Soccer Sunday: Detoxing from TEJAS!

Hey, ya'll I'm back from Texas! Don't worry the accent has not permanently rubbed off on me. So, I had two predictions for my trip... Liver failure and hearing damage and I think I accomplished both!

I saw amazing music at SXSW and in Dallas, I danced like no one else was watching (or Ashley aka shoewhore would say rather that my bangs danced), I enjoyed bbq and tex-mex and muchos mixed drinks. Basically I threw all my rules out the door the second I stepped foot in Tejas...well sorta I did work out for 2 hours straight ran 3 miles and killed my abs and legs the first day I was there.... but AFTER that all my rules were gone...and I don't regret a second of it.

I had a fabulous time, and I met wonderful people that I hope to call my friends for a long time to come.

But now I'm back home in the north east and it's time to get back to my routine. I'm happy to report that if anything the scale might have gone up only a pound or two from my week of debauchery. But now that I'm home and it's spring time that only means one thing... OUT DOOR SOCCER!!!! :D

Dear readers bear with me for my first week of spring soccer sunday's!

Today I had a game with my co-ed team. Now that I've been with this league for more than 3 seasons I'm starting to feel a bit of comraderie on and off the field with people I've played with or play with currently. I'm happy to see some of my team mates from last fall, and even two fall's ago are on my team again.

We did not win tonight, but I don't think we played a bad game either... The frustration of soccer is that sometimes you wish the cross bar was a little higher, other times when a ball is being shot against you're goal you want it lower or right where it is lol. We had a lot of close shots but unfortunately couldn't make it into the back of the net.

I played defense and outside-mid this game. I hadn't played mid in probably close to two years and I forgot how much running you have to do, basically you better be able to sprint the entire distance of the field. I hadn't done much sprinting in general while I played indoor because the field was too tiny to really run on. At one point I had a corner kick come right to me and I tried to fight through the other teams D..the goal was just in my sights but I didn't make anything happen.

Then I was back on D and I had one moment where I could have used a little coaching, I just wasn't sure who I should have covered and my hesitating allowed someone to run through and they scored off of a pass from the outside.

Over all I'm not disappointed with how I played despite the fact that I hadn't worked out in 5 days and hadn't done a whole lot to build of my endurance for a game on a larger field...and I'm happy to be with yet another talented group of soccer players. Our season record so far is 1 tie 1 loss but we have an entire long season ahead of us! So wish me luck!

Stay tuned this week I'm going to make a post on legs and ass! But for now I'm off to geek out and read my twilight graphic novel... seriously impressed with the drawings. I've never seen a manga comic book before (figures twilight is my first in this department as well), but I really like it.

p.s. Uber happy to report when I weighed in this morning at bootcamp that I was actually DOWN a pound and not up at all...maybe I didn't eat as terribly as I thought and that dancing must have helped ;)

I'm going to TEJAS!!!

How-dy blog readers!

Yup I'm going to Texas tomorrow...I've never been there unless you count sitting in the airport waiting for a layover...

So naturally I have a lot of questions..

1. Do I need my passport to enter this strange and foreign land?

2. Do they even allow yankee's in their state?

3. Is everything really bigger?!?

4. How many beers will it take to get me on a mechanical bull....?

Questions aside this week is filled with awesomeness! Check out the festivities I have planned...

Sunday & Monday spending time with family... and I will be taking a spinning class already have it planned ;)

Tuesday...

Bobby Long... ... he's pretty damn talented! But not just that I'm meeting one of my besties Ashley aka the shoewhoreninja! and a bunch of other peeps as well... promises to be a good time.

His hair... looks familiar...

He stole it from me!

Wednesday.... SXSW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! A music junkies dream. So many bands so little time (and money). I can only stay for the day, I have no idea who we're going to end up seeing, but I've never been to Austin so I'm looking forward to it.

Thursday....



Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.... saw them many years ago opening for Kings of Leon... they rock my face off! And make me want to do all sorts of bad things that might lead to ending up at a tattoo parlor at the end of the night... fortunately I already know what tattoo's I want ;)


and opening for them... none other than Band of Skulls!


I don't know a whole lot about them other than the tracks on their myspace page and I dig the chicks voice..... oh and they were on the New Moon soundtrack too..but you already know that :)

Well, I will be back in a week, hopefully not hungover or deaf from all the concerts, and hopefully not with an ASS the size of Texas either!!!!! I AM bringing work out clothes with me and I'll just have to remember what I learned about maintaining from my vacation in Europe.

See Y'all in a week!! (the south is rubbing off on me already!)