Day 61: This One's For You, Team Badass!

Haley, girl, I'm giving you the biggest virtual fist-bump right now! Your post just got to the heart of it for Team Badass. We do need to recommit to the blogging, the photos, and to making it HAPPEN for the next month! We ARE the role models now (!?!). Mostly, though, I'm so psyched that you wrote that post. Path of righteousness, indeed!!!

So here's a fun little image for you. Yesterday, we left Fire Island - a process in and of itself. All packed up, we had a team of 5 adults and 4 kids hauling our bags down to the dock where we caught the ferry back to the mainland. Before the ferry came, my friend Sara decided to do some impromptu dock-jumping. After her first jump, she called over, "Mrs. Rubin, I double-dog dare you to jump in here too!!" I have to point out here that she came to the dock in her swimsuit, while I was freshly showered and wearing real clothes for the first time in two weeks. Well, it took me about 3 seconds to decide, the hell with it, I can't walk away from a double-dog dare!! I stripped off my shirt, dropped my shorts - yes, in front of all those assembled on the dock to catch the ferry - and dove into the salt-water bay in my skivvies. Totally badass. After 2 jumps, I put my clothes on over my dripping wet body and got on the ferry to go home.

This was the perfect way to leave Fire Island - facing a challenge and not taking the easy way out. Sure, it was a super hot day and jumping off the dock is nothing but fun - but still. Would have been easier to stay nice and clean and dry, and not flash my undies to the world. And this is how I feel about the PCP right now: it's time to dig in, get all dirty, and take no prisoners. We all signed up for this challenge, and I think we've all found it to be a good deal more challenging than we expected going in. Despite all doubters, despite all hardships, despite even ourselves at some points, we're still here.

Thank you, Haley, for being our karmic kick-in-the-ass!!! I pledge to keep up my end of the deal and to blog religiously until the bitter end. Go Team Badassssss!