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Feeling Not-So-Adventurous
By now you all know how scatter brained I can be sometimes. So you know that my days are all backwards sometimes. Right? Well, Monday as I was leaving work I told my manager, “Bye! Have a good weekend!” He looked at me funny. Then I realized what I just said, and we both laughed.
The thing is, I actually thought it was Friday ALL DAY! And that’s how I felt yesterday too. And this morning as I drug myself to work I thought to myself, “Ugh, well at least it’s Friday.” Oh wait. IT’S NOT! And it’s not that I hate work or anything. I don’t really know what’s wrong with me. Other than I’m really looking forward to this weekend.
We’re taking the kids to the water park in Clovis. We go every year with Cabana Boy and Teen Barbie and our kids. My friend Goocher also goes with her kids. And my best buddy Snowball and her husband CocoNut go with their kids. It’s like a big reunion of sorts. I look forward to it every year even though I’m such a chicken that I refuse to get on any of the water slides.
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*pictured below are Snowball, CocoNut, Teen Barbie and Cabana Boy on their trip to Mexico which they went on WITHOUT ME.
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Watching people is one of my favorite hobbies and boy.. is there people to watch at places like the water park. It’s so neat to see the tourists, the locals, the teen punks, the rockers, the preppies. They all come from different backgrounds, different cultures, different styles and they are all at one location.
I also love spending time with the kids in line waiting for the rides. In fact, that’s my favorite part. We joke around. We talk. We bond. It’s nice. But when it’s time to get on, I say HELL NO! I’ll wait right here, thank you very much.
I’ve had excuses for years of why I “couldn’t get on them.” At first, I was pregnant. Then, I had to stay behind with the little ones, while my teenagers and my husband had their fun. But now my kids are getting older and they WANT to get on those scary slides so I’m running out of excuses. So I’ve decided that I’m too old to pretend like I like to be scared out of my mind. I’m done. I refuse to pretend any more.
In three days I’ll be at Wild Water Adventures. Laying out, eating, walking my little ones to the slides and then waiting for them patiently at the bottom. And when somebody asks why I won’t ride with them I’ll just tell them, “Because I don’t want to. That’s why.” And that’s all.
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Besides, somebody needs to wait for the Baby Twinkies at the bottom of the slide just in case they get scared, right? RIGHT?
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9 comments from 4 users
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posted by
woofwoof
on Jun 27, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Oh I dont do pools very much. My equilibrium is so off. I would drown in a 4 ft pool:( BUT my ass does do magic mountain rides:) OHHHH YA!!!
posted by
twinkie
on Jun 27, 2007 at 10:44 AM
OH HELL NO!
posted by
woofwoof
on Jun 27, 2007 at 10:47 AM
OH YA,,I get on and bug to go TWICE:) Ya just dont tell my neurosurgeon:)
posted by
twinkie
on Jun 27, 2007 at 01:33 PM
I'm excited for this weekend. My sister and her family are meeting us there this year and so is Cabana Boy's sister, MeyMey and HER family. It's gonna be FUN!
posted by
Daydreamer
on Jun 27, 2007 at 01:56 PM
Sounds like so much fun Norma Norm! I wished I could go with you all. And if someone asks just say, "I don't want the Prophecy to come true."
posted by
twinkie
on Jun 27, 2007 at 02:09 PM
ha. that sounds WAY better than what I was planning on saying which is, "Leave me EFF alone. I just don't wanna, alright?" Then I was gonna kick 'em where it counts.
posted by
twinkie
on Jun 27, 2007 at 03:21 PM
YAY I just posted a picture of Snowball, CocoNut, Teen Barbie and Cabana Boy! So you can see who I'm hanging out with at the water slides. One of these men may or may NOT get kicked where it counts if they give me a hard time about NOT getting on the water slides! :) tee hee.
posted by
Grampsdon
on Jun 27, 2007 at 04:44 PM
You can always say you are waiting at the bottom of the slides etc to walk them to the potty. Baggy pants and all. In my day there were no water parks but we did belong to the pool club at the Hacienda. (Boy is that a dater). And girls watching wasn't what it is now. Girls look much girlier. Maybe it's my bifocals. Anyway, have fun.
posted by
twinkie
on Jun 27, 2007 at 04:50 PM
witty play on words, gramps.....
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