Mucho Better

I am making up a lot of Spanish these days. I am doing my final clinical rotation at a pediatric clinic, and I have one great kid that knows mostly Spanish and sign language plus some English. She is smarter than me- not even close to being old enough to go to kindergarten, but smarter than me. So, I spend my day making up Spanish by adding an -o to random words I know in French and seeing if she understands. I follow that up by attempting to do some sign language, and since I really only know play, more, done, out, mom, horse, dog, and cat...well, you can see the limitations to our communicationo. :)

Here is a fun picture from Bekah and Jon's engagement party this Saturday.
Can you pick out the poor student in this picture? She would be the one that is too broke to have highlights. My sister and mom don't seem to have missed an appointment in years.....

After taking a morning off from work on Monday, I arrived today feeling mucho better. I am bueno. I am glad the bug or whatever it was that I had over the weekend finally passed. Dave is happy too...our house really, really smelled and I couldn't keep blaming it on Cayenne. My disappointment in missing the race Sunday has passed with the bug. I was really excited to race after a few months of good, quality training. But, you know, some things just don't come to pass and you move on. My season may get a late start, and if I have to delay some racing until then- that is what I will do.

I did run 2 blocks today with Dave before giving in to the knee. He was really amazed at how fast I was for those 2 blocks. I acted like that is the pace I do all of my runs in, no matter what the distance. ( I was really just running super fast since I knew it wouldn't last more than a minute before I had to stop). Then I reminded him that I am an Ironman and of course I am really fast.

Don't feel sorry for him- he has spent years exerting his athletic prowess over me. It is only fair that I knock him down a notch every now and then.

I have a doc appt. next week....more mucho bueno. Onward to healing the knee!!!

And I am listening to Chaka Khan- Through the Fire. I felt it deserved a little shout out on the blog.