I Survived….

my first softball practice of the season. I’m joining the team a little late so they are three practices ahead of me. I’m really excited to be doing something that I love so much again! Softball was just something that came natural to me. I tried basketball and was ok sucked at it (put it this way – I wasn’t coordinated enough to run, dribble and watch the other players all at once) so that lasted one year. I did cheerleading for three years but wasn’t all that great (apparently I was good enough to make it through tryouts but I still kind of stunk at it) at that. I did volleyball for two years and was fairly good at that. I was pretty sure I was hopeless when it came to sports but then came softball. Suddenly everything just fit together right and I was actually good at something.

So now that I’m playing again I’m like a kid in a candy store! I’m so excited. It ended up working out that all our practices are going to be on Sundays and are games are also going to be on Sundays. So in other words on the Sundays we have games, that’s going to be like practice too. I wish we would practice a couple times during the week but oh well that’s not how it ended up working out.

I wasn’t sure how my body was going to handle tonights practice after not playing in so long. And just as I figured, I hurt like a son of a gun! I have aches in parts of my body that I didn’t realize had muscles, or better yet muscles that softball would require. I was a bit surprised to find that even my behind hurts. My throwing arm feels like jell-o and my shoulders and back are killing me. I’d give anything to be sitting in a hot tub right about now…oh no scratch that and instead I’d give anything to be laying on a massage table getting a back and shoulder massage.

It was so much fun though! And even though it’s been such a long time since the last time played, things just came back to me. One thing I do know is that I can’t play outfield. I can’t catch those pop flys out there for nothing! Put me on second base and I’m good to go. I’ve always played infield because I do stink at outfield so I hope I’ll get second base on this team. But wherever I get put, I’ll be a happy camper