Dust off that chrome statue

I was a late bloomer. I am a late bloomer. Okay...I'm still waiting to bloom.

I got a free cd a few years ago when Etta May blasted me in her routine. She called me an anoerexic bitch. Why would I want her cd?

My daughter was given the ball that bonked her on the head in a t ball game. Does that count?

I was homecoming loser my senior year in college. I paraded around the basketball court at half time of a basketball game in a gown with a boa escorted by my brother. One person said, "Who knew you could even get on the court? No one even knows you." Gee thanks.

SO every half marathon where I get a medallion makes up for it. It certainly does. I'm still looking for that girl in elementary school who could run fast. Are you running now? I'm finally running. No more forged notes to get out of recess.

Most people walk faster than I run, but sometimes I pretend like I'm in a marathon as I jog to the end of the driveway to get the mail. I take my cell phone in case I need to call a ride.

I used to think I only did the races for the snacks but it's for the bling too. You need to get one of your kids to hand you a cup of water while you're going to the mailbox. That's the way to really put yourself in the race. And then you spill half of it while you're gulping it down.

I tried to give out water at a triatholon once. That's harder than it looks. It's kind of disappointing to give someone a cup of water while they're running and have the whole thing drop on the ground before they can get it. I felt sorry for them. That's when I decided I should just do my part picking up the cups on the ground. BUT the bodies omg, If you want to see half naked fit men, hand out water at a triatholon. Could explain my ineptness. That was a fine day.

Not a trophy to my name.

Unless I count the pink and black, yellow, and red, combinations I couldn't begin to name, ones. People who let me call them friend.

More of those than I deserve but I'll take them over all the shelf hardware on earth.

Very interesting my good and delightfully twisty friends! I too didn't win awards in school - it would have badly tarnished my street rep. I was quite the rebel and if my teacher wasn't also my friend, I'd blow their class off pretty much except for the sciences. I did win a crappy cardboard "brooche" in marine biology for "Best Dissection of a Shark". That should warn many! lol (we lived in Miami and sharks were kind of abundant for us). The things sharks eat are the most disgusting part actually! lol Yeah, the really crappy "brooche" with glitter and all (I think the teacher's kid made it) never even made it to my car!

And when I was very involved in sports, before my very cool period, I was in Boarding Schools (girls only!) and for the $10k a year, they never once forked over a single award that wasn't mimeographed on paper with all those smudges that you really wanted to show off to your parents, right? I was a really good all around athlete, however, running??? No, not so much. If it wasn't incorporated in the sport itself, which is usually was, I was having none of it. This includes "exercise" as well.

And as life tends to bite us in the ass, it ended up that now with my spinal issues, I can NOT run even if I was dying too.

I love karma when it happens right in front of you. damn it.

(the pic I'm trying to post is as so often happens, unable to do comply. but will eventually because it's hilarious!)

I wish you'd kept that 'brooche'. I'd love to see that!

Can't wait for the picture of...whatever it is.

I got a gold plated statue once, but I don't want to talk about it.