what all swimmers need



here's another cool picture from the olympic trials in long beach, ca:

makes me wanna dance
 
here's my new favorite song...accidentally in love by the counting crows
 
So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love (love)
Think about it every time
I think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it

How much longer will it take to cure this
Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)
Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love

Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on
Cause everybody's after love

So I said I'm a snowball running
Running down into the spring that's coming all this love
Melting under blue skies
Belting out sunlight
Shimmering love

Well baby I surrender
To the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn't mean to do it
But there's no escaping your love

These lines of lightning
Mean we're never alone,
Never alone, no, no

Come on, Come on
Move a little closer
Come on, Come on
I want to hear you whisper
Come on, Come on
Settle down inside my love

Come on, come on
Jump a little higher
Come on, come on
If you feel a little lighter
Come on, come on
We were once
Upon a time in love

We're accidentally in love
Accidentally in love (x7)

Accidentally

I'm In Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
Accidentally (X 2)

Come on, come on
Spin a little tighter
Come on, come on
And the world's a little brighter
Come on, come on
Just get yourself inside her

Love ...I'm in love

great song

:(

there's not many times when i don't have a smile that graces my face. unfortunatly...this is one of them.

urges
 
ugh.  the urge to paint is coming on.  it comes and goes through out the year.  i have ideas.  i want to go BIG this time.  i feel it...creativity running through my veins...it makes you kind of jittery.  problem is, i have to wait until possibly end of next week to paint. 

urge to paint, don't go away...

 

mehpblenspdhe

something like that.  not much is going on in the life of me.  it's just the same old, same old.  swim practice, eat (while watching tlc's "a makeover story"), online services and then work out and then do all of those unending chores at home (clean my room, organize, finish stuff for the swim team, pack for the next weekend getaway).  good news:  only a week until swim practice is over for the summer.  i'm pumped for a break.

went and watched a cinderella story last night with two of the roomies.  it was a good time - we laughed pretty hard that we were sitting at a hilary duff movie...in the theater.  it's one thing to rent the movie and watch it at home but when you shell out the moola to watch it in the theater with a bunch of little girls and their parents....yeah.  but it wasnt' that bad.  and romantic comedies always give me that warm fuzzy feeling.  you know, i'm 20 years old and never had a boyfriend.  what's wrong with me?  but then again...right now, i'm enjoying the singles life.  i wouldn't have time for a boyfriend anyway and i'd feel sorry for him.  i'm enjoying life as it is because if i do ever have a boyfriend (chances are looking pretty slim right now), i'm sure at one point i'm going to miss being single.  o well...life's good.

and in other random news....you'd think i thought i lived on 11th street and not 12th.   there's so many times i've turned and almost turned on 11th, thinking it was the right street.  but nope...can't find my house there.  i have to remember to wait and turn on 12th.

soooooo....and on with the rest of my life.  moa this weekend!  yay!

niche
 
random word.  i think it means none in german.  i don't remember.
 
not much has been going on.  weekend was fun.  i've just realized that i've seen my family every weekend in july thus far and will see them the next two.  this weekend we had a swim meet in gf and had a blast.  my kids tattoo-ed themselves with magic markers of all colors.  i'm sure their parents love me now.  o well, they had fun.  yesterday, at last minute, we headed out to the lake to meet up with some friends.  we had a great time tubing and just soaking up some sun that has finally appeared. (summers here!)  my whole upper body hurts from the fun we had.  then a storm started to settle in so my mom freaked and told me to go home to btown.  it was...interesting. 

meet up with square for lunch today.  good times.  i wore my glasses just for her.  it was a good surprise.  i hate my glasses.  but she's happy.  i won't see her till texas or bust.
 

booty leaves for texas this weekend.  she still has to call me back because she wanted to do something before she left.  it's been a week since she was supposed to call.  should i be worried?


this weekend i'm in richfield, mn, for an outdoor swimmeet.  and the mall of america.  i haven't been there in ages.  camp snoopy, old navy, gap, and many other fun stores....here i come.  watch out credit card.
 
the weekend after this upcoming weekend, you can find me in gf again.  playing photographer for the nd state swim meet.  i'm excited.  it'll be good for my resume.  yay!
 
