Its been quite the month here in Seattle. Since my last post here’s laundry list of things that have transpired:
My Birthday (34th, OUTCH)
Moved in the snow & ice (Great new apartment)
Sick for a week
The most snow that I’ve ever seen in Seattle
A White Christmas
The weather may be the most notable item on the list. Seattle normally doesn’t get more than a light dusting of snow & temperatures rarely dip below freezing. All that changed this year, Capitol Hill had 10-12 inches of snow at the peak & there was snow on the ground for close to two weeks.
Timing is everything, right? In the middle of this weather Harmony & I had plans to move to our new apartment. The movers were scheduled the Friday after the first round of snow & on a day the high temperature was only in the mid 20’s. The day had its challenges but we surprisingly got moved…
Our new apartment is great. It’s much larger than our last shoebox & in a well cared for turn of the century building. (Not kidding our square footage doubled) One of the biggest highlights is I have a small room just for my bikes. I’m able to keep one bike setup on the trainer & the rest of my triathlon treasures in the room. The room has a couple nicknames but I’ll keep those to myself. Another highlight is the location, one block away from Harmony’s shop at Seattle University.(I’ll post more pictures once we get all the new furniture)
Christmas turned out to be quite the adventure. Harmony & I had our gift exchange Christmas Eve morning. We opened presents as the snow came dumping down outside. The next adventure for the day was getting over to Poulsbo. Luckily once we got off the hill the snow turned to a mix of snow & rain, the roads were manageable. Christmas Eve consisted of a deep fried prime rib at Dad’s with Harmony, Dad, Nancy, Sean & Erica. (And the four grand-dogs)
Christmas morning we woke up to…MORE %&#@$!* SNOW! At this point I’m totally sick of the white stuff. We left my car at Dad’s & took his SUV out to my aunt’s for another prime rib dinner. I think about 15 of us made it there including Kim & Allan from Duvall as well as Don from Olympia. The low-light of the day was Lady the dog eating rat poison. (I’ll skip the details) So far…she’s alive. That was her second close call in one week from eating something she shouldn’t have. She’s either suicidal or has a serious eating disorder.
NOTE: If you ever need to make a dog throw-up use a 1:1 mix of hydrogen peroxide & water, force it down and wait for it to come back up…
Post Christmas Harmony & I made it home to set out on a couple shopping adventures to get more furniture to fill up the bigger apartment.
Training for the last couple weeks was less than impressive. Due to the weather & the holidays my prescribed workout schedule was drastically cutback. As it turns out I wasn’t even able to get all the cutback workouts in. That will all change next week, the volume & intensity will be going back up. 236 days till Ironman.
