Obviously the world is conspiring to destroy all my notes. I still haven’t found my erg logbook (though no data was lost – Rudder reminded me that since we have the newer erg models, all workout data is automatically stored on our logcards). And now my list of January expenses, that I keep so we know all of our joint expenses for food and stuff, has disappeared off my PDA. I don’t know if I didn’t save it properly or what, but it’s fairly annoying. At least I can reconstruct it from the records on my bank website, for anything I paid with a debit or credit card.
I am having trouble convincing myself into full workout discipline. I think Rudder is too; we skipped yesterday morning and slept late. On the other hand, probably as a result, when I did 6 km on the erg this morning, the first 5k was 2 minutes faster than the one on Tuesday. I wasn’t pushing it hard either time, just putting in the meters, but apparently my body was much readier to move today. My plan is to lift tomorrow and I will be rowing in the double Saturday, so missing yesterday isn’t much loss. I do need to be building strength and aerobic base, both, before our race in April.
This weekend we have no plans to do anything much; I have some housekeeping to do (sewing on buttons, that sort of thing) and we need to do our homework from the Dutch classes. As expected, we don’t run well in double harness in a language class; we’d be much better in a technical class. However, even if we don’t learn the language equally, anything we do learn is useful both to get along here and in just keeping our learning skills polished. Just now I’m at the point of being able to form simple sentences (ik kan spreek Nederlands een beetje) and immensely proud of it; I can figure out the meaning of a simple paragraph and sometimes the sense of a more complex one in print, but for spoken Dutch I need it to be very slow and distinct. Still, I think in another month or two it may surpass my Sapnish, which is to say far from anything that could be called fluent, but enough to be useful in a small way.
A useful amount of a language is all you really need. At least I’ve found it to be so. Congrats on making whole sentences! You did that fast!
Thanks for the tip. I did know the rubies quote in sort of the proper context, but had never read the whole prayer before. Wow. If he was thinking all of that even with his back mind… wow again. He sees me like that? Almost dismaying in its wonderfulness. Irony. Oy the irony is killing me. God is THE badass practical joker, you know that? ~LA