doing a happy dance
The moment Mr. Dawn handed me the envelope my heart stopped. I’d seen the postcards all over blog land of people being accepted into the Boston Marathon, but this was an envelope. Had something gone wrong? Was there some obscure requirement that I hadn’t fulfill and they were sending me the runner’s equivalent of a “Dear John” letter? For a moment I wondered how different I would feel if I wasn’t going to be running Boston 2011…Then, with fear and trepidation I opened the envelope.
HURRAY!!!!!!!!!! It was the postcard that I had been expecting. Enter happy dance. Literally, jumping around the living room, kitchen, hallway. Shaking. Shrieking. Singing, “I am going to Boston, I am going to Boston!” over and over again.
Mr. Dawn’s question was, “Didn’t you already know you were accepted? Like, wasn’t there an email?”
“Well, yes, but now its for sure.”
“It wasn’t for sure before?”
“I guess it was….but this feels more real.”
“Why?”
“……..cause……cause I can hang it on the fridge 
”
Apparently to me, refrigerator art=reality. I’m not crazy, right?
I believe that you actually threw the letter on the ground and screamed “What is it?!?!?!?!” It appeared as if you thought the envelope was going to bite you…
ah yes…i do remember that part of the story…obviously i was worried!
good times in the dawn household
hahahahaha you guys are great!
Hell no, you aren’t crazy!!! You are going to Boston baby!! Woo-hoo!!
Mine is on the fridge too! I need to start figuring out my training plan; I’m trying to focus on cross training and maybe 25-30 miles a week for now.
I love it! I would do the same thing!!!!
Hahahah YAY! Congrats
So exciting!!
YAY! Congrats! It’s for real now! ALMOST as great as when you get your official results mailed to you on a nice certificate! Can’t wait to follow your journey!
I am starting to get creeped out….where we separated at birth? I got my letter today too! I was worried that I hadn’t got mine and something went wrong but now we know it is for sure!! I CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU!!
No, you are not crazy at all. Stuff that comes in the mail and can go on the fridge is definitely more real than over an e-mail.
Woohoo!! So exciting to get the confirmation in the mail! And yes, it’s not official until it makes it on the fridge.
Ahhhhhhh! Where is mine?! I am going to the post office tomorrow morning. I hope it’s there! What if it isn’t? Panic. Panic.
So happy for you! Really!
And i do have the email, so I know that letter is coming, eventually.
What are you doing for training? I am still undecided.
Still ROTFL re Mr Dawn’s comment. I can absolutely hear/see the screaming and throwing. Wonder is the clerks at BAA understand the panic they cause with a simple envelope instead of a postcard?
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m pretty sure I had an identical reaction when I got my card. It’s posted on my fridge too