Time

Time goes slow when:

• you are waiting in line at a store or for your turn in the bathroom
• you are lifeguarding and your break is coming up
• you teach a class in the little kids pool and one of your students is a wanderer/a puker, or doesn't listen, or keeps putting his or her head under the water every minute or so (there's always one in every class, I tell you)
• you are running without music
• you are in class, especially a science one
• you are sun tanning

Time goes fast when:

• you are lifeguarding and on your break
• you are chatting on the computer
• you are watching your favourite tv show
• you start cleaning then decide to organize the many things in your room, make new outfits, or try on your dressy dresses
• you are writing a paper
• you talk on the phone with someone you haven't talked to in awhile

All the while time passes as fast as it always does...hum.

In My Mind

So while I was lifeguarding tonight, I unconsciously began to evaluate the swimming strokes of a random lane swimmer man...and then I realized I was doing it and I made myself stop.

Beat the Bank

The stereo at work is very finicky because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You have to hit the little power knob at a certain angle and everything. A major brainwave hit and we thought to use the power button on the remote control-but sometimes that doesn't even work. When it does work, we gather around the speakers (if you are on duty you just casually step back from lifeguarding right at the pools edge in the middle of the deck and shimmy over to stand under the speaker) to hear Beat the Bank on C100. This is a very exciting show where you call in and you have all these vaults to open one at a time, and you get a new balance of money from each vault, but you have to make sure that you stop in time for you to avoid a vault that has the sirens (I think it is supposed to be the bank catching you or something) because then you lose everything. I think it is a wise idea to stop around $300...but today one person made it to $500 and stopped there after opening like 7 vaults. When they opened the vaults he could have had if he continued, it went to $1000, $5000, and then $25000! Crazy. We tried calling in later today, and must have dialled the number like 30 times. We didn't win. Actually, we didn't even get through. We were bitter when the woman who got through said she had played Beat the Bank before and lost...so this was her second time. Some of us haven't had a first, lady. That's ok, we will keep trying until we win! And the daytime staff at Sackville Sports Stadium will win some extreme bucks someday! :) And then I'll find a way to keep all of the winnings for myself. Just kidding, I'll share.

Summer Dreams

I had a dream last night. In this dream it was summer. Well not really summer. It was a really weird heat wave (there was still snow on the ground) that I was fully enjoying by taking a walk outside in my summer clothes. When I woke up it was, yes, winter and I thought of how I just love summer. Of course we all love the warm weather and the relaxing things that you can do in the summer, but the it's the fun memories that really warm my heart when I think of summer-things like trying to make a buoy out of an ice cream container, seeing if you can pull someone in a tube from a canoe, watching a handyman fiddle with five different tools while he takes 20 minutes to unlock your car and retrieve your keys when all you want to do is hit the beach, or reading really poorly written love stories around a bonfire that you have made without any help from testosterone. Even though I've got some great winter memories, the summer ones truly outweigh them. Also, I work in a pool now and lifeguarding = beach had been the only thing my mind could let me compute-put me in a pool and stifle my soul (ok, so that's a little dramatic...but being outside is so lovely). So the temptation is to just wish away my winter days and long for summer...but instead I am going to remind myself to enjoy the winter months (and even my job) and my first act of embracing winter will be to go make a snowman, a snow dog, or something even more creative- a snowman AND a snow dog. Then after that, it will be time for some more great winter memories.