Our Last Match

We played our last volleyball match of the spring volleyball season tonight. It didn’t go as planned. We lost in 2 games which put an end to our season. We were seeded 6th (out of 11 teams) going into the payoffs so we had to play the number 3 seed in the first round. We didn’t play badly, but we didn’t play as well as we could have. We lost the first game 29-27. We were up 27-26 and we couldn’t get one point to win. We lost the second game 25-22. We had a few miscues and everyone had some bad plays. I was not hitting well at all tonight and I’m not sure why. I hit two or three balls into the net, and several more straight into blocks. I was just off. Such is life I guess.

So volleyball is over for another season. I suppose I’ll live, but I’d rather have gone out with a win than a loss. The season started off really promising and we sort of tanked for the last half. I’m not sure what it was. Hopefully next season will be better. Now summer is fast approaching (though it certainly doesn’t feel like it with the weather we’ve been having) so hopefully I’ll get to play some beach volleyball. I think I’ll probably look into some sort of open gym somewhere too though, because I’ve really been enjoying being able to play. As for now I think I’ll go to bed and play in my dreams.

District Finals And Other Stuff

This past weekend was packed. I had a lot going on, and I was really tired once it was all said and done. In fact I think I’m still tired and it’s Tuesday night. It was a good time all around, but boy did I get worn out. I need a weekend to take a break from my weekend. :)

It all started with District Finals for quizzing which was being hosted by the Manteno Church. It was a two day event starting on Friday night. I picked up all the girls (5 of them, including 4 quizzers and 1 adult leader) and we headed down to Manteno. We had a swell time on the way down. All the girls were pretty wired since they had just gotten out of school a few hours earlier so you can imagine how crazy they were.

We had 5 rounds of quizzing on Friday night, along with a few equipment problems, but nothing overly serious. After quizzing weheaded over to Sara’s house to stay the night. Sara and her family (still not used to saying that in relation to her, Scott, and Ruby) were gracious hosts. The girls played some Catch Phrase and we just hung out for awhile.

Saturday we started quizzing at 8AM. Thus started the super long day. We had 6 more rounds of round robin quizzing, lunch, then 5 rounds of tournament quizzing, awards (more on that in a minute), and then the top 16 tournament to decide which of the quizzers were going to represent the district at Regionals. We left the Mantno Church a little after 8PM and I didn’t get home until almost 10PM. When I got home I was ready to crash.

Now onto the results. My team took 5th on the day, which is pretty good for where we started the year. We entered the tournament seeded 6th, so taking 5th was a little bit of an improvement. Agnes took 6 individually for the day and 5th overall for the year. That put her in the Top 16 tournament. Angie almost made Top 16, but missed it by a few correct tossups. Agnes then took 4th in the Top 16 tournament to put her on the district team (the top 6 get to represent the district). So all in all it was a very enjoyable day, just long.

So that was Friday and Saturday. Sunday we started offering two services at my Church. That puts a little more strain on the sound crew, which puts more strain on me.  Luckily I have a new guy stepping in to help and I have another girl fully trained, so it won’t be too bad. Sunday I had to run both services, which wasn’t too bad, but it was just a long day. By the time I got home after lunch I was fried. I probably would have been OK if I hadn’t had quizzing the 2 days before. Oh well. Such is life. The services themselves went off without a hitch, though we did start a little late. I’m sure we’ll tweak it all out once we get a few more under our belt.

After Church my friend Matt stopped by to hang out. We ended up watching a movie and just chilling. That was AOK with me. I’m not sure I would have had enough energy to do anything else. After Matt left I pretty much crashed and thus ended my weekend.

Below are some pictures from the quiz. You can see the all the pictures at the ccdquiz gallery.

Northside took 5th place!

CCD District Team 2009

A van?

I swapped cars with Sara yesterday because I needed a van for this weekend. We have the CCD district finals in Manteno and I have 4 girls and one other adult leader going. I have a big car (A Grand Prix), and I could probably fit everyone. The teens are small and I could probably fit all of them in the back seat. It’d be squished, but doable. The issue is seat belts. I only have 3 seatbelts in the back, so that idea was a no go. Luckily, Sara was nice enough to let me borrow her van so I’d have more room to be able to bring the team down.

I took the van to work, because well, I had to goto work, and my car at the moment is a van. At lunch, Jim made the comment to me that a “Van suited me.” Ummm…yeah, he’s probably right.