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.

sheesh part 2

busy busy. the past few weeks have been nutty and busy and good lord.
we took a trip to vernal utah to visit the kids's greatgrandma. it was a quick trip, leaving friday morning and geting back sunday afternon. when i woke seamus up at 445am on friday she turned to me and told me to leave her alone because she was sleeping. i then told her we were going to get on the airplane and she jumped right out of bed! both kids were really great on the plane. eric's mom came with us, too, so it was great to have an extra set of hands. originall they gave us seats all in the middle, one right infront of the other. while it was tempting to keep those we did change them so we were all in one row. after we landed in salt lake we had to ride a bus to go get our mini van. everyone loved the bus. and it turned out that everyone loved the mini van. me included. i had been looking into them recently anyway. eric is liking the volvo and doesn't want oto switch, even tho he was a minivan driver when i first met him. the drive to vernal is supposedly only 2.5 hours from salt lake, but it took us 5.5 from the time we got off the plane to when we got to vernal. we went right to vsit greatgrandma and then to our hotel. the whole trip was swo much fun. the kids spent more time outside and at parks then they usually get the chance to and that made everyone happy.
vernal does not believe in vegetables so we had none the whole time we were there. and we went to walmart everyday, sometimes more then once. good lord. but walmart in verbal is 48976123764 times better then walmart in renton.
the trip home was good but tiring. poor eric's mom had a 3 hour drive still but she made it home ok, too.
monday i went to work. tuesday i got up at 345am to catch a 6am flight to SF. i am having some issues when it comes to foot wear. i have gotten a few new pairs of shoes lately. i have tried them on at various times of day, during, before and after various activities and every pair feels fine at the store but then i get them home and they are all too small. what is totally even more lame is that in each instance i even tried on the bigger pair and each time there will be a gap at the back of my heel. so i took 3 pairs of shoes to go to sf. the pair i wore down had caused me issues the last time i had gone but they are now my best fitting, least high heeled pair, but i totally slipped and almost fell in the airport. so, i got to sf and to my hotel and thankfully they let me check in at 830am. i changed into some less dangerous shoes but man i felt frumpy. with this new hairdu and recent 43 pounds i did not want to feel frumpy when i might be running into former co-workers. so i went right to nordtrom. it doesn't open untl 930 so i had to sit there. finally it opened. there are tons of cute shoes in the world but my toenails are totaly fuct so i can't get any open toed anything. i really didn't want to buy yet another pair of plain back high heels but i did rationailze that the pair i do have don't fit and the heel is to high. so i got a pair. i opted to not get the jessica simpson brand and got the even cheaper ones. those felt fine. wore them right ouit of the store and all over sf and to the conference. until day 2. does it really matter any more about my shoes?
ok, so my favorite part of the conference was standing in line at riteaide getting some bandaides for my fuct toes ad there was an older guy al business like right infront of ne, with an 18 pack of budwiser cans. at 9am. that and somehow i managed to go to starbucks 3 times each day. i met some of my coworkers who i totally dig, and i went to dinner with allie and luan which was fun despite the foirgra. we had steak tarter. there is more to all of that story.

sheesh

eom

totally inappropriate

so eric and i had THE most inapropriate conversation the other day. sirus went to the doctors because we thot he had the pox. when you take the kids with the threat of the pox they don't let you in. i have heard at other doctors that they sneak in through the back door. but no, at our doctors they make you stay in the car and they come to you. so, eric was telling me how the doctor ws one he hadn't seen before and how the doctor was like, dude, what am i doing in this weird dude's car. i suspected that i had maybe seen this doctor myself one time and started asking eric about him. i then started the story about the time i saw him. after seamus was born i had a lot of issues with clogged ducts. this was terrible. it was painful and it burned and it was weird and itchy and aweful. so i went to the doctor. this doctor was just like hmph. and started checking stuff out. rubbing and pushing and just trying to see if there was something wrong. he then went on to tell me how he really hadn't dealt with this issue and he wanted to check with my normal doctor who was in the office but just didnt have an open appointment. so let me tell you about my doctor. she is now seamus and sirus's doctor but she is tall, blonde and really pretty. when i asked eric if he would ever go to see her for medical issues he said no way, are you crazy? so, she comes in and she is pushing and rubbing and doing all the same stuff that the first doctor did. i did n't think anything of this until eric and my totally inappropriate conversation in which i realized that the male doctor was there the entire time, probably planned it and was totally digging the girl on girl action. good lord. whatever.

good aim

diving

ninja warrior

seamus has a new favorite TV show. she loooooves to watch ninja warrior, ya know, that crazy japanese show where the people try to complete the crazy obsticle course without touching the water. she sits there watching and gives commentary the whole time, whooping it up when the people land in the "yucky water".

sirus has a tail!!!

at least that is what seamus told daddy while she watched him change sirus's diaper... she was pretty convinced it was a tail.

so, something really gross happened friday morning. i have been sick and have had a lot of gross nasties in my lungs and throat. friday morning i was coughing and a total CHUNK of gooo flew out. i could pick it up off the floor with my fingers, it was that gooey.

