Wednesday, July 19, 2006

I admit, I am a control freak. People who know me know this and can probably emphasize a little. Control freaks do flock together a bit. So far this summer has been very trying as I feel I have little to no control over anything--to the point that in my father's car I can't even roll down my window myself because the controls are broken. It's enough to drive one insane.
I am trying with the whole- gotta have faith thing. My new mantra is that everything will just work out. It will. It has to....
Today was eventful because I got bicycle shoes and clip on pedals. I feel like a real biker now. It's great. Now I just need to get on some long rides again.
My other big accomplishment included some investigative sleuthing. I suspected that someone in our neighborhood had acquired a piece of playground equipment from my elementary school. MJ- it was on the third and fouth grade side- the green bars. All the girls (maybe some boys?) would vy for the third level bar because you could easily hook one leg around and flip around it. Because I wasn't exactly gymnast material I would go for the lowest bar because I couldn't do flips on it because of the level and not my lack of skill, but alas I digress. If my hypothesis regarding my neighbor's acquisition was true, then I also put together that the elementary school must have also bought all new equipment. As I was testing out the new pedals, I took a detour to the elementary school playground where I saw all the new equipment, including a rock climbing wall. I was right. :)
Yeah, there's not much to do in PE, let me tell you.

2 Comments:

At 7/24/2006 07:29:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, it's ok to be a control-freak.

For example, everyone on my service at the hospital yells at me for not using "the whale," this awful automatic stapler near the computers, which gives you absolutely no prior warning as to when it's going to fire it's weaponry, and when it does, the staple is about 3 inches toward the center of the paper.

So, each day I have a "miniature rebellion" and use the unit clerk's regular stapler, with which I can control both the speed and position of the staple on my paper. So, no matter what bodily fluids I'm wading through that day, even that little bit of control and stability makes a big difference! Delightful.

 
At 7/25/2006 07:51:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is nothing wrong with being a control freak, it's gotten you this far, so why change now?!

But really, you can be pretty easygoing. We didn't really have too many arguments about control of the CD player or lights back in Conover!

-Ape

 

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