Everything 2.0

I find myself in a bit of a quarter-life crisis--and if my mid-life crisis is nearly as bad, I'll be prepared. That's what I keep telling myself, at least. Everything right now just seems to be bad but good. Or good but bad. Or bad then good then bad; or vice versa. That's not my crisis, though; that's just life. Luckily for me, I've got a few dice to roll and some of them are falling in my favor. This weekend feels like one of those weekends...though the weather looks ominous...and cold. Haha.

Regardless, I'm starting everything over. Everything now is 2.0, refreshed, restarted, rebooted: softball 2.0; self 2.0; job 2.0. Right now, we've got 7 great girls that I wouldn't trade for the world. Right now, I've got a lot of time on my hands (and will soon have some unemployment checks) that I wouldn't trade for the world. It seems as if the stars have aligned just right so that I can make a change. Change for the better, that is.

Softball-wise--because that's what you came here to read about--we've taken a lot of this off time to work on individual skills and it's paid off, I think. We have our first fall tournament this weekend and I'm incredibly interested to see how we do. We'll have a lot of help from guest players--some that I know have a lot of talent and some that I'm taking some chances on; some that I know have commitments to other teams and some that I'm hoping will consider our team for next summer's season. Needless to say, I'm excited...and praying that this rain stops soon.

By the way, we finished the summer season pretty well. It just took us a long time to come around. Until the last tournament, in fact. But we came around! I'm not sure what it was, but it was something. Just to see those girls really fight and work and PLAY; it was quite a sight to behold. Finally, in that last tournament, we looked like the group of girls that I'd put together--the talent playing I'd try to mesh together finally meshing together. Funny how things work out like that. All I can say is that I'm happy we ended on a good note. And though we lost a few great ball players afterwards, we've got a really strong core group of girls that I'm looking forward to building upon. And that's why I'm so excited about this weekend.

But don't get me wrong. I really want to see the girls in action. And I want to the rest of the softball community to see the girls in action. To know who are and recognize us. To feel a bit of that nervousness and fear when they hear they're playing us; to feel that small pit in their gut ask the back of their mind whether or not they have enough to beat us. We're not there yet, but I'm hoping this weekend will be step one in working towards that. That's what I'm really excited for.