Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Ugggggghhhhhhh.

There's a reason I don't live in the Southeastern US, folks.

I. HATE. HEAT. AND. HUMIDITY.

Yes, that's right. I will take 3 months of snow, sleet, and blustery winds in exchange for my nice, temperate spring, summer, and beautiful fall.

So this 93 degrees and high humidity thing BLOWS. And not just when I'm pregnant. Pretty much all the time. I enjoy living in a city with very few 90-plus degree days, and I have not been a happy camper the past few days! Man, how do you guys that live in the south DO THIS? Ugh....

Anyway, we had a great weekend. I feel like Rae with our kitchen remodeling! It's about halfway and unlike Rae we are ONLY doing the floor. I will post some pics when it's done. I'm not much help though, since I can't bend over very well and am the most un-handy person alive. Good thing I married the most handy person alive. But, I'm good at organizing, so while he was working on the floor, I cleaned out and organized all our cabinets. Yay! I contributed. :)

We also have some bathroom remodeling going on--the last of our wallpaper infested house to go down! It's not going down without a fight. The shower stall with pink and black tile, I'm proud to say, is no more. But we still have the fugly wallpaper with butterflies and stripes. Our whole house was pretty much covered in wallpaper when we moved in and we've saved this little gem for last. Hopefully we can just finish the stall this year and tackle the wallpaper later, because......

The nursery is still a disaster.

Maybe I'm just worrying too much here, but sersly. Alls I got is STILL my jogging stroller. Uh oh. Good thing we have a room that's yellow and blue. Matt likes to say it's because Baby Z is a Michigan fan (ew). It was our old office, so going through everything has been a pain. We're getting there, but we need to get rid of some more stuff PRONTO. And, like, get some stuff we need. But, I guess we've got time for that.

This Sunday I volunteered for the Lorain Sprint Tri and Du. It was hella fun! I did bodymarking and then was the "pointer" for T1 and T2. It was REAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLYYYYYY hot though, and even though I drank a lot of water, I still didn't quite feel like myself even yesterday. Saw lots of CTC people kicking some butt, which was good. It's a great race for first-timers, too, so it was fun to see people getting bitten by the tri bug. And my buddy Marie was 3rd in Age Group, so she picked up some hardware! The best part? I get a FREE RACE VOUCHER for next year for ANY NCN race! Yahoooooooooooooooo! I might need to bail on the Chicago Oly for next year and just stay local and do the Lorain Oly...two trips to Chi-Town might be too hard to pull off, and I definitely want to do the marathon. Don't hate me, Wil....I'm still in for Muncie and the marathon though!

Today I'm going to do a 2000 yard swim and then maybe meet the Second Sole crew for a walk while they run. I don't know....I gotta see how this heat factors in. I might have to bail on the walk. Luckily, it is supposed to go back down to the 70s later this week.

And guess what? Tomorrow I am meeting a SUPER FAST and SUPER COOL Blogger for lunch! Super Fast Blogger is from quite a ways away and coming through on business, so I will leave you in suspense as to who it is...but don't worry, I'll get pictures!

5 comments:

TriShannon said...

Does the apple bathroom still exist? Between ripping out carpet and tearing down wallpaper you guys have done a TON of work on that house!! Oh, and getting Subway is contributing too. :)

So glad you finally posted a pic. You look amazing!

Captain Cactus said...

We can only hope that Baby Z will have the good sense to be a Michigan fan!

Cara said...

Ooh, I'd love to see before and after pictures! We have a fixer-upper we've been fixing up, so suddenly I'm super interested in people's remodeling jobs -- and yes, Chris did the patio himself. I...didn't really help.

How exciting that you got a free race voucher! It's so fun to envision a time when we might be racing again! I don't know if we'll ever do the same race, but that would be fun! :) I'll probably stick to semi-local sprints & olympics.

William Lobdell said...

hey, sara. you look stunning. and don't worry about eating too much. mrs. kahuna -- a 12-time marathon finisher -- packed on 50 pounds for each of our four kids (she looked super cute) ... and then lost the weight quickly because of her workouts. and she enjoyed all the eating during the pregnancy.

Rae said...

Oooh! I can't wait to see the before and afters! We've got to re-do our shower which I am not looking forward to!