okay so this post is number two from the road. so no pic again, and darnit i have a good one. at some point i'll figure out how to upload pics from my phone but until then, i'll just have to double post tomorow.
today will be short and sweet. and another quirky personality comentary. its funny because i always laugh when someone calls me competitive. now i like to win, dont get me wrong, but really what i like is to PLAY. my SISTER is competitive! some of the girls i play with are COMPETITIVE....and my coach oddly enough is SUPER COMPETITIVE. in comparison, id say, im kinda competitive (ha). that's not to say i wont nurse a good sulk on occasion when we lose, or make my pop or kb or lisa listen to a long winded rant now and then, but for the most part, once a game is over, i just move on. i really do feel so lucky that i still get to play, and play at a level that is fulfilling. im not sure how many more years, i have but i will do it for as long as my body lets me.
now my team ROCKS!! i have been so fortunate throughout my life to be on great teams....every long term friend i have has been made and forged somehow thru my teams. you dont often get that chance as an adult....but i did and im so glad. the funniest part about my team is that i am seriously the second oldest person on it...the first being my sister!! we are like SENIOR CITIZENS on this team....its hilarious!! so im now in the position where some of my best pals are like 12!!! okay maybe they are in their 20's but still!! there's a special place in my heart for stackalicious....my "newest" friend for life - and a super great girl...ive been so lucky again to have made a "lifer" friend thru softball. she's my pedicure, spend the night, see a movie, console each other and avon walk kind of friend. even tho she is literally 14 years younger, i still love her :)...and then of course, there are the competitors!! let's just say that trish and sam PUSH me to be more competitive. they are the bust your balls, win at all cost friends.....and its been super fun to find friends like that again too.
which leads me to today....you know i totally dropped the ball last year, and have committed to all sorts of nonsense this year to get my stuff back together. well one of the first things is that lovely half marathon in march. and i'm running the damn thing with TRISH...ms ultra competitive.....so of course she ran 10 miles yesterday.....and posted it on facebook.....which was pretty much a great big giant "hey deni, get your ass in gear"......so, of course, after much internal debate, i set off on a run today....thinking - just go 6....6 is respectable. then once im running i start negotiating with myself, because dammit, trish did 10. so after an HOUR AND 40 minutes, i'm 8.5 in and im almost to my destination, when i'm faced with a GIANT HILL. this is where the "real deni" kicks in and realizes, i'd like to be able to post that 10 mile run on facebook, just so i can say SO THERE to trish.....but there's NO WAY i'm running up a hill after running 8.5....so i stopped...and walked up the hill. i'm totally good with the 8.5 :)
and that in a nutshell is why being 40 is so much better than 28....or at least that's my story.....and i'm sticking to it :)
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