Busy Day

Saturday: Two rugby games and a judo tournament. Friday afternoon WWU's Judo Club (Club meaning club sport, an official sport of WWU, on the same level as rugby) got together to put together the Washington State Judo Championship being held in the Wade King Student Recreation Center. We had to take down a small wall that protects the bleachers from the court and move the practice mats onto the floor. Because we didn't own enough mats another judo dojo a few miles away brought up some of their mats. The men's rugby team came and sped the process up by helping us move mats into their proper places and quickly bringing mats in from cars outside. We were working on set up from about 4-8PM.

Then bright and early Saturday morning I arrive at 8:30 to offer a little last minute support before weigh ins start and before I had to be out on the field for rugby warm up.

9:30AM- Head out to the turf field to set up for the rugby game and begin warm up.

11 AM- Kickoff against UW. I didn't play in this game, but it was a good one to watch, we won with a score of approximately 30-7

12:30PM- run off to get some lunch to scarf before heading back to the rec center to see how the tournament is going. I arrive in time to see the tournament change from the kids to adults. A few minutes before I had to leave, my friend has a match that he wins in the first ten seconds!

2PM- warm up for the game against Oregon State

3PM- Kickoff. It quickly becomes clear that we are not going to win. OSU is a Division I team, and thus tends to have better sports teams. While we have tied them twice this season our hearts just weren't in it on Saturday and we lost by a considerable amount.

4:30 PM- End of the regular game play and my part is done. We're playing a third half but I'm not in it so I go back to the Rec Center. I arrive shortly after that tournament ends to discover that one friend won his division, and the one I saw win in a few seconds got third! State Champions!!! I also arrived at the perfect time to help clean up. And that's what I was doing until 8PM.

After cleaning, the three of us students that stuck around through the whole clean up (and didn't have significant others to make dinner for us: D-) went out to Denny's where we ate ourselves sick (or just about).

Sunday was a big day of nothing. Nice and chill. I hope to be participating in the next nearby Judo tournament. I've was given crap all Saturday for not participating in this one. I'll be up for promotion soon too! From white belt to green belt. :) Though as my senseis like to say: Unless you're a black belt, you're a white belt.

Vegetable Lasagna and Sweet Potato Pie

One of the great things about living on campus is not only do you not have to clean much, or pay rent, but you don't have to cook as long as you have a meal plan. Sometimes though I begin to miss cooking something. The dorm kitchen is fine, but sometimes it's nice to have a place to yourself. I got this feeling earlier in the week and asked some of my friends if I could borrow their kitchen and we could all make dinner. I decided on vegetable lasagna, and yesterday we all went on an expedition to Fred Meyer to buy the ingredients, then walked back and got to work. The lasagna was SO good! One of my friends, D- had never had homemade lasagna before so she was super happy, two others said it was the best they ever had, And one guy said he was falling in love with me with every bite :). So this made me very happy!

Now that we've basically stuffes ourselves sick, we decide to play Twister, which was hilarious! A- was the champion, with her center of gravity so close to the ground (she's short) and her rather unfair tactics. It was all in good fun though. But after a while we all begin to want dessert. One guy gets up and goes to his backpack and pulls out a magazine page with a recipe for sweet potato pie. We were all for making dessert so he and A- ran to the grocery store to pick up the ingredients, and we whipped that together. It was super good too! It was kinda like pumpkin pie with marshmallows on top. I had never had sweet potato pie before, so I was a little iffy at first but I'm so glad I tried it!

Today though was a rugby day! We played Western Oregon University. They were a good team, and they played great, but we were better! The final score was 50-0! We had practiced hard this week because even though last week we won our game against Eastern Washington 81-5 we played INCREDIBLY sloppily. Eastern sucked, so we just played down to their level, and just jogged around the field and all around didn't try hard. We definitely upped the intensity this week, expecting WOU to be up to our caliber.

And finally, THANK YOU MOM! For the wonderful Valentine's Day package.