Celebrating Our School Colors

It could've been worse; it could've been red, my least favorite color...Really, I was blessed. I definitely didn't see it that way back then. Our school colors were purple & white. And with white being such a "non" color, color - the purple at school events seemed all that much more enhanced & overused. Purple wasn't a bad color, it's just that blue & green were just better. We've already established all of this. 😂

However, everything we ate ended up being grape flavored - so that we'd be "supporting" the school & have "team spirit" while at events. We were on sporting teams, yet we were supplied plenty of "pure sugar" items such as these & these. I particularly remember consuming lots of these.

Incidentally as our team uniforms were all purple & white, wearing anything with the uniforms that came in purple, worked great. Obviously white was the easy accessory & the girls wore plenty of these to pull back their hair. We also got lucky, or should I say, they, as I didn't have "spikes" as we called them. That'd be an extra, unnecessary cost for us [read: Mom & Dad] & my brother & I weren't top charting runners so it didn't add up (no pun intended!) for our family to cough up the additional money.

During my time on the team, the sports catalog from which the sporting department ordered happened to carry two pairs of spiked running shoes, like these. One was, I believe, to the greater extent, pink; the other, was, well, purple & white. So, yeah, every. single. girl who wore spikes to run during meets, ordered this model. Why wouldn't they? 😂

One could say that when I headed off to college, I picked my future alma mater because of their school colors (athletic: green, & academic: blue), though the colors ended up a simple added convenience. What I can say for certain is that by the time college came around, we'd all moved on & I never found myself offered a [green] apple or [blue] raspberry sugar flavored candy or drink on campus.

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And just because I particularly enjoy the annual "Tear Fest", go ahead & check out this year's Beloit College Mindset List here where JFK, Jr. has always been deceased for this year's incoming freshman class. 😭




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