We are currently redoing my room.  It's gonna look so sweet!  Farmington's mascot is the Tigers, and our colors are orange, black and white.  So the whole room is mainly an off-white color called Buttercream.  It makes me hungry every time I go in there.  Then we painted a big black horizontal stripe on the accent wall.  It has two smaller orange horizontal lines on top and on bottom of it.  THen we are going to get a really good indoor mini basketball hoop and put that in my room.  We are also going to get a bean-bag and put a cool quote under the hoop.  We might even make basketball court lines or something on the floor beneath the hoop.  Then on the accent wall, in the middle of the black stripe, we are write TIGERS in big orange letters.  I will also have orange curtains and a black bedspread.  It's going to look so cool and mom and I have done everything to it.

New Me

Over the past year I have not been in that great physical condition - I wasn't fat, but had a lot of added fat everywhere.  The thing is, I didn't know it.  I was pretty unaware.  It was because of the Plantar- Fasciitis.  I was so sore all day everyday last summer, I didn't have the energy to do anything, and that included exercise.  So I was pretty out of shape.  Come basketball season, I made A- team, but just wasn't in good enough shape to do well in practices or games.  I had a couple of good games, but instead of usually starting every single game, I was on the bench a lot.  I was also eating a ton!  Like thirds every night and more dessert.  Come March, I started noticing all these things.  So I had the idea that I start a diet and get on an exercise routine.  So I started doing that every day.  I have lost over 20 pounds since March, I have gotten MUCH better at basketball since March, have run 1 or 2 and sometimes even 3 miles a day since March, and have been on a diet since March.  I have noticed a huge difference.   Instead of being embarrassed to take my shirt of at a pool or at practice like I was, now I am not because I have also been working out a lot and have gained a lot of muscle.  I am in better shape and condition.  But that isn't the only change.  I have also noticed a spiritual and mental change.  I have become happier, more in tune with God and reading the Bible a lot more and praying more.  Also, I have become mentally sharper.  The diet is probably the hardest part for me because sometimes I will see some ice - cream my family is having, and want some really really really really bad.  But then I think of last Summer and I decide not to have it.  I'm glad I had the idea for this change and God gave me the strength to do it all.  

Daniel Norris

I just read a cool article Mom just emailed me about this dude called Daniel Norris.  Well, he's not just a dude, he is a pitcher for the Blue Jays in the MLB.  But the whole article was about how he lives differently.  Some players drive actual gold trucks or cars or crazy things like that, but he drives a 1978 van.  And he also lives in it.  He shaves with an axe.  He says that he does that because he won't let the $2 million he is getting payed get to his head and make him not who he is.  He says he plays best when he acts like himself, and apparently living in an old van and shaving with an axe is his personality.  It's cool how he is himself no matter what other people think of him, and he is still really good at baseball... he's a pitcher in the MLB for goodness sakes.  :)