Pride Day.

There was nothing prideful about pride day. It all began on that weary morning of January 12th, 2008 at 8:00am PST. I can't say that what occurred was what I was expecting, but there were pleanty of people on thier high horse that morning. It all began with 5 warm up laps, and 5 warm up laps is more like a mile jog, it takes forever to get around that gym floor 5 times. We didn't waste anytime getting started, we did our usual agilities and looked like idiots doing that backwards skip crap.
There were cones everywhere, and next up was agility, I am not going to pretend like Mike was being reasonable, considering every time someone didn't jog all the way back to the "blue river" we had to do stair laps, and considering we had a long day of running ahead of us, it wasn't the fairest punishment.
Afterwards, we headed upstairs and did some aweful jump roping and ab work, which wasn't so bad, because I am always looking for ways to work on my core. Because we all know that if your core is not strong, you are not strong.
After the ab work, it only seemed appropriate to do some serious ladder work. So we did every agility known to man and left it at that. What took place next, I've only seen in movies, army movies. It reminded me of bootcamp and fat camp all at the same time. There was a circuit of weights and we were going at drill sergent pace.
After that we headed down to the gym to do 15's, and not only once, but twice we had to do it. We had to finish in 1 minute and 30 seconds, which seemed attainable. We finished in time, and loved it, but what occurred next, was the farthest thing from normal. In record time, about 5 of our team members threw up ALL over the gym floor. It started off with Jessica Pierce, followed by Josie spewing through her hands. I've never seen so many people throwing up water at one time, I thought for a second I was at a rave.....And that ended pride day, and I walked away from the experience saying, I will never have to do that EVER again.
As far as other news, there's lots. Nikki has officially moved on and lives in Colorado. I can't help but think Dave is thuroughly enjoying Nikki's sleeping habits, as she expects everyone to be mouse like and find everything in the pitch black. But they are in love, and that's what matters. I saw some pictures from their trip to Belize, and looks like Nik got quite a bit of sun, I bet she wishes she had my skin tone, such a shame.
Ashley is happier than ever, and experiencing some serious changes in 2008. Her and Brad have started talking again and I can't sit and pretend like I'm not excited for this love story to unfold...
As all you readers know, John and I are back together and actually, he came up to salem to hang out with me and spent the night here at my new home (Ashley's house) speaking of my new home, I've had quite the transition. I didn't know that when I decided to live here, that I was going to be living on a farm, but I guess it's nice to know that the Lange's are housing so many animals, they are really doing their part. Bella is as annoying as ever, and she and Shadow are BFF, which as you can imagine, is really annoying. Overall, am I enjoying the 3o minute commute? No, however, I am loving living with Ashley, and her family.
Things at Vikki's are normal, I'm manager, which is no new news. It's still the semi-annual sale, so all the stingy customers are coming out of the shadows and taking advantage of our sweet deals. I'm making bank and loving it. Rumors have been spinning that I am going to own this place eventually, but I STILL refuse to comment.
This is Batey, signing off...