Mad Libs

What a great weekend. My two boys were with my parents for the weekend and my wife had a three day conference at Foxwoods Casino. The weather was amazing with blue skies and temperatures in the low 60’s. What was a workout maniac to do? Do I ride in the morning and run in the afternoon or run mid-day and hit the gym at night? Do I go crazy, sleep in each day, and then try to squeeze in a run, ride, and gym workout each afternoon? Ah, decisions. Well, I did have a few other commitments on the calendar, it wasn’t going to be all exercise, football on TV, and take out. On Saturday I had a Fire Department training and on Sunday I signed up to volunteer at my running club’s annual Groton Town Forest Trail Races.

Instead of boring you with my usual humorous play by play reenactment of my workouts (and mishaps); I’m going to give you, the reader, a chance to guess what I did and experienced this weekend. I’m going old school on this one. How many of you remember the crazy Mad-Lib books that you could order from the school sponsored Scholastic Book Club catalogs? They gave you a sentence such as “Jim and ________ went to the ______ together and did________.” It was up to you to be creative and fill in the answers. I still remember my week’s worth of after school detention in 5th grade after Ms. Nelson found my Mad Lib book. I guess she didn’t agree with me that Suzy and Matthew did such things in the school gymnasium. I know, I was an idiot in 5th grade as well. I am asking you to ‘cut’ the following paragraph, fill in the ‘blanks’, and email me back the completed story. There will be two winners. The first winner will be the person who most accurately reflects what happened to me this weekend and the other winner will be the person who is most creative ( PG 13 or mildly rated R only please, my parents read this blog). Please email all responses to alm91397@verizon.net For your efforts each winner will receive (free of charge) a limited edition, long sleeve, 2007 Ayer Fire Department Thanksgiving Day 5K Road Race T-shirt. In a few weeks I will post my actual weekend, the best guess at the actual weekend, and the most creative account of my weekend. OK, go wild!!!!!!!!

On Saturday morning, I woke up after an uninterupted night of_________ and made my way to the _______ for ____________ training. There is nothing like _______ out a _______window with nothing but___________ below you. At 3:00pm, the ___________ was over and I went ____________ to prep my ___________ for a __________. I eventually hit the _________ and found my way to the ________ which led to the top of __________. Once at the top, you could almost see___________. There were ten___________ looking at me trying to figure out what was between my __________. Like they never saw a _________ before. The ______ was starting to _________ so I headed _______. Once__________, I decided to order___________ and watch_________ on TV. I don’t remember falling ___________, but I do remember waking up with ___________ on my face. It was _________, and I figured I could squeeze in a _________ before the ___________. I took my _________ and ________with me and hit the ___________. The________ was just starting to_________ when I ___________ a _________ in the middle of the ____________. The _________ must have been out looking for some___________ before the long winter’s _________ and looked at me like I was _________. I was never so __________ in my life. I slowly _______ off my _________ and _________ backwards very slowly. I was soon out of _________ and ________ off quicker than ___________ doing ____________ repeats. Needless to say, I returned home still ___________. Time for more___________, this time I ordered _________ for __________. A quick check of the________ and it was time to leave for the _______________. Arrived at the __________ and found I was assigned to the _____________ table and the ___________ line. Before I took my ___________ at the __________, I decided to ___________ the ___________. The _________ on the trails made it very ___________; it was difficult to know where the ________ and ________ were. I had a _______ out there all alone. The _________ was a huge___________, the ________ were as ________ as they were __________ after the event. There were some very fast________ this year. Actually, there was a _________ record in the longer______. I made it ________ by ________ to meet my ________ pulling into the ___________ with the__________ in the backseat. She seemed _________. I told her the _________ was pretty ___________ and that I really__________ her and the __________. She just gave me ___________. Oh, well.