Swimming is hard work! (And other observations of old age)
Since I am on a hiatus from the boot, I decided to let M drag me swimming with her and her coworker this afternoon. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be - mainly because we didn't go to some yuppiefied pool. No, we headed over to East Austin and it was great. There were only one or two other people swimming laps. Aside from swimming laps (if you can consider me splashing about in a zig-zag line while getting water down my ears "swimming laps"), we also jumped off the diving board once. I hadn't done that probably in about 10 years. Man, diving into water doesn't hit you the same way as it does when you were thirteen, does it? Rather than feeling like a knife cutting through butter, I felt more like a spork slamming into a pineapple.
I think I'm getting old.
I think I'm getting old.
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spork? pineapple?! GENIOSITY! is that how you spell it? i'm barely home from work. hate m-t/noon. someone kill me. send harry my love. xo
You better not cry on your next birthday while locked in a room at your own party! Not that anyone you know has done that ;)
you don't live in so cal but this shirt still made me think of you... http://www.dustybrand.com/shirts/famous.html
gingy: Thanks to reading your comment at 12 AM before I went to sleep last night, I had a terrible nightmare where your illegitimate son (John David Mitchell Jr. was his name, for some reason I remember this)was trying to kill me. Not sure what that is supposed to mean...maybe stay out of the Red Fez?
and also - we might be getting 2 Yorkies to stay with us for 6 months before they go to Japan. Update pending.
anon: True. I guess I'm not that old yet.
roo: That was awesome!! And rather appropriate.
MR, if you're old, I'm way old.
I didn't think the diving thing was too bad at all, except the whole feeling of my top coming off... but it didn't since I was wearing my sexy-swimming-for-exercise one piece!
And, its ok for people to freak out over getting old. I guess some people just don't feel like they're as old as their number says...
diving Boards? Don't know the last time I even saw one . . you're brave to put yourself up there with all the wee ones and find something new by trying something old . . go you! Even if it is just the effects of age on impact with water ;)