Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!

I think I might be one of the last to do this activity...

1. I was zone high jump champion in Year 7.

2. I don't like dogs very much, I hate being licked and hate the bruises they leave on you legs with their tail if it's hard and I hate the jumping and barking!

3. I'm a cat person.

4. My parents divorced when I was 6, my Dad was abusive. My Mum then had a boyfriend Peter for 5 years, they were about to get married when he died in a car accident. Mum then met another man who is now my step Dad but it took a lot of time for be to come around to him. My family went through a lot and I still don't want a relationship with my Dad, even though he has been trying. I had a lot of trust issues with men after all this in my teens and early 20's.

5. Kane is my first serious relationship, previously I had one 4 month relationship which ended when he cheated on me, it took a long time to get over it. And that is the reason I moved so far away from home.

6. I am addicted to picking things like pimples.

7. I am really want kids. Some people want to go overseas, get to a particular job level or own their home, my goal is to have children.

There you go, not sure if the above is what we are supposed to write but oh well!!!!! When reading through it, it sounds a little negative, oops.

I went to Body Combat tonight and I felt so unco! I think it will take a bit to get used to it.

D.O.M.S

Oh the pain... I just finished 1.5 hours netball training :0

I tried to really loosen up the sore bits but seriously some bits can't be stretched!

I'm a glutton cause I'm off to swim and body balance tomorrow afternoon!

At school we have been focusing on bouncing back like 'Tigger'. Therefore do not despair... I will bounce back like Tigger!

Oh my God!

I was think out loud the other day...
Monday - netball training
Tuesday - spa (planned to swim but there was another netball team taking up the public lanes)
Wednesday - 2 hours netball training
Thursday 1 hour netball training
Friday 500m swim and spa
Saturday - 1 hour netball game
Sunday - Body Balance class and 2 hours weeding
Holy shit!!!!
I did 6 training sessions this week, no wonder my body is screaming today.
Back is very sore today so are hip flexors and my glutes that go around my hips.
Just a short one cause I was impressed and shocked, now I need to add some weights and totally change my diet to see some changes ;)
Cheers

Still mending

My back and I are still on the mending path. I have had acupuncture 3 times now in the past week, I think today was definitely the most painful, but I have been told that's good! It means the needle penetrated the problem bit of muscle or better known as a knot! But apparently there is no such thing as a knot, the muscle is connected at both ends so it can't knot, but it feels like a knot so therefore it has been given the name 'knot'. It is always a learning experience asking questions while getting a treatment done. Like a few years ago I said to my Osteopath "my necks out", he said "your neck can't be out, you'd be in big trouble if it is"... so I'm learning something new each day.

I'm still not training or playing as yet, but my back is about 85% at the moment. You should have heard all the cracking my body did after my treatment today, my friend always finished off with stretches, she's really good! Unfortunately she won't take much money, but I try to give her some anyway.

I think I play for the next 5 games and that will be it. There will be 3 hard and 4 easy games to go. In the middle of that there are 2 weekends off (1 bye and the Queens Birthday break) I am going to finish off in the last week of the school holidays, My Mum is coming up for my birthday and I would like her to be able to watch me play. She hasn't been able to do that for 5 years, and I think I am a much better player now. However saying all that I am not going to rush buck and if it is at all uncomfortable I won't play and I'll pull the pin. I do think this will be it for netball, I can't imagine there would be a comp in China!

This week I had another big run in with the naughty child in my room. I was almost in tears when I walked in to my Principal and said you have to either suspend him or I'm going on stress leave cause I'm not coping. For me, if you do the wrong thing, there has to be a consequence... apparently not for everyone. Luckily later that day he graffiti'd all over the school buildings with washable black texta!!!!!! So he was suspended finally. Less that 30 days to go...

At the moment I am planning on going to watch the INBA figure comp in Melbourne in July. If you are planning on going it would be great to meet up :)

Cheers everyone
Kelly

To play or not to play?

How has my week been??? Pretty exhausting.

Here is a picture of my only darling left, Leo.

I have a pretty dodgy back and so I have seemed to yo-yo from osteopath to chiropractor to masseuse for the past 10 years. I play netball and I know this is not the best sport to be playing for a bad back with all the pounding up and down asphalt court. This has all come to head in the past week.

We played a pretty rough team on the 5th of May and we were thoroughly beaten physically and mentally. My back was sore afterwards so I stretched and had a hot bath and used a heat pack. The next day I went down to the Murray River in Albury and stood in the cold water up to my rib cage for 15 mins with some of the football boys (this is supposed to help bring out bruising) and then went home for a hot shower again. I was still pretty sore and this continued into the next day, Monday.

I rang an osteopath and was able to luckily get in the same night. She asked a zillion questions to which I answered and then started to assess my back, well she got a shock. She was probably think 'this girl is being a sook, it can not be as bad as she says!!!!' I am very tight! I have knots from my hamstrings to my right neck. She played around with my neck and my shoulders as well as my mid back for around an hour and did spoons to bring blood to the surface of my skin. Spoons is a technique of using a Chinese porcelain soup spoon and scraping this across the skin. It brings up some beautiful purple and blue bruises and goes down in around 4 days. Most of the time it is not sore to touch. I then did not do netball training Monday night.

This kinda helped on Tuesday and Wednesday and I thought I'll try an easy practice game in WA on Wednesday night. After the first drive I strained something in my lower back! :{

I have a friend who is in her last year of Myotherapy and asked if she could look at it, but she couldn't until Sunday and I was supposed to play of Saturday. I ended up taking the game off as it was even sore when sitting in the car.

Has anyone ever had an injury but felt guilty for not playing because you're part of a team? No one said anything to me, but it felt as though I needed a medical certificate not to play.

So I am in two minds. I said I would play until I leave to go OS, but I am having second thoughts, should I give netball up and rest my back so it's right when I get OS or do I continue to get almost weekly treatments to fulfill my commitment? I know I want to spend extra time with my Mum before I leave and so I'll be finishing up early anyway, should I just finish up now and if I do, how do I explain it to my team?

I didn't train on Monday past because my Myotherapy friend did acupuncture on my lower back as she found a stiff joint, my butt is aching cause I think I've got knots in it and its almost like sciatica and I am only going to do a light run through on Wednesday if my back pulls up OK after my next acupuncture session on Wednesday, but it is still pretty sore today and it's been a few days. I went swimming last night because it is supposed to be good for your back and i have been doing exercises to stretch it out...

I don't know what to do!!! I could go on and on about it...

What else -

I got a gym membership, I am going to start doing Body balance, maybe some pilates and do some swimming as well to start with, do you know how expensive it is? $295 for 3 months!!!! WTF??? Luckily I can claim some on my private health ;)

R.I.P my beautiful girl

I was sadden and devastated to find my beautiful Burmese girl dead in the middle of the road on Wednesday night. I had Ali for almost two years, she was the most gorgeous cat you could ever have. She never jumped on the bench to eat defrosting food or annoyed you while you were eating. She wasn't noisy or malicious she was the perfect cat. Ali was the type of cat that everyone loved and you would always find her snuggled on my bed or following me around the garden or climbing on the roof. I miss you Ali and I'll never forget you...

Our other cat Leo is missing her terribly. Did you know the grieving process for a cat can take from 2 weeks-6 months? I think mine will last that long too.