I should be editing videos but...

Here's my kitchen counter with a few bottles of nail polish and my test center for marbling :)

I decided to have yet another CRAZY Friday night.   My crazy night started with me missing my exit on my way home from work. amazing. and then left overs at the apartment, catching up on some bad reality tv shows and then with all my extra time I decided I would paint my nails since they haven't been painted alll week!  But because it was a friday night I wanted to do something a-m-a-z-i-n-g... I had seen "water marbling" done before (via YouTube and other blogs) but I had never taken the time to actually do it.  So tonight was the night..  The way you get the marbled effect is by putting drops of nail polish in a dish of water and then dragging the polish around to make a marbled design.  see.....

Drops of light blue and orange...

more drops..

Swirl until satisfied...

Dip one or more nails in water/polish mixture..

The first time it was awful.. looked like this:

What a Mess! (they alllllll looked awful!)

The second time the marbling came out a lot better and my nails, although the colors are gross, looked kinda cool! Here's a the second time I 'painted' my nails...

The thumb I used the same orange as the rest of the nails, but instead of light blue I put dark blue in the water. Im not sure what the trouble was with the first time, but the second time turned out so much better! (don't mind the excessive amounts of nail polish on my skin either!!)

Well, I'm sure these nails will help me lift more! 

Practice today was... hilarious.  Everyone seemed a little bit crazy, giggly, odd, random, goofy and amazingly funny!! Somehow conversation (in the middle of practice) turned into confessions of emotional eaters.  ALL of the boys confessed they were emotional eaters and it was so hilarious to hear each one come to the center of the gym and tell their story.  Derek with the doughnuts, Jooooh with the chips, Bill with the ice cream- some of the most hilarious expressions on their faces as they were talking about their 'emotional eating'.  There were a few odd ones in the lifting group that said when they are emotional they are 'non-eaters'.. weird.  I can't relate to that nonsense :) Oh and if anyone is interested there is now an "emotional eaters" support group/phone tree with our first meeting being next Sunday after the meet.  But more on that later...

Again at practice, the whole team took a vested interest  in my lifting.  Today was pulls.  Snapping the knees back and snapping them forward.. (I'm trying NOT to do that) Yesterday I said it would be hilarious to record Ellyn (and others) trying to snatch (or in today's case, pull) like I do, but yet again I dropped the ball with recording the attempts, but there were a few more participants.  Again- HILARIOUS! I think i laughed more at this practice than I ever have... especially when I was being a spastic and not doing the lifts the right way (usually I'm frustrated and/or more focused).  For some reason today everyone was feeding off of each other and the mood and atmosphere was great! Jokes, laughing, picking on everyone, laughing at how awful I can be at some of the technical parts of the lifts, facial expressions, comments, pretty much anything and everything ANYONE said got a laugh...  


I did fix (i think?) some of the knee swinging (which leads to crazy feet) today.  At times I feel ridiculous for having a PVC pipe in my hands and sweating like no other because I'm trying to get in the right positions for a pull or a snatch... but the feelings of ridiculous don't last long because I'd rather do it right at zero weight than keep the weight the same (or add more) and be doing the same crazy things with my feet/knees in ANOTHER 3 weeks... no thanks. I'd rather be feel silly and get in the right positions than continuously do the wrong thing. Fix it now or fix it later.. i choose now. I don't know if I'd ever rather wait for something instead of having it right now. (Kat made a comment about my patience .. or lack of.. when I was trying to get my marbled nails done right the first time.. oops. I guess it's not just with lifting).   


That's all the fun and excitement for one Friday night.. until next week