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Friday, January 30, 2009

catch up

first, i had ordered a new swim suit a while back. its called "bright blue rainbow" on the website. since i have no idea what the deal is with swim suit sizing i ordered a 32. that sounded like a good size. on their site it is the equivalent of a small, a medium, a 4. All sizes i fit in. until it showed up and it was a mini suit. eric took one look at the design and the size and wondered to me if maybe it was a child's suit not intended for adults. i sent it back and asked for a 36, which was either a medium, large or extra large, i really couldn't tell. when it showed up it fit better but i still could have gone up another size i think. anyway, i decided to wear it on thursday. i was a little self consious because it really is a rediculous suit but whatever. i walked into the pool area and as i was chit chatting with a friend before getting in i noticed that several of the people in the pool who were waiting for the work out to start kept looking at me. i have been there enough to know they weren't sizing me up to see if i was fast or not, so i assumed it was more of a "OMG, what is she wearing!?!" i got in the water, did a few warm up laps and then the coach came. the first thing she said when she got there was "does that have carebears on it or something?" it doesn't but i do wish it has a unicorn.
she had us doing a timed 500 that day. i had just done a timed 1000 the day before heading out on vacation so i thought, heck, i'll do it but just swim it for the yardage. that was until she split us into heats, had everyone else get out of the pool, had people counting laps, timing and everyone else was cheering, etc. good lord, i didn't expect any of that. so i had to try, ya know. so i did and i won my heat of slow people! i was so excited and i was happy because it was the first time i had ever really pushed myself swimming and i didn't drown!! i was thinking about how i wouldn't drown because if i needed to i could stand up at any minute but at no time did i think about quitting, slowing down or stopping, unless i was drowning of course. it was a big breakthrough for me.

onto disney world, which will be a multi post post because it was a long trip. jan 15 started with swimming, the timed 1000 which was excited because i was totally freaked out about doing it and then i told the swim coach i was going to do it, so she gave me my own lane then had everyone else do a straight 800, so that was kind of cool. then i went to work and got through the day. i came home and finished packing. luckily our flight on friday wasn't until almost noon so we were able to get up and weren't rushed. eric's friend logan came, we gave him the run down of hwo to take care of the cats and the house while we were out then off to the airport we went. checking our luggage was fun because the ladies were so excited for us to go to disney world, i was kind of suprised. we went to our gate only to be moved to another gate. then we got on the plane and sat there. and sat there and sat there some more. they needed to replace a part on the plane, they didn't have one on the shelf so they were going to take if off an plane that was already in the shop getting fixed. our layover in dallas was 2 hrs, but i saw that 2 hrs just creep away. finally i got off the plane and talked to the lady at the desk. she confirmed that we would definitly miss out connection unless our connection decided to be late (my itinerary said that the flight out of dallas had a 50% chance of being on time...). she said we had two choices. go home and come back on saturday for a direct flight that would get us to orlando at 5:30 pm or take the flight to dallas, spend the night then get on a morning flight that would get to orlando at 1:30. we opted to try the dallas route, since there was the very small chance that we would make our connection despite the delay and can you imagine trying to tell the kids that we had to go home when we had been going on and on about how we were on our way to disney world? FINALLY the plane took off. luckily we let the kids watch so much TV and they have been on such a trance over bendaroos. i actually found some at a toy store and those peices of yarn covered in wax entertained those kids for a good 2.5 hrs straight. i couldn't beleive it! so we got into dallas a little earlier than expected and then eric ran ahead. gthe monitors said that our flight was still there, so i grabbed the kids and we ran and ran. we caught the tram and then ran some more. you should have seen little seamus! she had her hello kitty rolling suitcase dragging behind her as she ran faster then i could run while pushing sirus in the stroller. she was amazing! then we got to the gate and the flight was gone. the lady there said she had seen we had been booked on a flight the next day so they didnt even think to check to see if we might be in. grr. in the mean time i was freaking out because we had already paid for our hotel at disney world, plus that extra day of meal plan that is required of each nights stay plus the entire day of park tickets. for a family of 4, that adds up. LUCKILY, mom had gotten us travel insurance so it all worked out in the end but only after i bit eric's head off while looking for the disney phone number and crying to sirus in the bathroom since i didn't have a change of underpants for him with me... ugh. but then we got to our dallas hotel and went for dinner and had a cocktail. seamus, always good with her comedic timing managed a "daddy farted" right when the waitress showed up, followed by a "i keep daddy a secret at preschool". nice. we all had a good nights sleep, went to denny's in the morning for breakfast, saw steve's doppleganger and then headed to the airport and on our way to orlando!!!
that flight was good, the kids played with bendaroos the entire time again and seamus boasted about how she didnt sleep at all from seattle to dallas and then on this flight either, although sirus managed to fall asleep 10 minutes before landing. we got to orlando, we got on our magical express and finally got to the hotel where we saw grandma!! we were still wearing our clothes from the day before since our luggage had been inaccessable and it wasn't to the airport yet but we said who cares and we gathered ourselves all together and headed over to the magic kingdom. grandma had gotten the kids adorable baseball hats with mouse ears and the kids loved them! that first night in the park we did a ton! we went to pirates of the carribean, peter pan's flight, aladins magic carpets, and big thunder railroad. i think there were a few others but that's what i can remember off the top of my head. then we watched the electrical parade but its not called that any more but i can't remember what its called. it was better then i remember it and the kids loved it! they both had huge smiles on their faces and when i asked sirus if he had ever seen anything like it ever before he said "nothing like it ever before". i was so excited to finally be there and to show the kids this great adventure.

