First, I am going to talk some girl talk. If that offends you, and you don't want to read it, skip down a paragraph. You have been officially warned. After several months of no period, it's back and it's horrible. I've had several days of cramps and bleeding with no end in sight. I had really thought maybe I was done, but I hear this is part of the process. 0 out of 5 stars. Do not recommend. At least I get to use my new period panties that I got on black Friday sales right???
Okay off of women's stuff. We had a big week of wrestling. Andrew made weight and then lost his wrestle off, so he had to wrestle 165 junior varsity and only got one match in this week's dual. He looked a little intimidated in the video that was sent to me, but I had another mom send me several photos and he had a very determined face on the entire time.
I had to miss yet again due to my experiment which I will talk about later. I hate that I have missed so many football and wrestling games/matches, but my job pays really well, and overtime is essential right now as I pay for Christmas presents and our trip to Tulsa.
We also had a tournament this weekend at Junction City. For some reason, the coaches moved the varsity 165 kid up to 180 and had Andrew wrestling Varsity. I first thought that maybe the kid didn't make weight, but he did so who knows. I'm not one to complain about his coaches as he loves them, but I'm just not impressed with them this year. It was a four-mat tournament, and they had to multiple times be told what mat to go to by us in the stands, and when and then half the time when they were at the right mat, they were looking at their phones or just staring at the ground. Sigh. I just hope Andrew sticks around for high school wrestling. The new coach they just hired is really, really good and I hope Andrew will stay and get coached by him. I don't see a ton of value in Andrew standing on the side lines in football, but I do see a ton of value of him wrestling JV in high school.
Andrew had two matches with his first match being really, really good even if I missed the whole first period. They had announced that all varsity matches would be on mat one and two, so I wasn't even paying attention to mat 3 until I looked up and saw him already wrestling. He worked his ass off, almost got a pin, but got pinned in the third period. I'll take it. He tried so hard and never gave up and that's all I've ever asked for. He even executed a Peterson roll, a move he'd been working on in practice. We have one more tournament and I'm excited for him to wrestle off for his position and possibly finish the season strong.
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While I can't give specifics of my job, I can say that even though my project is not front and center for the company right now, it's nevertheless very important and I am hugely stressed about it. My boss can't give her full attention to it for many reasons out of her control, and that's very frustrating being the person performing the experiment. I've been working on this experiment for months and I am going to be very upset if they scrap everything I have done. It's been lots of super long days and weekends and I don't want it to be for nothing. Yes, I still get paid for what I've done, but it's still very frustrating especially when I've been voicing my concerns to deaf ears. I've had lots of 3 am wake up anxiety attacks. We just had yet another very key individual leave in our company due to not being heard and I'm scared. I don't like not being heard and that's what has been happening. Sigh. I wanted to retire in this job, and I hope that I can, but the words that the RD is the first department to go really scares me. Everyone else is working on the main project and I feel like I'm on an island doing my own thing. Enough whining and enough panic attacks.
Only two runs and two work outs, but overall, I got enough done this week with all that was going on. My lifting was quality and I'm seeing huge gains even with knocking back to two lifting days a week. I'll take it and I have one happy Ollie to get out and run. She also celebrated her 2nd birthday this week and I can't believe she's two already.
Have a great week y'all! Two and a half more weeks till a nice long break! We've got this!