 

can't wait...or can i?

so i signed on to coach bass this fall. i think my roommates will think i'm insane since i did already mention this to them. this is how my fall schedule will go:

mondays: work 8-10, class 10-12, eat 12-1, work 1-3, class 3-5, hour off, coach 6-8, habitat 8-10.

tuesdays: work 8-10, class 10-12, eat 12-1, class 1-4, 2 hours off, coach 6-8.

wednesdays: same as mondays

thursdays: same as tuesdays

fridays: work 8-10, class 10-12, afternoon off, hopefully no bass practice that night.

saturday: work 10-12

sunday: work 12-2

and that's it. my fall schedule. 8 - midnight every night will be homework along with friday afternoons and the 2 hours on tuesdays and thursdays. that leaves no time for procrastination and i'll have to be really on top of things.

yeah right. we'll see how long that will last. i am the queen of procrastination. but, none-the-less, i have never (well pretty darn close to never - there was one time this spring semester, but all was ok) handed in an assignment late, unless i didn't know about it. so, obviously, i can don't have much problems with getting er done. i think i like the adrenaline rush of lateness...unless it has to do with meetings or being somewhere on time, i'm all about not being that type of late. anyways.

i've been doing some random complaining to my mom about what i want to be done with this swim team and obviously i have to be the one to do it. i'm afraid of being shot down, which is what usually happens and i'm secretly afraid of the opinions of my co coach, although i feel that my ideas and my thoughts would be much better (but isn't that what we all think?). my co coach shot me down the other day when one of my swimmers came to me and asked if she could have some more practice time. i'm all for it. when a swimmer comes to me and asks for more practice time because she wants to improve, i'm not going to stand in her way. but obviously her other coach will. when i went to tell my co-coach this, this is what she said: "no, absolutely not. if she's bored she can find better things to do. she doesn't need another practice. she's just trying to make "a" times and she's not even close."

how's that for believing in your swimmers?

so, she continues to frustrate me as i'm not going to make her upset with me as i know she could potentially be horrid if i upset her and i don't like people mad at me. and life goes on.

here's my ideas for the swim team:

- team t-shirts. i'm working on a design now.

- new caps with new logo.

- team suits eventually.

- get kids to swim at meets...there's so much to be done to achieve this.

- end of the year banquet ideas: awards for hardest worker, most improved, high point winner, other random awards, tshirts for those who acheived a, b, c times and participants. hopefully the tshirts and the awards will make kids want to swim even more, compete in meets.

- parents meeting. first one at banquet, but then again at the beginning of each season and building to one each month. the parents need to be more involved in their kids swimming and need to realize how this club works. they need to know what us swimming is, how far you can go in it, why we need new board members and what the board members do and why it's vital their kids compete. we need to target the parents because they are who controls what their kids do.

- some sort of program to motivate the kids. they should want to swim in meets and i think its odd that they pick their events. the event picking should change. i have kids who swim the same events over and over again. no variety.

- i need to really work on some hard core sets for this fall. i want to work on the developmental kids strokes and endurance without having a co coach to hold me back. i want to push any age groupers there to work harder and i want to get novice swimming all four strokes for at least a 50 each and to not fear any of the strokes.

- some sort of dry land training has to start. it's key to help them develop their strength which in turn helps their endurance and strength in the pool which equals faster times.

- the kids need to learn how to compete. to race their opponents, not to just go out their and swim and not care. they should know their times, understand that to get better they need to tell themselves they can do it. swimming has a lot of mentality to it. it's also embarrassing to me at a meet when the kids take their events with a grain of salt.

i think that's it for now. there's so much to do. but as i was telling the board the other night when we were figuring out ideas, that to get kids to come to meets and to get them to figure out what a swim team actually is, it's going to take about a year. i don't know how long i'll be coaching, but hopefully i can help them get there.

this weekend i'm off to the lake after a gf swim meet. i need to try working with my digital camera and we are going to get pictures up on the big score board, then i'm going to be the photographer at the state meet for north dakota. i'll take pictures of the winners and we'll put them up on the score board. it'll be great for my resume. which is something else i need to work on. i need to figure out an internship for next year, and i know what i want to do, but i have a lot of work to do. here goes.

deprived of restaurants

so today at work (os), i was talking to my boss and i got to telling her about coldstone creamery, as i knew it would be a place that she would like. we then got into a conversation about which restaurants would be fun to have in town. here's the list we compiled (remember, these are mine AND my bosses, not just mine!):

