Swimming

Today was the last day of swimming lessons for the kidlings and I got to go with them. I had lots of fun and it makes me sad that I don't have a pool in my backyard that I can just go swim around in. I like swimming and I'm pretty good at it. I swam across the pool, holding the boy and he didn't even go underwater. My rusty lifeguarding skills at work there. Also, once I got across, I turned around, ready to go back and Chelsea said that she was tired and needed to practice swimming more.

I miss playing around in the water for hours at a time in the summers. The one thing I don't miss about swimming a lot is getting water stuck in my ears, which is what I've got going on right now. I can only hear out of one ear because the other one's full of water and I can't get it out. I turned my head and jumped for a bit to try and shake it out; that didn't work. I put some of those nifty drops in and turned my head to let them drain out and inadvertently took a nap on the couch. Still didn't work. I'll give it until about tomorrow and then I'm going to bother a medical professional about it. This happens almost every time I go to the pool and it's completely obnoxious. Maybe one of these days I'll wise up and put in some kind of plug to keep the water out. But when I go swimming so infrequently, it's just not something I think much about. Maybe I should change the frequency I go swimming, since it's something I enjoy and by all accounts, I should exercise more. I'll have to think about that one some more. In the meantime, if I ignore you, it's not that I was trying to, I just have water in one of my ears and I probably honestly didn't hear you.