Today I Flew.

My last blog post I talked about how I would choose flying as my super human power. Today I experienced flying & I definitely have not changed my mind. 

I have always had this fear of falling. I am not afraid of heights (hot air balloon rides have cured me of that), but falling really scares me. So this year when Courtney, Ben, & I bought season passes to Lagoon; Courtney made me promise that I would go on the Sky Coaster with her. The Sky Coaster is one of those rides that you have to pay extra to go on. Basically they harness you in and pull you up to the top of this 150 foot tower and you pull a cord and you just drop and then swing. I did NOT want to go on this ride, but somehow Courtney tricked me into promising her that I would. So today we were at Sizzler’s eating dinner and Ben mentioned that tonight was the last night of the Lagoon season. I was sad because I hadn’t been since the middle of the summer. So we decided to go!

We get there and I am seriously feeling like I am about to vomit due to a combination of dry mouth, anticipation of going on the Sky Coaster, and anxiety from the meanest prank Courtney & Ben have ever played one me. Jerks! We buy our tickets and wait in line for two hours. Finally they get us strapped into our suits and we are standing on the platform and I turn to Courtney and say “What the heck are we doing??!?!?!?” by that time she was thinking the same thing. The people that went before us were being taken down and were talking about how completely awesome the ride was. I did not believe them. They hook us up and drop the platform and we fall forward and Courtney seriously begins to cry. Ben is just hanging there all quiet, and I am yelling stuff like “Oh man this hurts! Why are we doing this?! I am freaking out! COURTNEY ARE YOU SERIOUSLY CRYING??!?!?!” They start to pull us up slowly and I watch the ground get farther and farther away. My eyes got wide with fear, my heart was pounding so hard I could feel it throughout my body, and I was yelling at Ben not to pull the cord. He did. 

What happened next was the most magical thing that has ever happened to me. I flew. I threw my arms out and yelled “This is the best ride of my life!!!” and “I am flying!!” and “This is so fun!” It was dark out so we could see all the lights in the valley. I wished that I could release myself from the harness and fly on my own like a bird in the night sky. I wondered what the worker would think when my harness came back empty. I thought about how I should probably fly down to the workers and tell them I am alright and that thanks to them I discovered that I could fly. I probably would have flown back to Texas just to tell my parents the news. Then skimmed across the ocean because I haven’t felt the salty water in far too long. Then I would have slept in the clouds. 

I was sad to get off the ride. I wanted to fly forever. We then left Lagoon. It was almost 10 and the park was closing. I don’t care that we only got to go on one ride. It was so worth it. 

Carli

Today I Almost Killed Myself...

When someone says “Today I almost killed myself!” you automatically think about near car crashes, j-walking incidents, and fires (like car fires, or house fires, or stove fires that escalate into house fires). OH CRAP! Did I leave my curling iron on?! One never thinks of a mental lapse that almost results in a year of hospitalization or death. I will say that thanks to some quick thinking I was able to stop myself from doing the deed. Now that I have somewhat explained what happened you may be thinking I tried to commit suicide. NO! That did not happen! I was in no way trying to kill myself. In turn… I truly believed for a split second that I had magical powers. 

Ok. I’ll just explain…

So at work I often walk up and down the stairs to deliver mail, messages, and to go to the clean bathroom (the downstairs bathroom is sick…). Today as I was upstairs and needed to return to my desk down stairs. As I approached top of the stairs my body began moving at a very fast pace. As I came within five feet of the stairs I prepared myself to jump. Yes. I actually believed that I could fly down the stairs and to my desk. Oh what a magical thing that would have been if I was actually able to fly instead of tread up and down the stairs all day. You may be wondering if I actually did jump. The answer is thankfully no. I stopped myself just in time. I then stood at the top of the stairs and looked down. I could not believe what just had happened. I then slowly walked down the stairs and returned to my desk. 

You know how when people ask you what super power you would love to have and when you respond by saying that you wish you could fly and that person makes fun of you for being unoriginal? Well that person can just enjoy his little mind games or invisibility. I will be soaring the skies. Imagine all the many possibilities! No traffic, no paying for gas, no crowded hallways, no shoes (you don’t need shoes if you never walk!), etc… Plus if there is a world where you can fly or have invisibility or read peoples minds, then I am 100 percent sure that one could find a cloak of invisibility that also allows you to read minds… Thus, you could fly and read minds and be invisible. One may respond to that statement by saying that if there was a cloak like that then they are 100 percent sure that in that world there would be a hat of some sort that would allow them to fly. I say nay. No one wears a hat when they fly. It would fall off because of the enormous speeds that one would be going if flying. Then a cape that person would say. I would again say nay. Capes are similar to cloaks and cloaks are only for people who can fly with their own magical abilities. Then that person would say a ring. I would be stumped briefly… A ring is quite clever. I would then respond by saying. I would much rather have the magical abilities to fly without such thing as a ring because if I lost the ring then I would not be able to fly, & if that ring were to get into the hands of the wrong person the world would surely end. These are the things that haunt me.

All I am saying is that flying is my choice of super power. I will stand by that statement forever. 

And one more thing… Courtney & I are making hair bows (pictured bellow) in preparation for the Christmas Boutique in December! They are not up on theEtsy shop yet… but if you would like one of these beauties then please let me know & I could definitely hook you up… with a bow that is.

Carli