we bleed green!

What do you do when you have had a real bad week? And the Roughriders are in the Grey Cup on Sunday? Well, of course, you grab your rider gear, and some alcohol, an oreo cheeze cake, and some great friends and spend the night drinking and eating and talking and laughing!!!

GO RIDERS!!!! Game on Sunday. Rumour has it the stadium in Calgary will be a sea of green given so many of us Saskatchewanites have moved there over the years. Rider Pride is worldwide!!!

PS: That is the only Rider shirt I own....I have to wear it for three days straight!! ewwwwy...

a real shitty day

The phone rang last night, late, and you know when the phone rings late at night it is never good news. The owner of the business next door to Shaun says come quick there is a fire. Shaun races across town and the entire building is up in flames. Three businesses...gone...ours included.
Holy Shit.
I have been on the verge of tears all day. I am at work but going through the motions. This is not going to be good times for us. Of course, little is known right now and the tricky part is not to speculate and over think what is going to happen. We have insurance, we will have to tough this out and take this all one step at a time. We have had calls from all over the city offering up help and support.
Thank-you!
Thank-you!
THANK YOU!!!!
The saving grace is that the way the fire burned, and the shop was in the end space, most of the biggest equipment was unharmed. The firefighters apparently did "damage control"...whatever that means...I think it had something to do with the explosive gasses and welding tanks ...but the entire building around the shop is destroyed.
And Shaun got his ski-doo out.
You know...priorities!!!

domesticated...sort of

Mark the calendar chicks and dudes...this is a pic of me sewing by hand Matthew's name bar on his hockey jersey. And yes...I own a sewing kit with all the shit in it necessary to do minor (and I repeat...minor) repair work. I could not think of anyone I knew that owned a sewing machine I could borrow and the tailor I use wanted a ridculous amount of money to sew name bars on the back of hockey jerseys so here I am doing it myself!! The things you never think you will see yourself doing....Shaun thought it was hilarious and took the picture...thanks hon!!

Sunday swim today. Was an okay swim. Some left early...ahem...not mentioning names here...but we did a bunch of treading water and kicking with our legs straight down and hands up in the air...yikes....those were tough!! So the meters weren't that many but with those kicks and a 700 meter straight pull at the end, my body knows I swam today. Off to the hockey rink for the afternoon so will likely miss the Rider football game. If we win, we go to the Grey Cup...for our american friends, Canada's version of the Super Bowl but nothing real "super" about it...we just have to have our own things up here!! And the fans in this province are crazy about our football team...it really is fun to see so many businesses and cars and people all decorated in green in support.

GO RIDERS!!!!

a swim, a bike, a run and another swim

Wednesday morning brought a really good swim. I am loving the coach at our Wed am swims. He is fun and makes the workouts interesting and eggs me on to work harder. He lets me know he is watching and calls my splits and calls me out if I let up at all!! I didn't think I would like that type of coaching as I had SO MUCH of it when I was at the pool as a kid but he really does make it fun and he makes me laugh so all is good at the pool on Wed mornings!!

Thursday was supposed to be a bike day but I got up and looked the laundry and the messy house and decided to spend an hour or so tidying up and getting us organized.

Friday I got that bike ride done. I don't know about these trainer rides...I find it really hard to get my HR up for those intervals!! I feel like I am working hard but when I look at the numbers, they are telling me I am not working so hard...I haven't been on my bike much so maybe I just need to get there more and I will find my way again...?

Today was a run. And pretty good run it was. The workout was 4x8 minutes at a tiny bit faster than my "run all day pace". But I have the BM qualifying pace burned into my brain, and I want to practice that pace till I can run it for 3 hours and 45 minutes...so I held it pretty good for the 8 minute intervals. Holy crap...my legs were tired after the 4th one!! But I will get there. Coach Justin sent me a game plan on how we are going to get there...and I am getting there come hell or high water...

Sunday brings a swim. I might get up and do the bike ride I missed earlier in the week before the swim but we shall see what the morning brings. We have a super busy weekend...errands, hockey and family stuff. Go...GO...GO!!!!!!!

another test...another belt!!

He is into the solid colors now. In the class with the "big kids". And competes...but only if he wants to (I think Jenna is the only person that relates to that comment...) YAY Matthew!! We are so proud of you and your success with your passion...TKD!!!

Back to me...Did a kick ass run on Saturday. Mistakenly ate before I went out and felt like I was going to barf for most of it. Wanted to see how long I could hold the BM qualifying pace...45 minutes...so I only have 3 hours to go!! Holy Shit. This will be a big, big challenge!!

Swam on Sunday. Was a really good swim. Did some longer stuff which is right up my alley. Although I must say, some of those guys are a bit out of shape, which surprises me. Coach Justin always says you want to BUILD on your fitness. Try not to loose any. Some of them were huffin and puffin after just a few hundred meters. (I was kind of too...but wasn't letting on...)

Missed my bike ride today. Ack. I need to have a chat with JP as Tuesdays are just too hard to get a workout in, have a weekly early morning meeting on Tuesdays and unless I am up at 4:30am...these are just not going to happen.

That's it...looking forward to a swim tomorrow...I ordered a couple of new suits from splish...the ARGH! suit because who does not want skulls on their bathing suit and the SUPERSTAR suit because, well, why not be a bit cocky at the pool!!!!...super cool!!