My 6 pack is dented...

[susandennis]

My 6 pack (conveniently hidden from view by multiple layers of fat) feels like it's been abused.  And my lower back seems unable to carry the load...  I wonder if maybe it wasn't ready to swim that mile yesterday.  It will learn.  I did a half mile today before class and when I was stretched out swimming it felt a little better. When I was walking around shopping is when I really noticed it.  Weird.

After the pool, I went to IHop.  There's a fairly nice one between here and the Saturday pool.  Today there were several groups ahead of me and the lady at the desk was telling people it would be 20-30 minutes.  She told me, for 1 that it would be about 20.  So I said ok and figured I'd sit down and scope out an alternate plan on my phone.  Before I could get to it, though, they called my name and sat me at a perfectly fine table.  Food was good.  Service was good.  Screaming children were far enough away not to bug me.  It was fine.

Then I went to the Dollar Store for really no good reason and killed $10.  It was fun.  I love school supply time.  I did get Zoey a new collar.  I actually got her one to wear and a backup for when that one goes.  Safety cat collars with bells for a buck??!  Quelle bon!  (Most of the stuff in the Dollar Store has French and/or French and English labels. It cracks me up.  I love the cat toy section or rather the Jouets Pour Chats section.)

I stopped at the Grocery Outlet and then came on home.

Ooops the collar slides to too big way too easily.  Ok, added a knot to it and now we're fine.  Stunning, as a matter of fact.

Now I'm home with nothing that has to be done.  Well, I do need to put away the laundry so I can read on the fish bed.

I'm still reading Gulp by Mary Roach.  It's a fascinating look at the trip that food takes from mouth to asshole.  It's on the Kindle and really interruptable so I keep reading other stuff and somehow only pick up Gulp when I'm in restaurants.  This morning's reading covered the upper parts of the elimination system.  While Roach is a gifted scientist and writer with hilarious flare, there has to be better things to read over breakfast... or any meal.

The sun has been out a little today but right now it is cloudy and breezy and wonderful.

Comments

[howeird]

Very impressed with your swimming prowess. I did a mile swim. Once. never again. It was at a special Boy Scout camp for earning all the aquatics merit badges. Mile swim was both its own badge and a requirement for Swimming and Lifeguarding. A mile was 3/4 around the lake, paced by a lifeguard in a row boat. I was in the Fat Kids group, they let us use any strokes we wanted, except dog paddle, and the time limit was sunset. :-)

[susandennis]

I was just thinking this morning as I was doing laps and staring down at that tidy line of tiles in my lane that I cannot fathom open water swimming. First of all where's the line???!!! And all that icky stuff in the water??? Following a row boat, tho, might be interesting... But I think I'll stick to pools.

Also... fyi... in water aerobics, dog paddling is a real thing. Only you stretch out your arms a little more and it's call mountain climber! But it's dog paddling!

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

I discovered that reading Stiff after eating or right before bed were not ideal, so I understand.