Share the Olympic Spirit!
Earlier this week, a twitter buddy and I decided Shaun White is actually a wheaten terrier — enthusiastic, exuberant, playful, and able to roll with the punches. The similarity was sealed when we realized that his amazing jumps are truly modified “wheaten greetin’s!” We’re expecting him to sport the full wheaten fall over his forehead after the games are done!
Perhaps there’s a little Olympian in all of us. This week, I created my own “Olympic” event — the Nordic combined cabinet-door oil wash! On way home from the University, I picked up bottle of Murphy’s soap, intending to dust the upstair’s closet doors. Part way though my “course,” the cleaning rag jumped the track to hit the bathroom cabinets and then all the room doors. The course then took a hairpin turn down the stairs for more doors and cabinets. Treacherous course — dodged giant dust bunny obstacles, hurdled over errant dog toys. Halfway through, I decided this wasn’t housework, but an athletic event! (As this is one of those extreme events, my baggy clothing made the perfect competitor’s uniform!) My wheatens got into the spirit and donned judges’ expressions and started taking notes. I completed course in record time, raising my arms in a victory cheer, but only earned 4th place as I received low style points from the German and Russian judges and one judge deducted 2 extra points …for sneaking carrots into his dinner earlier. The wheatens aren’t saying which one gave the deduction, but Wheatie LOVES his carrots and Toby was trying to look suspiciously innocent as I huffed and puffed in my “kiss-and-cry” booth after completing my run!
So enjoy the rest of these amazing winter games and get inspired to beef up your exercise program. And remember, you, too can turn an ordinary day into an Olympic event!
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