Comments | saffronhare: had a blast

saffronhare

had a blast

Nov 05, 2013 13:51

Last night, I got to participate in a Football 101 clinic for women down here in my town. Somebody knew somebody, and then asked somebody else, and -- BAM -- we had former (sorta legendary and entirely fabulous human being) KC Chief Will Shields in da house, along with a bunch of terribly fit and friendly former pro/arena football players, showing ( Read more... )

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clevermanka November 5 2013, 20:31:17 UTC

YOU ARE A FUCKING ROCK STAR!

I tackled and planted that dummy right off the end of the mat. It was AWESOME. Coach Dude made a NOISE of DELIGHT, because (apparently) that's never happened before.

Oh man would I pay for video of that. SO THRILLED FOR YOU!

saffronhare November 5 2013, 20:45:18 UTC

Honestly, it was a great atmosphere, and I love to be coached. So yeah...the crushing was fun. But I suspect I would have loved the shit out of the evening without that. I mean, I was so pumped up about the whole thing that I started calling people once I was home to tell them all about it.

It was particularly cool to look over, while I was brushing the turf pellets out of my ears, and see Ballerina Daughter going YEAH MOM. When we picked up FionaPie, she was all, OMG you should have *seen* Mom! :)

rio_luna November 5 2013, 20:40:54 UTC

yes ma'am , way to CRUSH the evening!!

i probably would not have enjpoyed this as muchas you, but i totally get it: the energy blah of wet-noodle ladies. why did they even come? i had the same thing at Ballet Sculpt: you paid for the damn class, why threaten the instrtuctor with death for doing her job?? peh.

saffronhare November 5 2013, 20:42:46 UTC

Exactly. All the oxygen they use up with complaining could instead be used to fuel muscles, you know? I mean, I'll say WOW when I discover something that is a struggle, but keep the whiny-ass crybabies away from me.

Er. Did I say that out loud?

rio_luna November 6 2013, 01:59:20 UTC

when pilates gets hard, i snarl, i sneer, i growl and groan and often think about punching unworthy exes. using up my precious O2 berating my teacher is stoopid.