So I was off to a conference this morning. Getting up early enough to eat, drink and be on time just doesn't happen. When I swim in the morning I don't have to shower and I don't really have breakfast (though I know I probably should eat something, but I so look forward to breakfast when I get home) so I go unkempt and stinky. But who really cares.
At one time I thought if your stinky it doesn't matter because your in the water anyway and it won't carry over, but I found out that that is just not true. I remember one time swimming next to someone who had really bad BO, and I wondered how come it was so smelly being in the water and all.
But the worst is when you go to these retirement homes swimming pool, and these old ladies get in and swim trying not to get their hair wet, and you are as far away from them as you can get and you still smell their hair. There is nothing worse then the smell of dirty hair. Well IMHO.
So when I go and don't shower before hand I am prepared for - Woo who is that stinky girl (okay who is that stinky middle age woman.) But like those old woman in the retirement community I have paid my dues - I have ever right to be stinky - so there - and if you don't like you can go swim somewhere else.
Oh but yea I got side tracked. We had lunch at Denny's and I got the 1/2 Cranberrry Apple Chicken Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette (310 calories) leaving half the chicken behind. I asked for the dressing on the side, and when it came it was easily 1/2 a cup. My hubby always asked me if I would like a little cake with that frosting, I guess they wanted to give me a little salad with my dressing. I am sure - absolutely sure that the dressing alone (if I had used it all or even half of it) would have been well over 400 calories seriously. I looked up a single serving - two tablespoons - 110 calories - one cup 800 calories. But the point is the dressing given was way more then the total meal was suppose to be.
At one time I thought if your stinky it doesn't matter because your in the water anyway and it won't carry over, but I found out that that is just not true. I remember one time swimming next to someone who had really bad BO, and I wondered how come it was so smelly being in the water and all.
But the worst is when you go to these retirement homes swimming pool, and these old ladies get in and swim trying not to get their hair wet, and you are as far away from them as you can get and you still smell their hair. There is nothing worse then the smell of dirty hair. Well IMHO.
So when I go and don't shower before hand I am prepared for - Woo who is that stinky girl (okay who is that stinky middle age woman.) But like those old woman in the retirement community I have paid my dues - I have ever right to be stinky - so there - and if you don't like you can go swim somewhere else.
Oh but yea I got side tracked. We had lunch at Denny's and I got the 1/2 Cranberrry Apple Chicken Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette (310 calories) leaving half the chicken behind. I asked for the dressing on the side, and when it came it was easily 1/2 a cup. My hubby always asked me if I would like a little cake with that frosting, I guess they wanted to give me a little salad with my dressing. I am sure - absolutely sure that the dressing alone (if I had used it all or even half of it) would have been well over 400 calories seriously. I looked up a single serving - two tablespoons - 110 calories - one cup 800 calories. But the point is the dressing given was way more then the total meal was suppose to be.
I hadn't been in a Dennys for over 20 years - their breakfasts are filling & inexpensive & caloric.
ReplyDeleteT3 got what was probably the 2nd "healthiest" item on the menu & it was good she didn't eat all the dressing. By the way, there was enough dressing for Taya (well, Tolar anyway) to swim in.
I couldn't believe how boring the conference was - the instructors pretty much read the power point slides. Maybe our expectations were too high, but.....
T3 has an incredible sense of smell - I feel sorry for her since there are a lot of "aromatic" events that I'm glad I missed.
Swim tomorrow!!!!!