old

omg, i am going to be old tomorrow. woe is me. i'm not handling this one so well. ok, so i am actually doing better about it today then i was a few weeks ago. OLD. like when you work with people who just turned 24, and like you aren't going to be 24 on your next birthday. woe is me. i did a mountain bike race yesterday. it was the first one in a long long time. like a year or more. i was nervous about the race which was weird but also part of the reason i don't like doing mountain bike races. back in 2009 i did a lap of this course. i did not enjoy it back then. but i've been having some health issues and we had the kids with us so i raced the beginner race so eric could race later. it turned out to be really a fun race. the 29er was so fast and handled it all so well. up and down and all kinds of stuff. i was having a ton of fun. it was sunny but not too hot but i was also like, omg are we at altitude? but i was probably more aggressive on the downhill than i have been before and i didn't run out of gears on the uphills, so that was good. the 2 rings upfront is different but it seems ok so far at least. but it was a fun day after the race, got to hang with some peeps that were in town visiting from utah and some of the other racers. then we went home with our sunburns. did i mention we drove in our awesome new car? it is so fun, the kids love it. seamus was all silly all day and when i asked her why she said she thought it might have been because of the new car. xtie asked me today why we chose that car over all the others available out there. i said that first of all, since it is eric's car, it is a bit more manly than the volvo station wagon that he was driving. i had read somewhere a long time ago that the only reason men drive volvos is because they are afriad of their wives. when i told this to eric he said yes. which reminds me that i was wearing a new summer dress on our way to the bike race on friday night and when we got to our hotel i mentioned to eric that i was surprised that he did not comment on my dress and he replied with "so?" i did think i was looking a little broad in the shoulders in that dress. i'm also looking a little broad in the face. i think the awesome swimming might be making my shoulders broader for sure. all the fat isn't helping the situation either, especially on my face, but hopfully there is some muscle in there too. i don't necessarily need a muscular face but a not as fat one wouldn't be so bad. especially now that i have all these gray hairs popping out everywhere now that i am OLD tomorrow!!! but the other reason we got the car that we did was because we want to make a bigger impact on the environment. gah!!! i hope our children's children don't burn up in the hot hot sun or drown in the overflowing oceans because of our irresponsible vehicle choice!! a friend of mine at work stopped recycling. he said the wants to add to the landfills. he said he is worried about the rising oceans and that soon the land will all be flooded, so we need to make more land by filling the landfills with our bottles and old envelopes. that was an interesting idea.

record setting!!

wow, stuff has been GOING ON. i am on the tour of swedish hospitals. issaquah last week and then this week redmond. good fun in the neighborhoods. i went to nashville! hooray!! that was fun!

a group of girls from high school all went. none of us are country music people, but it was a strange series of event that wound us up there. it was fun to be with the girls, and nashville was fine enough, i just don't know if i will go back.

and i am doing a mtn bike race this weekend! can't remember if i mentioned my sweet new mtn bike. ok, well, it is mine for now and then after the big race in may comes, it will go to eric. i don't know what i will ride then, but most likely i won't be doing much mountain biking after may.

and OH the BIG BIG news! I am the super fastest swimmer in the whole world!! back in feb we went to wenatchee before heading out for our ski weekend and worked on some swimming. that was key to my extreme swimming awesomeness. if you also recall, i had been sucking at swimming. for some reason i was going backwards. i was so slow. i was struggling to do a 1:55 100. it was work and no fun. but then after that wenatchee swim, things started to click!! and i have been shaving off time like there is no tomorrow. this morning i did a 6:52 - 400. this is super fast for me. like super fast, PR type of swim for me. every timed swim i've been doing has been a PR, each time. unreal. maybe i am miscounting? NO. i am NOT miscounting. i am just super fast. let's see. our old station wagon needs some work. we are at the time in the station wagon's life were we have to decide, is it worth $2800 to do the necessary work on the car that at very best is worth $2500? what to do. i put a bee in eric's bonnet back on that same ski trip about getting a new car. we even test drove one on that trip. so he has been revisiting the idea. he even took the kids out to test drive with him and sirus told me last night that eric was buying a new car next week. what to get is the big question and it looks like we are leaning towards the SUV route even tho we said we would never do it. gah!!!

