You Said It!
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I must direct your attention to today's post on How Not to Act Old. It has something for everyone (over 35, that is).
Plainsies, Clapsies
A ball bouncing game from my youth instructed the player to throw the ball up ( plainsies ), throw it up and clap ( clapsies ) throw it up and roll your hands ( roll the ball ) and touch your shoulders ( tabapsies ). In trying to locate the rest of the ball bouncing chant, I found out not only is my “tabapsies” a mondegreen , but also the motion – touching your shoulders – isn’t even the correct movement! You are supposed to clap your hands behind your back and say “ to backsies .” Yeah. That makes much more sense. Being only slightly deflated by this discovery, I will still share my exciting news. In an attempt to counteract the stretching of my wrist from doing front squats two days in a row, I pulled out the tabapsies motion this morning. This, in itself, is not newsworthy. However, I grabbed both shoulders with all five fingers!!! Again, not exciting unless you know that when I was nine years-old, I broke my left elbow doing a running cartwheel; the repai
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Dur.
While I am starting to wear more color (did ya see my red shirt at the perc. workshop? Shhhh, don't tell anyone that was my chorus shirt), I will not give up my flat, rubber-soled shoes. I heart my Keens and my Simple sneaks.
I really can't talk as my wardrobe is mostly black, but today, I shall wear...drumroll please...brown. Woo-hoo!
By far my favorite line of her post, and the one I carry in my heart is "As long as you’re still walking this earth, you might as well do it in shoes that click."