nine and went to old navy w/my aunt and mom....then i came home and cleaned for our 4th of july party. it stormed, but it went away fast so everyone still came over. kristen and ashley came over and we talked for a little bit, then ashley left and allison and lynsi stopped by. we swam for a while and ate dinner. then me and kristen went cruisin around for a bit, came home and chilled, then me, allison, kristen, ashley, lynsi, bret, tony, courtney, stacey, and lauren walked to the fireworks. they were ok...but my neck hurt from looking up so much. after that, we all went to lauren's and watched The Ring. i got home around 1.30 and went to bed.


then this morning i got up and got ready for work, but when i got there it was raining so we didn't open the pool. so i took the car and went to deb and the mall to get stuff for senior pics. i bought a dress and two pairs of shoes. now i'm home just chillin till i have to go back to work at five.
luv ya!!!!!!
~sambalina~

hmm....yesterday, i went to practice, and we had to run and lift for the first time...lemme tell ya, im not sore at all....after practice, i went home and got ready, then me, whit and mark went to the wave pool. we got back around five and i went and coached a meet at the kpool....me emily mark and luke swam a relay....not warming up is definitely not good for you lol....then this morning i went to practice and i was soooo sore....then i coached till noon, and i came home and my phones didnt work so i took a nap....

lets see here....yesterday i got off of the first shift cause the weather was crappy, then me and allison and lynsi went to colin's grad party. yesterday was al's party too but i thought it was today so i missed it (sorry about that) then i went back to work for a couple hours. after, me allison and lynsi went out to eat, then drove through the cruisin downriver thingy, and went to allisons and played scattergories. this morning i slept in. i got up and went to swim a couple laps, then i came home and showered. now im gettin ready cause me and allison are going to the wave pool!

so yeah today was an interesting day.....first of all, it was the last day for the "melissa/nikki nazi coaching team," which was good b/c i could not take one more day of getting the shit kicked out of me in practice. after that i coached but i got to leave early cuz there were like no kids there cuz it was freezing. so i cashed my check, went to the store to buy new nail polish, and went to 7-11 for a slurpee. then i came home, got ready, painted my nails, took my brother's friends home, took my brother to taco bell, picked up my mom from the pool, and came home. i ate some crappy food(yes i feel guilty i ate like crap today)hung out for a while, and went to the outback with my aunt jenni. for some reason like everyone i know made plans for tonite like a week ahead of time, so i'm sitting here trying to think of something to do.......

hmmm....yeah last nite the meet was the most disorganized thing i have ever been to. on top of that, the official was crazy. so after the meet i was sooo hot so i got some DQ, went home and hung out for a bit. then this morning my alarm didn't go off, so i didn't get up till like ten. i watched some cartoons, then i had lunch. since i missed swimming, i went running, and now i'm about to take a shower. i work at 5.30, hopefully i wont pass out in the heat!

hola...let's see, today i got up at six and went to practice. we thought it would be easy cuz bret and tony were gone, but it was like the hardest practice ever! after practice, i coached till noon, but there weren't that many kids there today. i came home and relaxed for a little while, showered, got ready, and ran to the mall. then i got my mom and brother from the pool, and i came home and took a quick nap. now i gotta go coach a meet in taylor, so i'll write later!