olympic lifting is not for the faint of heart...

i couldn't sleep last night... i went to bed pretty late, but usually i can fall asleep pretty quickly. but even when i was asleep, i felt like my mind was going a million miles an hour. i had so so many thoughts and once a new thought started, it would trail off and form this huge chain of other thoughts that my brain somehow thought were connected to that original thought. it was nuts. not to mention i drank 44 ounces of mountain dew about 2-3 hours before bedtime, so i'm sure that contributed. i'm sure i'll sleep better tonight though because of the reason stated above, and because i've kind of had a busy day.

i woke up at 8 am to get ready to go donate plasma (shh! don't tell my mom) so i could have a few extra moneys for stuff. on my way there, i saw this girl fall completely off her bike--like one of those fall flat on your face while your bike is still going by itself. it was scary. but she was okay. i also saw this abandoned house. it was a little creepy, just because it was all taped off. but not like "crime scene" taped off. more like "danger" taped off. everything went fine at the plasma center though. i got a free capri-sun and granola bar. and i passed all the medical exams with flying colors too.

oh but when i was done, it was only a half hour till my class started so i had to hurry home and get changed. i headed to sports conditioning, which usually is really awesome because we learn all these cool lifts, but today was an olympic lifting circuit. not the best day to donate plasma. or better yet, not the best day to come to class. ha. just joking. anyway, i wanted to prove i could do it despite the fact that you're not supposed to do stuff like that so soon after donation. here are my reasons why:

1. i wanted to prove i could actually do a proper clean because some people think that i just plain old can't.
2. i wanted to impress my teacher, so i could get brownie points so he would increase my grade.
3. i'm prideful and refuse to look weak.

anyway, i start doin my thing, but almost immediately started to feel dizzy. my heart started pounding really hard too. but i found that if i sat down for a little bit, that would go away. so we continued to do the lift and then rotate on to the next girl (we were in groups and taking turns doing cleans, clean & jerk, and clean & squat). however, i started feeling more tired and more out of it as the workout progressed that at one point during my turn, my hand slipped mid-shrug and i dropped the bar on my left knee. i was done lifting after that. my teacher was pretty understanding too, thank goodness. on my way out of the gym though, i knew i was still out of it because i ran into the bench that sits in the middle of the room. like, i fell forward onto the bench in front of everyone. how do you miss something like that? needless to say, my left knee is pretty swollen. and my pride is hurt pretty bad too. 

anyway, i bought my hair-dye, and i will be coloring my hair "black cherry" tomorrow. hopefully, pictures will follow.