Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

We spent the majority of yesterdays practice preparing for our next football game. Working on our skill sets and fight songs. It was a lot of fun being over with all-girl again. Although we just worked on team stunt and elite stunt. Its kind of a bummer that were not in any pyramids, but it would be a lot of relearning and pretty much taking a step backwards for all-girl, so I understand. At this game small coed will be doing some of the elements from our routine which I am pretty pumped about.

So Bri and Eboni have been planning a surprise for Jasmin's birthday the past three weeks. They planned on having everyone over after practice and then we were all going to Wayside. Well, Jasmin just got a new kitten (pictured below with my best friend Jackie) and she got her shots and some sort of surgery so someone had to be with her at all times. Since Jasmin didn't know that everyone was going out for her birthday she was just going to stay in. Obviously Bri and Eboni had to then tell her about her surprise and we needed to find a cat sitter for her to go out. They kept asking everyone at practice and finally Church said that she would watch the kitty. Bri was so thrilled she was screaming across the track bay to Eboni, "CHURCH IS GOING TO WATCH THE CAT." It was just a funny moment from our practice.

 

After we broke back into our three teams we started reping our elite sequences. Pat was happy with how much we progressed. From the elite we went to the cheer pyramid. We made really good strides on both sides. When we have people spotting Pat told me to just run out of the way if the pyramid is falling. One of the reps our side was going down and I tried to get out of the way but there was not enough room for me to run. So I did the obvious other choice I dove through a gap between Carter and Jimmy. It was quite entertaining. Pat looked at me on the ground and I just said "You told me to get out of the way."

Then he had us run a block of our routine, we were running the cheer full out and team stunt full out. The first one our side of the pyramid fell and my team stunt was...disastrous to say the least. The second time our side of the pyramid fell again and I caught Bri and Delgado with my face. This was time where I couldn't dive out of the way. As I was getting up to go to team stunt I realized that there was blood on the ground and not going to  lie I didn't even realize it was from me until I saw more blood.

This was the first time I've ever gotten a bloody nose. I didn't know what to do, so I went in the bathroom and thank the lord Samme came and helped me out. It took a little bit for it to stop bleeding, I think its because I have a big nose. Anyway, when I eventually made it back to practice I got asked about 50 times if I was okay. I told them that I was going to be out the rest of the season. HA!

We jumped right back into running the block and my side of the pyramid still could not get a hit, and my team stunt was just as bad. Finally we just did the pyramid step by step and we got a hit. We ended practice on that.

At the end of practice, Pat gave us another lesson. This journey is going to be filled with bumps and bruises and we have to remember that its all going to be worth it in the end. So we can't sweat the small stuff and just push through the pain. Being as I lost half of the blood in my body through my nose, I was allowed to break out of practice. Which is just saying what we thought about our practice and then we go home.