Of Hockey and Exhaustion

I had a tough weekend over the last few days. I’ve felt a little sick since before Friday, and it worsened during my busy days. On Friday, I had a bunch of things I needed to do at work, and then had a volleyball practice right afterwards. When I got home I was exhausted, but didn’t get to sleep until late. I gratefully slept in on Saturday, but didn’t feel that great when I woke up. I had another volleyball practice at 2pm which went pretty good. Then I came home and got ready to head to my brother in law’s (Camillus) house to meet up and go to a hockey game. The game was in Everett and it was a lot of fun. Our team lost pretty well, but it was a great game.

After the game, Camillus and his wife Megan and I went back to their house and played XBOX for a couple hours. I got home around 12:30am or so, and was so exhausted. I was able to go to sleep after just a little while, but I had to wake up for Sunday’s volleyball tournament at 6am.

I had to be in Kent by 7:30am, and made it just in time. It was a long day, but my players played great and we only lost twice (to the same team) all day. We ended up second in our Division at the end of the day. I didn’t get to leave until after 7pm however. By the time I got home, I was feeling pretty sick and exhausted. I was in bed by 9pm, and asleep around 10pm I think.

This morning I woke up rested but not feeling well. So I worked from home (and it was pretty busy for me actually). But I was able to relax a bit. I am still not feeling that great, but will try to go in to work around mid-morning, I think.

I didn’t get to talk to Angela at all on Saturday or Sunday, so that was the longest we’ve gone without talking since she’s been gone. I was already really missing talking to her by Saturday night, but Sunday morning I was so busy with volleyball I had no chance to call her. We talked this morning and it was obvious she missed talking to me as well. It has really been so much harder to be without her the last week plus.

I set up a blog for Angela and linked to it in my list, but her new site is at http://angelasafrica.blogspot.com/. She hasn’t been able to get into her NW University Blog (also in my Link List) to blog, so she asked me to set one up for her that I could just relay her thoughts and words, etc. I’m also using it to write down things I’ve learned about Zambia.

It sounds like Angela and I might be able to talk tomorrow, but then, because of my staffing conference this week and her travels to Victoria Falls this weekend, we might not get to talk again until next Monday. I will probably try to call her anyways on Friday and maybe even this weekend (just in case the phone she has works where they are going). I just can’t imagine not talking to her for that long. I am excited to hear about her trip outside of Lusaka into the wilds of Africa. I put pictures of Victoria Falls on her site and it looks awesome. I hope she is taking lots of pictures for me.

As I said above, I have a busy work week, but I don’t have volleyball until Sunday. I don’t know if I am looking forward to this Staffing Conference in Bellevue this week. I think it will be a good change of pace, but I also know that it will just mean more work for me next week for the things that wait for my return to the office. I think I need a new job.

Anyways, I think I am going to try to go to bed at a reasonable hour, and I need to email Angela before I go to sleep. I’m watching a special 2-hour 24 right now with Jack Bauer. I like this show.

Last Netflix I sent back – Jet Li’s Fearless
Last fruit I ate – I can’t remember
Last Music I listened to – Enter the Worship Circle (not sure which album)
Last thing I yelled at the top of my lungs – probably something like “Move your feet” (at my volleyball team)