Going around and around and around...

Summer vacation is just past the halfway mark. Yesterday was Summer Hump Day. I feel like I am going in circles... getting injured (not badly!) blows... unruly children (not horrendous!) drain... so today's post is dedicated to circles. Let's make the most of them...

Having missed my Musique pour Mercredi again yesterday, here's a little circle music for today...

This morning I headed out early and got this circle.... (and 4 others just like it)...

looks gross... feels good :)

Then I came home and made my circle breakfast... raw almonds, raw cashews, golden raisins, chocolate chips...

It's a lot more than it appears to be...

 the pint container was more than half full :)

Then I took the kids to the pool for swimming lessons... withOUT Miss C...

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while I cannot twist my body into a near-circle like this lovely yoga lady,

I think I did achieve a level of nirvana while sitting pool-side

ALONE.

And there is always this circle...

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One last thing...

Caroline...

she gets around ;-)

You need NUUN! You were the bestest game player... you always are... and so let me know what kind of Nuun you want and where to send it and it is YOURS :)

And my question for you all is... ever been cupped?

Synchronized Carpet Swimming...

it's going to be all the rage. As soon as this video goes viral...

As a means of boosting entries in this giveaway at one of my most favorite blogs, we were offered the option of submitting a photo of ourselves showing off our favorite swimming moves.

Never one to turn down an opportunity to thoroughly publicly humiliate my children... and myself creative challenge, I put on my thinking cap. I realized now that I am all glam thanks to my DIY nose job on Sunday, I needed to show the more glam side of swimming.... which is, of course, synchronized swimming. Fancy suits, sparkly things in one's hair, make-up... glam.

I suited up and forced asked the kids to do the same. We grabbed our goggles and headed for... dangit, a little too late for the pool as it was already after bedtime... the living room.

Carpet swimming, pioneered by the same SUAR putting on the giveaway that I want to win, is not as easy as it looks. For example

• if you have sensitive skin, the carpet might be too itchy (that is why there is a blanket under Big G... aka Mr. Sensitivity). 
• Unless your goggles are on super tight, the friction of the carpet might rip them off your head, pulling out hair (my Spiderman goggles did this in practice, so I tightened those suckers down). 
• You might find that the furniture makes some of your moves awkward... it works best to move everything out of the way... I forgot this. 

But all in all, the experience will leave you quite invigorated, if not from the activity itself, then from the intense laughing fit it produces.

My other idea was the Going-Nowhere-Fast Triathlon... carpet swim, stationary bike, treadmill run.

Booooorrrriiiinnnnnnnggggg!

The glam option is way more fun.





Maybe I'll get some real synchronized swimmer-like sparkly hair doo-dads for MY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW....
Maybe I should say that one a little louder...and while we're on the subject... I am hoping to wake up tomorrow and see three digits of 'likers' on my Facebook page in honor of my birthday. Still need 14 more. Have you clicked yet?