Meet Report

Argh! Should have skipped this one this year! Just a quick update. The meet was long; Megan did not swim her best. They did correct the error with the seeding, so she was the top seed in the 200 free, but she ended up coming in third. The senior with whom she had traded wins was really strong at the meet, and she ran away with the win. Then another girl from the other county just touched Megan out, but her time was two seconds off from the county meet. In the 500, a similar scenario happened: the same girl ran away with it, but another girl went neck and neck with Megan until Megan ran out of steam. So she came away with two bronze medals. She seems to swim much better at the county meets for high school, based on this year and last, than she does at the conference meet. Her 'flu' and missed practices didn't help, I'm sure.

So that is the main report from our house. E did not come to the meet, she had some schoolwork to get done, I guess. Brian did, and he has gotten pretty good about tolerating these long drawn-out meets. There are a lot of exciting races aside from Megan's, but you have to sit through about six heats for every one that is exciting to watch. We stopped for dinner at Applebees on the way home, and didn't get back till after 9. But at least my car battery didn't die this time!

So tomorrow is a welcome school holiday. I have to go to the dentist in the morning (blah)and then Kevin will leave for Sweden in the early afternoon. Megan will have swim practice, and E has a basketball game, a makeup for the day we had all the snow and they cancelled afterschool activities. Aside from that, I guess we will just unwind from today and prepare for the week, which may be a little bit crazy.

In other news, the snow is almost all melted from the lawns as well as the driveways, and I am starting to wonder how the spring plants will look when they start to come alive. Our neighbor informed us that he will be having almost all of the trees in his backyard taken down, so his kids can play back there. I was sad to hear that, but what can I say? They're his trees. Otherwise, that's about it. I say with some anxious caution that I have broken that cycle ::knock wood:: and staved off additional migraines. But I did risk a glass of wine tonight, so hopefully that will sit well for the evening!