1.wendy's. they took it away from us and we want it back.
2. arby's.
3. culvers.
4. white castle.
5. olive garden (my fav!).
6.pizzaria uno.
7. fizoles.
8.fuddruckers.
9.a really big good food court.
10. supertarget with a starbucks (like grand forks).
11. cinnabun.
12. outback stake house.
13. famous dave's.
14. boston market.
15. a good market bbq or a real bbq restaurant
16. pretzelmaker
17. japanese - sushi bar, grill
18. china garden
19. mongolian's bbq grill/panda house buffet (chinese)
20. scholtski's deli
21 paradiso
22. tgi friday's

this is our list thus far. feel free to add any that you would want in b-town or that you just like. shannon and i concluded that if you build these restaurants, they will boost the economy: they would provide jobs, people will come to eat, the town will grow. so yay to me and shannon for having our econonomy (hehe) moment for the day. enjoy.

so i posted pictures, but my picture posting service is being picky...sometimes a picture will show up and sometimes it won't...hopefully i can get this figured out.

some pics from trials

here's what's been up with the swimming olympic trials thus far (in picture form for better understanding):

this is a picture of the pool. it's gorgous. there is a woman's heat starting...i don't know what event they are starting however. i want to be there...in the crowd somewhere, cheering my heart out!



this is dana kirk swimming the 200 fly. she won...and who wouldn't with that sort of wingspan???



this is natalie coughlin. she's awesome...i hope she brings home gold in at athens. zerek thinks she's hot. i'm sending him a pin up from one of my magazines so he can hang her on his wall.



this is larsen jensen and klete keller. in this picture they just finished swimming the 400 free (that's down, back, down, back, down, back, down and back in a big olympic pool) and they're happy because they finished 1st and 2nd and will now swim it in athens. if i had their pictures i would post them on my walls.



this is brendan hanson. he's been winning all the breaststroke events. i'm a little upset that ed moses, the breaststroke superstar, didn't make the team this year. it's kind of sad. brendan's breaking world records, though.



this is lenny krazylberg and aaron peirson. they are my backstroke gods. they rock. they're all smiles as they will be swimming the 100 backstroke in athens. if i had posters of these two i would put them all over my walls, too.



this is kaitlin sandeno. she's going in almost everything. she's rocking the pool in long beach, ca. she's winning the 400 im (individual medley) in this picture.



these two are swimming gods. on the left is mark spitz. in 1972, he won 7 gold medals for swimming. the most ever won in one olympics. on the right is michael phelps. if he breaks mark's record, michael will be awarded 1 million. that's a lot of mula. i'm rooting for him though...he needs to "smash the aussies like a guitar" at this olympics! ian thorp's goin down!



view more swimming trials pictures here

view the olympic team roster thus far here

heat rash and sun burn

ugh, long weekend. and i can't complain. it was warm and sunny out which is a complete surprise for this area as it has been the exact opposite this whole summer thus far. this weekend i was in fargo, nd, all weekend long for a swim meet, the Island Park Invite. friday morning i went and had a key made so i could rescue my breeze and get my keys and everything else i stupidly locked in. then after some shopping and lunch with the fam, i was off to fargo as i had swimmers swimming distance events that night. so i got to fargo, running just on time, found out the whole city is under construction, some how navigated myself through it and made it to ip (island park). i set up my stuff, got my kids in the water, we swam, got some good times and then my friend laura met up with me and we got a chance to talk for a little while before she had to leave for the night. that night my co coach and i and some of our swimmers played some cards, ordered pizza and had a mini party.

