I am trying to find a VHS player so my grandma's husband can watch their wedding video. He plans to get it converted to disc, but in the meantime I'd like to surprise him with a way to watch it now. This is seemingly much more difficult than I thought. I sat with him for 3 hours today and just let him tell me stories. I think Saturday is going to be so tough on him.
Check Goodwill or other thrift shops. Ours always has a ton of old VCRs.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 19, 2017 11:24:52 GMT -5
What are you training for? Date? End-wet, June 2018
Training plan for the week? Swim Thurs-Sat
Any issues or vents? I'm exhausted lately. Time to step up on iron and vitamin d.
Highlights or AW's from the past week? I spent last week in Dallas for USMS Convention. We passed a role allowing open water directors to be able to allow swimmers to hold a kayak or natural features provided they're not making forward progress. As a marathon swimmer, this hurts my heart, because it is step away from tradition. But as a person who has helped people try open water for years, this makes me so happy, because people who are scared to race open water may be more willing to try it.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 19, 2017 3:05:09 GMT -5
If Sacramento is an option, you may want to try living here. There are still great homes to be found for a reasonable (for CA) price in decent neighborhoods. Our traffic isn't completely terrible. I live 30 minutes east of downtown on a weekend and during commute times it might be more like an hour max if there's an accident. I can't speak to childcare, but I'd presume it's reasonable.
You'd be 2-ish hours from the bay area and <2 hours from Tahoe.
The only downside is that it gets hot here. Not Las Vegas hot, though.
My husband uses a serrated blade on a swiss army knife.
p.s. if you are using this as a litter box, it works great but be sure to sand/file the edges.
Yep, this is our second litter box. We have plastic door trim that we put around the hole. This is a heavier duty one than we did before (which we could cut with a box cutter).
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 18, 2017 11:13:32 GMT -5
If you needed to cut a hole in the side of a large heavy duty tub (think commercial-grade Rubbermaid), what tool would you use? Box cutter was a no go (although that wasn't really a shock), and the sawzall shakes the bin badly and keeps binding up. Is there a Dremel head for that? Router?
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 18, 2017 10:51:33 GMT -5
I used to have that trouble too, and I found that it was because I was letting myself get into negative head space. Find your positive place - your why. Why do you run? Why do you want to do the marathon? Why this race? Why do you want to *not* walk? Once you have your why, then make your mantra around that. Last year I trained in some uncomfortable conditions and my mantra was "adversity can kiss my ass". I was swimming with something to prove - that I could overcome 2015, the worst year of my life.
Now, I use the mantra "swim happy" and sing songs to myself in my head when things get rough.
I need to start setting reasonable H&G goals. With two little kids, I find myself just keeping up w/daily house stuff. But there are things that could be done (e.g., organize linen closet). I'm getting 'ancy to do a project.
We're officially saving for the master bath reno! I'm gathering pics and ideas (working off @juno 's floorplan she drew for me!).
I reeeaalllly want to redo our front door and walkway.
Neat! Second career, here i come. Can't wait to see finalized plans. Are you going to do demo?
mrs.jacinthe, tell me more about the yard please. Did you pick out some grasses? Have a plant list? Are you doing bare root trees? Can you even do those in the fall? Ours come in stock dec./jan.
We did a water-wise replacement and had a required square footage of coverage. We skipped grasses because where we'd put them, they wouldn't thrive - they'd be full sun now, but once the trees are in, they'd be full/partial shade. We did strawberry tree, pineapple guava, cape plumbago, Tuscan blue rosemary, white and orchid rock rose, and cotoneaster.
We were limited in our plant choices by both the plant list from the water agency and our need for the plants to be, even slightly, deer resistant.
As far as fruit trees go, beyond the strawberry and pineapple guava, we're planning on doing containerized trees because we want grafted multi-variety trees for sake of space and pollination. So we'll have a multi apple, a multi citrus, and a multi stone fruit.
Ooooooh, I have another one (remembered courtesy of hannahb) I have finally mastered peeing WHILE swimming. Before, I'd have to hold it for a feed break, but I've finally been able to relax enough to go while I'm moving!
ETA: and another thing! I don't get hangovers. I've *never* had a hangover, and I can recall (vaguely) at least a couple times where I think I earned one. I metabolize alcohol super fast or something.
I've also never had a hangover. And I used to drink A LOT. lol. It takes a lot to get me drunk and it never bothers me.
See, and I'm the opposite. I get drunk really fast, but I get over it quick, too. If I stop drinking, I'm sober again in under an hour. I'm sure BAC is another matter, so I still won't drive, but I can go from just below dancing on the table to correcting people's grammar in 30 minutes.
