Wow. Lookit me ignoring you guys. I totally suck. It’s like I have 18 blogs to keep up on, and I’ve been letting them all slide! No more of that! Here, let his cute picture of my kid make up for it!
See? Don’t you feel better now? Of course, now you can make all the jokes about dogs farting and all of that. I’m a giver, what can I say?
So, that beat up old jeep of mine? Well, my son was a doll and bought it for me, so that he could have a car of his very own. Amazingly enough, this allowed me to turn right around, borrow a little bit more money and get myself a better running version of the car I just unloaded on my son. Oh come on – he’s gonna tear it up anyway! Stop looking at me like that!
Anyway – i’m now the proud owner of a 93 Jeep GRAND Cherokee. Yes, it’s two years OLDER then the other one, but was literally driven around by a little old preacher man for 30 years, and he took much better care of it then we did mine. And it has heat. And auto windows. And auto locks. AND CUP HOLDERS. I’ve spent 10 years carefully balancing my large diet cokes against the e-brake! I now have CUP HOLDERS!
And it’s red. Just like my other one. See?
Isn’t she PRETTY? Course, on the way to swim practice, the kids asked if Papa had been in the car because “it smells like little old man!” so now it smells like “Vanillaroma!” thanks to the scenty tree hanging from the review mirror -a mirror which I totally have to learn to use again since mine fell off in the old one 3 years ago..
But all that pales compared to the the best feature – because OMG.CUP HOLDERS PEOPLE!
It was the “home” meet today, and since my pup was determined to swim “unless i’m DEAD mom” despite the fact she was still having breathing problems/sick – we spent all day at the pool. We got there bright and early, and as soon as Auntie got there, we put her on the nebulizer for about 10 minutes, then got her warmed up and ready to go.
Not only did she insist she wanted to swim – she was swimming four individual events AND a relay! That kid of mine is one bulheadedstubborn determined lil shit girl. So it was into the pool, and lucky for you I caught it all on video. Whoo!
Here’s the breakdown –
50yd Backstroke:
The Pup’s favorite event, of course. And her best event.
Previous time: 1:09.47
Today’s time: 1:06.92
Difference: – 2.16!
50yd Freestyle:
She lost her goggles (again!) and also had a bit of an asthma attack too. She flipped to her back to finish the race, and Auntie grabbed her out of the pool and hustled her over to the breathing machine/inhaler. She recovered quickly – and get a load of her time!
Previous time: 1:10.21
Today’s time: 53.52!
Difference: -16.29!
And that’s WITH problems! If the child has a perfect race, she’ll be unstoppable!
50yd Butterfly:
This is the first time swimming this individually (she did it for the first time in a relay last meet). She dq’d in it last time and… DQ’d again. But she insisted on giving it a try, and not a single tear over DQing this time. Nope -she just grinned and moved on to her next race…
Previous time: None
Today’s Time: 2:02.41 – DQ
50yd Breaststroke:
She DQ’d this one in the last meet as well, but she – again – wanted to try. Coach Will said her butterfly was closer to legal than this one, but it didn’t look it today! It sure wasn’t the fastest breaststroke we saw today, but it sure was pretty -and 100% legal! WHOO!
Previous time: none
Today’s Time: 2:01.94
She then swam the 200 freestyle relay, though we didn’t get the official time, all the girls did really well. Despite the fact that she hoped that they’d swim alone so she could get her “ducky” for winning the heat. (first place in any heat gets a little rubber ducky.) When I asked her if she wouldn’t rather work for one and win it on her own? She said “….I’d rather do it easy.” which be both knew was a lie. But cute. *L*
Dman, The Bug, the Ladybug AND Auntie all swam today too – I’m sure Auntie will get all the info up on her site asap. She finished off the day with taking all the kids to “DQ” – Dairy Queen, though we substituted Cold Stone Creamery, instead – because everyone knows that a DQ means ice cream! Yum!
So, since I have a swimmer in the house now, I hear an awful lot about Michael Phelps, and other Olympic swimmers – and I’ve already sounded off about the big controversy revolving around the kid and that picture that’s been floating round, too. Because ya know I have an opinion and all, right?
But anyway – in the light of that, and the fact that there’s a swim meet tomorrow for the Pup, the ‘at home’ meet, and everyone’s been all kinds of excited about it, I couldn’t resist.
You see, the pup is sick. She had an asthma attack in the pool, she’s coughing and generally feeling ok, but for the whole not being able to breathe well thing. When I told her she might have to miss the meet – she said “Unless I’m DEAD, I’m SWIMMING in that MEET, mom!”
Well then.
So I did what any mother of an ultra determined swimpup would do, and got her a doctor’s appointment yesterday, where the deciding factor on her getting in then or waiting till today was her above statement. They felt they had to reward that kind of dedication, ya know? And also? Not let her die. Heh. So we got to the appt, and discovered that her pulse ox was REALLY low, and they slapped her onto the nebulizer right away – after which her pulse ox jumped to a nice 97.
And I tried to resist – for about as long as it took me to pull out my Camera Phone. (that’d be like .203 seconds.) I mean, after all – it’s good to have a hero, right?
Stop looking at me like that! Not like you’d have been able to resist either…
