last night was all about victory and defeat. our volleyball team had our play-off game and we won our first one pretty quickly. this allowed us to advance to the set of games at the 9pm hour, where we faced "the ballers" or as i like to call them, the evil luke team [these are terms from the oc in case you hadn't guessed - which is back on tonight at 9pm folks] anywho...we wanted to redeem ourselves so badly since they won last time we played in a cheap manner. we were down by 5 in the beginning, mostly because we wanted to win so badly we psyched ourselves out. then our team really hit our stride and we beat them, both games. and they played dirty again, like stepping way into our court, causing our players to stumble around, or saying a hit went out of bounds when it was clearly in. but we beat them anyway, fair and square. that was victory. now on to defeat...

as i went to get in my car and go somewhere, my car started and i could put the shifter into different gears, but the car would not physically move. but luckily, i was not by myself, my volleyball team stayed around and hung out while we tried to figure out what was wrong [oh and thanks abe for being our sounding board and answer man] - and waited while i called AAA, and waited while i called my parents to add me onto their AAA plan, and waited again for the tow truck to come and take my car home. they are the bestest teammates in the world. plus, secretly, i think they all had fun standing around in the freezing air. it was like team bonding. :D the silver lining is that the car broke as i was parked at ingram high school, rather than while i was driving home from work last night or on the highway or somewhere else much more dangerous. i like to think it was divine intervention that it occurred in a "safe" environment.

so now i'm waiting for AAA again to tow it to the dealership for some good fixin'. stupid car.