Tuesday

[susandennis]

The pool population was normal this morning. Me. The old, slow guy who's there every weekday, the green speedo guy who's there 4ish days a week and the blue suit woman who is about a 3 day a week-er. So 4 people in 3 lanes. Then the nice, fast guy showed up. And the walker with the Hawaiian shorts. And we were a pool full.

Then, for a while, there was a queue - people waiting for a spot. This happens a lot on Tuesdays and Thursdays which I always thought was odd. On weekends, those waiting will ask to join two other people and swim the lane in a circle. Before 6 am, mostly the extras just wait for someone to get out.

Tomorrow it won't be as crowded.

Yesterday, I made great headway on my fleece patchwork coat. I need to make even more today. I want to get the pattern completely cut out so I can put it away. It's cluttering up my living room table. I should be able to get that done today.

In my closet, I have shelves of folded shirts. I have summer stacks - a stack of nice, a stack of every day, a stack of undershirts. For winter, I have a stack for cool but not cold, a stack of long sleeved undershirts, a stack of favorites and several (because they are bulky) stacks of extra warm.

I grabbed an extra warm this morning and it turned out to be one I'd made last year and had forgotten about. It's pink velour. I got the fabric because it was on sale and the only piece that wasn't brown or black. It's really very nice. Warm and soft. But, mainly, it fits just so perfectly. What a treat to pull something random out that is so perfect.

In all the stuff I make, I'm pretty much addicted mostly to the making as opposed to the end product. But sometimes, that end product turns out to be the real treat.

Let's see if I can make the patchwork coat into one of those.

Comments

[amethyst-witch.livejournal.com]

I love your nicknames for them "nice, fast guy", "the walker with the Hawaiin shorts" : D Reminds me of the characters I'd meet when I took the city buses everyday : )

The pink velour sweater sounds gorgeous! I have some ultra-comfy wool sweaters and it's like putting on a hug.

Have fun with the patchwork coat today : ) Would love to see that finished product!

[susandennis]

At the old gym, there used to be a really nice guy who swam in a green suit with yellow stripes. In my mind, he was absolutely Yellow Stripes. One day, he introduced himself as Will. Ever after it took tremendous effort, when greeting him not to say 'Good Morning, Yellow Stripes!'

I used to work with a guy who always talked about this woman he met on the bus. We called her Bus Girl. We actually were still calling her that at their wedding!

So...yeah... I get it :)

And you will absolutely see the patchwork coat when it's done.

Finally a chance to use my on-the-bus icon haha

[amethyst-witch.livejournal.com]

That's so funny--I suppose I was someone else's "bus girl"? Strange to think of yourself fitting into someone else's day like that : )

*cheers* to the Yellow Stripes and Afro Guy with Plastic Dinosaurs Hidden in his Hair's of the world ; )
(he was my favourite!)

[lostincandyrain.livejournal.com]

What a lovely surprise to put on such a comfy sweater, and to know you made it yourself! Definitely good motivation to keep going with your new projects, though you don't seem to need it. ;)

Why is the Hawaiian short guy "the walker" if he's swimming? Does that mean he swims really slowly, or he uses a walker? Or you also see him wandering the streets of Seattle?

[susandennis]

Hawaiian Shorts guy gets in the lane and mostly walks up and down instead of swimming. Water walking is not unusual around here.

Funny, but I have never seen any of the people I see swimming out on dry land. But, then, I might not even recognize them if they aren't wet!

[lostincandyrain.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. Walking in water is probably good for resistance and physical therapy sorts of stuff... I didn't think about that. Still, I think it would be pretty entertaining to say, "I'm going to go to the gym to walk around in the pool for a while." This is what I should do next time I am forced to go to a gym...

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[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

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[susandennis]

nice!