Update...

Hey All,

I haven't posted anything in a while, so I figured I may as well post about what I've been up to (because I can't fall asleep). The summer is finally ending, and I go back to school September 2. Over the summer, I won the 2009 Boys State Soccer Tourney, joined a church, held summer soccer practices, went to a waterfall in Blandford, MA, and tried to stay physically active. The church is awesome and I'm glad I joined. The people there are really cool, but my favorite part about it is the missionaries. Those guys are AWESOME!! No one really showed to summer practices, and I did a pretty good job at staying active over the summer, other than the week I was on crutches with a sprained ankle. Climbing the waterfall was fun, too.

Today was the first day of soccer tryouts for the Pathfinder Boys soccer team. The morning was hectic and we ran our butts off! I placed 2nd in the 2-mile run and 4th or 5th in the 1-mile run. I could've placed 1st in both runs, but I stopped to get the kids that I was going to lap for the second time, who were walking, to pick up their feet and keep jogging. I don't want to see anyone fall behind or get left out. We do everything as a TEAM! Which is why I've been selected to lead the team as one of the Varsity Team Captains!! I was so phsyched when Coach Rickson called over Oakham and I and told us we were captains. I've been waiting for this moment since freshman year! The morning practice was all running and conditioning, but it was all worth it. I just couldn't move when I got home :-P. The evening practice was all ballwork and running. It was also the first practice Oakham and I got to lead and direct the team for most of practice. It felt GREAT!! I know we can lead our team to success! This season we are working to win only one game: the finals of the Western Mass Tournament!!! But for now, we still have double-session practices tomorrow and a scrimmage on Saturday, 9am-noon. Which means I won't be able to go to the beach with my church :-/. Ahh well. Sacrifices have to be made in order to hold the role as team captain in my senior year of highschool. It'll all be worth it in the end.

Along with being captain of my highschool varsity team, I am also the assistant coach on the U9 Girls and U12 Boys Palmer Soccer teams. I'm reffing soccer games, too. Reffing is my only income at the moment. I'm going to have to save up every penny in order to buy myself a vehicle. I NEED a car now!! A bike just isn't going to do it anymore (at least not for everything). Once school starts, I'll be out of the house from 5am-8pm. I have the gym in the morning, then school, highschool soccer practice, U9 Girls/U12 Boys practice, then home, Mon-Fri. Then I still have to make time for homework!

Another thing I can't wait for is my Uncle Mike and Aunt Janett are coming up from Louisianna Sept 19-26, which means they'll be here for my birthday on the 21st! They are my favorite family members (aside from Tay, Thomas, Jordan, Bailey and Madison)! All I'm asking for for my birthday is money for a car, and I'm hoping my Uncle can be a big help. My last onroad for driver's ed. is this Tuesday. Then I'll have my license 1-2 weeks later! I can't wait!!

Well, that's an update of my life right now... Life is good. The only part I'm not so thrilled about is I will be booked SOLID from the start of school through November. This should be challenging. Wish me luck!!

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Manning #21 8-)

Weight Watchers

I did it. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. I joined weight watchers. I have noticed that my eating habits are very different than what I thought they were, and definately different from where they were 2 years ago when I was loosing weight.

I'm going to try the on-line version. So, no boring meetings, no sitting through people discussing ow much booze they can get away with and stay on track. I'm more of a hide my thigh isses from the world type. We can all see what my problem is, let's not discuss it more. I prefer to pretend that it's not so. And that's what got me into this mess!

So I hope to take a picture of my starting self. But good luck on that!

Finally Posting

I haven't posted anything for a while now and I thought an update would be in order.

What's going on in the Cousineau household? Nothing. Real exciting, huh?

Ben is taking driving classes. While the rest of us hang around the house. It's in the 90's and the air quality is bad so they don't want anyone out and about. So to prevent adding to the problem we are hanging around the house. I have A/C in my bedroom so I watch TV or read.

Last Saturday we had a family reunion and a class reunion. It was a lot of fun. The family reunion didn't have a pool and it was HOT. So we left after a few hours and went to the class reunion where there was a pool and we spent the rest of our time there. Which wasn't intended, but they had a pool!

My laptop is still not working. J has something against paying shipping. He'd rather pay more in gas than shipping, so I still don't have a powercord. :*( I have to use his work computer, which he doesn't see as a problem. But I sure do! There will be no pictures for this post because of it. I can't upload pictures on to his computer! As soon as I can I'll get pictures posted.

This Saturday we have a birthday party for girls only. I'm thinking of having J take Madison somewhere special, like the play place at McDeath. That way he can have a fun time too.

And that's it. Nothing special. I've been busy, but not with anything noteworthy.