My little Man

This is my little man and his buds-in the yellow tie-Ian Scott, age 8. As a second grader-this was his first official spring concert up on the big stage at the middle school. Trust me-there will be many more to come!!

Partying w/Stanley...in the rain!

I worked last night 11pm - 7:30am. I only work 2 nights a week-and they are always in a row, never on the weekend, and never on a holiday. It is a sweet set up and I love my job. My first night is always rough because I'm lucky if I get 2 hours sleep going into it. Usually I get none. I came home this morning and was asleep by 8:30. Then awake at 10, then 11, then 12. I finally got up at 12:15-not enough sleep and I'll be feeling the pain at 3am tonite! Anyway-I got up and got right on my bike despite the fact that it was already drizzling outside. We had beautiful weather here in Central NY last week and once I get out on my bike-it is REALLY hard to ride inside on the trainer. So out the door I went-ready for a hill workout. Hills are not hard to come by in these parts. In fact-we live at the highest point in Manlius-so high we are the only neighborhood on a well-cuz they couldn't get the city water up to us! Anyway, I was feeling good and getting bored of doing hill repeats close to home (I didn't wanna get too far away cuz it looked like the skies would open up at any moment and 49degrees in the pouring rain is not fun). So I decided to head over to the infamous Stanley Road-the biggest climb around-and up until today I had managed to avoid meeting up w/Mr. Stanley. So I'm riding along, there were some pretty big hills and then suddenly I am at the top of the steepest freakn hill I've ever seen. Now it is really raining and the road is quite sandy. I realize that this is it-THE WALL-as I have now named it. The problem-I was going to have to ride down it before I could ride up it. I had my ass hanging off the back of my seat because it was so steep I seriously thought i may do an endo (go over the handlebars-for you non-cyclists). I had no idea you could ride up a hill going that slow and not fall over!!! Not to mention that my back tire was spinning in the wet sand. Stanley was everything I imagined and more. We will meet again soon...

Swimming Woes

Today I was reminded of why I stopped swimming at the y and started swimming at Cazenovia College. At the YMCA they have a water aerobics class(es) every morning between the hours of 8:30 and 10-11:30. This in itself is an issue-because this is my Prime swimming time and it doesn't seem fair to me that they would fill this time w/water aerobics M-F-but they do and they aren't gonna change it. During these class times they close up to 4 out of 6 lanes down for the class. Today they closed down 4 lanes and I was in the lane closest to where the aerobics class was happening in the rest of the pool. As I came to wall for a quick rest, one of aerobics queens tapped me on the shoulder and this is what she said, "Excuse me, I know you are lap swimming, but every time you swim by us you are splashing us. Is there anyway you can not do that??" OMG. Are you Effing kidding me? My response, "Uh, no-there isn't a way I cannot do that-this is a swimming pool!!!" Unbelievable. Back to Caz college I go!