Swimming again

I just started swimming again during my breaks at school. I haven't been swimming since October of last year because school has been totally crazy. But this semester is pretty light at the moment, mostly because classes only started yesterday and I don't have anything to study yet. But I hope to continue with the swimming throughout this semester even as things pick up.

Some people think swimming for exercise is such a hassle, but it actually is my favorite form of exercise. Here's why:

1. You never get sweaty. You're in water all the time, so you never overheat and get red or anything.
2. You don't have to bring a whole change of clothes. All I bring is my swimsuit, a towel, and goggles. It's way less of a hassle than bringing tennis shoes, socks, shorts, a t-shirt, and whatever else. I don't even need a water bottle because I just drink the pool water when I'm thirsty. (I'm joking, I'm joking. Actually the thought of drinking pool water makes me gag a little, mostly because I saw a guy sneeze in the pool today. Blegh.)
3. You can work out your entire body and get completely exhausted in like 20 minutes. It's a pretty fast and effective workout. Plus, it's like strength training and endurance training put together.
4. You don't have to talk or acknowledge other people. I don't really like exercising with other people all that much because I kind of hate small talk and chit chat. With swimming, it's pretty much impossible to talk or listen to other people, so you can exercise with someone else without worrying about keeping up a conversation. It's an introvert's dream!
5. It gives you time to think. I can't listen to music or podcasts while I swim, and that's OK, because it forces me to think about my day and my life at the moment. It's kind of like meditation, but more tiring.
6. There's a huge clock on the wall so I don't have to worry about what time it is. I don't really like running or doing other exercises with a watch on because it always feels tight and sweaty, but then I'm always worried about being late. With swimming in the pool, I can just glance up. (I wear my contacts under my goggles so I can see the clock.)

This is why swimming is the best. Don't get me wrong: I'm pretty bad at it. I was actually the slowest person in the pool today. But it was my first time back in like 6 months, so hopefully I'll get faster. My goal is to beat the old overweight guy who swims laps everyday and then slaps his belly when he gets out of the pool.

I hate bathrooms like this

Plus, your older brother is probably right outside trying to pry open the door when everyone else is walking by,

Look what I found

WARNING: GROSS PICTURE BELOW

I was practicing some things during lunch today, and I saw this huge LASIK machine just sitting in the middle of the hallway on the second floor. There wasn't anyone nearby, and I thought it was pretty cool.

Then I walked up to it and saw this bag sitting on the blue paper

Yes, that is a sandwich baggie full of eyeballs. I guess they're sitting there for people to practice LASIK on. About 30 minutes later, a group of 3rd year students came up and were being instructed how to perform LASIK. 

The funny thing was that I was eating my sandwich out of my baggie as I was walking past this thing, but I didn't lose my appetite or anything.

Olivia's song

Every night, right before we turn out her light, Olivia gets one story and two songs. After telling her a story about Curious George and her Pink Monkey going to Kroger and bingeing on bananas, she told me she wanted to sing ME a song tonight.

This is the song:

My monkey is a princeeeeess,
Ohhhh a princessss
A piiink princess
My daddy is not a priiiiincess
My daddy is a doggie

The end

Olivia's new drawing

Today Olivia really wanted to draw a picture on the scrap piece of paper we were using to keep score on while we played Farkle. She drew the following picture can you tell what it is?

If you're having a hard time, she even wrote her own sentence explaining what is was:

It says "I iz a mos" or " I is a moose." Isn't that so cool? I'm not so sure what it says above the moose...probably a war cry or something. I love seeing her writing and sounding things out on her own along with her awesome drawings.

Triple batch of color-by-numbers!

It's your lucky day! I made 3 different color-by-numbers for you! The first two I tried to make the numbers a little bigger so that Sophie won't be so frustrated. Hopefully it works.

Here's a baptism one that I drew for Olivia to color while in church. We're also planning on doing it as part of our Primary lesson:

Here's a St. Patrick's Day/Rainbow themed one. Olivia is very excited about it:

And finally, here is a Space Ship one. The numbers are still small in this picture (sorry Sophie), so you can just color it however you want!

Have fun!

Preschool color-by-number

Here's round two of the color-by-number pictures I drew for Olivia. I'm always amazed that she had the patience to color the big areas of one color. Click on the picture below to be able to print out your own,

And here is the finished result: