Random Updates

Little bits and bobs from the world of a wayward princess...

I got a job working for a chiropractor doing massage from her office. This was originally intended to suppliment the spa and private-practice work I've been doing, but has ended up replacing the spa gig. Which is good. Because I wasn't working at the spa any more last week I got to do a bike ride Wednesday morning. Because I went on the bike ride I met a woman whose husband is now a new client of mine. This is good. I avoided more days driving down to the spa and sitting around doing nothing and replaced it with getting to go on a bike ride and getting a new client. It remains to be seen if I will be able to actually pay even my most basic bills through my massage work, but things are starting to look up a little bit. I think.

The Donner Lake Triathlon is looming before me. I never really got into a serious "training" routine. Somehow I went from having months to train to having less than three weeks left. Ooops. I'm fairly certain I will be able to finish, but it would have been nice to do something approaching "my best." Or at least better than the last time I did it. This weekend we will do a .8 mile open-water competative swim and that should be good practice. I haven't swum in open water at all since last summer and not in a crush of people since my last triathlon 5-years ago. And though I said it is a "competative" swim, it isn't all that competative. It is competative in the sense that there are other people, we all start at the same time, we are being timed and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each division get a medal or ribbon or cookie or something. HOWEVER, looking at the times from last year, the general pace is pretty slow and there were only 2 people TOTAL in my division last year - none at all in Christopher's division. So I think we can rock it. I got a snazzy new bathing suit and everything. About time as my various suits are in various stages of transparency. The one I got was on sale too.

It's been wicked hot here the last week or so. 100+ degrees every day. Made the 35 mile, killer hills bike ride rather challenging on Sunday, but made the Yuba River so very, very nice. Because of the rains of biblical proportions this spring (and the snow it brought to the mountains) the river has been quite trecherous so far. It's been extremely cold and very fatal for multiple people. Someone died just last Wednesday. So I was very cautious Saturday but found the river to be quite refreshing and not too perilous. Sunday was even better. Every day is warms up and slows down a bit. The people letting their little, little children jump off rocks into 30 foot deep, vigorously moving pools were nutso, but it wasn't anything a mildly comtetent swimmer couldn't deal with.

I think that's about it for now. I'm applying for an internship with a magazine and need to finish up the ol' application. I really would love to get this opportunity. So much so that I don't even want to mention anything more. Some fear that I will jinx it or something I guess. Or have people asking me about that application for X and whatever happened with that???

I'll try and get some photos of lovely things to put up here. Distract you from the boring details of my mundane doings.