monsters II

03.26.06 14:32

 

As promised, more monsters! This is another one from the Sting and Bite series. Once, I was swimming across a lake at my grandparents house, and I thought that I was about to be eaten by this guy. Things like that can happen when you're in the middle of a lake and something slimy touches your leg. What was that? Can seaweed even be in a lake?Thoughts like that start running through your mind, until you are, maybe even thrashing wildly and freaking out your cousins.

monsters III

03.28.06 11:26

 

Ahh, the final monster of the week. But soon there will be more. More I tell you! I'm creating them in the basement...(laughing maniacly and clasping hands together with wild look eye.)

beaver freezer!

03.31.06 10:45

It's almost here! In eight days I'm going to be in a mini triathlon, famously named the Beaver Freezer. Yes, you read right, the Beaver Freezer. Hey, hey..get your minds out of the gutter people! It's called the Beaver Freezer because it usually takes place in chilly weather at the Oregon State University, home of the Beavers. Yes, now you see, there's a reason for everything. This is my first competey thing since I was a kid...and believe me, it hasn't been a walk in the park getting ready for this thing. Well, actually it has been. A lot of walks in the park. And bike rides and runs and swims. I hobble around a lot, with sore muscles and wind burns and a satisfying chlorine smell that is stuck in my pores.

 

But now, as ye olde mini triathlon draws near, I've started having nightmares about it. The kind where I forget my goggles or bike, run when I should be biking..get lost when I'm biking, crash into people when I'm swimming. Stuff like that. But really, the worst that can happen is that my sister will have to roll me over the finish line in some kind of hand-made wheel barrow. And would that be so bad? Certainly not as cool and inspiring as Julie Moss, who crawled across the finish line in the 1982 Iron Man competition. Have you folks ever seen footage of this? Oh geez, you will either cry like a little bitty baby at her gusto, or be totally horrified by the intensity of the race. Or it might even inspire you to run out and sign up for the Beaver Freezer!