Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Day fifteen: Dates!

Prompt for day fifteen: Is there a date in the year that holds some particular significance to you? Tell us the story!

Hmmm… For the first time I think I might really struggle with this blog prompt. I do not have any real dates that stand out and are significant enough to make me stop what I am doing once I realise what day it is. As I have already mentioned this week (far too often, I know!) as of next year the 12th of July will be my wedding anniversary - in theory that should be a date
that stands out forever more. Unless Chris gets sick of me before that, which is highly possible.

I can think of a couple of dates that I remember from the past which are quite cool. But I have had to dig around in my memories to find these.

17 September 2004: this was the day I competed in my first ever Paralympic event. If I am right in thinking, it was the 100m freestyle in which I won a Bronze medal. It was that or the 50m freestyle winning me a silver medal. Either way I was terrified. I can't remember exactly which race it was because I did four events at the Athens 2004 Paralympic games, winning a medal in each. I promise I am not trying to show off! :)

17 October 2011: this is the day I announced my retirement from competitive swimming. I had actually decided to retire months before this but my management told me to hold off until this particular day. It was actually a massive relief, if I am honest. I remember so many people telling me that they wanted to buy tickets to watch me race at London 2012 and I couldn't tell them not to bother until this day. It was really hard to keep my mouth shut and not tell anyone.

I thought I had some more dates to share with you. However, all I can think of are birthdays and I am confident that is not what the prompt was looking for. Therefore, I am going to sign off for today and hope for a prompt that suits me better tomorrow.