Each weekday – most weeks – I join Ladybug at the high school pool. She does a REAL workout – she’s in training for her first triathalon – she works really hard and even does FLIP TURNS!
Yeah, me either! In fact, I don’t even put my face in the water – too worried about those brain eating amoebas, I am, I am.
What I DO is kick laps using a kick board. And, sometimes I run on in the water. I watched a young woman running through the pool (IN the water) one day and thought that it looked like a great workout. So, I started to add some running laps to my kick board laps from time to time.
Now she trains on land (she’s a soccer player) but I have continued to play at this new (for me) sport. AND, there are two men who are also doing several laps every morning. We have our own little groups you see.
But, back to the “comfort zone” and “granny panties” of the title of this entry. (more…)
look closely at these two pictures . . . count, if you will, the lines above the heads of the two women in the pictures. You would THINK that Ms. Thang would be smiling because . . .
she is (at least) one inch taller than her gramma!!!!!
sigh!
pictures taken at the Ohio Historical Society Museum in Columbus, Ohio. This is the museum which houses the mummy behind which said gramma received her first kiss (awwwwwwwww) when she was only 15 . . . from the hubbymoose, btw . . . who was also 15 at the time.
Again with the awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
but will you just LOOK at how short the moosie is getting! Sheesh! I used to be 5′ 41/2″ – somewhere along the line I lost an inch and she found it! Too bad all that height is going to my girth. lol
We had a great time – this despite the red devil eyes on Ms. Thang and her look of abject misery at (once again) being photographed by her doddering (short) gramma.
😉
hubby moose and I reinacted “the kiss” for her – at her request – so she could get a shot. Unfortunately (or maybe not) that picture is on HER camera.
and, about the angle of my head. Hubby mentioned that I might have been tilting it backwards and so it just seemed that I was an inch shorter. Awww, isn’t he sweet? Even if I had been tilting my head one way or another – the girl is STILL taller than I am. (much to my dismay) but thanks for trying, hubby.
February 27th, 2008 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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While I am waiting for a video to upload over at youtube I thought I should begin this entry. Would you all like to see the video? Here you go – a pregnant moose cow munching browse in my backyard recently.
If you have your speakers on you can hear hubby moose talking in the background and a lot of road noise – the highway is just behind the trees there. We don’t notice the road noise in the winter because the windows are generally closed – and in the summer, the trees are fully leafed out so we don’t hear much then, either.
This morning as I was coming home from the pool and passing the middle school I saw a yearling calf walking down the side of the road. Not a big deal – we see it every day, but there was a lot of traffic – people dropping their (grand)kids off to school – and there are always walkers, too. I stopped one young man on my street to let him know about the moose. As I’ve said here in the past, the critters can be ornery and you do NOT want to get in the way of their hooves when they are feeling their oats.
Hmmm – I almost wrote “feeling your Cheerios†– anyone remember that tune?
Yup – disjointed entry, huh? Well, that’s sort of my life right now – so much to do – so little time and opportunity in which to do it – but it will all get done . . . eventually.
Next week I fly to Juneau for a network meeting – most of the state’s dv executive directors will be getting together to discuss (whatever – I really have no clue as this is my first one). We will also be meeting with the state legislators if we can get in to see them. I have an appointment with one Wednesday morning. They are in the process of trying to cut the grant that is our major funder, so we are, of course, trying to discourage them from that.
I went to the Legislative Information Office Saturday to take part in a teleconferenced hearing with the finance committee members – and my representative is the head of that committee, so whatever I talk with him about Wednesday is going to be a rerun. Such is life.
When I come back I will have one week at work and then 10 days vacation and then one more week at work and THEN my boss returns from her sabbatical! Whoot! I will be able to take off ONE of my hats. Yay.
In the meantime we have a board meeting tonight so I am going to work late – have to adjust for that meeting. Then one more board meeting in March and I am done with THOSE, too. 😉
Have I enjoyed it? Yes and no – the staff is great and they are (mostly) doing their jobs. I’ve had the opportunity to hire one person in this time period and she seems to be working out very well. There have been some gray areas in policy that have been a little touch to deal with and many times I have wished I could call my boss for direction – but that is not permitted. So I lean on my coworkers to come to a good solution in those areas.
We are a good team! I thank them often and try to bring them little treats from time to time to show them my appreciation.
That’s NOT to say that there haven’t been a few staff challenges. 😉 But we work through those, too.
So, I saw the internist yesterday – first available appointment after all the heart hoo-ha. After I filled out (what seemed like) reams of paperwork to get me admitted into the inner sanctum – past all the many office workers – I sat in the examining room for quite awhile before he was able to come to see me.
I thumbed through several (very) old magazines – what IS it with doctors’ offices anyway? I mean, there were magazines from 2001!!! ANYway . . .
He came in, I put the National Geographic down and he told me to keep reading because he wanted to go through my chart to read the reports on all the tests. So I sat quietly while he read.
“Hmmm” he said. “Huh!” and then “Hmmmmm” again several more times. I finally started laughing and said “you’re reading the cath report aren’t you?” And he said that he was.
Finally he closed the file – opened it one more time to re-read a section, closed it and looked at me and smiled.
“Well! We know you HAD a heart attack, but we don’t know why!”
You see I really AM an enigma after all. The tests have all come back as good as they can – and that leaves the docs all scratching their heads and calling me “lucky.”
My friends, luck had absolutely NOTHING to do with any of this. I’m a child of the King and blessed beyond all blessings to be able to tell you so. It is only by His grace and by His mercy that I have come through both kidney cancer and a heart attack in such fine fettle. All I can do is praise Him and thank Him and try to serve Him better.
Hope you’re all having a good week. Our temps have come up a bit – it is clear up to 18 degrees ABOVE zero this morning! Whoot! That is a welcome change from the below zero stuff of the past two weeks. It’s something like a 40 degree shift in temps! Gotta love living in Alaska.
