swimming diary

My blog is rapidly becoming my swimming diary.

Today was the first day that I had no ill effects from swimming.

I think this was because I put my contacts on just before and took them out straight after returning from swimming.

I didn't do any shopping trips or other errands just before swimming. I came straight home, showered and washed my hair and ate lunch and sat quietly.

I also made sure I only swam for 30 minutes.

Today I spent a lot of time without flippers on and took forever getting from one end of the pool to the other. Both my shoulders are sore and so are my back muscles ... which makes me think I probably used my left arm as strongly as my right arm this time ... although for the life of me I cannot actually remember what I did while I was in the water.

I was feeling a bit more self conscious in the water today too ... may try to go for the end lanes when I can so I don't have so many neighbours!!!

Most days I usually have women or older men beside me but both today and Friday I had (the same) similarly aged guy in the lane next to me and although I am not interested or looking for any interaction with anyone I find it hard to forget that he is there ... and would rather not be floundering and gasping for breath. It seems I need blinkers as well as goggles to swim effectively!!! Maybe there was some benefit to swimming without contacts after all !!! :-D

Anyway I definitely lost concentration today and am not likely to wow Jennie as much on Wednesday night ... but I am swimming 2 hrs each week these days (as opposed to none) and even if I don't leap tall buildings every single swim everything I do is working towards improving my swimming and my fitness.

My goggles are no longer fully sealed ... but my contacts don't seem to be in any danger - and neither do my eyes.

Jennie was going to give me details of a company online that sells prescription goggles ... that might be the way to go once my disposable contacts have been used up.

On the home front uni and I are both busily painting ... he is working on the carport which is going to be blue, with black gutters (to match the roof). I am still working on the last side fence. I have been contorted in all sorts of positions to reach it, but so far have not run into trouble ... although I wonder if painting may be contributing to the pain in my right arm/shoulder/neck. When I can't get a ladder into the spot I need to reach I climb onto the cross beams and hang on to the top of the fence for dear life. .. or lean back and brace myself against the shed. Some spots are not wide enough to turn side on to the fence so I just have to face the fence and move my left or right arm to the side of me. I think I will be able to manage all of it without too many dramas ... although I think I will probably have to go back and give it a second coat to make it look even.

I am starting to clear some of KT's stuff from the house. I can see a lot more floor now and once she seems to have finished playing a certain game I have been moving the "props" out of sight in the computer room and if they remain forgotten for a few months I then recycle or throw them away.

Her games are very elaborate these days and very easily take over the lounge room, couch and both chairs and often the hallway as well.

I am throwing away some of the newspapers we have collected ... the worms and the compost bin do not use nearly as much as I had expected and since we are not having puppies after all there is no need to have newspapers cascading across the lounge room either.

In a few weeks it will be KT's birthday ... I went a bit nuts at the last minute and considered throwing a party for her ... Uni would like us to invite all the kids in her class while she is still in the young grades. We quickly realized it would be too stressful to organize in just two weeks ... not to mention find the money to pay for ... so we will attack it next year.

I had thoughts of face painting, pass the parcel, uni wanted helium balloons for all the kids, games like statues etc ... we will have to round up a few family members to help though so watch out everyone!!!

Two of the kids in her class that she considers to be her "best friends" have both had or are having birthday parties in the last month and have not invited her. One she knows about, the other seems to have gone unnoticed. Luckily at this stage she doesn't seem too upset by it ... unlike her mum who had murderous feelings for days and had to paint the fence extra vigorously (since there are not as many weeds to pull out of the garden these days) to deal with her emotions about it.

Having just looked into the cost of parties I can understand why people might not want to invite too many kids to a party ... but I feel a bit sad and upset that KT's friendship feelings are not reciprocated. Admittedly though I know that there are kids that like and want to play with and be with KT and she doesn't want to be with them or they bother or annoy her so I guess that is just part of life.

This weekend we will be going to her first birthday party of the year (@HJ's) and she is very excited about it.