Ane's Journal

My swims are currently 16 laps of freestyle, 3 breaststroke, 2 backstroke, and 1 sidestroke. I think in February instead of adding a freestyle lap I'll switch to 3 backstroke and eliminate the sidestroke. The sidestroke has mostly been an active rest lap anyway. I'm still usually the only swimmer on Saturday mornings. Swim lessons have started again so there were two little kids having their lesson. Their parent/adult were sitting by the fence all bundled up. It wasn't that cold this morning.

Since it's so difficult to know how swimsuit sizes are going to run I decided to order another of the one I own, just black instead of blue this time. Then at some point this spring I may actually venture into a couple stores to see what is available.

My neck/shoulders have been very achy lately. Probably partially my fault. I haven't been doing my neck/shoulder exercises as much as I used to, which is probably bad.

I used to own a neck massage pillow, which died a while back. It was never really great for the actual neck but worked ok for lower back and shoulder area with some positioning. Since I'm not inclined to get a massage anytime soon (the last place I tried someone there stole my credit card number and there were fraudulent charges), I just ordered a neck/back massager. I wasn't actually planning to order one today. I was just going to start looking but one that looked good had a coupon. I'll consider it my birthday present to myself.

I've said this before but I really need to give up on having cat food delivered. The box delivered today didn't look like it had been thrown around like they have in the past but I opened it up and one of the boxes had opened so all the cans were loose. A few were dented but none were split open like cans have been in the past.

I have been craving a reuben, but I don't know anywhere near me that makes a good one.

I should actually go buy gas this week. It will be the first time with the new car.