Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Happy Birthday, Clare!!

My dear friend, Clare, turns some version of 40-something today.

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5 years ago Clare and I walked a marathon. Yes, you read that right. We WALKED. *I* do not run or jog. But Karen wanted us to raise money for a wonderful cause, Teams in Training. Karen runs. Karen runs a lot. I do not. As luck would have it neither does Clare.

So we formed a little team of 2 and trained for 5 months.

While raising the money and helping out that wonderful cause was great and was our PRIMARY reason for joining, I think Clare would agree that the bonding experience became center stage. We laughed. A lot. We cried. We walked. We walked some more. And then we laughed some more.

Did I mention that we laughed? A lot?

That whole experience was just incredible. I don't remember the blisters or the shin splints or the sunburn or the fire in my muscles as much as I remember this stuff:
  • the catered hot tub breakfast from my husband
  • the Hello Kitty backpack focal point for Clare
  • running from the cops who were trying to bus us the last mile
  • getting caught making butt-squeeze gestures to a cyclist
  • laughing so hard I farted
  • laughing so hard we couldn't continue walking
  • turning *slightly* psychotic to get Clare to finish that damn marathon
  • apologizing to Clare for turning *slightly* psychotic
  • laughing about turning *slightly* psychotic
and

finishing

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Happy Birthday, Clare! I love you!

(wanna do it again?)

8 comments:

  1. AWESOME!!!! That's an awesome photo finish! And love how crazy you are, ya crack me up. :hug:

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  2. Happy Birthday Clare!!!

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  3. That was awesome for you and Clare. (Happy Birthday Clare!!)

    And somehow, the laughing so hard you farted does not surprise me at all ;-)

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  4. okay what fun!! Thanks for sharing another wackie Cheri story!
    No pictures of the butt squeezing

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  5. You rock! Happy Birthday, Clare!

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  6. Wow! You guys are amazing to have done that!

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  7. You are insane. Hysterically funny and lovable - but insane.
    Clare must be just as insane.
    Love ya Cheri!!
    Happy Birthday Clare!!

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