the next morning, apon arriving at the pool, we were greeted with thunder lightning and eventually sirens for tornado touch downs. at the coaches meeting they pushed warm up time to 9:30 (it was originally supposed to be at 7:50) and we had to retreat to the locker rooms. i was in a room of about 50 to 100 loud, yappy girls. very entertaining. at one point i went out on the pool deck (they locked us in the locker rooms but people with authority had ways of getting around) to check on start time and such and was just watching the clouds; they're so amazing. i could see blue clouds near by and eventually we got our kids in after setting up our so called ez up tent. don't be fooled by the name. let's just say that it took both meghan and i to lug that heavy thing into the pool, then we got it out of the bag and tried to set it up. all in all...it took 4 people to get that thing up and raised. it should be called the-hardest-tent-you-will-ever-have-to-set-up tent. and take down was even worse on sunday. but our kids swam hard on saturday. i was outside with them in a tank top from 9:30 to 3 pm (older kids in the morning, 15 min. FREE! lunch, and then in hop the younger kids). it was a hot and sunny day. afterwards, laura and i headed to the mall for sidewalk sales. it was then that i realized that my sun exposure was pretty bad even though i slathered on sunscreen. it hurts. and this was on saturday. so laura and i found excellent deals at express and american eagle and then i went back to the hotel and the team went out to grandma's for supper. afterwards i met up with laura again and we took some little (like two 2 year olds and a 5 year old) out for ice cream at the coldstone creamery. this place is all the rage in fargo and i am excited to inform you that BEMIDJI IS GETTING A COLDSTONE! we are all in trouble...i think this place is part of the reason for the weight gain in america...it's not just supersizes at mcdonalds! first when i walked in, i was overwhelmed...i didn't know what was going on, but the ice cream scooper dude helped me out. there are 16 flavors of ice cream and you get to taste which ever until you find one that you like, then when you have one, the ice cream scooper dude tells you what you can make with it. i had strawberry so i decided to order a strawberry blonde. so he takes this huge scoop of ice cream over to the coldstone and he mixes in graham cracker, strawberries and whip cream and serves it up. it was good but i couldn't finish it. then, if you tip your ice cream scooper dude or dudette, they all start singing! it was a neat experience. then, that night, i was proposd to by the five year old and he told me i was a "very pretty college girl." i was flattered :) at that point of the night it decided to pour buckets on fargo and i had to get back to the hotel. so here's me...driving in fargo, can't see a thing and i don't really know where i'm going. i'm glad to say i only pissed off one car, or so i think...

sunday came around to a better start. we were in on time and my fam was there...all of them. and we all got more burnt! swimming was fun and i had 2 of my kids go home with high point award winners. i said goodbye to laura, my parents took me out to eat, all the little kids have home made tatoos drawn by yours truely and a magic marker. my former team was there so it was fun to catch up with bryan (my coach) and watch my old teammates and siblings swim. at this meet, they had to eliminate starts due to pool depth in the starting zone so they were all doing push offs from the wall, meaning they all pretty much added time...but there were always some surprises. then i made the long drive home and got to watch the last half hour of olympic team trials for swimming. i had my fam tape fridays and todays for me, since i had to miss them. there were some legends that didn't make the team which was really disappointing to me...it would be nice for them to make it one last time before they have to retire, as most of them were planning on retirement from swimming right after the olympics.

and that was my weekend...sort of a long post. i also have to mention that in addition to locking my car keys in my car, i can add to the list of moments when i just was not thinking this weekend: when meghan left to get stuff at kmart i took my key and went to explore my hotel...but didn't check to see what room we were in...it was slightly embarrassing to go back to the front desk and ask them what room i was in. i also misplaced my keys but quickly found them again when i realized they were missing. i also dropped my hotel key card somewhere. someone, somewhere in fargo, has a keycard to the howard johnson's room 226. enjoy i guess. so yeah, i have a souvenir shoulder burn and heat rash from my knees down to show for the weekend, but i'm not going to complain, because with this weather...it'll probably be cold and rainy tomorrow...but i'm catching up to nate and square!!! ---have a wonderful day!

i was...impressed?

so...a couple of hours ago i got back from the clay aiken concert. and i have to say...i kind of enjoyed it. i had fun, and i was impressed. here's how it went:

first off...i wasn't front row like intended. my mom had originally purchased 3 tickets: one for her, one for me, and one for my clay aiken obsessed sister, alli. well, i have this cousin who works at the big radio station in my home town and when either of my siblings or i want tickets for a concert the radio station is sponsoring, we can call him up and get free tickets. this is how i got my 10 rows back tickets to my much beloved aerosmith. so anyways...alli emailed him and he got her front row tickets. only 2 though...so my mom accompanied alli to the front row seats and then i had 3 seats to myself. so i called up squeak and our two min. conversation (phone card limitations) went like this: "you wanna go to clay aiken tomorrow night?" pause... "sure." and that was that. two seats filled. the third ticket i tried to give to my other friend heidi, but she had to work. i tempted zerek, my brother, but he said that he wouldn't go if someone paid him to. i was gonna ask nate, knowing he would say no (i've heard his opinion) but missed the opportunity too but in that time my mom told zerek he had to go...then he didn't want to so she was going to ask my aunt...but then he decided he wanted to go. such a confussing kid. so anyways, zerek was mine and squeak's date for the night.

