Bump, Set, Spike! ***and rescue me, please***

Today was the first day of volleyball league at my gym. Such an exciting day! I've been waiting for this day for about 1.5 months! I've recently lost a lot of weight (like 50 lbs worth) that I gained during my two year stint practicing in Los Angeles BigLaw (insert crowd booing here). With my new weight and new found energy, I decided to pick up the long lost sport of Volleyball. I haven't played this sport in about 10 years, but it is such a great sport and when I played it, I had one of the hardest, feminine bodies ever (yes, female volleyball players have the best feminine physique of all female athletes, don't believe me? Well, it's probably because you're a non-VB female athlete.) So, I felt that in addition to my lifting, running, and elliptical-ing at the gym, playing a game or two of VB could be a great way to add diversity to my work out, as well as meet new people and really integrate myself into this midwestern city. Anywhoo, I just got "home" (I'll explain the usage of quotations in another blog, another time) and am glad I am playing. I met some new people, like Old Guy (he was a hot older white guy who was definitely trying to holla; if he does anything worth discussing...you already know - another time another blog). I got a few bruises from sliding on the floor (uh, I am not 15 yrs old anymore)...they hurt. But it was fun and overall, I feel good.

The start of VB also is important because about a month or two ago, I had this dream...


*****Begin Scene: I was at my mother's current home. All of a sudden, it began to rain. Not a down pour, but a flashflood thunderstorm. I was standing in the front door watching the sky turn dark grey and lightening flash and rain pour down. The rain was pouring down so fast and so hard that it began to accumulate. Parked outside, in front of the house, was my car. The floodwaters were so high that it picked my car up off the ground and it began to float. Suddenly, the waters became violent - tossing my car to and fro. It tossed the back end of my coupe so hard that it crashed into my mother's home. The collision literally made a gaping hole in the foundation of my mother's home.

Then my car began to float across the street. It floated in between the two houses and began to float behind those two houses. I began to run after my car because, in the dream, I could see that there was a pond/lake behind those two houses. I was screaming "no! don't go into the pond!" While I was running, I noticed that a man was also chasing after his vehicle, trying to prevent it from landing in the pond too. Despite my efforts my car landed in the pond anyway. I stood there pondering whether to jump in and save it. All I can remember is saying to myself, "Oooh, this water looks sooo cold!" But I jumped in anyway and began to try to get my car out of the pond. Despite my efforts, I was pullng out nothing but seeweed. Then I heard a man ask me if I needed help getting my things out of the pond. I turned around and it was a big lightskinned guy. He jumped in the pond and began to help me salvage not only my car, but some of my other things, including a pair of volleyball kneepads. Then, I heard another voice asking if we needed any help. It was a white lady, in her early 30s, with blond hair. We looked at her and told her "no" and I turned to the guy and began to help him salvage *his* items out of the pond. And we were laughing at ourselves during this process. End Scene.****

Blogger's Note: First, there is a pond behind the two houses in front of my mother's home. However, the pond in my dream was surrounded by homes with a layout different than that of my mothers. The pond in my dream, however, was surrounded by homes with the exact layout of my BF's housing community. The big lightskinned guy? Looked and walked just like my BF. The white lady with blond hair? Looked exactly like my BF's next door neighbor, who I know and speak with often.