Day 6--Total Knockout

I beat Barney in boxing on the Wii today.  What--that doesn't sound like an act of kindness to you?  I assure you that it is, for several reasons.  I come from an extremely athletic family, am married to an athletic man, and have athletic in-laws.  Pretty much every adult in our family would consider an afternoon of watching or playing sports to be an afternoon well spent.  Everyone that is except for me.  While I enjoy watching the NFL, it's literally the only sport that holds my attention for very long at all.  One of my sister-in-laws mentioned to me recently that she is actually counting down the days until the next Olympics start.  I could only blankly stare back at her.  I still have no idea if the winter or summer Olympics are next, despite our conversation that was probably less than two weeks ago.  I'm unlikely to watch 10 total minutes of the next Olympics.  When either side of the family decides to have a family sports game, they know better than to even ask if I plan to join in.  There are two reasons for this:

1. I am not athletically built (too little), and I have no hand-eye coordination.  Exercise is just above cutting my lawn with my toe nail clippers in terms of activities I am prone to enjoy.

2. I am hyper-ultra competitive.  When I tried to think of someone who is more competitive than me, I started having a mental challenge against my imaginary person to see if we could determine who is the most competitive.

So, basically playing sports is just a way to lose (which I hate) while actively exercising (which is almost as bad).  Then, for the Wii, you throw in playing a video game, which I also am not a fan of, specifically because I am not good at it--hence, I am likely to lose.

But, whenever the Wii gets brought out, I always know that Barney wants me to join in.  He doesn't make a big deal, but he always invites to play me in a way that lets me know the invitations are sincere.  I decided to challenge him this morning, and I was right--he was very excited.  The fact that I won was either a: an anomaly or b. intentional on his part.  It was certainly no testament to skill or ability on my part.

It was more fun than I expected despite being embarrassingly exhausting.  I might even play him in it again tomorrow.  Agreeing to participate in activities that he enjoys but that I would normally avoid is definitely high on my priority list for this year.  Within reason of course. ;)