I really love swimming. I enjoy doing it and I'm good at it. I think it's a beautiful sport to watch.
I spent a great deal of my adolescence churning up and down a pool, so I have some understanding of the amount of effort and concentration and discipline and sacrifice it takes to excel at swimming. I cannot imagine the pressure this young man has been under, carrying the hopes and expectations of a sport-mad nation and his own exceptionally high personal standards.
Thanks for everything, Thorpie. You were beautiful to watch, a pleasure to listen to and an inspiration to many. Now off you go and enjoy yourself.
I am off to Mum's on Friday to be her election campaign PA and hand out how-to-vote cards for her amazing 19 year old candidate. I have to do a bunch of stuff before then to ensure that I don't return to complete chaos so I not sure when I'll be posting next. If Noddie screams herself to vomiting point at bedtime again tonight I may need to vent!!! We have no idea where this behaviour has come from.... I am getting very tired of washing her sheets (sigh....)
HOTW update (as you have been longing to hear how they were going). HOTW#1 (no diet coke) - none for several weeks, yay. HOTW#3 (1.5l water every day) - 7/7 so far. HOTW #2 (no food 'extras'), er, needs more work. Did you notice my fancy-pants new tables? Putting AFDs (Alcohol Free Days) out there is part of Project 'don't kid yourself'. It's all good, no?
More anon, voters!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Thanks, Thorpie
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4 much-appreciated comments:
LOVE the tables, did you figure that out all on yr own? Clever lady!
Going well with the HOTW, and I WAS wondering, actually (altho, not longing to hear - LOL).
I'm with you on Thorpie. What. A. LEGEND.
I thought about posting my AFDs and CFDs (cigarette free days) too, but I gave up in disgust! LOL. When I'm ready to start swimming, will you be my fountain of knowledge?!?! Pretty please :-)
I got sucked into the table thing too. Now all I have to do is update it regularly! LOL! I can see that becoming a pain really quick!
Ahh the joy of children. And you wouldn't swap it for anything, right? Right?
Good on you with the diet coke thing. I have it up a couple of months ago too. It was more the chemicals that bothered me than anything else. I've managed not to have any too! It's been a lot easier than I thought it would be, actually. It's the rest of the stuff that is the problem...
Can you believe that Thorpie had an allergy to CHLORINE???
And we whinge about not feeling like going for a walk somedays.
THAT's a champ.
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