Good bye February

And just like that February is gone.

WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED???

I could've sworn that yesterday was Valentine's Day! Now it's March?!?

Hey, Father Time, SLOW THE FUQ DOWN!

But really though, this was probably the craziest month ever in the history of all my months. And it was a short one at that.

Work has been a dead sprint. Basketball, indoor soccer, officials, billiards, snow flag football, table tennis. And that's just the IM side. Add on sport clubs, all 41 of them…and a tornado warning.

I so got this.

Long story short- I spent a lot of my days like this…

And most days I would go from 6:30/7am to 1am. 

If anyone reading this who know me personally knows that Marissa doesn't do mornings, or lack of sleep very well. At all. I'm like Oscar the Grouch, "SCRAM GO AWAY" and then someone hands me coffee and then I'm like Elmo, "HI I'M ELMO! LET'S DANCE!"

Without coffee it just ain't pretty

And 1 cup later and everything is ok. And I'm dancing with NPH. 

My caffeine intake has exploded, I literally cannot function without it. Oh well. Panera and Starbucks baristas know me by name now and I'm not that upset about it. It is very weird how shaky I get though with it and without it. No caffeine and I get headaches and shaky. Caffeine I don't have headaches but I get too hyper and shake. It kinda frightened me at first but now I just like to think that I'll be used to it so that when I'm 95 I'll be like, ha, I've got this down.

To say that just lack of sleep was my only issue this month would be a DRASTIC lie. 

I'm still learning. And a lot is trial by error. And it was full of errors. Like chalk full of errors. Fake it til you make it? More like let's learn the hard way and try to reinvent the wheel because we're working harder not smarter. Face palm, Cali… From misplacing important documents, scheduling mishaps, miscommunication, misinterpretations, miscalculating, misinformation, misbehavior, misperceptions, just lots of MIStakes. I am asking more questions though. And offering lots of apologies first. And swallowing a lot of pride. And if the only silver lining from this is that I'm learning what not to do, that's better than nothing. Learn something new everyday. That's the goal and I'm pretty sure I've learned 1000 and 1 ways not to do things. 

So here's to a new month! With less mistakes and more wins. That'd be great.

We are finally in our last week of some IM sports and will start off new sports. And we're supposed to have another ice storm come through. With snow. And frigid temps. The fun never stops!

More ice? And snow??? Perfect. So incredibly over this winter. 

When you work in a field that heavily relies on the weather to be nice in order to do anything this is the worst. Mother Nature is really getting on my bad side. I just want it to not be 20 or less so that IM Softball can start! Is that so much to ask, huh??

Apparently it is. We've pushed back the start date by 2 weeks because the weather has just sucked. And when we have those fleeting moments of sunshine and a day above 40 it lasts just that, very fleetingly and we go between doom and gloom and cold cold to sunshine, happy happy, only wearing 1 layer not 4 and back to doom and gloom again.

Sucks to suck.

But I'm not going to worry about it. Letting it go. I have work to get to tomorrow but that's tomorrow. And who wants to waste my time fretting over what's over and done. So here's to February and learning everyday but now it's time to-

And it's Kaylee's birthday so I'm in charge of showing her a good time. 

Kaylee is not allowed to be sober on her birthday. That's no fun. And what type of friend would I be if I didn't partake too? So watch out Salukiville, Kentucky and Cali are headed out!

P.S. Apparently some of my staff reads this but they can't get very far past the title, they say it's too long and boring. Psh, please, my life and blog are both equally hilarious and fabulous. Let's be honest. #sarcasm

To Be Continued!