Thoughtful Tuesday

Yeah Yeah I know I missed a day. Sue me..

Been a really long week so far. Ha.. Ok maybe not. More like I am just tired from Sunday and its rolling over into the week. Playing is hard work. Cycled to softball Sunday morning, oh yeah that took me 57 mins. Means I lost 3 minutes from last time. it. Then three hours of softball, and then cycling home, 45 minutes.

Yeah.. Faster going home. Down hill!!!

Then yesterday was suppose to play softball again but the other team didn't show. So we did a little hitting practice and I did some running to work out the tired muscles.. Over all it was a good night but I stayed up to watch "the Closer" and by then I knew I was in trouble.

So I had a wonderful dream and it was almost too real... For a while..

It started out with meeting Lauren Jackson (WNBA) and getting to know her over dinner, which was strange. Then we were walking towards the elevator and I asked her if I could ask her a personal question, she said sure. "what does it feel like to be such a huge icon to people?" she looked at me and said, "what do you think?" now what kind of answer is that???

Anyway we get into her jeep, now.. Its really a long, stretched out Suburban and go for a ride. We see Key arena and I know where we are, then I look again and the arena is located.. Up on a hill, in Gothem city (like Batman!) I just shook my head cause I knew at that point it was a dream and only a dream..

We went back to her place.. Now I can see you getting excited.. Alone with Lauren Jackson, anyone would get excited.. Until we open the door and there in the middle of the living room are three other players, dressed in their PJs, with green face mask stuff on, eating pizza and watching an old movie. Talk about strange..

Let's just say I will not be able to look at them the same again when I see them all next week on the court. Was to funny.

Then Lauren, said we could be alone... And so we went to her room. It was like dating someone who still lived at home. Got to her room, and she sat me down, told me she liked me and then sat down next to me. Putting her leg on my lap asked me to rub her shin.
*Now for those of you who don't know, Lauren has been playing a long time with shin fractures and so they are limiting her playing time. There are pictures on the team page with her having bags of ice taped to her legs to help keep the swelling down. This.. Is my dream.. To rub Lauren Jackson shins.. I tell you, I really need to work on these dreams....

All in all it was funny. But I woke up tired and ready to go back to sleep. Told Tina that Lauren lived in Gothem City and she laughed. Yeah every Storm season (WNBA) I have dreams about LJ and they are always funny.

Have I met her in person, I can say yes to this, that is a story at well.

When your a season ticket holder you get to go to the fan signing night. Now I went about two years ago I guess, maybe three.. Yeah three cause they won the Championship that year. Lauren and some of her fellow Aussies did this very popular Aussie art magazine, called Black/White.

Yeah they are black and white photos of athletes naked. Nicely done photos. Anyway there was a huge stink and such about how the pictures should not have been taken and how it would effect the WNBA. Which it really didn't matter. I went through the trouble of ordering one of these magazines. They are not cheap.. US$40. They are however excellent photos of some of their top Aussie athletes that were in the Olympics. Very nice.

Anyway on with the story..

So I went to the signing and I took the magazine with me. In a plastic bag so no one would see it. (so.. I got in line with about 200 other lesbians, and found myself blushing at the idea I was going to have her sign this magazine.) Then I looked around, and every other person had the magazine and were showing it to those who didn't have it and such. I felt myself getting redder and redder. I could not believe how embarrassed I was feeling. Yet all these other ladies seems so uneffected about the fact they were going to ask her to sign it.

Finally got to her and opened it up and asked her to sign her favorite photo. She did.. I have LJ signature on her naval.. The truth is I was so red that I wanted to run and hide somewhere, anywhere. Honestly I don't think I even made eye contact with her. I was that embarrassed, but she was totally cool with it. So.. I have that magazine stuck away, cause every time I pull it out, I start blushing.

So ever since then, every year I have dreams about her, but as you can see. I just rub her shins and meet other players in my dreams.