Ooooooh, I have another one (remembered courtesy of hannahb ) I have finally mastered peeing WHILE swimming. Before, I'd have to hold it for a feed break, but I've finally been able to relax enough to go while I'm moving!
ETA: and another thing! I don't get hangovers. I've *never* had a hangover, and I can recall (vaguely) at least a couple times where I think I earned one. I metabolize alcohol super fast or something.
Man, I need to learn how to do this....any tips? I have lots of time in open water to practice.
Do you need to kick to stay afloat? I find that if I stop moving my legs and relax my lower half (lol, really, all the way to the toes) then I can go. If I have to kick or for whatever reason can't relax my legs, I can't do it, even if it's desperate.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 13, 2017 7:31:08 GMT -5
I'm so tired, I had to double check that today is Wednesday.
I'm currently at the airport waiting for a flight to Dallas. R was going to drop me off, but he got a work emergency call (boy, it sucks having on-call responsibility sometimes) at 2:30 and left shortly after that, so I drove myself to the airport at 4am. Good times.
Also, our yard is almost done! It looks so weird with all the mulch and little tiny plants. And we haven't planted our fruit trees yet because it's too hot for at least another month. Bleh.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 12, 2017 22:33:13 GMT -5
Ooooooh, I have another one (remembered courtesy of hannahb) I have finally mastered peeing WHILE swimming. Before, I'd have to hold it for a feed break, but I've finally been able to relax enough to go while I'm moving!
ETA: and another thing! I don't get hangovers. I've *never* had a hangover, and I can recall (vaguely) at least a couple times where I think I earned one. I metabolize alcohol super fast or something.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 12, 2017 16:19:30 GMT -5
I can swim a long ways if it doesn't have to be fast.
And I know I can tolerate a lot colder water than most people. I'm like whatever you'd get if you crossed Mr. Freeze and Aquaman... If that result were a woman, lol.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 12, 2017 10:46:34 GMT -5
As a child who was bullied, ignoring it or you going directly to the coach won't work. Bullies feed off that stuff.
I'd go with teaching your kid to say something like "that's not true, why would you say that?" and move away. I'd also talk to the coach and explain what you've told your kid to do so that if they see your kid moving away from this other kid, they can react accordingly versus hollering at your kid for moving.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 12, 2017 10:36:40 GMT -5
What are you training for? Date?
END-WET, June 2018
Training plan for the week?
Swim Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday (maybe?)
Any issues or vents?
I'm going to USMS national convention tomorrow morning. They offer coached workouts every morning, but I have never managed to go to one and subsequently be on time for the first meeting of the day. So I'm not sure I'm going to do the coached ones (wherein they truck you to some amazing long-course facility at o-dark-thirty) but instead I'll swim an hour in the hotel pool. Mmm, overheated hotel water.
Highlights or AW's from the past week?
I managed a 1:35 100!! (Lol, I only hit that time once and by the end of the 10, I was pooting along at 1:55, but I hit it!)
Oh no. I wonder if that was set up on purpose or if naked guy jumped in? Our old hippies do love the public breezes in their nethers. Perhaps we should just chill and go with it. Certainly would have saved me time worrying about coordinating outfits for the pics!
Based on the swim cap and goggles, I'd lay money on having met that guy at least once. Probably swam with him. He probably wasn't wearing clothes then, either. You SF people are awfully casual about appropriate swimwear, lol.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 11, 2017 10:03:16 GMT -5
I don't do well with hormonal BC. So I had paragard instead of mirena. I absolutely loved it, although it made my period heavier, I didn't have any trouble with spotting, etc. We pulled it three years ago for ttc but it turns out we're IF, so no more bc of any kind for me. I'm ok with that, but if I had to go back on BC (because of a partner switch or something), I think I'd choose the implant.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 9, 2017 19:53:44 GMT -5
My husband's boss actually flew into Tampa yesterday to help his parents batten down because they refuse to leave their (mandatory evacuation) home. He has a wife and a 5 year old who is obsessed with weather, so the kid is fully aware of where dad is and what the dangers are. I'm so worried for him/them.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 9, 2017 0:44:44 GMT -5
You can change the name easily from the console. But that sort of freaks me out that someone was in your car, so I'm throwing my money at the bored hacker theory. O.o
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Sept 8, 2017 18:48:19 GMT -5
Ok, so I know Americans are not exactly body positive folks, but I thought Brits were relatively uptight about the issue too. I can't believe they're all la-ti-da about this. Using a phone in the locker room is no bueno, but FaceTime in a room where there is every expectation of privacy? They should be falling all over themselves to apologize and clarify the policy, imo.