Aug 14, 2012

I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER

London -- The Closing Ceremonies of the XXX Olympic Games were briefly interrupted on Sunday evening by a portly spinster's frantic efforts to speak with Lord Coe and the Olympic Organizing Committee.  "DON'T BLOW IT OUT YET, MISTER COE!", she was heard to exclaim. "I'M NOT QUITE FINISHED YET!"  Despite her rather blatant breech of Olympic protocol (and not to mention the fact that he is, indeed, LORD Coe and not "Mister"), the crowd applauded mightily as she scrambled to the podium. 

"Ladies and Gentlemen, honored guests, athletes, and portly spinsters everywhere....I ask you to harken back to a time when you attempted a feat and fell short.  I ask you to look within yourselves to the deepest part of your competitive spirits and remember what it was like to come within inches of finally reaching your goal.  Doesn't everyone have a memory of a dream not realized -- glory left unattained?  It is with a humble and contrite heart that I ask -- no, beg! -- you to allow me to finish my special Olympic stitchy project.  I'm so close!  I know that if given the opportunity and enough dietCoke I could have the piece finished and off to the framer by week's end!  Please!  Five more days!" 

 With this, the crowd erupted into roaring approbation, security was told to stand down, and the spinster was carried from the stadium by a group of Belarus weight lifters who, as it turns out, were the only ones equal to the task.  After a few days in the Tower of London cooling her heels, rumor has it that the spinster has returned to the productive confines of her Happy Chair in Hoosierville, USA to set about the task of completing THIS once and for all:


14 comments:

  1. Ah Coni, the injustice of it. To have come so close. Despite your best effort you have fallen short. Alas, the only option is to forge ahead to the finish line. Not defeated yet. Just a slight bump in the road, and tomorrow is, as they say, another day!

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  2. Don't give up yet... what about the Paralympics¿

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  3. So the stitching looks fantastic! But is the blog background loading properly? It looks a bit like when the digital image on tv pixelates and freezes.

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  4. One of your best posts ever!! And, I have read them all.

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  5. Love love love it!

    And I simply do not know where you come up with these posts. LOL... I'd love to live in your head for awhile... you'd have me in constant tears (of laughter!)

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  6. Ahhhh Coni, it's beautiful! I give you a 10 and a special qualifier for gold! :D Cathryn

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  7. I miss them already too!

    The piece looks fabulous. Love it!!

    Great work..as always!

    Hugs, Marnie

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  8. Go! Go! Go! (it's a gorgeous piece)

    Personally, I still have 3 days worth of Olympics on the dvr to watch. Loving the rhythmic gymnastics!

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  9. You can do it, I know you can!

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  10. hmmmm, look at it this way:

    It WILL be finished by the next olympics!

    YAY!

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  11. You are so close! You can do it!!!

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  12. Go for it, Coni, go for it! You can get this done despite Lord Coe ignoring your pleas. It looks really terrific.

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  13. The Olympics are not over until the last athlete has made the rounds of all the day/night time TV shows!! I figure you have at least another week.......

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  14. How dare they send you to the Tower of London. You can finish this, just know you have our whole nation behind you. USA! USA! USA!

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