I Eat Mud and Laugh at Danger

To say the last few days of my life have been interesting would be an understatement. They have been quite phenomenal and entertaining.

On Thursday I decided to be a big, bad responsible college student and drove to see my sister and best friend in Lawrence. Not because I really wanted to go to Lawrence, but because I had a sign evaluation on Friday at KSD in Olathe and refused to drive up and back in one day. It was a lot of fun and I'm really glad I got to spend time with J and Lida. Lida and I shared some delicious Froyo and J took me to see the Lion King in 3D - which if you haven't seen, go. Not kidding. Go. Grab the kids. Find a sitter. Whatever. Just go.

The sign evaluation on the other hand... Well let's just say I'm glad I have a few months to work on it. It will take some work, but I'm stealthy so it shouldn't be a problem.

Today. Oh my goodness. I stared danger in the face. And laughed. Twice. Yes, I know. You're jealous, even though you don't know why you're jealous yet. I'll tell you.

First, I'm a Warrior.

And that is my Warrior hat. And I blog in it.

How am I a Warrior, you ask? Let me share. Today, a warm September day, Jessie Menchak and myself became Warriors at a dash made just for Warriors, The Warrior Dash... Look it's their website!

We signed up for this a few weeks ago with a Groupon that I found one day. I convinced Jessie she needed to do it with me and the games began. It's a 3.23 mile obstacle course set up in a Tulsa park that I had never seen before named something about a Turkey. Basically, you run/walk/limp/crawl up and down a large hill and through obstacles. Perhaps a few pictures would help.

 Look how clean we are!

Eyes Closed. I'm such a Strong.

Off we go!

Note: I'm actually "jogging" :-O

 Now, between the picture above and the picture below is an entire obstacle course. Spectators could really only see the last three obstacles without chasing the Warriors around the course. Which would have been neat. But I thank Chris and Jenna for taking the pictures they did, they are great!

The Mud

 If you look closely in the picture above, you can see Jessie and I just getting off of the wall. Which was a miracle. I made it to the top of the wall and flipped. I couldn't make it over to the other side nor was I willing to jump. So I just sat up there. Jessie counted. She gave me looks. She tried everything. And sit I did. After the 10 year old next to me jumped, I followed her lead and we took off to the mud.

Gotta pose.

 A gazelle leap for the finish! I actually ended up in the top 100 of my age group, but um.. there was only like 130 people ;) Oh well! Jessie could have improved her time by probably 5 minutes if she wouldn't have waited around for me, but I'm sure glad she did!

 It took about an hour and we are so amazingly proud of our accomplishment. Don't tell anybody but I actually got my celebratory beer and took a sip before giving it away. Rebel. I know.

The second time I laughed in dangers face today was when I decided that Craigslist was going to be my new best friend. Lida found me a babysitting job on it and it had all the markings of sketchy. I met her at a Wal-mart so I didn't have to travel straight to her house without knowing who she was, and then I followed her to her house. It was an adventure to say the least. I babysat her twins tonight for a few hours and I'm still alive. They are so sweet! 13 months and identical. It has been a beyond delightful day! Baby snuggling and Warrior becoming. What's better?!