Black Team Challenge Week #3!!!

Good explanation Andrew! Just for the record, I wasn't saying your challenge was silly. I didn't even think about it until I was doing my second day and then my friend got on my case so it sort of confirmed it for me. Even though I complained about 5 minutes of squats, it wasn't bad and I wasn't sore after the first day or the second day.

I did the same thing to Roni and myself with the push ups and pull ups. I said, let's do them every day! Not even thinking about giving muscles a break at the time.

Anyway, Andrew, I think you are doing a great job keeping us up and rolling. I feel like I've busted your chops this week with the challenge. Sorry. I didn't mean any of it that way. (I'm claiming temporary insanity from a hormone storm. LOL.) You are the best! Thanks for all you do.

Hey Donna--

He wasn't physically stalking her, more just online nonsense-- friending her through facebook (which she shouldn't have accepted since she had no idea who he was-- ) commenting on her facebook status all the time, and he started emailing her trying to "help her" by offering her a startup money package to help her get to practice and enter into some tourneys. But, he also said he wanted to be her "life coach." Huh? Sir, are you for real? In turn, she will "help" his academy out giving clinics, so he says, blah, blah, blah-- yeah, sure, you're gonna help her for nothing? Yeah, and I'm Aunt Jemima.

My daughter has officially turned pro and qualified for the "Futures Tour," which is an LPGA developmental tour-- sorta like the minor leagues. Unfortunately, right now there is no money to enter her into events, or get her south to practice-- and sponsors disappeared when she failed to qualify in December for the LPGA.

So this guy wants to "help" he says-- even though we've never heard of him or his academy. So, bottom line we told him to get lost, and told a friend of ours he's a nutwad. The friend apparently told him my husband called him a nutwad, and this guy then starts a nasty e-mail exchange with us yesterday-- how he'd heard what a control freak my husband is, overbearing parent, blah, blah, blah-- great business sense, eh?

In over 10 years of junior golf nationally, we'd never heard this guy's name, and he throws a hissy fit when we call into question his methods, his name recognition, and lack of history or former students to tout as proof that he knows what he's doing. We kept saying, "Just give us one name-- one well-known student that you can claim."

In the world of golf coaching, a coach is only as good as his students-- obviously. In the professional world, everybody knows Tiger's coach-- Hank Haney. Butch Harmon coaches Phil Mickelson-- the coaches proudly announce their successful students-- otherwise, how can anyone know how good the coach and swing teacher is? Duhhhh--

This guy was basically giving us the, 'I don't have to dignify that with a response," line. Yeah, okay buddy, then we'll continue to consider you a fake and a nutwad-- thanks for proving us right.

But, as I said, this e-mail exchange went on all day yesterday-- I'm hoping there are no repercussions on Sarah, but she's out of the junior golf world now, so things get nastier now when people want to make money off of her.


Heading to work-- never squatted-- instead, actually, I ate even more fried, yummy stuff-- must run today.

Later.

Donna- He will be back in Kandahar. The funky thing was, that's where he went first, came home for a few months, right back there, same address, same office, same room, like going to your 'home away from home'. He did spend the last part of that deployment in Bagram though, things were slow in Afghanistan then, not so much now.

He's an officer, so he does spend the majority of his time in an office. He coordinates all his teams who are out there, doing the job. He's in EOD, (Explosive stuff) so they are the ones who get called to all the road side bombs and other stuff that goes boom. Basically he does what they do in the movie the Hurt Locker... which I haven't seen yet and am sort of afraid to watch, but he did mention renting it last night.

3 boys and 1 girl and unfortunately, yes it's sort of routine at this point in the game. When he gets home, family (our mothers) always says, "Well, surely you won't have to go back!" Don't we all wish that, but we know better. Like I said, I'm thankful we got him home for a whole year this time.

Thanks for your well wishes!

I'm also thankful because when he got 'the call' he was told they were considering him for a 365 day one. That makes 6 months seem short. Training has also been shortened to 3 weeks, another benefit this time around.

I bought some wheat pancake mix I am so ready for in the morning, I cant wait to have them. I will let ya'll know how they taste I might put some pecans in them!!!

I make my own whole wheat pancake mix. If you like this I can give you my recipe you get a whole lot more for your buck.