so we kicked off the night with wonderful food from paradiso with alli's friend and mom. i was supposed to take my car but unfortunatly, i completely forgot what i was doing for once in my life and locked my keys and cell phone, money, and overnight bag my car. gotta take car of that in the morning. then it was off to the concert. the opening act was a girl called cherie...who didn't speak much english. i heard at one point that she was supposedly from toronto. but i liked her songs, they were upbeat and catchy so yeah...she also tried to teach us how to do a suduction dance...zerek, squeak and i sat that one out.

then clay came on. first impression...he was bigger than i thought. but most times i've seen him, i've seen him standing next to rubuen...so i can only wonder how big rubuen is. his songs weren't bad at all though. the best one was this christian song he did...it was really cool with the screens and the lighting effects. also at one point, they were showing this video when he was singing his american idol song that he sang for the the final showdown (i think it was the song anyway) and they were showing what he's done in the past year and they were showing this magazine cover of him and the camera was shifting down the magazine cover, i was think, what the heck are they going to show, don't go any lower! and then...they showed his wrist, where he had a black W.W.J.D. bracelet on. it was...kind of moving i guess. squeak and i weren't impressed with his second outfit he came out with...the blue shirt was ok, but those pine stripped pants could have passed for pajama pants if you asked us. and then there's the hair...it's amazing with it's anti-gravitation abilities. i secretely think that's what zerek is trying to acheive with his hair...it's so long and...chloriney? you can see the cholorine in it and it causes it to take on the ani-gravitation that clay's has. squeak and i told him we could clay aiken his hair. we all laughed at all the older drunk mom's who were shakin their bon bons...quite amusing. we all nearly threw up, too, at some of those youngsters clothes that were quite skimpy and REALLY didn't fit. i would never let my daughter out of the house with anything NEAR what they were wearing. my sister and her friend made shirts and prettied theirselves up in case clay would look their way. they also had posters that squeak, zerek and i would have nothing to do with. it was quite an amusing night. the three of us in our decent seats still couldn't believe we were sitting at a clay aiken concert but after the night...i was really quite impressed. the james tayler songs were fun and the remake of rosanna and zerek singing along and the weird faces from the lady next to him when he belted out his off key "RO SA NA, YEAH!" was great. then to cap off the night, the crowd when wild to "invisible" so it was fun to see everyone get into the song.

so yeah. that was my night...hope yours was grand! i'm gone for the weekend...off to fargo for a swim meet. wish for warm weather!!

trials fever

You know you are "jonesing" for Olympic Trials, if:

* You've sized up the biggest parking lots in your area - at the local college, the mall - to see if they could put in a pool. You know, just in case Trials are ever in your hometown.

* You've fished out the family atlas and found out exactly where Long Beach is located.

*You've surfed www.USASwimming.org and the web to see what records - American and International - stand the best chance of being broken at Trials. The answer: A lot, especially American records.

* You have gone to Jenny Thompson's bio, realized she is in her 30s, and are trying to imagine anyone in your family - and anyone you know - who is in their 30s who could even approach what she's doing at this time in their life.

* You've already set your VCR ahead to tape the Trials on TV! (Which means you have a future as an engineer if you can program your VCR -yesss!).

* Your family has no idea why you are on a taper since you don't have a meet for months.

* Every time you heard a firework go off this past weekend, you turned and expected to see eight lanes of swimmers diving into a pool.

* You have wondered what the atmosphere is really like at Trials - if anyone really sleeps the night before. To simulate, you imagine taking one test after all of your schooling, and that test alone determines whether you graduate.

* You are wondering whose name you will know in a week who you hadn't the foggiest notion of heading into Trials.

* Looking at the calendar, you wonder if it was really just four years ago that you hadn't heard of a 15-year-old named Michael Phelps who was about to become the youngest men's Olympic Team member.

* You've gone through the relay possibilities in your head, and you are so excited at the thought of some of the combinations that you really think being head men's coach Eddie Reese or women's coach Mark Schubert would be a dream job.

* After a little more thought, you realize some of the outstanding names you'd have to leave off each relay, and you realize coach Schubert and coach Reese have the toughest job in the sports world!

* You realize there just aren't enough slots for as many great swimmers as there are in this country. So you hope once, just once, the USA can send two men's teams, and two women's teams. Or even three teams: American Red, American White and American Blue! Yeesh, who'd you root for?

