scrabble champ and other stuff

I beat my husband at Scrabble last night! It was close and I beat him by one measly point...my winning word was "JOA". What the H is that? We have an xBox and play online so the computer tells you what letters work etc so there is no bickering about what is a word and what is not. But I have never even heard of the word "joa"...? Help? I have an avitar and everything...but you should see her, Shaun was setting me up and asked what I wanted and I lamely said "Just do whatever". My avitar looks like a librarian that works at Hooters part-time...my online name is "Trigrrrrl" Get it? Dorky!!

Anyhoooo...nothing else is really new. I am getting really cagey with this weather. Really restless. In my past lives, this has only brought bad news. So I am just trying to be patient and wait it out and keep myself busy. I just e-mailed my bros in Calgary. I want to head out there for a few days to visit with him and my sista. If you have been following along, my sista has MS and has had a very bad spell over the past month...couldn't walk, has lost the feeling in her right hand, a hospital stay blah, blah. Been a tough go. She is terrified. I am pulling for her and I feel she needs some family support so off I go to Calgary. And I am going to sneak my gear in the back of my truck...

Was suppposed to be a recovery week this week. I e-mailed Coach Justin on Sunday that I was concerned I was not doing "enough". As in it was supposed to be a big week of training, at the end of a three week block, and I was tired but not exhausted as I had been at the end of other blocks like that. He assured me that this was actually very good news! It means I am getting fitter. It is taking me longer to reach that point of I just can't do it anymore. I was worried I was not doing the workouts properly or something but he insisted that it is progress and it is hard to tell when we don't have many races/events to gauge things.

Speaking of races and events...a small change of plans...I have agreed to be on a team for the Frank Dunn Tri in August. I am swimming (of course) my tri-buddy Shannon is running and a new gal I have just recently met briefly is biking. I felt a HUGE weight lift when I fired the e-mail back to Shannon...this race is 1500m swim/62km bike/13km run...ONE WEEK after my half ironman...too much for me, I have concluded, at the end of summer. I now get to swim, go for breakfast, have a coffee, hang out, take my kids to the park, enjoy the day!! My pledge to the team is to swim straight this year....

out for a walk

The Broadway steps.

Climbing up...

Sliding down...in his jeans...niiiice...

King of the Mountain.

A look at the trails in Toon Town...not very nice yet, but found some on the other side of the river that were really good.

Downtown Saskatoon.

me...body...tired

Took those couple of days off work to get lots of jobs done. The kitchen is looking very, very nice!! I am super impressed with myself...hee hee!!

Had a hard run to do Friday and it was a pretty nice day, kind of cloudy but much warmer than I have ran in for a long time so did not want to waste ANY nice weather! Drove down to the freeway bridge and started from there...legs felt tired and heavy for the first little bit but once I go warmed up, holy cow....I was flyin!! What a run!! There were several places that the snow had completely melted and I was running on...wait for it...can you believe it...pavement!! What a difference not having to worry about your footing and constantly looking down...Coach Justin once said that running in snow is hard mentally cause you are constantly thinking about your footing. Alot of energy is used just thinking about where to put your foot every single step. Can't say I have ever thought about it that much but I do have to say that those few miles on Friday running on the pavement and how good I felt....Can't WAIT for my May half marathon!!!

Was supposed to to a 90 minute bike ride yesterday but just could not get to it. Did not sleep worth a damn Friday night and Luke is now up at the crack of dawn with the sun...argh! Yeah...about 6:30am, he is up and ready for the day. Last night I tacked the heaviest, darkest blankets I could find on his windows as he needs his sleep, and is done with his naps, and is a little whiney bear later in the day without his sleep!! Last night he slept right to 8:00am...I have outsmarted my 2.5 year old.

I wanted to get that bike ride in so the only option was to get my butt outta bed today and do it before swimming. Happy to report...okay, only 80 minutes...but it is still done...and all the intervals so good for me!! Off to swimming I go all sweaty and gross hair and I had forgotten to take my suit out of my bag from my Wed swim....all together now...EWWWWW!!! An icky sight was I at swimming today!

But the swim itself was a very good one. Not many meters, but did some race pace stuff and I swam with the fast boys today and kept on their feet. Was going to move down a lane, because I was barely keeping up in the warm-up, but the swim coach made some comment about "take off your skirt" to one of the guys as we were starting the main set and for some reason, this totally pissed me off!!! Was he implying that girls cannot be fast? Was he saying that only boys are tuff? What was he implying with that comment? It. Pissed. Me. OFF!!! (I know this is just guy-talk that goes on...and I work with all men, and live with all men, I totally get the guy-talk...but it sometimes still just annoys me...)

Made my way up the lane (one of the fellows even left the swim as it was too hard...) and ended up having a super good workout...kachow!!

gettin it done...

I swear, spring is on its way. I know this because the DQ on 8th Street has opened for the season! It's this little DQ drive up that is on a prime piece of real estate on a main drag here in Toon Town, the owner is about 85 years old, has refused to give in to any offers to buy the land. She even works at the counter serving up ice cream all summer.

On a spring note, I have taken today and tomorrow off work to get some personal stuff done. Not like I don't get alot of personal stuff done WHILE at work (shhhhh!!), but it is hard to paint the kitchen, clean out my closets, organize our shit, put stuff on Kijiji while I am in my office downtown. I am half done painting the kitchen...believe me, this is a job well overdue! I guess I could have hired someone but isn't there something about tackling a job like that on your own? A sense of accomplishment and power when I am replacing the track lighting by myself? My dad was a handy guy and taught me lots of this stuff...it is easy and I don't mind it when I have the time...I replaced all the bedroom light fixtures last weekend. I found some on Kijiji and they look great and update the rooms just a bit for cheap. Hoop Dee Do!!

On a training note...swam yesterday. Was a really good swim. 7x 200meters decrease the time, increase the HR. Got down to 2:50...was long course too!! Up next is a hard run tomorrow and ANOTHER 90 minute bike ride on Saturday!!! That would be TWO in one week, in case anyone was counting other than me.

he's only in kindergarten...

...and this is his latest artwork! I thought it was so great so I framed it to hang on the wall.