Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 59)

OMG, that made me puke a little I think!  My cat's food bowl is on top of the fridge, so he's puked off of it before.  NAS-T! 

One a much - well the same note really - one of my dogs threw up 3 times last night.  In 3 different places.  Could he/she not have just stood in one place to barf?  I mean, really?!?!

I can't really comment on all of the other brands but I think xterra discounts are pretty regularly at 50+ percent off (through BT and elsewhere) which puts it more in the $200 range.  I also think they have incredibly accurate sizing charts and a great return policy. 

CANTSTOPRAFFING

1. OTHER people's dogs barfing

2. your dog is a he/she

Phew. I told you guys that you are my happy hour.

I'm kind of convinced pets wrangle us in with cuteness and then attempt to destroy our lives via shedding and puking.

I started with an Orca (felt like a straight jacket), then a speedo, lovely fit went on like a dream, zipper comes undone very easily while swimming and suit sticks to me like glue, can't get it off in transition!  So then went a sleeveless one - Rocket Science.  Awesome fit so comfortable and comes off very easily.  Downside it zips top to bottom so always need help!  This weekend buying the full version of the Rocket Science.  it's cut lower on the neck so not so constricting around the chest and neck area for us panicky OWS breathers!

I get foot cramps then calf cramps!  The pushing off is an issue so do it gently don't point your toes too hard - it's not ballet.

I found drinking a glass of milk a few hours before helps.

And I say a little mantra in my head - relax your ankles, relax  your ankles.  Seems to work.  However if the dreaded cramp happens in my calf, it's all over or risk a tear!  Out she hops!

Yay, I finally have a description for my swim style!!

As for the animal puking, I guess I'm pretty fortunate.  My fat kitty does an occasional hair-ball puke but otherwise our 2 dogs & 2 cats are relatively good about it.  Now shedding on the other hand...

For the fact that you can get an Xterra full for $180 or less shipped, and they seem to size a bit generously, I don't think you can go wrong there. If the sleeves or legs end up being too long, you can always cut them.

They are quality suits and pretty durable.

Gracious me - that all sounds horrendous.  Would it be worth getting out of Bali for treatment - Australia's nice and not too far

Depression is no easy thing to deal with either - think I've got  touch of it myself at the moment - still blubbing every day for no reason.  Or of course it's coz i'm 47 and probably getting set for menopause so here come some hormones to stop you enjoying life!  Yep we're here to remind you - YOU ARE OLD!

Anyway, stop wallowing, i don't have typhoid, dengue, MS or anything like it.  I have a touch of the low self esteem feel sorry for yourself business going on.

On the upside - DAD'S HOME FROM HOSPITAL!!!!!  Yay for modern medicine, it was pancreatitis, nothing more sinister (my dad has had three lots of cancer in the last 10 years so we always worry)  So now he has to watch his diet - he will also have depression coz he is an EATER!

Now with all the cat and dog puke I thought I'd add my 2c worth.

Out my 7 year old Artemis to bed last night - said she had a sore tummy - 10 mins later I hear "mummy!'.  Go in and vomit all over bed and carpet.  At what age do they get out of bed and head for the bathroom to do that?

So complete change of bed - clean up, disinfect every surface coz I don't wanna catch it!  Cuddles on the couch then back to bed where she slept soundly all night.

This morning burning up with a temperature, not very high just enough to worry mummy, and then of course the other end kicks in so now I'm toilet cleaning!

My gorgeous husband Fotis is coming home from work at 8am so i can go to work - we take turns who does the sick day at home, it's his turn and I'm super busy!  If I stay home I'll just get on the trainer and kill myself!

So - cat puke, dog puke and now kiddie puke and poop.  Lovely.

Don't know if anyone has heard of this guy - his name is James Lawrence (Iron Cowboy).  I met him at the carbo night at IM Melbourne.  He's father of five from Utah and is trying to get the world record for IM completed in a year.  He just did no. 6....kind of doing one a week it seems!  Anyway it's for a worthy cause etc.  He has a website triandgiveadam so go visit if you have time and read his blog.

