November CRUSHERS (Page 51)

Emmanem - 2010-11-23 10:22 AM I usually have 4 classes on Tuesday 3 got cancelled.  Why couldn't the 4th one have gotten cancelled??  Would've been so nice!!

mbasta - 2010-11-23 7:04 AM

I bet during 2011 triathlons you will be happy about this forced swim focus when you're shattering your old records!

rnihill - 2010-11-23 10:14 PM Sorry I've been MIA...  I've been sick...  birthdays... and now both kids are sick...  I am failing miserably at my goals this month!!!

QueenZipp - 2010-11-24 12:21 AM Yanti!  How's things?

TriAya - 2010-11-23 12:30 PM

Well uh well uh ... hate to cross-post but here goes.


Okay well see the storm of the century (or at least decade or year) is hitting (not sure how long my Internet connection will last here, either) ...

Lightning hit something in my sister's hood and knocked electricity out for miles, unfortunately, phone lines were out too and no cell connection.

I scrounge up a flashlight, a lighter, a designer gift candle (sorry, sis) and a cigar, and sit there smoking it because, well, there's nothing else to do. I wrote a couple pages for the novel.

The flashlight's gonna run out of battery and the candle won't stay lit in the wild wind. Closing the doors and windows wuold have been ridiculous because it's oppressively hot anyway, even in the rain.

Even the house ghosts got scared and decided to come keep me company. So it's me, the ghosts, her giant Dogo and her skanky Bali dog all crowded together on a lounge.

I realized it was probably safer to stay put, but something just didn't feel right. So I tore outta there in the blithering rain and lightning, driving backwards all the way down my sister's street (only way to get out; nowhere to turn) in pitch black. The headlight reflections only make it worse. There is not a dog or another vehicle out on the streets and here that is a very bad sign.

Electricity's out for miles. My car is sliding all over the road and visibility is ridiculous. There's masses of debris, fallen trees etc. everywhere. I just drove really carefully and slowly and had to go with my gut.

Repeat for forty minutes.

I actually get ahead of the storm, but it's about to break here. the Kitty Cats are glued to me and as usual I cannot fart them off. Suicide sticks her claws in me every time it thunders.

Lisa has learned how to nod in my absence, but that's a different story. And she's taught the cats to rub her tummy.

So we'll see how the storm breaks up here. I'm on a mountaintop so lightning tends to hit a lot of stuff here.

Emmanem - 2010-11-23 8:22 AM I usually have 4 classes on Tuesday 3 got cancelled.  Why couldn't the 4th one have gotten cancelled??  Would've been so nice!!

TriAya - 2010-11-23 11:30 AM

Well uh well uh ... hate to cross-post but here goes.


Okay well see the storm of the century (or at least decade or year) is hitting (not sure how long my Internet connection will last here, either) ...

Lightning hit something in my sister's hood and knocked electricity out for miles, unfortunately, phone lines were out too and no cell connection.

I scrounge up a flashlight, a lighter, a designer gift candle (sorry, sis) and a cigar, and sit there smoking it because, well, there's nothing else to do. I wrote a couple pages for the novel.

The flashlight's gonna run out of battery and the candle won't stay lit in the wild wind. Closing the doors and windows wuold have been ridiculous because it's oppressively hot anyway, even in the rain.

Even the house ghosts got scared and decided to come keep me company. So it's me, the ghosts, her giant Dogo and her skanky Bali dog all crowded together on a lounge.

I realized it was probably safer to stay put, but something just didn't feel right. So I tore outta there in the blithering rain and lightning, driving backwards all the way down my sister's street (only way to get out; nowhere to turn) in pitch black. The headlight reflections only make it worse. There is not a dog or another vehicle out on the streets and here that is a very bad sign.

Electricity's out for miles. My car is sliding all over the road and visibility is ridiculous. There's masses of debris, fallen trees etc. everywhere. I just drove really carefully and slowly and had to go with my gut.

Repeat for forty minutes.

I actually get ahead of the storm, but it's about to break here. the Kitty Cats are glued to me and as usual I cannot fart them off. Suicide sticks her claws in me every time it thunders.

Lisa has learned how to nod in my absence, but that's a different story. And she's taught the cats to rub her tummy.

So we'll see how the storm breaks up here. I'm on a mountaintop so lightning tends to hit a lot of stuff here.

TriAya - 2010-11-22 11:32 AM

QueenZipp - 2010-11-23 11:04 AM

Haha, take a look at my old race reports!  My swim times are PATHETIC!  In fact, I think a baby learning how to toddle could waddle faster than my swim times are reported!!

QueenZipp - 2010-11-23 12:04 PM

Haha, take a look at my old race reports!  My swim times are PATHETIC!  In fact, I think a baby learning how to toddle could waddle faster than my swim times are reported!!

TriAya - 2010-11-23 12:30 PM

Well uh well uh ... hate to cross-post but here goes.


Okay well see the storm of the century (or at least decade or year) is hitting (not sure how long my Internet connection will last here, either) ...

Lightning hit something in my sister's hood and knocked electricity out for miles, unfortunately, phone lines were out too and no cell connection.

I scrounge up a flashlight, a lighter, a designer gift candle (sorry, sis) and a cigar, and sit there smoking it because, well, there's nothing else to do. I wrote a couple pages for the novel.

The flashlight's gonna run out of battery and the candle won't stay lit in the wild wind. Closing the doors and windows wuold have been ridiculous because it's oppressively hot anyway, even in the rain.

Even the house ghosts got scared and decided to come keep me company. So it's me, the ghosts, her giant Dogo and her skanky Bali dog all crowded together on a lounge.

I realized it was probably safer to stay put, but something just didn't feel right. So I tore outta there in the blithering rain and lightning, driving backwards all the way down my sister's street (only way to get out; nowhere to turn) in pitch black. The headlight reflections only make it worse. There is not a dog or another vehicle out on the streets and here that is a very bad sign.

Electricity's out for miles. My car is sliding all over the road and visibility is ridiculous. There's masses of debris, fallen trees etc. everywhere. I just drove really carefully and slowly and had to go with my gut.

Repeat for forty minutes.

I actually get ahead of the storm, but it's about to break here. the Kitty Cats are glued to me and as usual I cannot fart them off. Suicide sticks her claws in me every time it thunders.

Lisa has learned how to nod in my absence, but that's a different story. And she's taught the cats to rub her tummy.

So we'll see how the storm breaks up here. I'm on a mountaintop so lightning tends to hit a lot of stuff here.

Emmanem - 2010-11-23 3:33 PM So the pool is closed again on Sunday when I had a swim planned for sunday, monday and tuesday.  3 swims total for the month is just ridiculous.  Most of them are me being lazy but thats 3 missed swims now that are because of the pool being closed.  

mbasta - 2010-11-24 7:30 AM 1 week left crushers! Let's get 'er done!

(1 week left crushers! Let's get 'er done!)

pdbman - 2010-11-24 10:43 PM Hey Yanti. I hope things are going better for you today.