I found out today how I did in our church's 20 week fitness challenge. Out of the 39 remaining contenders, I placed third. The top 5 individuals were all women, which really surprised me.
I'm not sure why they did this, but they gave cash prizes to the top 3 teams, instead of just the top team. But then they gave a cash prize just to the top individual, and gave *bath sets* to the 2nd and 3rd place people. Um . . not to complain or anything, but I think I'd have preferred whatever cash they spent on the bath set . . .
I was a bit embarrassed though - two reasons. One is that as I was walking up front to accept my "prize" one of my shoes fell off! The other reason is that they had a graph/slide listing the top ten individual weight loss amounts with the names next to the amounts - showing to the whole church!!
I am dissapointed that I didn't win the $200 first place money. But I do know that I had more than one occassion of slacking off during the 20 weeks, so coming in third is still doing pretty well.
Now I'm about to jet off to my babysitting job where I'll be coming home with cash in my pocket - not $200, but still more than I'll be arriving there with. 
3rd place? Not bad.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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April 6th, 2008 at 05:40 am 1207460425
Thanks! Never thought about selling bath sets on ebay - this one is probably one of the nicer ones ... may have to do some research and see if it'd be worth it.
Thanks Ima!
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My mom gets bath sets for Christmas all the time as an elementary teacher.
Needless to say, they are regifted quite often. I finally got around to asking her to request my favorite sent (the kids ask her for a list of things she likes) so now I get LOTS to bathsets.
April 6th, 2008 at 04:15 pm 1207498516
Regina - I didn't get very many bath sets as a teacher - what I got a lot of were coffee mugs and candles! That's nice that you get to benefit from your mom's students gifts.
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May 15th, 2008 at 02:13 am 1210817613
Yes, I am an SDA.
My dad is a retired SDA minister, and both my mom and I taught in Adventist schools.
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She ended up graduating (with her BA) from Columbia Union (near Washington D.C.) then getting her Master's from Southwestern (TX). I got my BS from Southwestern. My dad got his BA from Pacific Union (as did my brother and his wife) and went to Andrews University for his seminary degree. I actually took a few master's level classes at Pacific Union as well (when I was teaching out in CA), but never went any further than that.
So . . . my family is well versed in Adventist education.