Anyway he posted on facebook during the Texas Marble Falls IM distance at the weekend - here's the post.  Touched my heart, brought a tear (oh what yes I was crying anyway) 

amazing the power of words and children and love.  What's evening more incredible he did indeed do a cartwheel on the finish line!

left for dead on the side of the road, needing medical badly, physically can not take another step. He got a call from his 9 year old daughter lucy who said "daddy, cant you walk, james said no, sorry sweetheart, then she said cant you crawl it? I said no im sorry sweet heart, then she said cant you do cart wheels the rest of the way? And james said I will try sweetheart. James hung up, pulled out his IV and started walking.

Eeeeeks, major protesting of "capitalism" going on in my city today. Lots of destruction. Siggggggh. I suppose I had better change my running route!

I've been following him on Twitter and FB. It was sad at Marble Falls when he led off the bike and collapsed during the run. I think most of us would do anything for our children.  I am still motivated by mine.

I met him and had a long chat at the carbo night, I then saw him at the swim start, special needs bike station and on the finish line and then awards night - I have stalker tendencies....ask Coach Johnny!

IronCowboy ROCKS.

I have stalker tendencies, too. And then I get the people I stalk to stalk other people.

Ask Nigel ... I stalk the pro Michelle Mitchells, and now she's stalking him he is so very, very, very piglet, though.

Wait...I googled Michelle Mitchells...I either have the wrong one or you are stalking a drag queen?

I didn't specify what kind of "pro"! Nah, this Michelle Mitchell. Sorry, no "S."

OMG hahahahaha, well, you certainly sent me on a wild ride through the internets

I pre-ordered Crissie's book (Kindle edition) tonight. I know what I'll be reading on May 15 -- school will be done; grades will be submitted; I will be kicking back (compared to now). :-)

That could explain a lot.

ROFL I needed that tonight.

Good news about your dad!

My youngest is 5 1/2, and I've been hormonal since he was born (I was 49 -- yes. I know. Big, delightful "oops.") Anyway for the past six+ years, pregnant, nursing, pre-menopausal, thinking I've hit menopause, nope, still pre-menopausal (repeat, repeat, repeat). I have an herbal concoction I take when, as I told my doctor, "I think I might kill someone."

Enough already.

Wow I had Artemis at 40 - 49 is great!  I had hormone levels tested a couple of weeks back, not menopausal yet....I think maybe pre-menopausal, maybe I need an herbal concoction - or a bottle of wine...

My teenager is slowly sucking me into his sleep schedule. My night owl tendencies must resist.

I was up late last night, thinking about swimming, and then couldn't get up to . . . swim. Sheesh.

Came home for a late lunch and wolfed down a PB&J and slept for almost two hours. Oops. Made it back to work and shopped on Sierra Trading. Talked to a couple people about crises in their departments. Then finally went for a swim.

I did the one arm drills better than I thought -- 25m each side at a time. I didn't sink. I am a little sore, so I need to go back to Yanti's post and make sure that I am sore in the right places. The good news is that my 300m swim after the one arm drills and catch up drill seemed speedy fast. I got to the side of the pool faster than I was expecting and almost bonked my head. lol I need to watch where I'm going. I have taken to swimming with my eyes closed for open water practice.

Middle son had his school music concert tonight. He was adorable, but the concert was mildly torturous.

Between some family time and doing a little work, I didn't get out for my run tonight until 11:00. It was nice though. Windy, but 75 degrees and humid. It's going to be beastly hot tomorrow. (or should I say, "today.")

I'm off to bed -- hoping to wake up in time to hit the pool before work.

I don't know if 49 is so great. He makes me tired sometimes. And it was a stressful pregnancy -- I had PIH, and my blood pressure never came down. :-( But we are so thankful for him. We've been married for 7 1/2 years and lost one before him. We joke each other that if we had married at a normal time, we would have 15 kids! We are evidently pretty fertile together.

I was 40 when I had my middle son; almost 35 when I had my first. At the time, 35 seemed so old to be having a child; now I think I was a baby myself.