Some people seem to have been born under a cloud but not me. It was no doubt the only warm, sunny, December 14th in history the day I was born. Those rays of sunshine continue to follow me throughout my life.
Yesterday I shattered my personal goal of 5 uninterupted laps of freestyle swimming. I felt so good after the first 5 I did 5 more. Amazingly I swam 10 uninterupted laps freestyle. I did 30 total, another personal record. Prior to this I had only done 2 uninterupted laps. (Swimming is hard - Dara you are my hero!)
Feeling pretty proud of myself, I got out of the shower, got dressed, did my makeup and accidentally brushed my wedding ring against my leg. Uh Ho - NO DIAMOND!!! So much for those extra years I just gained with my great show in swimming, my heart stopped.
Paul, the swim coach said the chance of finding it were like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. It's 1.5 carat and the clarity is primium. It's lovely and visible in the setting but the new setting was somewhere on the bottom of the busy 8 lane olympic pool at the YMCA. My grand plan was to put my bathing suit and goggles back on and feel along the bottom of the lane I was swimming in.
By the time I got back to the pool a man had found it - in the deep end, 2 feet from the drain, in the lane I had been swimming!!! My old golden horseshoe is still working after all these years!
1 comment:
You are lucky! but I always believe you make your own luck which you did by looking and not taking Pauls word. Paul was just waiting for you to leave to comb the haystack mimself. Make some more luck next time and leave that rock at home. Way to go on the 10 laps it sounds difficult. I don't think I have swam 10 uninterupted stokes in years.
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