dude, how have i managed t gain 40 pounds since i started my new job? i thot maybe i would get the freshman 15, but 40? in 3 weeks?

those jeans that were so rediculous don't fit. well, they might but i don't want to try. buut, friday was funny because i had some rediculous jeans on all day. i had a migraine but we had plans to see the easter bunny. so i had to take action if i was going to make it through. so, luckily i had some extra jeans at work. so i changed into those right before we left. but this left me with the too tight jeans at work. which i wore today. there was some serious muffin top going on today, let me tell you.

we did get the easter bunny photos and they are very cute. except seamus looks sad, but that is expected since she had to be bribed to like the easter bunny with chocolate and eric is creeping up at us from the bushes in the back and sirus is sitting on my shirt pulling the neckline so far down that it was almost no family friendly.

ooh, beaches is on

yes, that is what eric just said. folled by, oh, there is full house.

today was fun in the cold. we helped out with the mtn bike race in capitol forest. i am totally sick so that was a bit rough, but it was fun. when i got this morning i was totally hacking stuff up while drving to the gas station. it got all hacked up, i rolled down the window to spit it out, and i totally didn't make it out the window. it dripped all down my chin and then all over the side of the inside of the car and rested on the arm rest. whatever. of course i had nothing to whipe it up with so i waited until i got to the gas station only to discover that the major globber had rolled off the arm rest and down the rest of the door. grody. that is the real reason it is unlady like to spit.

those kids are so funny, i will leave it at that for now. oh, but we did take them to see the easter bunny on friday and much to my dismay it turned into the family portrait with the easter bunny.... he gave seamus some lego like block and she took them out of the packaging and re-created the structure they had on the packaging. granted it wasn't complicated, but she is only 3, and there were probably 7 or 8 blocks to it. we were all impressed with that. sirus, too is totally picking up on things these days. all of a sudden everything has started to click and he has been picking up so many words. we have all kinds of puzzles and he can do all of them. its like a ligth went on in his head and he started to get it. so cute.

friday i rode my bike and bussed into work. a nice guy at the bus stop helped me put the bike on the bike rack since i had no idea how to do it. i am sick and won't do the run or bike and bus tomorrow, although i would like to. but i jsut am too sick.

the bus the bus we must increase the bus

today i became overwhelmed with emotion at my new job and almost shed a tear. we were reviewing some of the new ads that we will be running and they were just so damn cool. i get a little teary just thinking about them.

other news. i ran to work today. okok, not the whole way, but to the bus stop, then i got on the bus and then i got off the bus and then ran to work. shower and repeat. its hard to say if it is any quicker. going into work its not. the whole process took 2 hours this morning, but that includes waking up, dressing, running to the bus stop, missing the bus by 2 minutes, waiting 13 minutes for the next bus, riding the bus, getting off the bus and running to work (i discovered there are 3 BBQs at our office building) shower and get to my desk ready to work at 8, actually 3 minutes before.

the way home only took 1 hour and 1/2 but there was no showering. i do think that the time spent in the vehicle was much less then if i had driven since there was lots of carpool lane action. the real test will be tomorrow when i drive. i might wind up with this bus thing more often, but opt for the bike ride on off days. i am kind of pooped right now.

new photo action:

sirus going night night with his monster.

seamus jumping from the stairs! she doesn't do this as often as she used to.

she is so awesome!

sirus channeling darth vader, again.

seamus shows off her drawing.

poltergeists? maybe, but i think it was seamus. she even made it so the door could oepn and not knock any down.

seamus picked out her outfit.

climber!!

i do not want to go here

good gawd! what are these people thinking. just looking at these photos makes the anxety juices start to flow:


day two of the new job was good. and the commute was fine, too.
i have an office! and i have a window with two big ever green trees right out the window. i don't quite know what i am looking at other then those trees but its nice. i like it! and i just got a big file cabinet. and i picked out a chair. i have a total kick arse monitor for my computer! its so big and i can see so much! one of the best things that happened today was that i was on a webex presentation with another company while they were giving a demo of a product. one of the other people on the call kept putting us all on hold and their hold music kept coming on. every single time the presenter got totally annoyed, gave a big sigh and you could practically see the steam coming out of the phone from him being so mad. made me laugh every time. i was on mute tho. its been pretty fun and i think i am starting to get the hang of it. hooray!

new job new job

dude, i have a new job. Can u beleive it?? good times!!

someone at my new job gave me a casino royale poster so i can look at daniel craig looking totally dreamy all day long.

new adventure next monday. stayed tuned.

oh so romantic

this guy is from brazil.

direct quote from eric during our romantic weekend get away:

my hair doesn't collect as much dirt as yours, so it stays clean longer.

thanks.

what else? 3 days left then i start my new job, which is very exciting.

its been a stressful few weeks

and i couldn't resiste the urge any longer. so here is my newest find:

i think eric should get me a margarita. i'm going to la tomorrow. one last trip.