KG's Hideaway

First off, surgery on Monday. Blech. I was kind of hoping for a different day but if I have any hope of making Ryan's district track meet on Thursday. If I can't do it I can't do it, but I hate missing any of it and we're already missing her Regional track meet (if she makes it) because of our trip to Tahoe. Hell, I'm already feeling guilty for even considering skipping today's track meet because a) its looking like it's going to rain and b) I'm waiting on the a/c repair guy.

Ryan made the All Region, All State and All Star basketball teams as I stated last week. We've always put all the patches for everything on her letter jacket but last year she ran out of room. Both sleeves and the entire back of her jacket are covered so last years patches are all in the form of inserts, meaning that her All District patch had to be added to another year's all district patch so they just added another year. Now, there isn't even room to add inserts for all of them but we can on a few of them. The jacket was free (the school buys them for each athlete when they make varsity. Ryan lettered in all three sports starting as a freshman so there's a shit load of money tied up in the patches (almost $800) and now that she's made the All State team we get to buy her the ring.

The front. Can't add anything here but may have to.

The back- This was supposed to be all track but we had to stick that basketball patch at the top last year. This has alot that has to be added because we didn't do it all last year. We have to add insert years for the District Champs patch for 06-07 and 07-08 (assuming they win again next year). If Ryan wins the district championship in her individual event we can then just add an insert to the Regional Qualifier patch. If she takes 1st or 2nd in her event we're screwed because she'll be going to state and that will mean another Texas patch. We would love to add the new record patch but there's no room on the original new record patch and don't know where another patch would fit.

This is the volleyball sleeve. Nothing to be added here because after tearing the ligaments in her ankle at the start of her Junior year I made her quit.

The basketball sleeve (other than the top patch in the middle of the back). This is the trickiest because we have to still add (if we added them all) District 8-4A Outstanding Offensive player, DIstrict Champs, Area Champs, Reg Semi-finalist, All Region Team, All State Team and McDonald's All American nominee. No chance in hell most of that will fit.

In other news, it now appears that Ryan is going to take the offers of official visits to Tex@s A&M and The University of Kansas. I am not going to vocally support or argue against Ryan doing this because its just something that she has to decide in the long run. When she asks me questions I answer them but try not to let me answers get too broad. She still plans on playing for UNT but I think she's thinking she's going to regret not going and seeing what these two schools offer her. Of all the schools asking her to reconsider them, these are the only two she's going to talk to. I think.

I'm trying to get all my crap in order because with the surgery, all the travel we've got and now we've got the two extra trips thrown in.

Soooooooooo, surgery and travel. What a summer!!