Tuesday, March 11, 2008

ME as in Mary Elizabeth


Praying and cussing seem to be part of my life - I am doing one or the other. I think the praying part is the part most people will agree is a good thing. Yet every now and then a good ole expletive seems to be spiritual. I have blogged about doing a half Ironman in NH and doing an Ironman in ID and I thought I would just blog about ME. I was doing a sprint Tri in Ohio (COLD) one time in the spring and the cross wind would knock you off your bike - this is when I started to cuss and pray at the same time, one right after the other and it became a mantra "help me God, MF wind!God thanks for my strong legs, Sh!t what the h...
You see the pattern....And I thought, this is a good saying about life - kind of similar to bittersweet. Have to take the bitter with the sweet.. well you have to pray and cuss, cuss and pray.