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?
lol! well, i was actually good at sports when i was a kid. i'm awful now. go figure. i was always good at spelling, writing, things like that. not math. yuck.
ReplyDeleteugh sorry about your husband being allergic to exercise. i hope he's okay. hooray for you ashley! i like your list of things you're good at. i'm not a fan of testing.
ReplyDeleteI have the super power to never lose interest in your blog ;)! and to hopelessly lose in scrabble ^^
ReplyDeletehaha, you crack me up! xxx
ReplyDeleteI think we need to have a battle for "who can get this stray cat to come to them first?" ...because that is also one of my skills. :D
ReplyDeleteHeygirlhey! Just stalking your blog! =] this made me laugh so hard. That picture? Hilarious. Have you read Kelly kapoor's book? She's like "I never understood why we had to climb the rope in gym class. I never saw my parents do that IRL so I really questioned if that was a life skill I really needed to have." that's basically me paraphrasing right there. I'm pretty sure ive never ran a mile in my life. I am probably allergic to exorcise, too. Way to go on the mile though! Totally cheering you on while my head is burried in a bag or Doritos.
ReplyDeletePS. I lovelovelove your blog header!
Bahahahaha I love you.
ReplyDeleteI think I could get an award for making a room the messiest in the least amount of time haha! Probably isn't a great life skill to have either...
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I would memorize the spelling of words forwards and backwards, you know, just in case anyone asked me to spell a word backwards. I also could have won an award for "sneakily reading the most VC Andrews books" in the sixth grade.
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