World's Greatest Face Plant

One of my goals for this summer was to start wakeboarding. This is the last summer I have before reality and the real world sets in so I figure this is a good last time to go over all the things I need to know before the real world, like cooking certain meals that I don't usually cook etc. Also a good time to learn anything new that I want to master (wakeboarding) because chances are that I will be too busy to learn new things once I have a full-time job...and I can't wait to get a paycheck...a real one!!! One that can be split for different uses like housing, car, food, insurance, retirement, savings and not one that just covers gas.

So anyway today I succeeded in getting up one a wakeboard. I got going for a little bit of time and I was impressed with how relatively easy it was for me to get up when compared to waterskiing. However, I am not used to a wakeboard yet. I'm not able to fully control it yet, so because of that I had an EPIC FACE PLANT today.

I wish someone filmed it because in a couple of days it would have been fun to watch. I went face first into the water and man did I feel it. I'm pretty sure my nostrils and eyes got cleaned out and that I had the best teeth cleaning possible as water was forced through me when I hit the water after falling.

I must say that hitting the water head first is probably the only thorough way to clean teeth. I hit so hard that my face felt like it had been hit by a powerwasher.

But I am fine and look forward to going again...when I feel 100%.

Overall I had a good day, besides wakeboarding, I cooked hamburgers on the grill, ran, biked, kayaked and took the boat out along with helping my mom around the yard. A very productive day. Tomorrow it will be off to the place I volunteer at over break to help out in their athletic department.

But I got to say, staying at home and relaxing, and learning how to do more things around the house is a very useful way to spend this summer. Certainly I could survive now without any more learning at home but I could survive better if I knew how to make my mom's tacos, marinate grilled chicken/steak, make curry chicken, learn how to fix car problems etc. myself.