Goodbye Blood and Strength.

Monday:
Did I mention I gave blood on Saturday? I don't think I did. Well I gave blood on Saturday. K, I mentioned it. Well Monday I had my typical weight lifting class...only I couldn't lift ANYTHING with my arms. It was pretty bad. I had karate class today too; we did parts of a black belt test, which was kinda annoying. The thing that killed me was having to do 80 snap kicks in 90 seconds and 80 knee smashes in 90 seconds...I pulled one groin muscle doing the snap kicks and the other doing the knee smashes...so yeah. It kinda hurt to walk...but I wasn't walking with a noticeable change...least I tried not too.

In between weight lifting and karate I watched some Steel Roots DVDs. For those of you who don't know, Steel Roots is a group of Christian professional snowboarders. Jim Rippy is the oldest guy, he is 33 at the time of the filming. They do some pretty crazy stuff and also have a time of devotion at the end of each episode. One of the things I tpyed into my phone when I heard it was, "when we stress out about something, it is because our perspective is not on Christ." I thought, "how true is that?" He is the author and finisher of our faith, when we thing, "Oh crap, I can't do this!" You know what? You are 100% right! Hate to break it to you like this but...YOU CAN'T! Not me, but Christ, Who worketh THROUGH ME! When we start applying God's principles to our lives, things change. Things will change in drastic ways; He knows what is best for you and all you have to "do" is for us to yield our control to Him.

2 cameras, 18 hours, 180 miles, 1 ski resort, 12 church hockey games and one cold=me being very tired and sore...

Today was AWESOME! I got to go skiing with Cody today! It was so awesome, took a bunch of pics with that awesome new camera. It was so much fun filming him! I took a bunch of videos and made kind of like a mini movie, that was a lot of fun, I never played with Windows Movie Maker before so the movie is pretty simple.

I loved every minute of the time, Cody did a lot of freestyle stuff, just warming up while all I did was work on landing my jumps. He is a really good snowboarder...he hasn't snowboarded too long either, I guess this is both of ours' first REAL year.

I left my house at 6:30 this morning, got to his house in Bliss at 7:30, left from there and got to Holiday Valley in Ellicottville at 8:30...only to find that the lifts don't open till 9:00...oh well! We waited until 9:00 and i went to get the White Cards but couldn't find the one that I borrowed! I looked EVERYWHERE! No where to be found. Cody kept offering to pay for his pass, but I had promised him that it wouldn't cost him anything to go to Holiday Valley so I wasn't gonna let him pay (after all it was my own carelessness that forgot the card). Then I remembered something, something that I know was God's doing...when I was skiing on Monday, I was on my way out the door to start the day off and I stopped to fix my boot. I was kneeling in the front room where the lift tickets were sold and I heard this guy using his White Card swipe AND his free March pass on the same day. You see, with the White Cards the card holder is eligible for 9 8 hour lift tickets any non-holiday weekday and one "anytime" 8 hour pass to be used in March. So yeah, it didn't end up costing anything because God reminded me of that, which was pretty cool.

Well we skied and then left for home around 2:30-ish...on my way home my friend Pat called me and wondered if I wanted to play hockey...OF COURSE I DID! So I played hockey at the church until pretty late. My teams won all their games! WE ROCKED! I was very sore...and tired.