smackdown.
i played in a volleyball tournament with some of my favorite montroseans all day saturday, we took third place but really played better than we ever have. it was a fun day. i just wish i could go back in time about 25 (cripes) years and have a DO OVER when it comes to high school sports. i didn't make the volleyball team my freshman year at rapid city stevens and was too embarrassed to ever try again. after the volleyball flop, i tried out for the dance team (which is seriously, seriously funny) and didn't make that either. then i went out for track and they made me run the freaking MILE when i was supposed to be a sprinter. hey, i can take the hint. oh, i was also in a really bad play where i had to wear a tie die shirt and no shoes and reinact the assasination of jfk. pretty sure that was karen's idea.
then i decided to just get a job and a car and quickly became the girl who drove everyone to the kegs in the woods. (just kidding if you are my mom)
but honestly, i think somewhere inside me, there could have been an athlete. maybe not an athlete, but at least a PLAYER. i CAN serve that stupid ball over. i CAN jump up and tip it and block it and i bet if i would have had a coach and a chance i could have played the heck out of that volleyball.
IF.
grrrrr. i hate that word.
10 Comments:
Oh how I miss that game, too. Maybe someday...
I bet you rocked it, girl!:)
6:41 PM
I know exactly how you feel-I think we both got left behind in the sports thing at the same time. Only they wanted me to run the 2 miles! I so which I could find a volleyball team here, have been just to busy with classes the last 3 years. Maybe now is the time
8:06 PM
You haven't mentioned the real distraction, buddy. It starts with a B.
Also, I remember that horrid, horrid dance team tryout. Dear Lord, we were out before we even went in there (even if we had been able to dance). What were we thinking?
I think you would have been a great volleyball player, but man, that might have put a serious crimp on our keggers-in-the-woods (just kidding if you are Carey's mom) time, which mostly, come to think of it, was getting-lost-while-looking-for-keggers-in-the-woods.
7:52 AM
ok, karen, i give up. it starts with a B?
i thought maybe you were going to say it starts with a G, but a B?
hmmm...
8:58 AM
Well, G specifically, but BOYS generally. We wasted a lot of time on boys..
9:09 AM
I remember that play, think it was Karen's idea and it was because of a A boy. Just think of the play as being way ahead of its time. Just remember who was your friend before the car and getting lost at keggers:) By the way I don't remember the trying out for the dance team, must be like my short lived career as a football cheeleader
10:45 AM
I only vaguely remember the play, but yeah, sure it was my stupid idea. I do think the shirts were cool, though. Cooler than big grape costumes, at any rate.
:-)
11:25 AM
Hey now, they were RAISINS!
12:18 PM
maybe if the dumb PE teacher who kept letting me be the last one picked would have been "let go" - I could have been athletic too!
i mean, as long as we're what if'n.
5:48 PM
Oh silly girls, what counts is who we are now, right? Sheesh. I don't regret much of my time with you all.
12:02 PM
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