Mom's Thoughts on Paradise

Imelda R. Marcos (the widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos) is often remembered for having over 3000 pairs of shoes. So, by now, you are wondering why I consider this significant or even interesting.

I’ve just gotten to the absolute bottom of the laundry pile, and found a few of Jenn’s T-shirts that got left behind. So, I folded them and went to put them in her room. I added them to the large pile of summer things that didn’t make the trip to Mt. Rainer. But, it seemed like there were an awful lot of T-shirts. Curiosity got the better of me, so I counted them – 78 T-shirts. Now, this is certainly a lot less than Imelda Marcos’s 3000 pairs of shoes, but realistically, Jenn has had much less time to develop her collection than Imelda.

I know Jenn will argue that a number of the shirts were “freebies.” The FL Alumni Associate provides Beat “Whoever” T-shirts to the first 2000 students for all home games. Jenn and her group stood in line in shifts to get the T.-shirts. So that accounts for 6 shirts in her collection.

Her collection also includes a lot of “high school” T-shirts, collected through the years, including numerous soccer T-shirts, Battle of the Bridge Shirts, etc. And, heaven forbid that she wear “high school shirts” in college. So, quite a number of new shirts were acquired pre-Florida last year. Anyway, I think in a few years, her collection of Tees will rival Imelda’s shoes!

PS - One More Thing to Worry About - I saw on the news yesterday about 9 tourists injured at Old Faithful due to a lightning strike, and I realized that I had not included lightning on my list of things to worry about (even though Jenn is no longer at Yellowstone).