make glemonade

It's something I've just laughed off or used as my "interesting thing about me" in all the first days' getting-to-know-yous. "One thing people may not know about me is that I can't swim"... "I'm not a swimmer, I'm a drowner"... One of my New Year's Resolutions this year was to learn to swim. So probably around February, I looked up adult swim classes at the Provo Rec Center, and found one. Wasn't that hard.  I convinced, also somewhat easily, my partner in crime, Lisa, to do this with me. She also is(was) a drowner. It's one of those things you put off forever and then you finally google it and you're embarrassed because it's so easy to find a solution. Well... okay... it wasn't that easy, nothing is ever that easy with a rec center (we were late for registration, but the class hadn't started). Without elaborating on the details of my phone calls to the Provo Rec, we made it on the list within 24 ho...

I posted this picture when we went to the game, but didn't tell you about the trip. It's November now, so I'm remembering back, but what a fun time! Hard to think back now to the amazing game and team we had at this game!  It was the weekend after Labor Day, so we'd just traveled to Colorado for my family's Powderhorn vacation. It was a quick turnaround but we didn't care. We got to Austin on Thursday and we ate at this really great restaurant... can't remember the name now. But it was so good we ate there twice. We were there the perfect time of year to go see the amazing bats at the Congress Ave Bridge. We drove downtown, parked about two blocks away and walked over to the bridge, where there are tons of people but still plenty of room to see. We waited about five minutes and they started flying. It really is a strangely beautiful thing to see. They just pour out from under the bridge, black smoke streams that spin along for miles.  The next day w...