Exhaustion

Life Lesson: A power nap is always a good thing.

It's actually a fact that a power nap should be between 10-15 mins [minutes] (I'm pretty sure most people know what mins is. I mean it must be the first abbreve ever!). This is because your body starts to shut down after this amount of time and you would've been better off if you didn't take your "power nap". 'Cause then you wake up more tired instead of being rejuved [rejuvenated].
The last 5 days, including today, have been pretty hectic. I believe I've had no free time due to the activities I have partaken in! It all starts Thursday night with my soccer [football] game out at the windy Winnipeg blumberg fields. Horrible game. We should have destroyed the other team. I believe we had about 90% possession the entire game and failed to score. That drives me nuts. After that I went to The Albert (sweet pub) downtown to see one of my new favourite local bands: The Ripperz. Excellent show. Now keep in mind I have work the next day; though I still see this band when their set starts at midnight. Friday after work Thom, Jord, Jesse and I headed out on a small road trip to Niverville! We met up with more peeps [friends/people], the fair had begun, and it was time to party with our good ol' friends from the little town. It's awesome catching up with people you haven't seen in forEVER! Fireworks were excellent and we ended up getting back at 3:30am. I'm saving our funny late night drive-thru story for another entry... stay tuned!
Now Saturday was a beautiful scorcher of a day here in Winnipeg (I am now badly sun burnt, it's unreal). My soccer [football] team was involved in the country's CBC: Soccer day in Canada mini tournament. Overall there were only 4 teams that had the opportunity and if we won our first game we'd be in the final which would be taped for television! It so happened that our first game went to PKs [penalty kicks] and I had the priv [privilege] of kicking first. Oh I defs [definitely] slotted that ball in the bottom left hand corner (I was pretty pumped, but I played it cool). The other team missed two of their shots and we were ecstatic because of our victory. We celebrated at Boston Pizza even though we still had to play the final in just under two hours... bad mistake. We lost in the final sadly, though we had no subs and were dying in the sweltering sun. Whatevs [whatever], we got free t-shirts (I'm Mennonite). Also, let me tell you that Mitch Peacock for CBC (he reports all those Toronto FC games) looks shabby, dishevelled and old in real life (had to mention it).
Saturday night was also our high school's grad class 2 year reunion! Craziness. We just like to party, that's all. Two beautiful clear hot nights in a row is extremely rare in Winnipeg around this time and us Winnipeggers took advantage. After hanging out late into the night as a big class crew, I headed to Josh D's home to catch some zzzzzzzz's before our church picnic. The picnic was stellar as I mostly played volleyball the whole 3 hours (I need to practice before I coach at Prov)! Now, at the moment right after the picnic, I'm bushed (meaning extremely tired, apparently Americans don't know this) and head home for my POWER NAP! However, it was a straight up nap because it was about 45 mins... oh well, I like my sleep. Sunday night was a concert at the the Kingshead pub downtown where the band All the King's Men play every Sunday night. They're phenomenal, and it's just the best thing to enjoy a pint while groovin' to some classic tunes. Too bad I had to work in the morning (this morning). Finally, tonight I went to a spectacular concert performed by the Howling Bells (I loved her Australian accent), Snow Patrol, and Coldplay! Wow, what a show, I was especially amazed at the location of our seats. I didn't even know I was coming until Friday and I end up getting seats seven rows up from the side of the stage; what an experience! They definitely know how to work the crowd and Chris Martin surprisingly knew stuff about Winnipeg as he referenced to the Jets! I can't even describe the amount of pizazz that went into this show. Everything from glow-in-the-dark maple leafs to giant yellow balloons to confetti to hanging spheres which showed live footage of the concert! Coldplay even headed to the back of the arena to perform an acoustic song. Unbelievable. To top it off everyone got a free live Cd. That's over 16000 Cds!
Well as I write this I'm exhausted, and you are probs [probably] exhausted as well if you happened to read the entirety of my longest entry yet. If you have, I applaud you. You win a hug from Manuel.