Has to be “Womens Trampoline Jumping”

I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself. I can find the door.

Seriously though, I like most of the winter sports. Skiing, downhill, jump, slolem, as well as skeleton, luge, and bobsledding. I don’t care much for the snowboarding thing though.

Also enjoy track and field, as well as weight lifting, wrestling, volleyball, gymnastics, and ice skating.

I was an active kid. Spent a little time playing intramural sports, basketball, wrestling, flag football, and baseball. Also took part in Little League baseball, and was a damn Cub Sout to boot. Took part in many off the cuff, neighborhood basketball, wiffleball, badminton, croquet, lawn darts, and baseball games. Also spent many a winter day waxing up the sled runners and sledding every chance I got.

When I got a little older I took to riding a dirt bike too. So, I’ve always been a bit of an adventure junkie I guess, but even though I had been involved in sports, I was never the “jock” type. I didn’t like those guys, or even being in the same room with them for the most part. But I still enjoyed being involved in competition nonetheless. But I never tried out for high school teams, mostly because I knew I didn’t want to be around the “jocks.” I loved to play sports, but not that much.

I was also a nerdy type too. School was pretty easy for me really. I absobed the material and tested in the top 95% most of the time.* There was always a few who outdid me on my grades, but I was also out there doing things they were afraid to try. 😉

But, by my 2nd year of high school, family issues at home, namely, my mother divorcing my asshole abusive stepdad, I was uprooted from my neighborhood friends/school and basically lived the life of a nomad until my later teens. I dropped out of high school. But I tested for my GED in Muscatine Ia. of all places. They were quite surprised I tested so well*, and I soon went back and got that GED the year before my class graduated.

Didn’t mean for this to become a diary thing, but that’s an accurate depiction of my younger years.

* Right up until Algebra II! Algebra II kicked my ass.

*I went with a friend who had also dropped out, because for some of us, life sometimes gets in the way of otherwise normal things. We both scored very high on the pre-test. There were some wrinkled eyebrows at that, they found it odd. But, we weren’t your “usual” dropouts. 😉