My new excuse for everything: I swim

[Ellen Forradalom]

I'm late for work because I swim.
I don't have time to clean the house because I swim.
There's no more towels because I swim.
I can help myself to another piece of pie because I swim.
I'm too tired because I swim.
I can't go out late because I swim.
My hair is wet and I smell of chlorine because I swim.
I have a nice layer of subcutaneous fat because I swim.
I really need to buy another swimsuit because I swim.
I keep fins in my car because I swim.
I'm not paying as much attention to politics because I swim.
I'm clearly insane because I swim.

[LynzM]

1. Swimming can do that to you...

:rofl: I know it made me nuts ;)

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. It's worth it all for the TRICEPS

[LynzM]

4. Oh yes...

Man, I miss having really cut triceps. And abs. :(

[Ellen Forradalom]

8. There's a masters club that's dying to meet you.

I'm sure of it.

[LynzM]

14. Mmm, I swam synchro, not speed-comp.

But it would be fun to do again, for sure! :)

[gmoney]

23. I KNEW you were unnaturally perky!

[LynzM]

25. LMAO

I'll admit that that kind of 'perky' was not my first thought, and I was going to ask you wth you were talking about... :rofl:

Yeah, smiling on command is something I spent lots of years doing, whether for theater, synchro, choir, what have you... I think eventually it just sticks, lol.

[gmoney]

3. I always had a weakness for the swim team girls...

...sigh. :D

Lynz, that explains a LOT about you. :)

[LynzM]

5. Heh.

Yeah, the shoulder muscles and leftover triceps? I used to have abs, too... then I had a kiddo, lol. :)

[gmoney]

19. Aw...

you're still too gorgeous for your own good. :)

[Bucky]

9. Yeh, well that'll getcha fired from most schools now.

[gmoney]

18. well, I meant when *I* was in school, too...

...although I have had the pleasure of shooting a couple of grown-up swim team women. :)

P.S.

[Bucky]

20. Useless without pics, you say?

Dig in!

[gmoney]

21. I was hoping for Ellen or Lynz :)

but those are certainly textbook examples of triceps

[Ellen Forradalom]

22. Crack Found in Man's Buttocks

It's the phrase of the day again!

[soleft]

6. Does swimming keep you swim?

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. Much better than drowning keeps me drown.

[TrogL]

10. You drove google ads nuts

Every link is for swimwear.

[TrogL]

12. mmmm....Speedos

http://www.newwavesports.com/catalog_sub.cfm?sectionid=1&subid=20

[TrogL]

16. Some of the links are for "water sports"

I cannot believe Wikipedia doesn't have a disambigulation page for the "other" explanation.

[Shine]

11. That's funny.

so basically you're saying that swimming has taken over your life???

Maybe it's time to schedule an Intervention.... :evilgrin:

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. As long as the intervention involves throwing me into a pool

I'm down with it.

[darkstar]

13. Right on. I took a break for 8 weeks or so

but I'm back at it since mid-Jan. Just had my picture taken for my new job and I'm horrified by my hair. Seven different colors, including coppery-green.

The worst, for me, even at only 3 times a week x 2 to 2.4 K--way down from before--is the dry skin blues here in Midwest winter time.

Glad to hear you are still at it. Triceps rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. Oooh itchy scratchy dry skin

Man one day last week it was driving me so nuts I wanted to yank my shirt off and rub against the nearest tree trunk. But that would've caused quite a stir at the office.

Mixing a little bit of Corticool or other hydrocortisone itch cream with your regular moisturizer might help.

[LynzM]

26. Eucerin, too.

That's good stuff, right after you get out of the shower, as long as you're willing to wait awhile for it to soak in...

[applegrove]

24. I'd only worry it you begin to grow webs between the fingers and the toes. Otherwise

you sound very healthy to me.

[Ellen Forradalom]

35. Uh-oh

[swimboy]

27. I had to recommend this thread.

I had to because I swim.

[Ellen Forradalom]

30. Hotsie-totsie!

[Godhumor]

28. 3000-5000 yards a day for me

Insanity is the only word to describe it.

I also coached for four years, so I attempted to pass my insanity on to the next generation of swimmers.

[Ellen Forradalom]

32. Wow!

Impressive!

You are a wiley one, attempting to rope innocent little children into the sport. It all starts so sweetly enough...the little ones are having so much fun splashing in the water...then the coaches get their hands on them and they're winning NCAA titles and going to the Olympics. It's evil, I tell you.

[GOPisEvil]

29. Good for "selective hearing loss" too.

"Eh? Must be the water in my ears."

[Ellen Forradalom]

33. Hey, I'll have to use that one.

I need 'selective hearing loss' a lot.

[triguy46]

31. I was doing 10,000/week until rotator cuff a few years back...

am going to wander over to World Wide Aquatics and get a new speedo and some new goggles and give it another try. Last spring it still hurt, so have waited another year. I always thought my knees would give out and I could do Master's for ever. The reality is the knees DID give out and the shoulder too. I'm a frickin elliptical hamster, grinding away for food pellets.

[Ellen Forradalom]

34. oh my

what a bummer. :-( Nothing that physical therapy can help?