I love that they're all the same general size whether it is 1st or 6th place! hehe
I <3 Figure 8 Racing!!!
I'm welcoming a new trophy to what I have left of the old ones! (3 are missing in action... one for each time I moved last year, I guess!) The red one is my new one =] It is a shameful 5th place, but I'll take it! I had to save the car for my pops, since they made my heat the first of the night... so I drove like a complete grandma!! I was well aware of the fact that we only brought one radiator. Hence, I broke for EVERY car I met in the middle! I traded less paint on the derby track than I do in my daily driver. I'm friends with the flagmen and I learned after the race that they were making jokes over the radios. One fessed up to saying, "I don't know who that girl is! I've never seen her drive soft in her life!" lol Needless to say, I definitely prefer to have the car when I can do a little bumping, grinding, and paint swapping!
Despite my gentle ways, I caused a caution! I blew a radiator hose and scaled my right leg from knee to ankle. If you've ever had a pot of boiling water launched at your shin with the force of one of those mechanical-ball-throwing-majigawhats, then you might understand what I mean. It hurt like sin! I didn't even know what had happened, I just knew I was in some serious pain. I asked the flagman if it would ruin the car, but he said it might just keep spitting at me and hurt... so I finished. =] Unfortunately, I'd have had 3rd place if that stupid caution hadn't happened... so I got 5th. It was muy fun though, so no complaints here! Oh, and the pops took home 2nd! I was pretty darn happy I didn't ruin that car in the first heat!
On a completely different note, today was a looooong day! 12 hour day at work and we spent the afternoon at the lake at a civil war rendezvous... which means I was hot and sweaty and my jeans where rubbing my burn. Top that off with one of my favorite residents passing away and another cussing me out over potatoes, and it is a pretty clear illustration of my emotional wreck of a day. I love my residents, even if I am moving on to a new job. So it was very hard to lose one of them unexpectedly. The general public may not understand individuals with special needs. Honestly, they're really very normal. Even though they may function differently, they are so much like the mainstream population, people would be amazed. Almost all of them are kind, smart, and astoundingly smart in their own special way. (That is cliche but 100% true) One thing is for sure, they truly tend to have the purest of hearts. To see someone so sweet go, broke my heart.
Okay, I'll stop droning on and on now... Gotta get up and do it all over again tomorrow. Work. Demo derby. Gym. Sleep. (Unless there is an after-derby party) And now, the best ringer that I no longer own =[ I can't find the ringtone for my new phone! So sad.
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