About a year ago I met my friend Shannon, and the angels sang.
Shannon and I routinely text each other about our nap schedules.
Allow me to elaborate a little. Shannon moved into her in-laws' house, one street away from me, last May. I met Shannon at church, and we became good friends quickly. We now joke that the angels in heaven rejoiced as they watched us meet because they knew what was coming, but we had no idea.
Along with that joke is the assumption that we were good friends before we came to earth, and that God told us that we would have to wait 33+ years before we found each other in mortality. Our reaction was, "Okay. It's cool. We can do this."
Because we trusted God.
And we were a bit naive about mortality.
I say "joke" because I don't know what else to call it, but we are actually quite serious about this. We often say to each other, "Remember when we met in Relief Society, and the angels sang?
We have created enough memes with our faces in them that I had them made into
a book for Shannon for Christmas.
One thing I really enjoy about Shannon is that she has some things in common with me that I haven't had in common with someone before. Our friendship began with a lot of bizarre "Me too!"s.
One of our foundational "Me too!"s is that we both want to be mascots.
I'm not talking Chick-Fil-A cows waving on a street corner. We want to work the crowd! We want to perform!
I don't remember how the subject came up, but I do remember that we were on a morning walk, and we ended up staying out for an extra 45 minutes because there was so much to say about mascots.
Now we routinely text each other #mascotgoals. When I was at the Utah Grizzlies game, I texted Shannon, "I don't want to be a mascot on ice." She agreed. We don't do ice (though Shannon has a suppressed desire to be a figure skater - she just doesn't want to do it in a large animal head). And when Shannon was at the Utah Jazz game, she sent me a video of the Jazz Bear riding a motorcycle, and she said, "I would ride it with so much more pizzazz!'
And I know she would! She's all about her craft.
In our mascot-ing dream, hip hop dancing is a must.
Shannon, in particular, would like to do a mascot rendition of "Whatcha Say" from So You Think You Can Dance.
Shannon and I regularly practice our dance moves via Fitness Marshall videos, and to make our rehearsals legit, Shannon has a cat costume, and I, of course, have my chicken costume (they don't breathe well. Our professional costuming will have a cooling system).
We came up with a mascot idea in November that we want to pitch to a certain company. We have costume ideas and the whole bit. We just need to find an "in." And we'll totally do it for free if they will spring for the costumes.
We've talked about hosting mascot retreats where mascot friends can get together for a weekend to relax and share inspiration. Obviously, when we are mascots, we will have a mascot tribe...
...of mascot-ing women...
...in their mid to late thirties...
Okay, so maybe it's too late in life to be anything more than the mascots of our children's elementary schools.
We're too out of shape to do back handsprings.
One of our foundational "Me too!"s is that we both want to be mascots.
I'm not talking Chick-Fil-A cows waving on a street corner. We want to work the crowd! We want to perform!
I don't remember how the subject came up, but I do remember that we were on a morning walk, and we ended up staying out for an extra 45 minutes because there was so much to say about mascots.
Now we routinely text each other #mascotgoals. When I was at the Utah Grizzlies game, I texted Shannon, "I don't want to be a mascot on ice." She agreed. We don't do ice (though Shannon has a suppressed desire to be a figure skater - she just doesn't want to do it in a large animal head). And when Shannon was at the Utah Jazz game, she sent me a video of the Jazz Bear riding a motorcycle, and she said, "I would ride it with so much more pizzazz!'
And I know she would! She's all about her craft.
In our mascot-ing dream, hip hop dancing is a must.
Shannon, in particular, would like to do a mascot rendition of "Whatcha Say" from So You Think You Can Dance.
Shannon and I regularly practice our dance moves via Fitness Marshall videos, and to make our rehearsals legit, Shannon has a cat costume, and I, of course, have my chicken costume (they don't breathe well. Our professional costuming will have a cooling system).
We came up with a mascot idea in November that we want to pitch to a certain company. We have costume ideas and the whole bit. We just need to find an "in." And we'll totally do it for free if they will spring for the costumes.
We've talked about hosting mascot retreats where mascot friends can get together for a weekend to relax and share inspiration. Obviously, when we are mascots, we will have a mascot tribe...
...of mascot-ing women...
...in their mid to late thirties...
Okay, so maybe it's too late in life to be anything more than the mascots of our children's elementary schools.
We're too out of shape to do back handsprings.
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