teeth be gone

today seamus went in to have some teeth taken out. how come back when i was younger and had like 8 teeth taken out, all i got were a few painful pokes with a needle and he nurse telling my i had pretty hair as i drooled blood all over the place, but seamus got the full on deluxe treatment! seamus had a "large mesiodens" i suggest you don't do a google image search of that one unless you want to have nightmares for the rest of your life. i have said this more than once, but it is best not to think too much about the giant hole on your face that has a weird long flapping muscle and sharp white things that grow of out no where, and that we put stuff on the outside of that hole to make it redder and some people like to inject it and make it all puffy. and we put stuff in that hole in order to stay alive. so gross. yet the only thing grosser than all that is when in movies they have people with no mouths, like when the skin just grows over the hole. omg, terrifying!!! mouths are weird and scary. so she needed to have that sucker taken out, along with 2 baby teeth. so she was put under and then they took them out. took 45 minutes, maybe not even from them taking her back to when we could see her in recovery as she was coming too. she was so sweet and cute as she lay there all wrapped up in a fuzzy blanket, curled up. but then she started to get all pissed as she woke up because she had a roll of gauze in her mouth that she was biting down on and her face was all numb and she did not like that one bit. she probably didn't like it that we were all standing over her yapping, well, i wasn't, i was cuddling her trying to make her feel safe but everyone else seemed like they were yelling. not too long after, eric picked her up and put her in the car. she would shed a few tears every once in a while about how she didn't like it, ok, she said she hated it, but then she would just sit there. once we got home, eric put her in bed and i cuddled with her. the whole time just a little afraid she was going to throw up on me since they say that can happen, but she never did. she had one dose of her pain medication as the numbness wore off but has had nothing since. she doesn't like it and she doesn't want it. the rest of the day she just took it mellow, napped a little on the couch, had lots of applesauce and pudding and will be off to school tomorrow! she is a trooper!! now the big thing is that the real tooth is in a funky position that it could very easily swap places with the smaller tooth next to it! gotta git it all figured out and taken care of. what else? nuthin. i've got nuthin. i'll have sumpthin next week tho!!

a case of the pukes

uhoh. wondering if one is building up right now. i am going to try to hold it together. so it seems as though i maybe had some food poisoning. i remember sorta waking up a few times last night thinking, wow, i feel like i am going to lose it but also, like, huh? that doesn't seem right. then shore 'nuffs 6am hit and it all came tumbling down. or projecting out i guess would be more like it. nonstop. i swear i was even puking out of my ears it was so bad. it started as just a little this and that, and then it got into all of that and some more. puke was getting caught and a few times i was pretty sure it was cutting off my air and i was going to choke to death. if i am standing up with i puke, is that possible? oh it was horrible. eventually i was empty but i managed to sleep on and off until about 630pm. at around 4pm i had a 1/2 an english muffin but it was scary. i was worried! but it made me feel uneasy and i think that's why i managed to sleep another 2 and 1/2 hrs. i was sipping heed all day, as i assumed that the 6lbs i had managed to lose since the morning before were sadly not all fat but instead some combination of stuff that was not helping my situation, the heed in tiny sips tasted good and refreshing, plus it stayed down. ive had the food poisoning twice before that i can remember. once, a long long time ago, i went to seaotter. i was going to race! i had quit my job and had been riding my bike like crazy. it was the fittest i had ever been up until that point. eric had been in arizona, we had only been dating a little while but i was excited to see him in the CA. a big group of us went down to race and it was going to be a great weekend! then the night before the race we went to some place and burritos and carrot juice. and then i got the pukes. it was bad, especially since we were sharing a room with other people, too. i blame the whole beans on the burrito and to this day won't eat them. eric says it was the sour cream, or maybe the carrot juice, which i was a huge fan of, but again, won't touch since then. i couldn't race in the morning. instead, eric made up a bed in the back of his van and i slept. through the whole race. :( for most of the day even. the next time was after going to the luau which i don't think exists anymore. everything was fine and dandy, but then the next morning, there i was at work laying on the bathroom floor. ?? i was recently married and everyone thought i was el-preggo but no. just puking. i went home, but not before managing to puke all over myself in the car. good fun. i was supposed to go to work today but i couldn't. i am supposed to race tomorrow but can't. not properly hydrated or fuels. omg, i did eat 3 pieces of pepperoni pizza just now!! but that isn't good enough. plus i still feel like ass. better, but still like ass. we are still going to go, eric is going to race, but i am going to use it as a workout. just to tool around along the course, maybe i will offer to sweep! but its a 3mile run, 17 mile bike, 3mile run. we'll have to see how it goes. gah!! the thought of a clif shot right now.... the other day i was supposed to ride my tri bike for 90 minutes. i was supposed to ride outside but eric was out of town and i am a wimp and it was kind of cold and i get freaked out about things when eric is out of town so i came home and did it on the trainer. it was torture. i am a fan of the trainer. i do enjoy it, but something about it on this was was terrible. not even 4 minutes in and i was like, omg, am i done yet? i slogged along. i kept my cadence high and my hr was in zn1-zn2 but i was dying. i was in my easiest gear, struggling. i was like, wow, maybe i need to lube my chain? could the track workout the day before really be affecting me this much? i got to 58 minutes and was like, NO MORE! so i swapped bikes and put my road bike on there. it was better for like 5 seconds. i only managed 75 minutes. i couldn't do any more. i loaded all my data on the computer and found i averaged 12.3 mph. i was mortified!! what was going on?? the next morning i discovered that eric had been the last one to use the trainer and had totally cranked up the resistance. i was riding up hill!! i felt a little better after that. and i had a great swim, so that was good too. now i am going to clean out my ears, i think there is still some puke in them.