Monday, January 05, 2009

the bachelor

goodness, i am so embarassed for these people. its so awkward and i can't even deal with it. what are these girls thinking? and really, if these dudes were so awesome, would they be on these shows? i have to admit, i totally loved the Joe Millionaire show with that dude Evan i think was his name. i was addicted to that one for some reason. i haven't ever watched the bachelor before. but this is rediculous. but gawd his face has got to be exhausted from all that fake smiling!
the show that we have recently started watching and enjoying is Total Drama Island on Cartoon Network. Its Survivor but a cartoon. Its kind of funny.
Oh no! one girl wrote him a poem! more embarassing!!! and now they are cooking hotdogs.
training is going well. went to work early to lift weights and run on the treadmill. i also decided to wake up early so tomorrow it will be easier to wake up for swimming!
first day back at work was ok but my neck started hurting which it hasn't been a problem since before thanksgiving.
not too many days now until we leave for Disney World!

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year!

we spent the night in but all in all if was a nice evening. eric grilled up ribs on the big green egg! we had run out of charcoal probably a month or more ago and we just yesterday got some so we were all loving the return of the egg!

then eric and i stayed up until about 1030 drinking lemon drops which were damn tasty. i could have drank a ton more of them but was worried about getting sick, so i stuck to two.

today is the last day of my first week of official training! I'd say that first week went pretty well after the extreme soreness wore off. now only like 40 more left until race day! I was thinking of that last night - its going to be like waiting through a pregnancy! oh the misery but the excitement and preparation at the same time!

I am still off of work for 4 more days if you include today. i hate to say it but we are going nuts. its too cold and wet to be outside now that the snow is gone, we don't want to spend money, we don't want to let the kids watch tv or play sack people, so we are having a time of it.

we did take the kids to see the movie Bolt. I wasn't too into it but wound up actually liking it. It did have some parts in it that were quite scary and then at the end i couldn't believe it! spoiler here - Penny almost dies in a fire! She is all passed out due to smoke inhalation and Bolt curls up next to her and they are getting ready to just die. WHAT? you can't put that in a kids movie???? I was horrified especially since seamus keeps talking lately about how our house hasn't ever caught on fire and stop drop and roll and she got all worried while reading Spider Saves Christmas when Lady Bug's xmas cookies catch on fire in the oven and Spider has to put out the fire with the boxes of water he got his friends for xmas. uuugh. other then that, it was a pretty good movie.

i have no resolutions this year. i think last year i was going to floss "most" days of the week and that was it, but i think that didn't last very long, i can't remember.

i do have big goals for the year. i need to look back to jan 08 and see if i can find my goals and see if i met them. i did have a pretty great 2008 though. the kids are awesome and continue with their awesomeness every day. eric is great and i am very lucky to be married to him. i am very fortunate that my family is all safe and healthy and that i have a good job.

as for 2009, I will quote seamus here - what's gonna happen?