Mamma Mia!

Grab your girlfriends and run, walk, ride, scoot or crawl as fast as you can to this show!! It was awesome, I laughed, I cried, I giggled, I sang, I clapped out loud and actually screamed at one point. Now, I have to tell you that I have been feeling a little nostalgic because my 20 year reunion coming up and getting in contact with some old friends has been really fun. So this show and the great music took me back to so many memories. My parents were always playing ABBA; I don’t think there is a song I don’t know by heart. But also the girlfriend goofiness’ brought back so many memories, how many times I would laugh so hard almost peeing my pants!!!
I have seen the play, and I actually liked this better, but my sister in-law went with some friends and they were truly upset feeling like the movie mocked the play, and do you know what I say to that!! PULL THAT STICK OUT OF YOUR BACK SIDE!! and relax! How can you go wrong with a show that has romance, silliness’, humor, dancing, and songs that are classics that make you want to get up and dance? I really did have a good “belly laugh” and that is always required on girl’s night out and I think that Jodi almost did pee her pants (which is also a good belly laugh)!!
So my advice for the week (which is always good advice), get up and dance even if you don’t got the moves, make up some moves and by damn get some hip actions into it, sing loud, whenever and wherever you are, who cares if you don’t know the words, make up your own words, they are probably better than the original. (For the longest time I thought it was “do the funky lady” but it was “Dude looks like a lady”) I like mine better.

SPUDMAN!!!

Wow what can I say, that was a good time!!! Dare I say GREAT time! Well, after completely having a freakout the day before and becoming so nervous that I was snapping at everyone, giggling hystrically, crying, panicking, and then the calm of denial sank in and everything seemed fine. Then, of course, the whole process started over again, snapping, giggling, crying panicking etc—you get the idea! But I ended up having so much fun, the swim was great, the hardest part of that was getting out of the wet suit, I looked similar to a sick animal shedding skin that does not want to come off, convulsing, dislocating body parts, that kind of thing.


But as soon as that thing was off, I was off with a smile on my face. I met a lot of nice people who were very encouraging as they passed, and I had great cheerleaders at every station. My sister and two brother in-laws came to support us all (me, Steve, my sister and little brother) and it made all the difference having some people there cheering us on. I wish I had that for my everyday tasks “Great job changing that diaper” “Way to go on that laundry” “Wow that shirt looks white” “your doing a great job cleaning that toilet”, little cheers when you change to a new chore, that would be great!!

I will definitely sign up for the Spudman next year, and I am currently considering the Bear Lake Brawl Triathlon. And as far as the bike, as I said, I loved the entire triathlon and did not heave my bike off a cliff (it wasn’t my bike) and am currently in the market for a bike and a sassy biker shirt!!

Total time 3 hours 3 minutes and blah blah blah seconds!! I am aiming for under 3 next year.

20 Year Reunion

My 20th year reunion is coming up in a week (wow that went by fast) but it has really made me think back on people and friends that I have not seen in a long time. How they are doing, what they are doing. I recently have hooked back up with my best friend in high school Kathy here are pictures of both of us,

apparently I am blocking the sun, I was really into perms and Kathy evidently was really into layers. The 80’s, what a fashion statement, I had a date ask me if my hair needed help into the car, that was how big my hair was!! And I guess in the 80’s there was no face powder, because I am really shinny. Well, 20 years has gone by and I am no cooler now than I was then, I am currently 40 lbs overweight, I am breaking out like a 14 year old boy, and oh yes, I have a cold sore that looks like someone has punched me in the lip, I have currently developed a nervous twitch in my right eye and do to “The fall” I am limping slightly on my left knee, all I need is a hunch back to make the ansombal complete. But all in all I am looking forward to seeing some good friends, belly laughing until I snort, talking about the crazy stuff we would do, and for a moment remembering what is was like to have not a care in the world and not a one responsibility other than to have fun, and then running to my car and driving as fast as I can back to my “whole world” my kids. Be careful if you blink, your kids will be attending their 20th year reunion, time has a way of tricking us and leaving us with only scattered memories..

Bear Lake and THE BIG YELLOW TUBE

If you are ever feeling down and out all you need is a good ride on the yellow tube! I am a firm believer in “Just Add Water” for many things, a good smoothie, a great pancake mix, and of course, kids, just add water and the fun is endless. But if you throw in the YELLOW TUBE, you are in for a guaranteed good time. Put on a life jacket, get two buddies and jump on, this ride consists of being hurled through air and water at top speeds, while bouncing uncontrollable over waves that have been special made to give you air!! All the while laughing and giggling like school girls, holding on for dear life, you are having so much fun but you also have the added element of terror. My two buddies happened to be Steve and Brent and when I say giggled like school girls, I was referring to them, I have never in my life seen two grown men laugh and giggle so hard over being bounced and thrown wildly around, but again these are the effects of the YELLOW TUBE. So if your husband is a stick in the mud (which mine is not) get him on the YELLOW TUBE.

Well, add that with a great family, and you are defiantly in for a great time, I was sad that this was probably our last bear lake trip this year, we have such a great time on the beach, in the water, on the boats and just hanging out together. Thanks Dad & Mom for putting up with all 8 of us, our kids and our kid like spouses.

Traithlon Training Con't

Biking

I fell, and really that is stating it nicely. When I say I fell, I mean that I fell as if someone had dropped me off the roof of a house and apparently I must have thrashed like a fish in the process because there is not one inch of my body that doesn’t hurt and have a bruise from the incident. But luckily I had time in the falling process to angle my knee precisely to slam it directly into the asphalt, absorbing the majority of the impact and inflicting maximum pain and bruising while simultaneously taking my other leg and scraping it against the bike pedal, leaving six scrape-bruises (that’s what I like to call them), bleeding and sore, all the while whimpering like a baby and cursing like a sailor.

I did get up, peel the bike off my battered body, get back on the bike, and proceed to fall immediately off, having just enough time to stick out my hand and hip to take the impact the second time, leaving those few remaining body parts that were unharmed from the first fall now pained, bruised and bleeding!!! Hey, I have an idea, let’s invent something that can go 30-plus miles per hour, let’s make the seat so uncomfortable that people have to wear tight pants with a pad in them so it feels like they are wearing a diaper, let’s make the tires so skinny that when they ride over a crack in the road there is the added danger of the tire getting wedged, hey, then let’s change the pedals so they have to wear shoes so they are clipped onto the death trap and CAN”T GET OFF. Stupid people, stupid me. As soon as this triathlon is over I am heaving the bike off a cliff.

PS Still not loving the biking!!