Denouement

Thank you so much for getting me outside today :) YOU are a great friend! I am so very sorry about my horrid reaction to the minivan devil lady. I need to repent.

Marion is wonderful, isn't she? She's so wonderful I bet she flipped impatient minivan lady back off. That's what I like about Marion.

Marion would never, Burt, how dare you suggest it. (Should we make him chew on soap for suggesting such a thing?).

I was totally dying to know!!! You make me laugh!

Nice job on the miles.

Btw, I heard some super fast women talking about you at Dr. Toronto's office a few days before SGM. I wanted to interupt them, because they had your "injury" wrong. But kept my mouth shut.

They were talking about how talented you are!!

I can't remember their names. I think one was Julie (took 2nd at TOU) and the other's name was ... stink ... I can't remember. She has ran a 2:40 and her husband's name is Dennis.

That would be Michelle Simonitis. And actually I am pretty sure Marion didn't, but I didn't store her body language in my permanent file. Most things go in and out in this brain.

I wanted to say, "Hey ... I know her too!!" But felt far too inferior to be talking to them! :)

One of the things that I so admire about you, Michelle is that you are so down to earth and easy to talk to. You always make people feel like a million bucks ... even when we run so much slower than you! You really are amazing that way.

I just think you are GREAT!!!

Yeah. I can't stay mad at you even when you stuff soap down my throat.

"I told you not to use Life Boy."

What happens/is said on the run, oops, I mean walk, stays on the walk. This is just one more reason I will love Michelle forever ;)

Burt- it's ok- you don't need to eat the soap :D MIchelle is very sweet to defend my honor and pead dementia :)

NICE WALK/NO RUNNING with the "don't-mess-with-me Marion"! :)

How did flag football championship go for Ben? We went to our son's football game last night. He made a 80 yard return touch down...the only bright moment of the torturous game. Lehi is the worst team in the entire nation. So SAD! But I'm so proud of Steven busting his guts and playing his heart out. I'm not saying it 'cause he's my son. He truly carried the team...a team with no depth nor talent, the under-underdog with poor coaching and zero support/respect. I have to keep telling myself that it is "character building". Sorry to go on and on. But I thought you'd understand 'cause you're my hero!

Smooth - sorry for all you are going through. I think we can learn so much through sports, it just depends on us to be teachable. So they had a play off, one the first game, and then had a second game 1/2 hour later to a team which didn't play 2 games that day. It was a shoot out, and our team was winning with 4 seconds to go, and the other team busted out with an extraordinary run, with a bullet-kid running through the hands of six of our players, got a touchdown with no time left on the clock and the other team one. The close loss is so hard to take. Ben's team thought they had it in the bag and they didn't. My son cried and cried, but after 1/2 an hour, he was more chipper, saw some of the lessons in the experience, and I chatted with him regarding my being passed at St. G, and how we can learn from the experiences where we come up short, but the would-of could-of should-of never does us any good.

Anyway, sports aren't an important part of our lives, but they are, right? After all, we are all on this blog, supporting each other through training and LIFE.

Go to bed Michelle :) I just finished some chocolate covered cinnamon bears and am ready for a good nights sleep. I hope all is BORING through the night and tomorrow too. Please call me later if you need the boys to play while you maybe go for a visit. I promise to clean my house ;)