* You wonder who you will be able to relate to best at this Trials: Maybe you are the best in your area, and you identify with Natalie Coughlin or Michael Phelps. Maybe you are a senior at a Division III College and you are winding down your career, and you are pulling for one of our established stars who are in the twilight of their career and are hoping for just one more chance. Maybe you are on the cusp of breaking through big-time, and you'll root for a Katie Hoff or Larsen Jensen. The story covering the Olympic Trials will tell you who made the team, but every name in those stories will have an unbelievable story that can and will inspire us all.

* You've made a chart of almost every possibility for the two qualifiers in each event, men's and women's, and the possible relay. You've cross-referenced that chart to include those you want to make the team, those are most likely and those who could come of nowhere. Every possibility has been covered - almost. (Don't laugh, it took me almost six hours!!!!) And you realize you probably need another part-time job to take up some of this time!

via USA Swimming

haha...wow they're good...they know me too well!

downpour

good thing it stopped raining. i was about ready to break out in habitat gear and build an ark...i thought bemidji was going under!

clay aiken. thursday night. FRONT ROW SEATS. i can hear the little girls screaming now. my sister is excited.

pool of knowledge

want to know about this craze i have with the chlorine sniffing, overhauling sport i love called swimming? well, today's your lucky day. click here to learn EVERYTHING about this wonderful sport.

this week

one more day this week of working at os. one more swim practice. one meet. then it's home sweet home for the night and the next morning i need to "take care of some business." yeah. then it's to fargo where it (gosh darn it) better be nice for my poor swimmer's sake. we're swimming at an outdoor pool!

thursday night. clay aiken. i'm just going for family time. if i come back with t-shirts and posters galore...someone please slap me across my face and tell me to get a grip...and at that point we'll hit the computer and do some selling on ebay. hopefully it doesn't come to that!

not so much red, not so much white, but yeah, blue all over

so this past weekend....not much i can say about it. it could have been nice. but no. for the one weekend i actually had off, the one weekend of my vacation, the one weekend when i'm going camping...it decides to be 55 degrees out, raining and windy. o but wait...it's been like that ALL summer long. i finally unthawed yesterday afternoon...well...except me toes. for some reason my feet will be warm but my toes will be cold and blue. so, to accomodate my feet, i wear my socks half way on. and if this was really summer, i wouldn't be wearing socks at all. someone pinch me...this can't be summer!

does this mean our summer will be here this winter? i'm hoping so.

i can't wait for texas...

with every great love comes a story

"I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."

"did you know i used to paint? i used to paint all the time and now i miss it."

-the notebook

fireworks fun

go light up the sky in NYC by clicking here.

hardcore

last night i stayed up and came up with a pretty good set for the swimmers tomorrow only to get shot down by my co-coach. i started writing it on the board and then she came over and said that she wanted to talk to me because she wasn't in the mood to give them a hard set. they haven't had a hard set in a couple of weeks now!! and now they're going on a three day weekend!!! ugh...they want so much but no one wants to do the work. this is the set i had for them:

200 SKPS (200 swim, 200 kick, 200 pull, 200 swim)
4x50 free, 25 drill/25 swim on the 1:00
4x50 back, 25 drill/25 swim on the 1:00
3x200 free build, 3:00
4x200 IM, 3:30
3x200 back build, 3:30
4x200 IM, 3:20
3x200 breast build, 3:45
4x200 IM, 3:15
3x100 fly, 1:45
2x400 IM 6:15
4x50 free, :50
200 cool down

Total Yardage: 6500 yards = 100 yards short of 4 miles

ugh...I don't like being a co coach...the other coach is too easy on them. i know you guys don't understand what any of that means up there, but it's fun to look at...for me anyways. i'm giving it out to them on tuesday. they need to get back into shape and this will get their butts in gear.

and for other news...three people disobeyed stop sign laws around me. i don't know who died and made them high royalty to the stop signs, allowing them to go whenever they please, despite the other cars like me who are patiently waiting...but seriously! i have to be places too and you don't see me just taking off from the stop sign even though it someone else's turn! be alive, people!

i want to go to a movie tonight. either the notebook or spiderman II...i bet i'll be going by myself again, which is fine, as no one is in town. everyone's left for home!

have a wonderful fouth of july weekend...i wish for warm weather and many fireworks and good food for all!

this is what i want to do

ahh...pixar animation studios...but then, i don't want to leave this area i don't think...i don't know what i want.