Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming...

I have recently decided that using the pool at UAA for exercise is a good idea. It has been very nice. I have lost a little over 30 pounds since I moved here, and counting, so it is the first time in a LONG time that I have been comfortable enough to actually wear a bathing suit. (Side note: I think it's really strange that they are called bathing suits...but it's just old-fashioned enough a term for me to use it with a little bit of smugness. HoHO! Also, since my bathing suit is a tid old-fashioned itself, I believe that is the only term with which I can duly describe it, thanks. Anyway.) Yesterday, I figured out that I couldn't for the life of me remember how to swim butterfly stroke...and that I had kinda combined butterfly and breaststroke into one crazy and not-so-obviously incorrect stroke, which consisted of the butterfly's out-of-water arm stroke with the breaststroke's frog-kick...I tried really hard. It worked, but I went home to try and figure out what I was doing wrong (becuase there was another guy there doing breaststroke, and I was like...ummm, one of us is wrong. It was me. Too bad.) and was rather embarrassed by what I discovered.

Ah, well. Now I remember. And, in my defense, the last time I took lessons I was most definitely in 4th grade, so whatevsies. I have re-discovered that (when done correctly, lol), breaststroke is my fave. I can't seem to get the timing down for butterfly's dolphin kicks. I think I'll go talk to the swimming coach here and see what he/she can tell me. In the mean time, I'm loving swimming, SO I'll just keep doing that. :)

It has been awhile!

Here we are again! I was recently reminded of blogging after my cousin started one-and I said to myself, "hey...don't I have one of these? I think I'll start doing that again." And so, if you haven't noticed, that's what I'm doing.

A lot has happened in a year! Genaye moved up here in July, which has been awesome. I went back to school - studying Dietetics, which is also awesome. Classes are about to start up again, and I am SO EXCITED, because I love my major, and I'm taking yoga and beginning weight-lifting, but also because I'll have a relatively consistent schedule to live by, which will be nice. Unfortunately, classes Mon-Thurs start at 8:30 am...yuck. Joyyyy. If only the schedule could be a little later...but yoga and organic chemistry decided otherwise. At least yoga is worth it, lol.

Campus kick-off is tonight, and the campus ministry that I have been working on with Jenny and Drew for a long time now will have a booth there. Relevant magazine donated 200 Reject Apathy magazines and 50 Relevant for the event (we paid shipping), and we will be giving those away along with magnets with our website on them. Since I definitely can't give away these magnets online, I'll have to settle with telling you that our website is www.uaacommunity.com. That'll have to do. Alsooooo, we have an adult BOUCE HOUSE! Um, cool. Just sayin'. I love campus kick-off, and I'm excited to be a part of it. :) God has been doing really awesome things with this already, and I'm looking forward to what is in store for the semester!

This is long enough for one post. To be continued immediately.