Mad Manatee Mentors v.2 thr.3 CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes considered) (Page 47)

NO MAPLE SYRUP???  

Definitely serious.  

No peanut butter??? WTH???

What are the expectations with Oiselle? I'm guessing more along the lines of ambassador and brand promotion as they have product they want to get exposure for. Teams like this can have people nationwide, or even farther. So these workouts may really be optional without the *nudge, nudge* that some like to do.

I guess that's the thing. None really. At least if you are asking what their expectations are. Yeah, they want people to see their product, which I wear almost every day and would do because I simply like it and no other reason. I just don't feel right about racing in their kit when I am getting quality workouts and coaching with my club. So it sits in my closet.

Every now and again, Oiselle cobbles enough women together to have a team for XC which often ends up being someone high profile like Fleshman and maybe Sally then a bunch of others of varying ability. On one hand, it'd be fun to run with them, give the things I have stated above AND I could step out of the shadows and have a chance to do well, relative to the team (of course always depending on who shows up) but I imagine my club would maybe feel a little betrayed given I do all my workouts with them and probably wouldn't like it if I toggled back and forth during the season when Oiselle doesn't have enough people. 

So maybe it's ok that I just sit back with Oiselle, and join in runs every now and again and that's enough.

I had Vegemite for the first time

I may or may not speak to you again.

If you have peanut butter breath, she might just be okay with that.

Woo hoo!

True that

If you play your cards right, you could try them all at once! 

Racing Manatee (just one )

GO JonaTN!!!

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Egads, what is WRONG with all you ... errr, us people ... group {MELON PILE} for wellness.

----> Thinking of Melanie and her dad. Good thoughts for their appointment today.

Ditto on this. Love and prayers will continue until further notice. And for Kirstiron's colleague.

Darren, Those are interesting memories.  I can only imagine your mother's anger....

One year my parents decided that instead of putting tags on the presents that each of us kids would have their own "wrapping paper" .  They hoped it would cut down on the shaking./ peeking and other guessing games of "what is this?"  The idea had merit, but failed as we all pretty much guessed our paper well in advance. They used favorite colors/ things on each one so it was kind of a give-away that mine had kitties and my favorite color at the time was blue.  That was also the year my Grandmother from California --who rarely interacted with us--sent gifts pre wrapped for us.  I was helping to set them under the tree and told my parents that she mislabeled one.  They thought I was peeking --no hard to disguise a teddy bear that is not in any kind of box.  My brothers are 4 years either side of me.  The older one was in junior high at least--the LATS thing he would have wanted was a teddy bear.  Yep, it was mislabeled and intended for the younger one.

Happy Solstice!!  To those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, yay for days getting longer!!  Sorry, Southern Hemisphere folks - it's your turn for shortening days.  Luckily none of you lives far enough south to have those 24-hour days in the dark (I think?).

Yaaaaaaaaaaay! All downhill from here!

THANK HEAVENS!!!

Favorite Christmas memory - nothing singularly seems to stand out, other than certain yearly traditions: getting the extended family together Christmas eve at a different uncle/aunt's house each year, immediate family getting together for a big dinner and a gift exchange Christmas day at our house.  An enduring memory: a few years in a row my parents bought live, (root ball) Christmas trees, two of which got planted on either side of the driveway of our house after their stint in the house was complete (a third was planted elsewhere in the yard and died after a few years).  I lived in that house the first 20 years of my life and was very sad to move.  The people who bought the house loved the Christmas trees, now grown to probably 20-25 feet tall, and named their electric business after them, Twin Pines.  They've trimmed them up over the years, but they still are beautiful, majestic memories of wonderful Christmases past and I smile every time I drive by my old house.

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There you go Janyne.