Sparklinglady: today will be 16

more than 1/2 way done! hooray! now it seems like it is going fast. tuesday was doctor day again and when he walked in i had on my hat and he was like, take the hat off, lets look at your hair. my hair is all there! i think this is a good sign that it won't be falling out. i am optimistic although there is still time.
my head has been hurting though. i had an MRI yesterday and again i fell asleep during it! but at doctor day he said the best way to figure out a headache was to get an mri so i'll probably find out today if there is anything going on. he did say to drink the NUUN and to stay hydrated since its so hot these days. it is hot.
i have no work today and no workout. i was going to throw in the towel on the training, and i did, sort of. i am still working with my coach but trying some new strategies. one being doing my workouts in the morning instead of the afternoon. i swam before work yesterday and that seemed to work pretty well. i put on the swim cap yesterday but managed only 200 before taking it off because it was hurting my head. it puts a lot of pressure on my forehead where i have all those titanium plates. i was worried when i took it off that i would wind up tearing out huge chunks of hair that would then escape throughout the pool but no hairs came out! later in the shower at the gym i was worried again my hairs would all fall out. i am not prepared for a back up solution, so i would have had to continue to work with a giant bald spot i guess. maybe i would have called in and said i was going to be late because i would need to go get a hat or spray paint or something. but that is about all that is going on with my health. oh yeah, except this thing on my neck and the weird bump on my calf. should i be worried about those? gah!!! but i did register for two sprint triathlons. i had deferred entries from last year when i hurt my back so i said what the hell. i had so much fun at black diamond, and who cares if i soft pedal and walk. i am excited!! wouldn't it be exciting though if running out of the water, ripping off my swim cap i also pulled out like 1/2 my hair!! hope they catch that on film!
oooh! i want eric to do more house projects! since seamus won't let me clean her room, i have nothing left to organize!! our room (paint, lights, fan, curtain rod, curtains) is done. oh, except the shelf that eric needs to put up. i just tried to get him to put it up, but he flat out said no. he is taking the kids black berry picking. i am going to take a nap. sirus's floor is all put in! loving it!! oh i want eric to just tear all the damn carpet up and put some flooring in. we aren't going to shell out for hardwoods until the kids have graduated from college anyway, so we should just do it. these carpets - '80s white - are so cat puke, dirt, crayon, marker, coffee stained! that doesn't even include the mystery stains that the house came with.
i dreamt last night that i was somewhere near a river and there were elephants swimming up river. first there were like only a few, but then it turned into hundreds of them, all swimming up river. not sure what they were doing. the night before i dreamt that two different people i worked with complained about how the people in the apartments next to where they lived kept them awake by using electric pencil sharpeners all through the night. what does it mean???

i wore a jean jacket on my first day back at work!

the garden - its been rough this year in the WA for gardens, but we have gotten lots of lettuce, spinach, some peas, green onions and a zucchini!

cheer camp!

old fan that i hated in our bedroom. you can see the new paint and new lights!


new fan. its not exactly what i wanted but it was only $42 compared to the $400 one i really want. i can wait! 1 fan down, 5 to go. wow, we have a lot of ugly fans in our house!