Call me Noelle “Michael Phelps” Tannenbaum, because it seems I’m in line to win seven gold medals at the Empire State Games this coming weekend. And how is that possible for this girl who only started swimming competitively a mere four months ago?
Default, baby!
They just posted the rosters, and it appears that I’m the only woman in the 30-35 age group who signed up for any of my events. Provided that nobody signs up last minute, all I have to do is show up and swim, and I’m a winner seven times over. If I chose, I can swim my 800 meter freestyle as a two-armed backstroke or even float through the whole thing, and ain’t nobody going to catch me.
This is beautiful news because now I can stop worrying about that thing, and concentrate on worrying about the two other things I’ve got on the brain, neither of which are the tomato in my garden that this morning became the tomato in my lunch salad.
Posted by 3carnations on July 22, 2008 at 10:38 am
Will you also get the silver and bronze?
Enjoy your tomato! We have 6 tomato plants, but obviously they are way behind yours developmentally. The first 11 (green) tomatoes appeared yesterday. We are going to have lots of tomatoes. Yay!
That’s a good question. Maybe I will get all three…
Posted by -R- on July 22, 2008 at 10:58 am
What? No picture to show off the tomato? The landlesbian would be so disappointed.
It will live on in my memory. Until the other ones come in…
Posted by Dutchess of Kickball on July 22, 2008 at 11:00 am
Ok, I’m sure I know of one of the worrying points, is the other your impending doom to me in scrabulous?
No, although it is annoying that you’re getting all the good set-ups.
Posted by ben on July 22, 2008 at 11:00 am
you are a swimming phenom! seven medals is an awesome feat no matter what the circumstances
Let’s just hope I do it now…
Posted by nancypearlwannabe on July 22, 2008 at 11:07 am
You are gold medal all the way, Isabel.
I’ll dedicate one to you, NPW!
Posted by bing on July 22, 2008 at 11:26 am
You’re on your way to being an Olympic champ. Congrats!
Enjoy your tomato.
Thanks! And I did…
Posted by greenpam on July 22, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Congrats! If the ESG were closer to Rochester this year, I’d totally come and cheer you on! Or maybe smack talk and heckle you so that you would have to earn those medals.
With this post being a combo of medal-speak and tomatoes, I think you might have earned a new nickname, a la the “Flying Tomato” from the winter Olympics (Shawn …. somebody… help me out folks).
Could you be the swimming tomato? The butterfly tomato? The tomato fin?
I think maybe the tomato fin? I’m not sure how that works out…
Posted by Stefanie on July 22, 2008 at 12:28 pm
NPW said pretty much what I was going to say.
Whoo!
Then I’ll dedicate one to you, too.
Posted by Howling Hill on July 22, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Is it weird Michael Phelps and I have some sort of genetic connection which can only be made if one traces our lineages back a couple centuries?
I’d say good luck but it doesn’t seem appropriate considering you seem to be a shoe in.
Do you have the same gargantuan feet, too?
Posted by The Modern Gal on July 22, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Way to show the landlesbian who’s boss.
And you should have never told us you were going to win by default. You should have just told us you won
An advance congrats.
I believe in honesty above all other things.
Posted by Allie on July 22, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Did you at least take pictures of the tomato to show your friends? That’s what Isabel Archer would do, I’m sure of it. (WWIAD? — you need a bracelet)
I won a skate race the same way once. It was no less sweet.
The winning is all, I believe.
Posted by Pants on July 22, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Sweet!
Word!
Posted by Jennifer M. on July 22, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Oooh, shiny! Are you going to have to build a display case for all your medals?
The fridge is getting pretty full up!
Posted by Laurel on July 22, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I always knew you had gold medal potential! Soon you and Phelpsie will be on a Wheaties box together.
I will play the bowl on that box.
Posted by courtney on July 22, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Hell yeah! You should doggie-paddle all seven races, just because you can.
That seems like a good idea, but tiring.
Posted by Kristabella on July 22, 2008 at 4:42 pm
can you walk the length of the pool for one of the races? That would be awesome. Or do some sychronized swimming moves. Or somersaults.
The only only rule in freestyle is that you can’t touch the bottom. Other than that, have at it!
Posted by The Unbearable Banishment on July 22, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I hate to be a spoiled sport but you will be competing against a ticking clock. Just like every other day!
You didn’t really spoil that much. I do plan on trying my hardest so I can track my progress as a swimmer. But it’s my first time in short course meters, so I don’t even have my own times to beat.
Posted by lizgwiz on July 22, 2008 at 5:45 pm
You ate the tomato, and you didn’t even offer me a slice? You’re so selfish, Isabel.
But you’re a winner!!
I tired to, but you were so far away, you didn’t hear me.
Posted by alexa on July 22, 2008 at 9:31 pm
noelle for the win!! take um all baby!
I hope I get to stand on a little platform!
Posted by Mrs. G. on July 22, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Delurking to say congrats.
Thanks!
Posted by Ann on July 23, 2008 at 2:34 am
I hope we’ll get to see lots of pictures of said medals. And I hope even more that some of the pictures involve my favourite – the Hula Monkey.
I’ll see if the Hula Monkey can make it.
Posted by constantlyarriving on July 23, 2008 at 3:15 pm
My friend was playing at a poker table with Michael Phelps earlier this year, but didn’t realize it was him. He asked him what kind of work he does, and MP said that he’s a swimmer. My friend was like “Oh really? You mean, professionally?” When they parted ways, my friend said “Hey, tell me your name so that I can follow you in the Olympics.” It was then that he realized he had been hanging out with Michael Phelps.
Posted by Dingo on July 24, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Woohoo! Is this going to be on NY1 later?