weekend

today was my first open water swim of the season and it was damn cold. so cold that every time i stuck my face in i would hyper ventalate. damn cold. but the water was clear and all in all it was a good swim. cold though. i did my own mini triathlon but with extra long transitions with complete clothing changes and bathroom breaks!

eric did his first olympic disance triathlon yesterday. we are not swimmers. eric managed a 111 out of 191 in the swim. but dug deep into his treasure chest of courage and pulled out a 13th overall finish with a 2nd in his age group which is pretty good considering the guy who came in first in his age group is pro and all. i was all proud, eric did great!! we showed up at the race site about 20 minutes before the start of the race because we make a wrong turn AND got pulled over by the coppers. nice police man though, let us off and even gave us directions to the race site! seamus came with us but sirus stayed at grandmas. it was so windy!! seamus took refuge at one point in my coat. she also stopped to listen to the crickets.

love is

a bike seat that has "Silicone gel inserts with differentiated thickness" that have been "strategically placed around the anatomical cut out to improve comfort and relieve pressure in the frontal soft tissue area". how GROSS is that?? gross but true. man, i spent how many years on my man seat? the seat that eric told me over and over to get rid of and i would convince myself that it was great. finally i gave in and my soft tissues are thanking me.

i did a load of laundry this evening. yeah, so, its not a good idea to put a diaper in the washing machine. ugh. thank goodness it was not poopy but that diaper go is pretty gross.

seamus pulled her hammy! she was all gimpy this morning grabbing her hamstring. she got a little hammy rub this morning and eventually it got all better.

i was in ohio this weekend. wow! that was so much fun!!! i got me some photos taken. i am going to post some here so it will be apparent to all that i do not look terrible like in that photo the other day.
Seamus wanted to come to ohio with me.where would all my shoes fit? sirus was just being cute!




lisa, cary & i were a bunch of hotel posers.

allie and i ran the cleveland 10k in the morning then had some jewish brunch.

i guess i lied.

so, i just had to bask in my 3rd placeness again... and they changed the results!!! so i was 3/34 out of 30-34, but now it has been updated to be 7/71 out of 30-39. hmph. not sure how i feel about that. i do know i was 3 for at least a day. still 24 out of 259.

highly unusual

i got an eyebrow wax today. and i got a manicure. the person that did my nails was a guy. that was different. he did a good job, but it was a bit unexpected.

apparenlty

this is what i look like after coming in 3rd in my division in the 5k race this morning. i asked eric if that is really what i look like and he said no and then he laughed. he might be lying.


this is what seamus, sirus and i look like while playing chuzzle on the computer. the kids looove it!! i look concerned but maybe that is because of my sweatshirt and my pop belly?

eric has committed to helping me train for the 1/2 iron man, as a result we ran 9 miles yesterday, swam 3/4 miles and then today ran the 5k race, yes, that one where i came in 3rd and then went for a 30 mile bike ride. i am beat.

and its mother's day! here is sirus sleeping and one of seamus, too. she fell asleep hugging her book that jen sent her. by the time i ran to get the camera she had rolled around and got all pissed off, but its cute anyway!! those are not her pjs but instead what she opted to put on after we put her to bed. its not up to us any longer.

dude, getting life insurance is one of the most horrible experieinces ever. i will give more detail later.

this morning

cougar

i am turning into a cougar. this is bad. several signs point to it. pone being that i sat at a bar in krikland drinking by myself last night. i got the sense that the bartender did not beleive me that i was actually going to meet up with people.
another being that we now have a stoller that the model is cougar 2. that is twice the cougarness. more specifically it is the cougar 2 chassis. ewwww.
a while back i slurged and got myself a little coach purse. its cute and i like it. eric, on the other hand doesn't like it because he says it looks like a saggy sack. he is right, it does and it actually looks like the little hippy dippy fanny pack that i had in highschool that i would throw over my shoulder. my new saggy sack is just like that saggy sack the only real difference is that my currnt one wouldn't ever fit around my waist.
dude, work is killing me.
i decided that i needed to stop wearing such ugly lounge clothes. i either wear the same black yoga pants i have been wearing for the past 8 years or i wear my velour maternity pants. in a time of bvious weekness i icked up some BRIGHT pink terry juicy pants. BRIGHT pink. so pink that they match seamus's pants in this photo: i think these pants are cute on a 3 yr old, but i am not so sure on someone of my advanced age. especially paired with my favorite bright yellow cliff bar flaor patrol shirt. i look good.