Fwordz

Fwordz: FAT!!!! : Before my journey and during my journey. I'm at work on Friday and it has been one hell of a week and this is my three day weekend th...

Before my journey and during my journey. I'm at work on Friday and it has been one hell of a week and this is my three day weekend thank God.  It's around 3:00pm which means only 3 more hours and I'm out of there to enjoy the weekend, on the home stretch if you will.  I'm standing at my desk and a customer walks up to check in, for those of you who don't know I am an assistant service manager and write service.  As I'm getting his information he's going through his wallet and says I think I have something for you so I continue typing in what I need to type in and tell him oh ok.  He pulls out a card and hands it to me saying I've lost 40lbs taking this I think this can help you loose the same, take it.  I stand there with this card in my hand with a million things going through my head and somehow manage to maintain my composure and say as polite as I can, uh ok I lost 100lbs running and eating better and placed that God forsaken card on my desk.  His...

Fwordz: Florida, Fear, Family, Friends, Fighter, Failure, ... : So many fwordz for this weekend..................but the biggest and best were family, friends and fun. Let me set the stage,...

So many fwordz for this weekend..................but the biggest and best were family, friends and fun. Let me set the stage, Saturday morning we got up ready to go check in, do our practice swim and drop off our bikes.  I have NEVER felt so calm before a race before.  Denise, my cousin our driver, Brian, Frankie and I loaded up in the car and went over to the start of the race.  We all were wrong thinking the practice swim started at 8:00 am which was really 11:00 am so we decided we would go ahead and check in.  I ran into one woman who could have made or broke me because she was pretty rude and condescending when I asked if I was in the right line, I was just excited and didn't want to jump ahead of anyone and I mean I've done races before I know how it's done in other events but this one was so different.  I ignored her and did what I know to do at other races and got in line where my number was.  CHECK IN COMPLETE! We also decided si...