once a pink panther, always a pink panther

this is about my high school swim team, the SCHSD pink panthers. i was a diver, to clarify--yes swimming and diving are combined on one team. and i was the only constant diver we ever had. occasionally we would have someone try diving for a year but they either went back to swimming, gymnastics, or other sports. i loved diving for the panthers--those girls were the best!! we had the best cheers, the best HOT PINK bathing suits and sweats, and the best desserts after the meets, courtesy of grace and laura's dad who is by far the best baker in the world.

it was fun because even if we lost we had a great time; the bus rides were great because for a fe years someone brought their boom box thing and blasted music that we all sang along to.. if we passed a bus of boys (soccer players, almost always) we opened the window and flirted or wrote our numbers on notebooks for them (i dont condone this any longer with the amount of creepers out there), and it was just always a blast.

this is also how i met annemarie, and lo and behold we ended up working together for two summers at the same pool. this is also her shoutout. she is a great swimmer and has been on the team since 7th grade, like me. she and i both love vera bradley bags, fashion especially shopping at forever 21, and teaching swimming lessons and the best class ever--ADULT lessons!!! those are the best classes, honestly. she and i taught it with falco (see his shoutout for more details). on the last day of lessons we took our adults down the water slide and... we put a fish in a gatorade bottle, closed it, and took that fish in the pool. it went down the slide off the diving board and it floated on a kickboard too. it was awesome.

we also did something simultaneously at 7:22, about halfway thru our last adult lesson class, that will not be mentione here but will never be forgotten. hahahahahhahaaaaa!

annemarie is awesome and recently us and our work friends got together one night and watched armageddon. she had never seen it; i had. i still cried at the end. bawling is more accurate. she, however, sobbed and it would have been funny if i wasn't crying also. so we are cry buddies now. teeheehee

she is very fashion-forward, always perfectly accessorized and matching and has tasteful makeup (unlike some of our friends who dress like homeless people...hahaha jk).
on new years eve she and i both wore awesome sparkly shirts haha <3

she has never crashed/totaled/scratched a car. that doesnt go for all of our friends =)

she requested a shoutout better than falco's and since this is in narrative form rather than list form i hope it constitutes as "better" because i took more time in writing and planning it out for her.

basically, annemarie is awesome!! oh and i lvoeher dog, Tux, and her bunny marc jacobss =)\

until next post,
~sam