At work today, we had a meeting in another city. We went thinking that we were going to have a 'meeting' all day but after the mini 2 hour agenda, we were handed driving directions and asked to get in our cars and drive. Fun! We ended up going Go Kart Driving all afternoon. We had a wonderful lunch, even had a beer, and after, got the dissertation on driving rules and off we went.
We had to wear a neck brace and a helmet (serious helmet) and a seat belt; the cars went up to 40 mph and it was indoors. I haven't had that much fun in such a long time. I just let loose and had a good time. Even with my letting loose, at the end of the day, I got a trophy (no lie) for slowest driver! Ha! I prefer to think of it as cautious driver thankyouverymuch. ;)
Everyone had a great time and it was such a fun surprise. Not what we did (actually I knew about it beforehand--we have some folks who can't keep a secret I work with :) but just how much fun it was. I had the sickest feeling when I put the helmet on. Like in the pit of your stomach, just nerves probably. Then when I had to close the sheild down, I felt so closed in, you have NO perception of who is beside you. After the nasaau passed, it was great! To see the owner of the company racing around the track like a little speed demon, such fun. At the end, the last thing we did was an endurance race and they teamed randomly the slowest person with the fastest person and the next slowest and the next fastest etc. I got teamed with the fastest person (please refer to above comment about trophy for slowest driver) and we came up with a strategy. It worked! I was to drive first and 'do my thing' ie. get in everyone's way and slow them up. Then the other person would flag me down when she saw on the boards that I was a full two laps behind and I'd make a pit stop letting her take over for the tag team portion. She made awesome time and we came in first! Then someone argued the standings (I knew we weren't really in first, the other team had more laps than us) and we got knocked down to second. Still our strategy worked because I knocked into one of the fast drivers and caused her to spin out (yes!) and all I could see was my partner on the sidelines waiving like a fanatic and doing a big thumbs up! Yes dirty playing but hey, there were no rules against it. Evil laugh--he he he. I must admit I felt a little bad but all's fair in love and war and that was a competition. I was a naturally slow driver, legitimately and I just threw in a couple of moves is all. Yep.
What a breath of fresh air and loads of fun. Nothing bad about today....nope. Not at all.
I like it like that.
--J
You cook, you clean, you go to work, you nourish, you love, you scold, you are professional and yet you hang your hat on every dust particle in your home. You are a woman. Some women are Moms and some are not. You are still a woman. We are all made similarly. We are strong.
2 comments:
Dear Jenn, I thought about what you wrote in Tammy's blog comments. Yes, I could have been more courteous and less direct in my comments, for that I am regretful. However, if a person puts themselves out in a public forum, they should be prepared to have people say what they feel/think about what they write. I read most of her previous blogs and the majority of what she writes is negative, so I just needed to vent, not a good thing sometimes. I still stand behind my statement that if you think positively and make good choices, good things can and will happen in your life; attitude is everything. As for being "Anonymous" why should anyone put their real name if they don't know the blogger personally? I could use a fake one, what would be the difference? Thanks for your thoughts, I'll try to be more humane and less abrupt if I choose to comment in the future. I enjoy reading your blogs, you're rarely "woe is me" (which all of us need to be SOMETIMES) but descriptive and interesting. That's what most readers enjoy, so thanks!
Well thanks for the explanation. Venting is good, hell, that's why we participate in the world of 'blogging'. But yes, lesson learned on being a bit nicer in your presentation of opinions would good.-- and add in its to my friend who I adamantly stick up for and while it's true you should be able to hear what others have to say and it's not that I was arguing it was more the way in which it was done. Enough said.
Thanks!
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