Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Whole Lotta Love

"I think you've probably been beautiful your whole life," 97 year-old Freddie just said to me.

"That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day," I reply.

"Well, you are beautiful," he kind of sighs before continuing, "Here I am with all this love in me and I've got no way to get it out."

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Because I'm getting too old for sibling torture and because Teh Big Bro asked so nice, here are a couple of pics from the Mini Marathon. Unfortunately, I was so busy basking in my PR glory that I forgot I should have been capturing the moment, so this is pretty much it.

(The start kind of reminds me of a Jimmy Buffett concert, only the music isn't as good and the only questionable thing you smell is ben-gay and biofreeze.)



This is my family after the race. We had walkers, runners and some walk/runners. It was great watching everyone finish and catching up after the race. Two of my nieces also participated but are missing from the picture. They had to leave as soon as they finished because the younger niece's prom was that same night. What 17-year-old girl runs a half marathon on the day of her prom!?! MY niece does...in 2:13 no less! (No cream puff girly-girls here!)


4 comments:

Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...

Wow! Who knew being nice got such purdy results?

I'll have to try it more often.

KIDDING! I intend to continue being Teh Biggest Joik On Teh Interwebs! I'll never change!

But thanks for the pix, sister!

(Are those the ugly shirts in the group foto? Cos they don't look half-bad!)

Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...

YIKES!1!

Sorry, lil sis, I just realized I got you mixed up with m2marathon!

SHE was the one with the fugly race shirts, not you!

Sorry!

Alisa said...

Very cool about your fam!

She'll earn that dinner before prom.

Carolina John said...

looks like a fun race, glad you pr'd. good job!