Drake - Something

The End Of Summer

So summer's slowly coming to it's last days...less than a month before school starts, that's crazy...just like that I'll be starting my 4th year soon. Wow...when I look back, I haven\t done anything SUPER DUPER memorable like vacation or road trip or anything...but I've done a lot of really fun things. Chilled with a lot of friends, went to the gym a lot, played ball, went shopping a lot, went downtown, played lots of softball...the beginning of summer, I really wanted to get a job and I told everyone I was going to get a job...but I'm somewhat glad I never got a callback. It gave me so much time to chill this summer and really enjoy myself and other people's companies. It gave me time to put into softball, which was way more hectic, stressful and time consuming than I expected, but it was worth it. I may or I may not find a job this September, I'm only taking 2 courses, so I'm only gonna be at school 2 days, but I may go more depending if I feel like it. I don't know whether I sshould get a job to fill in the free time, or solely focus on school, who knows. For now, I just wanna enjoy and make the most of the rest of my summer.

Softball Season

Today was Themelios' last 2 games of the season. Our team name Themelios is Greek for foundation, firm and strong foundation. Today was a double header from 2 to 4 and 4 to 6. Woke up early to hit up the batting cages with 2 friends before our games. We lost both, but they were super close against really good teams. The first one we lost by 1 and the second we lost by 2. I'm not sad or upset whatsoever...it's been an amazing season...we stand at 5-5 at the end of the season, now the only question is will we make playoffs? If we do, it'll be the first time in Themelios' 4 year history...if not,,,I'm still a super proud coach. This team has shown so much potential, talent, energy and support and encouragement for each other and the other teams. It's been an honour coaching you guys and a pleasure playing alongside you guys, thank you Themelios!

Statistical Update

With over 160,000 hits...I thought I'd give you a little overview of where a lot of these hits come from. Well with an overwhelming 111,000+ hits from Canada, that's not really a surprise seeing as that's where I live and advertise my blog most often and frequently lol. The United States comes in second with a whopping 27,000+ hits...that's crazy as I always say cuz I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone or at least that many people from the US...it's like uh well how'd you find me...and why do you keep coming back lol. Third is the United Kingdom which just recently reached over 6,000 hits...so shoutouts to you guys in the UK and thanks for supporting me and my dream. The last 2 countries in the thousand category is Russia and Germany with over 2,000 hits...damn lol...thanks...I have Russian and German friends...but damn, that's pretty mind blowing lol. Anyways, thank you guys for continuing to show support and visiting my blog and continuing to give me feedback and your honest opinion, it means a lot to me. The next goal is 200,000...LEGGO. I'm in the process of possibly getting shirts or tank tops with my blog link in the back and something in the front like a quote or bible verse or some random words...but not to sell lol just to rock myself to continue promoting my blog lol, we'll see haha.

PS: I finished this post but when back to check and I saw that I have 2,985 posts on this blog...damn...it's really been a journey...

Winning Vs Losing

This is something that kinda sparked something inside of me. Last weekend after my softball game we had a team dinner and a bunch of the senior players on the team and leaders had a mini meeting ish and one thing someone said really hit a nerve with me. We had 2 games left and both are supposedly really good teams. It's a lot of back story where you kinda have to understand the game and rules in order to understand the story. But anyways, Usually we have 4 or more girls on our team, the minimum is 4...but there\s an exception for 3...so we're only gonna have 3 girls for our last 2 games so there was gonna be a lot of changes to offensive and defensive lineups and we were debating perhaps using one game to give more playing time to our inexperienced players. One guy said, I think we should just put all inexperienced players in this one game because personally I don't think we can win anyways...that just really hit me hard and it really annoyed me. I know that winning shouldn't be the sole objective in this league and in anything because it honestly can corrupt a person and make them just really bitter and nasty. But it's like...well if you think we're gonna lost, why play at all...why don't we just forfeit you know. It brought me to the examples about everything in life...if you think you're gonna fail a test, you're gonna fail...you need to have faith in yourself. If you think you're gonna fail...you've pretty much already failed, why even waste your time taking the test. It reminded me of when me and this one friend like a year or two ago used play NBA 2k a lot and this example may not make sense to a lot of you, but I was really good in the game and we were both really competitive but he wasn't that good. So I would always win...we would spend like hours each day playing game after game and I would always win. To the point where he's like let\s not play anymore...or I'm not coming over anymore cuz I just lose anyways or he would goof around and not try cuz he's like well I'm not gonna win anytways. That really ticked me off cuz it's like what the heck...do you have that little faith in yourself. With that mentality, no wonder you never beat me and you probably never will if you keep thinking like that. I'm like yeah we play to have fun, but it's not fun when you don't try and goof off...like why come over if you're gonna be all sour and down just cuz you lose. Back to present day...in sports...why play if you think you're gonna lose, don't waste time, that comment really irked me cuz I'm just a really competitive person in general...so it's like why would you say that...if the rest of the team heard you say that, and heard you say you pretty much don't believe in them, think about their morale. Even if it's the worst team in the league going up against the best hypothetically...the coach isn't gonna be like OKAY GUYS....so we're gonna lose anyways...but just have fun and do your best. No...he's gonna be like..you guys are just as good as them, I believe in you, I believe you can win this game...that should be the mentality. That's not even obsessing over winning and putting it first priority, it's believing in yoruself and believing in your team...that you guys are good and can play and can win.

Weekly Posts...C'mon Cuh.

LOL I'm so sorry, no I'm not posting once a week, things just come up and I've been super busy lol. But uh I'm in bed right now and decided to whip out my phone and semi update you guys lol. Last Saturday I went to the mall with my friend, pretty much spent the whole day with him. Had breakfast with him and his mom, shopped a bit, got a raincoat for myself cuz I've been caught in the rain way too much lately. Had lunch with him and his mom and his grandmother again, then they dropped me home. What else...had a softball game on Sunday...it was really déjà vu cuz this team we faced last year as well and they came in last year 0-9 with us as their last game so we were talking a lot of ish and ended up losing. This came had a similar vibe where I felt we got a bit ahead of ourselves and we went down the first few innings, but we relaxed and stepped it up and came back to win the game. We still have 2 more games left but right now we're 5-3 and have a really good chance of making the playoffs, it'll be the first in our team's history LOL. Then today chilled with my friends the entire day, went to this new outlet mall that opened, didn't get anything but it was nice to walk around and chill with them, then had a dinner with 2 of my church friends to just catch up and see how we're doing an discuss some things regarding the fellowship. Tomorrow, it's finally back to the gym...haven't gone since like Friday...but it's also good cuz I'm nursing a bunch of minor injuries but it's really taking its toll on my body and the extra few days of rest have definitely helped a lot.

Chris Tomlin - Whom Shall I Fear