So I am forcing myself to blog!
I have to!
If I don't blog, people start to lose interest,
so when I have something seriously important to say,
no one will be standing around to hear it.
At the gym today,
Zach came to the realization that he is allergic to exercise.
I am not joking.
He literally broke out in hives and his lips even swelled.
If anyone was found to be allergic to exercise, it would certainly be me.
But guess what!
I ran a 10:20 mile!
That may not seem impressive, but my childhood self would be ecstatic at that!
As a kid I was the short, scrawny kid that ran 20 minute miles.
Huffing and puffing and walking as all the bigger kids
(even the overweight ones) lapped me.
Running was always a miserable time for me,
and I have never been athletic.
I always dreaded the physical fitness tests,
it was beyond torture for me.
Imagine me,
scrawny armed and hanging from the pull up bar,
not being able to do a single one...
and I probably only weighed 50 pounds!
Humiliation!
I would struggle and sway and sweat,
and the most I could ever muster was to bend one elbow slightly
whilst kicking the air with rage!
All the kids at my school were named Tyler.
I always imagined how awesome life would be if they only
tested us on things I was good at.
Like:
who can get this stray cat to come to them first?
winner: me!
who can recite all the states in alphabetical order the fastest?
uh... ME!
who can follow the lite brite pattern without making any stray holes?
THIS GIRL!
or who can produce crocodile tears at the drop of a hat?
DO YOU EVEN HAVE TO ASK?!
I don't think physical fitness tests measure what's really important!
These are dire skills!
I should have been the one getting all the ribbons and medals...
What amazing things were you good at?