Cancelled

Due to approaching typhoon, K's once a week half day pre-school is cancelled for today. She is bummed.
so am i-- I was planning on checking out a sports gym a couple of stations away that seems to have a child minding facility for members. I thought I could join up as a morning member and go swimming while K is at pre-school on wed mornings. depending on what age they take kids to loo after, I might even be able to leave both kids there and go another morning too?? How cool would that be!! I am really itching to swim some laps.

But i guess i'll have to go check it out another day now......Watch this space!

boring rant

Got to the pool tonight, but it was a letdown.

J specifically told me in the afternoon that he had a late meeting, so would be home lateish and I should eat early and get ready so we could do the baton touch and I could get to the pool when he got home. I know I should be greateful that he thinks of me and tries to make it easier for me to get to the pool, but it had the opposite effect, and made me try to think of ways to get out having to go lol. Anyway, had the kids bathed, fed, J's dinner ready and even the house a bit clean by the time he got home, so off to the pool it was

realised I shouldn't have eaten salmon on a night I was going to the pool. Not as offensive as mackeral in a bento at lunch time, but driving to the pool I started to imagine the salmon repeating on myself as I swam laps....getting less motivated....

signed in and found out that they are closing a day early for obon. A day earlier than they originally advertised. Actually, not a whole day earlier, just a few hours earlier which means no evening session, so I can't go to the pool this Sat evening. Feeling a bit ripped off....

started swimming laps and the pool instructor (teaching aqua-aerobics in the lane beside me) stopped me at the end of a lap, and told me that I need to take my earings out bcoz, quote : "if they come off in the pool you wont be able to find them" end quote.

I have NEVER lost a pair of earings in the pool b4. And as it turned out, I had no where safe to put them in my bag anyway and probably had more chance of losing them after taking them off..

I know this is gonna seem really petty and pathetic, but this just really pissed me off, and got me upset. I had to get out of the pool,and back to the locker room to put my earings away.

THEN I got told off (not to my face) from the old bitties in the locker room bcoz I had dripped on the floor. I turned around and said something pathetic like "she told me while I was swimming to take them off" but thinking about it now they wouldnt have had ANY idea what I was on about (><)

came back to the pool and the lady apologies to me (again in front of her whole aqua aerobics class) while I say "yeh, well, I just got told off in the locker room too now"

jump back in the pool but now totally lost any motivation to swim

swallow some water half way down a lap and get the sneezes

regain a bit of motivation, enough to swim 40laps, then I call it a day. sneeze all the way home, and now got a headache.

I know that the stupid little things that happened as soooooooooooo pathetic, and can't even understand why I am still whining about it.

I just wish I HAD stopped off at the conbini on the way home to buy some oreos or something to take my mind off it =)

Oh, and that sneaky kg that came off last week - managed to firmly plant itself back almost within the blink of an eye. dammit.

mermaid T here

Wasn't planning on a back-to-back pool session, but when J got home at 6:30pm, I just had to take the bull by the horns and take my chance while I had it! So I headed off after dinner for

* 45 freestyle
* 20 breastroke
* some random walking and kickboarding
* and a pair of pants included in my bag this time ;)

yay for J

Must give J a big thumbs up. He rang on his way home from work, asking if I was going to the pool tonight (he remembered!!!) and that I should get ready to go once he gets home. Very nice!

So despite my not really being that excited(really feeling the natsu-bate and lack of motivation , etc etc), I did head off to the pool and swam:

45* freestyle (900m)
20* breastroke (400m)
5* kickboard for some kick-a*se leg workout

Met a lovely lady in the change room afterwards who spoke very good english- had lived in the US for 5 years, and visited Aus 5+times. The people are the y are really so friendly! Wonder if she would have been so friendly if she realised I was going commando, thanks to forgetting to take a pair of undies with me (yikes!!) I put my togs on before I go, bcoz seriously, I have quite enough trouble jumping my way into them, and I really dont want to do that before an audience.

also K had her 2nd swim lesson today - she did crack the sh*ts a bit in the morning, saying she didnt want to go (*sigh*) but she was perfectly fine once we got there. I was very proud of her!

time for karma to bite me on the bum

I know I shouldnt gloat, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT:

I managed to get to the pool again tonight - went at 6:30pm and got home at 8:15pm (had quick stop at uniclo on way home too).

I had thought the pool was only 15m long (which made my 20laps breastroke & 20laps freestyle on Wed seem a bit pathetic) but tonight I actually asked how long the pool was: 20m!! what an idiotic length!! Anyway, tonight I ganbarued and did 6*breastroke to warm up, 40*freestyle and 14* breastroke to cool down, plus a couple of laps in the walking lane.
i.e.
freestyle 800m
breastroke 400m

time: 35mins

Now, the goal is to extend the length in about the same time. I have never been fast, but when I was doing triathlons and the like (oh, the glory days!!!) I did swim 1.5km in the ocean in about 33mins I think. Hope to get to be able to swim at least 1.5km (wonder how long it will take me....hmmm?)

And the gloating - well, when I got home after my swim, the house looked like a BOMB had hit it, L was screaming (he stopped the instant I held him) and no one had eaten dinner at 8:15pm! (altho we did have hotdogs and icecream at IKEA at 4:30pm, but still.....) Hope J got a bit of a taste of why the house and I am always frazzled when he comes home at night :=)

on an bender

An exercise bender, that is (well, kinda).

Anyway, today I just went down to sign up for summer session at the ymca pool - I can go along weeknights and Saturday night from 6:15pm-9pm. Even bought myself one of those baba swim suits (the ones that mean you dont have to bother about shaving anywhere as you are basically covered head to toe - at least there is one less excuse not to go to the pool...) Hoping to make it at least once a week, but if possible, try to go 2 times a week from now until end of Aug. Wish me luck!!

I just realised that my big run last night was a maximum of 2 (two, duos, 二）km. Yikes. How embarrasing. Well. gotta start somewhere, right?

I dont know what it is about the hot weather, but it kinds spurs me on to exercise. lets see if I can keep it up for more than 3 days tho, THAT is the challenge.