Thursday, July 13, 2006
Day 143 - Swimmage and Turtleage
Greetings, Bloggy Backstrokers! It's Thursday! One more workday after today and the blessed weekend will be here!
It is 5:36am and I *think* I'm almost ready to attempt to go to swim BEFORE work. I am not sure how long I'll have to swim, because I need to allocate time to get ready as well.
Checklist for swimming:
Clothes to change into (check!).
Towels (check!)
Swim bag (check!)
Lunches made? (check!)
I just need to go brush my teeth and I'm outta here. Charlie is making me a go-cup of bloggy juice for the road.
Observation - it's Thursday and I haven't had to buy gas yet for my Honda CRV 4-door color white! I am definitely noticing my gas consumption has gone down.
Gotta go swim or I'll never forgive myself! TTFN!
(tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick, etc. etc. etc. etc)
Howwww-dddeeee! It's 6pm and here's an update...
I took the highway this morning for the first time this week, since it was early in the morning when I drove to the 'Rec' to swim.
I was totally surprised at how many people were already there at the crack-age of dawn. There were even Basketball games going on - you can hear the sneakers squeaking on the gym floor and the hollers of the players from inside the ladies locker room. There were people walking, jogging, and of course SWIMMING. The lap lanes had maybe 8 swimmers in them, but there were only 2 older folks in the non-lap swimming area.
That's where I went... AND THAT'S WHERE IT HAPPENED... (What happened, Karen! Tell us! Tell us everything!)
I put on my goggles and started to swim. After a few 'meanderings around', I noticed an object on the bottom of the pool in 'the deep end' next to one of the lap lines that are 'drawn' with tiles along the bottom. After a few more meanderings, I recognized what it was - A TURTLE!! It was just sitting on the bottom, not swimming or crawling.
I thought 'Good grief', someone has released their turtle in the pool - how can it live with the chlorine?' Long story short, I swam down there and TOUCHED it. Of course it was fake. Very lifelike looking, but fake. I turned it into the life guard and I don't know what she did with it after that. ;-)
I had a shorter swim than usual since I had to get ready for WORK. Quite a large group of water-aerobic seniors had arrived by 7am. I was very happy that there was no contention for showers, I don't think any of the other women were getting ready for work.
My manager and director took me out for lunch today. I chose TGI Fridays so I could have their low-fat potstickers again.
I am working on two projects already, and neither of them were on my objectives for this quarter. That's work for ya.
TTFN!
It is 5:36am and I *think* I'm almost ready to attempt to go to swim BEFORE work. I am not sure how long I'll have to swim, because I need to allocate time to get ready as well.
Checklist for swimming:
Clothes to change into (check!).
Towels (check!)
Swim bag (check!)
Lunches made? (check!)
I just need to go brush my teeth and I'm outta here. Charlie is making me a go-cup of bloggy juice for the road.
Observation - it's Thursday and I haven't had to buy gas yet for my Honda CRV 4-door color white! I am definitely noticing my gas consumption has gone down.
Gotta go swim or I'll never forgive myself! TTFN!
(tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick, etc. etc. etc. etc)
Howwww-dddeeee! It's 6pm and here's an update...
I took the highway this morning for the first time this week, since it was early in the morning when I drove to the 'Rec' to swim.
I was totally surprised at how many people were already there at the crack-age of dawn. There were even Basketball games going on - you can hear the sneakers squeaking on the gym floor and the hollers of the players from inside the ladies locker room. There were people walking, jogging, and of course SWIMMING. The lap lanes had maybe 8 swimmers in them, but there were only 2 older folks in the non-lap swimming area.
That's where I went... AND THAT'S WHERE IT HAPPENED... (What happened, Karen! Tell us! Tell us everything!)
I put on my goggles and started to swim. After a few 'meanderings around', I noticed an object on the bottom of the pool in 'the deep end' next to one of the lap lines that are 'drawn' with tiles along the bottom. After a few more meanderings, I recognized what it was - A TURTLE!! It was just sitting on the bottom, not swimming or crawling.
I thought 'Good grief', someone has released their turtle in the pool - how can it live with the chlorine?' Long story short, I swam down there and TOUCHED it. Of course it was fake. Very lifelike looking, but fake. I turned it into the life guard and I don't know what she did with it after that. ;-)
I had a shorter swim than usual since I had to get ready for WORK. Quite a large group of water-aerobic seniors had arrived by 7am. I was very happy that there was no contention for showers, I don't think any of the other women were getting ready for work.
My manager and director took me out for lunch today. I chose TGI Fridays so I could have their low-fat potstickers again.
I am working on two projects already, and neither of them were on my objectives for this quarter. That's work for ya.
TTFN!
# posted by Karen @ 7/13/2006 05:41:00 AM 
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