Adrenalin

.. It is such a sweet thing to experience. Athletes feel it all the time; many people who perform, or participate in high energy events feel "adrenalin rushes" as well. I'm pretty sure everyone has experienced atleast one adrenalin rush in their life so there's no need for me to explain what it's like. But this weekend was a pretty adrenalin filled weekend-it was an eventful weekend.

Friday brought our first AWANA leader's meeting to kick start the new year of AWANA. I personally look forward to this upcoming year of AWANA because I get to take on a new role of being a Sparks leader instead of the old games director. So yes, I sort of demoted myself, but I was getting bored and tired of doing games, therefore, this will bring some real cool experiences. I'm also looking forward to getting to know these children individually instead of just seeing them during games time.

Saturday also kick started a new year of a couple things: teaching guitar and Fantasy hockey! I am very excited for the new season of NHL if you haven't noticed yet =D As far as teaching guitar goes, I'm not too sure what I feel about it yet. Teaching guitar is always fun, but it's a difficult task to do. Being talented does bring challenges in that you have to find out what makes sense to you naturally but not for other people. I also am needing to find some new material to teach my kids. However, I still get paid an awesome amount for practically "babysitting" their kids for a couple hours. Later on at night during Saturday, we did our hockey pool drafting! I was so pumped for this event because I put so much hard work into my researching player projections and stuff like that. I'd been waiting for this time of day for the last few weeks and it was awesome!

So being the loser I am, here's how it went down for me: I was pumped. I clicked open the live draft room to find that I am drafting at third spot in a twelve people pool! Smack dead on I was right where I hoped I'd be. Fourth would have been a pretty decent spot as well, but I'll take what I got. Right away I knew I would end up with Malkin as AO and Crosby are given first and second picks. Malkin is a great pick as he will most likely end up with 50 goals this year, give or take a few. So I had my draft all planned out and all that stuff, of who I would pick in which round. But of course, like all drafts are unpredictable, I had to adapt. After an hour or so of intensity and being pissed because people stole my players, here's who I was so fortunate to pick up:

1st round - Evgeni Malkin
2nd round - Henrik Lundqvist
3rd round - Thomas Vanek
4th round - Mike Green
5th round - Paul Stastny
6th round - Petr Sykora
7th round - Mark Streit
8th round - Alexander Semin
9th round - Martin Gerber
10th round - Maxim Afinogenov
11th round - Sam Gagner
12th round - Joni Pitkanen
13th round - Phillipe Boucher
14th round - Fabian Brunnstrom
15th round - Karl Alzner
16th round - Ales Kotalik
17th round - Michael Ryder

Clearly, this was a very high risk draft for me. My two sketchiest picks are obviously with Brunnstrom and Alzner as they have never played a game in the NHL and are not even guarenteed a spot on their respective teams. The single mistake I did make with these two are picking Brunnstrom instead of Stamkos. I believe I also made the mistake of picking up a defenseman one round too late. My top two defensemen, Mike Green and Mark Streit's season can go either way-boom or bust. Hopefully it's the former. All in all, I think I did a pretty good draft and came in within the top drafters, so I'm pretty satisfied.

Today, as in Sunday, was pretty cool too. We had our exciting annual CPP meeting which made me fall asleep a couple times. Afterward we had our "rematch" of the adults versus kids soccer game. As expected, adults came out on top! We, as in adults which totally makes me feel old, went up 6-1 just to have the kids score five unanswered goals to catch up just to have their hearts broken by the one and only, scoring the winning goal =D

Hopefully I have a good week ahead of me. I really am not enjoying school that much. However, I am trying to choose to put my attention on anything but the negative so I can get by easier.

Just thought I'd throw this out there: you can do anything you set your mind to as long as you let God work through you and in you.