I will continue my week in the life chronicle this weekend. Today's break in the action equals two great stories! This morning I had the pleasure of sleeping until 5:45am instead of 4:45 am! Glorious. I still needed to get in a swim workout so I headed to the pool at 6:30a - just as the tri club finished up its first half-hour, I started my 2700 yard workout. Between sets I heard -- out of the corner of my ear -- the coach say something about a missing gold and diamond earring.
I don't know if you know this yet, but I'm a little obsessed with finding spare change during workouts. Dirty Spice and I have been known to fight over loose change [and a shark's tooth or two] on the track or the road. Last year, we had a contest to see who could find the most change. CLICK HERE to see who won (me). Anyway.....I decided to put my master needle-in-a-haystack sleuthing skills to work.
I promise I concentrated on my stroke and bilateral breathing and my lats and blah blah blah, but I also searched for any glint and sparkle on the bottom of the pool. I searched on either side of the blue tile line and even tried to spot the jewelry between the feet of the water aerobics going on two lanes over.
No luck.
I finished my workout, headed to the locker room (transition) and then headed home. When I opened the door from the lobby to the lot, I spied with my little eye a little gold and diamond earring on the sidewalk!
I don't know if you know this yet, but I'm a little obsessed with finding spare change during workouts. Dirty Spice and I have been known to fight over loose change [and a shark's tooth or two] on the track or the road. Last year, we had a contest to see who could find the most change. CLICK HERE to see who won (me). Anyway.....I decided to put my master needle-in-a-haystack sleuthing skills to work.
I promise I concentrated on my stroke and bilateral breathing and my lats and blah blah blah, but I also searched for any glint and sparkle on the bottom of the pool. I searched on either side of the blue tile line and even tried to spot the jewelry between the feet of the water aerobics going on two lanes over.
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| Summertime Water Aerobics |
No luck.
I finished my workout, headed to the locker room (transition) and then headed home. When I opened the door from the lobby to the lot, I spied with my little eye a little gold and diamond earring on the sidewalk!
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| Looked Like This! |
I was so excited! I took it back inside to our tri coach, Alan. Didn't you say that someone lost an earring? Look! I found it! His response, Great! You found one! What? One? There's another missing? I immediately went out and searched the dirt and pine straw and sidewalk for the other.
No luck.
I walked out to my car and found two women pacing around a parking space. One was my CORE @ THE STORE friend Sue. Are you looking for an earring? Yes! They exclaimed. I found one! What?! We found the other! There were hugs all around! What an amazing feeling!
Did I say two stories? The other will come tomorrow.
Watch foreshadowing here:
AND THIS:
