First Soccer Game Since Last Year

So, I finally joined a soccer league. After all my rantings and ravings about how I love soccer. I was talking to a client team member about her daughters playing soccer when my senior manager over heard me and asked if I played. Obviously I give him the spill about how it is in my blood and yadi yadi yada. He finally tells me that he has a league and I was curious to see them play. I found out that the team is pretty competitive and I thought, surely I can handle that. Then my boss goes for a game and comes back with bones missing and I almost chicken out.

To add to that this weekend, I went to visit 2 of my guy friends and I dont know how this comes up but they mention that I am a girlie girl (Okay so this is obviously funny to me because I grew up as a tom boy... As my dad will say, I never walked anyway, I ran. Never took the steps I ran through. I know I've softened up a lot but to be girlie girl I didnt think it would be that bad). So anyway, they conclude, I am not the girlie girl that is concerned about getting her nails done every week or getting her hair "did" every other day. For crying out loud look at my hair... always in braids because I am too lazy to wake up early to worry if I will have a good hair day or not. Oh yeah back to the point. I am a girlie girl so I was told and so today was to be my first game and I am now getting nervous. I finally got out of one of them that I play pretty well (even though he felt the need to include that I still play like a girl).

Being on the field was awesome. I normally play indoor soccer, leveraging the wall for attack (because I play defense) But today was nice. I also worry about my pollen allergies sometimes but the weather was nice and the air was clean. I actually felt really good playing and since they were low on girls, we didn't get to sub. The funny thing is that I didn't notice. Forgot that the games last 20 mins per half and it doesnt take long for 20 mins to run out when you are having a blast. I'm looking forward to the remaining 6 games.