Home again!

Home again from vacation! Yay! I'll post some photos when I find my camera (buried somewhere in unpacked luggage, I hope).

Major events of this week:

* My birthday! My math says it's my 52nd, but that can't possibly be right.

* Summer day camp starts! Hurrah!

* MORE work on both houses proceeds, slowly. Photos to come, also. Two sets of beautiful upper cabinets are now installed in my new kitchen and 3/4 of the beautiful floor. It's still going to be several weeks until moving day. The old house is listed for sale and we've had a few looky-loos so far.

* 20 weeks to Beach 2 Battleship iron-distance triathlon means that SERIOUS tri-training begins this week! I'm using a modified ontri.com free canned training program, which looks good, along with logging my workouts there. They have a "friends" function, though I'm not sure exactly what the friends thing does.

* I just ordered one of these funny-looking bike saddles. It's my only hope for riding long distances without being in serious, serious, SERIOUS discomfort after 2-3 hours. Nothing else has worked, and I've tried everything. Everything. And yes, red is fast.

Not much to blog about

Haven't had many exciting updates lately. I'm still here, just not much going on.

• Waiting for winter to end. I've seen a few snowdrops and crocuses beginning, but we have a few weeks before they really catch on.
• Lots of driving the girls back and forth to medical appointments or classes (swimming, ballet). My life for the next ~13 years, right?
• Not so much training (see sidebar). Weather is dreary and motivation to get out on gray drizzly days is low. Most of my workouts have been the same old thing, 3-4 mile runs around the neighborhood. No biking and little swimming to speak of.
• Just finishing up another round of colds. *sniff*
• Fingers and toes still crossed that we can get this "new" house a couple of miles away, but it's going to be a long slow process to make it happen if we get lucky and no one else snatches it up.
• Still doing some body composition work in advance of the triathlon season. Slow but steady is my preferred route: down 6.4 pounds for the year (the perfect rate, just under a pound per week, one week at a time) and now at my lowest weight since the mid-1990s, with a ways still to go.

OK, that's it! You're caught up on life at Chez Toby!