Holy Moly! What's that in my blog??? It's a bird, it's a plane... no... it's a...   SWIM!!!!  No way!!!! LOL!

My chiro says that my upper vertebrae are incredibly tight and he probably can get them "slightly looser" than they are now. As opposed to "supple". He suggested downward/upward dog, tennis balls, and - drum roll please - swimming. Oh joy. My favorite. I had to laugh. I like swimming well enough - that nice smooth glide in the water, even breathing... what's not to like? Well, I'm slow as all get out that's what. But if it will get me to a century on the bike then WTH. Sign me freakin' up.

So in honor of all the swimming I'm going to be doing, I will for-sure-barring-incident do the Luna on August 2nd and the Scoggins Valley Oly Aug 30th. My current swim pace will put me DFL out of the water for Scoggins. Surely I can improve. I guess you can't place worse than DFL.

The Goddess of Swimming: Worship her at an altar covered with a slightly bleached out towel, several pairs of goggles and a new swim cap. Offer her Swim Out shampoo and a lap counter and she will make sure you are always in someone's draft but never get your goggles kicked off.

I can't stand any more of this freakin' REST!!! 

We're headed out to dinner tonight with Bro, his GF, and my stepdad. Bro wants to go to Indian food, but not sure if s-dad is up for that. I think I'll eat light. Maybe I can get a swim in tonight. Pool closes at 10:30.

Tuesday was my cyclical Carb Fest Day - 2 1/2 giant bagels, plus regular food, etc etc etc. It was The Day That There Aren't Enough Carbs In The Universe.  Fortunately the pendulum has swung back, and now I'm not hungry. I can work with that.

Tonight or tomorrow, the training calendar gets made out and hubby will be moving his azz. He is currently the Non-Motivated One. For June/July I will be the motivator. Come later in the fall, he will take over. It works out well.

I need a nap. I'm REALLY sleepy. Any tips on sleeping at work? :) It was sprinkling as I walked across the bridge this morning. Hopefully it won't be raining tonight.

It looks awful out. Sprinkly rain most of the day. The pavement has mostly dried, but it's cold, windy and the clouds are low and nearly black. I'm thinking that we will skip the ride, and instead go to the gym. Hubby will lift, and I will swim. And play with my new lap counter. :)

Kona is a very bad girl. She chewed up hubby's new(est) cycling gloves. Well, glove, anyway. She's quite thorough. The largest remaining pieces are perhaps as large as 1/2" by 3/4". So naughty.

Can't wait 'til saturday. Breakfast out and then bike shopping!!!

Headache is gone finally.

Hubby is having a stressful hearing today. His client's relative-by-marriage is causing no end of problems. His usual fee for this type of service is about $1,500. The bill has climbed to over $10K and does not include today's mess or the prep-work involved, if that gives you any idea of the problems this dork is creating. I think the relative may be one of those sort that would rather spend all the estate in attorney fees just so that no one else in the family will get a share. No doubt the relative is also one of those who complain that their attorney charges them too much. So much anger, so little point. Life is too short. Hopefully the hearing will go in such a way that hubby will be done dealing with it - and get paid.

I'm thinking a run would be nice tonight.  And it was!

Still have the headache. Phthbbbbbttttt. Stoopid headache.

I stopped at my favorite bagel shop this morning - two people in my workgroup had b-days. I got an jalapeno-swiss. MMMmmmmmmm!!!!

Tonight is racing at PIR. I wonder how many people will be out tonight. Run planned afterwards.

MIL headed out to visit friends on the way home. It was nice seeing her. She doesn't get up to visit us all that often.

I am a bad bad triathlete. It was too rainy for a weenie like me to ride out at PIR (plus only had a jersey, no jacket, nothing.) so I went home, had dinner, got a killer headache and went to bed. Great evening. :(

For a "rest" day, I'm exhausted. We went out to b-fast with my MIL who flew in last night. Made out our menu for the week, and wrote up a grocery list. Cleaned out the fridge, and then went to work on putting in the new floor.

We moved all the living room stuff waaaaaay over, unloaded the antique secretary and glass cabinet and put all the stuff in the guest room, moved all the dining room stuff into the living room, then unloaded the freezer/fridge and moved it to the living room. Moved the range to the living room, unhooked the dishwasherand moved that to the living room. Unrolled the new-new floor and let it "relax" for about 45 minutes. Painted in the kitchen. Took up the old-new floor to use as a template, and made sure that when we cut out the new-new vinyl floor all the fake "tile" lines  would be square to the door and cabinets. Cut out floor. Install the new-new floor. This actually only took about 30 minutes and was the easiest thing we did all day.

Once the new-new floor was in, we put the stove back and then the fridge. The fridge door sticks and it refuses to be level. Lovely. While hubby and MIL worked on this, I weeded the garden and planted all my peppers and herbs. 2 hrs later I was tired and they gave up. The appliance store will be called tomorrow. Fridge is under warranty.

After a trip to the hardware store for silicone and then the grocery store and Baja Fresh for dinner, hubby started on installing the dishwasher. First, we had a little exercise in drying the floor. MIL had run water in the sink and flooded it out underneath. Exactly what we did the last time we installed the floor. She felt bad. We thought it was funny that it had happened again exactly as before. Total deja vu. So after we ran fans and the hair dryer a while, we went back to dishwasher installation. Well, hubby did. MIL and I put all the stuff back in the cabinets and put the dining and living room back together.

Dishwasher did not cooperate and the whole plumbing bit leaked like a sieve. After much irritation and minor cursing, all is well, our house has been put back together, the floor looks AWESOME, and I am going to bed. As soon as I get my clothes together for work and PIR tomorrow night. I'm TIRED!!!