It's too early to dust.

Happy birthday, Anne! I hope it's a good one.

WTF, dumb okcupid users. Got a message today saying how much shared interests we have including how he loves dogs. Um, i never professed to be a dog lover. In fact, i'm pathologically afraid of dogs. Dating a dog person is an Issue. One that can be dealt with as long as the dog is never allowed in the bedroom, but still an Issue. Methinks that was a form response not edited to match my profile. Sure lost my interest.

I went to the pool at 8:00 this morning, and finally swam a full mile!!! Of course, it took me 1 hour and 23 minutes, but still--a mile! Next time I swim (probably Tuesday night), I'll start whittling that time down, but I'll keep doing the 33 laps. I'm hoping that maybe I can get that down to an hour by June.

The rest of the day will be spent cleaning, doing laundry, and clearing out my fridge. I was lazy yesterday and only worked on finishing off the cross-stitch/beading ornament project I started last Monday. i've still got eight more various ornaments to work on to finish off the pile I've got sitting on my coffee table, so I'll start working on one of those tonight.

kathy- that's awesome! it still takes me 45min to an hr to swim a mile and i was a super competitive swimmer for decades. just making that distance is impressive! Don't think i mentioned it before, but whenever i got leg cramps coaches would yell at me to keep hydrated better and up my potassium levels. a bananna earlier in the day is usually good for that.

Go Kathy!

WTF hammering rain. So much for running this morning: I shall sit inside and write, and pay bills, and read.

Yeah, I have to definitely up my water drinking. (I'm just finishing off my first liter of the day right now.) Cool thing was that my first cramp showed up just as I was finishing the last few strokes of my last lap!! So, I think it might have been more of a "get my legs used to doing 33 laps" thing than a deficiency thing. But, I am definitely going to continue drinking more water and getting my vitamins in ahead of time.

At the end of the swim, the woman swimming in the lane next to me and I had a little chat. She looks like a great swimmer, but was saying how her daughter swims a mile in 18 minutes, so when she comes home boasting that she can get her mile in an hour, her daughter laughs at her. But, considering that her daughter just taught her how to swim three years ago, I thought she was doing amazingly well and told her so! When she said that she had been terrified of the water before then, I was flabbergasted because she's so good now.

My mom was in a similar situation, learning how to swim for the first time in her 40s, but she never got past the stage of "dog-paddle and can keep her face under the water for five seconds only." I'm proud of her for getting that far, actually, considering that she's still rather afraid of the water.

Happy Birthday Anne!

Happy birthday, Anne!

Happy birthday, Anne!

Happy birthday, Anne!!