Monday: Back in the Saddle for the Most Part

This week is the busiest of my work weeks all year. It is student exam week, and I am sprinting around studying, meeting, and discussing with parents. I work twice as much as usual and am a flurry of babysitters and scheduling conflicts. Already, I have scheduled a a hair appointment on top of a party and had to change it. For this reason, I now have a hair appointment on Saturday night at 8:00 PM. Also, Christmas parties are happening left and right, so I alway think that if I can make it through this week, I will be able to breathe again.

Anyway, I did not get up early enough to run this morning, though that was my intention. Ivan and I headed out the door to swim, where he was so excited to get to the nursery to play with toys. He hugged all the nursery workers and was loathe to leave when I returned to pick him up. Swim was quite nice today. I always love it when I feel the pool jets kicking out cold water, because it means that the pool is a little warmer than necessary and they are trying to cool it down. When I dove in today, it felt great. Mike was there today, and we swam together. Workout as follows:

• 200 swim/ 200 pull/ 200 kick
• 6 x 200 swim (Odd IM/ Even Free)
• 300 kick
• 8 x 100 pull @ 1:50
• 5 x 50 swim @ 0:45

This ended up being 3150 meters. A pretty good workout and some good IM practice. My butterfly does not seem to be improving. At home, I played with Ivan, read some stories, and returned some phone calls. When Ivan went down for a nap, I did 3.5 chin-ups and headed into work. I actually arrived home rather early this evening, and should have done some weight workouts and such, but I crawled around with Ivan and read some more stories. When Ivan went to bed, I began watching the movie that I have been waiting since summer for: Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince. I have been excited about it all weekend.

Now the book was just great, and the movie was equally riveting. My only big disappointment with the movie was that the book opened with the Wizard Prime Minister meeting with the Muggle Prime Minister and the movie ignored this completely. This made me sad, as I totally love wizard/muggle interactions. The movie's budget must have been a cajillion dollars, and it is just visually lovely. Hogwarts architecture is lighted in many different ways and the CGI, doesn't look like CGI. In my nerdiest heart of hearts, I would really like to take a wizard tour of England, after which I will take a National Trust tour of England. If I win the lottery, friends, I am going to nerd out. I am going to pack up my knitting and a million crossword puzzles and hit the English Countryside.

Off to bed and three more pull-ups. My goal is 10 at one time.