So last night we went to Maggie’s first ever Swim Meet as a member of the Chelsea Aquatic Club. She was so cute, and fast! She took 2nd place for Backstroke in her race (8 and unders). Quite the event, and she’s excited for her next one! Even cooler than her good swimming, though, was her effort, and her being a part of the team. She was having fun, and really trying her best! I will tell you without shame (but with a little self-disappointment) that I simply could not have swum all of the warm up lengths they have those kids do, and then been able to stand up on my own, much less swim in a competition!! (This is quite possibly due to my complete abandonment of my “get in shape” routine from a few months ago…darnit).

Then, this morning, we all went to the Chelsea Jog-A-Thon, which was very fun. It’s basically running around the track for fun and health, but they’ve got lots of music going, and you wear tape on your back and people mark your tape for each lap you do (well, the kids get marks, cuz they’re all trying to do a lot of laps. The adults mostly walked and talked about how they needed to “do more exercise like this…”) Max ran 2 whole miles, and Maggie ran 4! Well, ran is not quite true – jogged/walked/skipped/sprinted/walked backwards/ate-grapes-while-strolling-and-chatting-with-friends is probably more accurate! Very fun. I ‘speed walked’ about a mile and 1/2, and was signed up to be a volunteer “lap counter” for an hour, so it was cool to have the Sharpie and mark off laps on kids backs for them while cheering them on! Some of the littlest kids were in kindergarten or preschool, and they’d come to me every time they made a lap cuz I would make a big deal about how they were “Back Already?! WOW!!” – very cute to see little kids being proud of stuff they’ve accomplished, I love that! Jeanne was a volunteer in the “Get your pictures taken with Jog-Dog, the big mascot” section, and she did more laps than me. A good time was had by all!

I spent Friday, by the way, helping to measure out the building we’re hoping to get for WTP. We have to make absolutely certain that the building will work before we get it, so we were measuring for stage/seating/miscellaneous so more designs can be done. It was great to be able to spend 4 hours in the building, cuz a lot of it I got to wander and daydream about making the place a reality. My fantasy dialog was along the lines of “This’ll be center stage!”, “If I have this office, my desk’ll go there, but if I have that office my desk’ll go over there!“, “Right now I’m where the back row will be…so the diag for the entrance will be here…”, “Oooh, in 2 years when we raise even more money, we can build an addition right HERE and put a rehearsal space in!”, “Man, this backstage is gonna be TIGHT! But we’ll make it work, cuz we have no choice!!” It was very inspiring and energizing.

Tonight, my last Tiger’s Game of the season. In case anyone is still wondering, they STILL suck, and it now looks like they will be very lucky to even match last years win total. *sigh*

OH, and new Superman icon! Whaddaya think? Oooooh, he looks heroic, no?