after about a month of calling my clapotis clappy, i decided to rename it. the name came to me last night.
i usually wear clappy as a scarf. last night i went to choir, and the church was cold and of course, i only had a thin long sleeve shirt on and was freezing, so i wrapped clappy around me. it dawned on me that clappy has so many uses. much like linus' blanket in the peanuts cartoons. he hugs his blanket, wears it over his head, hangs it around his neck. so many uses.
so i thought, clappy sounds kinda dirty, since "the clap" is a slang for gonorrhea. gross. but the more i thought about it, "linus" sounded like a good name for my clapotis. i wear it around my neck, as a shawl, and i'm sure i could use it for a hobo bag too if i tried! so clappy is no more...i now have "linus."
today i swam laps and finally broke the 40 lap mark! it takes me about 45 to swim laps. i do a set of 5 strokes (such as they are): 2 laps with the kick board, 2 laps doggy paddling/no kicking, 2 laps with KB, 2 laps doggy swimming, 2 laps breast stroke/crawl. 5 X 2 is 10 laps, now i'm up to 10 laps X 4 sets. i ache like crazy. but i feel good swimming. now my goal is 50 laps. now, i also use fins and swim gloves, so that helps with the resistance. when i do the breast stroke, i feel like i'm using one of those flex resistance machines. i hope the exercise is helping. my legs have pared down considerably, and my arms even feel smaller - i'm getting guns! (more like pea shooters!) hubby thought my belly even felt smaller. i went down a jean size too (yay!)
i have a long ways to go. for my height (60 inches) i should weigh 100 pounds soaking wet. i'm nowhere near that weight. but hopefully i'm building muscle, so that will help burn the lard that sticks to my thighs and gut. and maybe if i work hard enough i can get rid of the damn elephant that hangs off the front of me.
now i'm 2 days late. twingy boobs. crampy belly. fought crime with hubby yesterday and this morning, and it didn't hurt (like it usually does around AF day - in fact it felt pretty good). i was going to test tomorrow, but i think i'll wait until saturday or sunday. i just don't feel pregnant. of course, i didn't feel pregnant in may either. but i just don't have a good feeling about this cycle.
i usually wear clappy as a scarf. last night i went to choir, and the church was cold and of course, i only had a thin long sleeve shirt on and was freezing, so i wrapped clappy around me. it dawned on me that clappy has so many uses. much like linus' blanket in the peanuts cartoons. he hugs his blanket, wears it over his head, hangs it around his neck. so many uses.
so i thought, clappy sounds kinda dirty, since "the clap" is a slang for gonorrhea. gross. but the more i thought about it, "linus" sounded like a good name for my clapotis. i wear it around my neck, as a shawl, and i'm sure i could use it for a hobo bag too if i tried! so clappy is no more...i now have "linus."
today i swam laps and finally broke the 40 lap mark! it takes me about 45 to swim laps. i do a set of 5 strokes (such as they are): 2 laps with the kick board, 2 laps doggy paddling/no kicking, 2 laps with KB, 2 laps doggy swimming, 2 laps breast stroke/crawl. 5 X 2 is 10 laps, now i'm up to 10 laps X 4 sets. i ache like crazy. but i feel good swimming. now my goal is 50 laps. now, i also use fins and swim gloves, so that helps with the resistance. when i do the breast stroke, i feel like i'm using one of those flex resistance machines. i hope the exercise is helping. my legs have pared down considerably, and my arms even feel smaller - i'm getting guns! (more like pea shooters!) hubby thought my belly even felt smaller. i went down a jean size too (yay!)
i have a long ways to go. for my height (60 inches) i should weigh 100 pounds soaking wet. i'm nowhere near that weight. but hopefully i'm building muscle, so that will help burn the lard that sticks to my thighs and gut. and maybe if i work hard enough i can get rid of the damn elephant that hangs off the front of me.
now i'm 2 days late. twingy boobs. crampy belly. fought crime with hubby yesterday and this morning, and it didn't hurt (like it usually does around AF day - in fact it felt pretty good). i was going to test tomorrow, but i think i'll wait until saturday or sunday. i just don't feel pregnant. of course, i didn't feel pregnant in may either. but i just don't have a good feeling about this cycle.
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