Tuesday, June 24, 2008
I'm a slacker
I know that I haven't posted in a long time. June has been a busy month for us with my birthday, a trip to Utah for a wedding, Andrew's birthday, and now family in town for another wedding. Hopefully I will be able to post soon!!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Who Am I: a photo mosaic
My friend posted this fun activity on her blog and I thought it was interesting. You can create your own photo mosaic describing yourself. It's very easy if you want to create your own, just follow these directions:
a. Go to flickr. (you have to get an account if you don't already have one, but it's really easy) In the search box you type in the answer to the questions below.
b. Click search and using the first page of results only, choose one picture.
c. Click on the picture and copy and paste the URL into fd's mosaic maker. (You have to create the right size of mosaic first).
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr (or other online) name
When you are done you can save your mosaic and post it on your own blog for others to see! I thought mine turned out pretty good!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
I have the best job ever!
I love my job. Seriously love my job. Okay, so there are some days when I really don't want to go to work, but when I sit back and think about it, I realize how cool my job is. If you don't know already, I coach swim team at the Rose Bowl. (no, they don't fill the football stadium with water, there is an aquatics center just down the road.) There are lots of reasons why I love my job. Here are just a few:
*I get to be outside all the time. Yes, sometimes it is absolutely freezing cold at night, and sometimes it is deathly hot in the summer, but overall being outside is great. * The kids are hilarious. I coach a group of 11-12 year olds and a group of 13-18 year olds. They crack me up. Sometimes they don't do it intentionally, but the things they say and/or do make me laugh. *Each day is different, there is always something new. I don't go into an office and do the same thing each day. Everyday I try to come up with a new workout. I try new things: some work, some don't. *Swim meets are a lot of fun. It's difficult spending almost every weekend at a swim meet, but that is the chance where we get to see all of our (and the swimmers) hard work pay off. *I get the chance to see kids set goals and achieve them. What can be greater than that? There really is nothing better than to have a swimmer reach a new personal best time and to have them come over excitedly to talk to you about it. Of course I also see some swimmers fail. And that's not fun. But I am learning so much about how to help them overcome the obstacles in their way and to push themselves to work harder. *I have a great coaching staff that I get to work with. We all get along. We get to have our coaches meetings at Los Gringos. I'm comfortable around them and I can be myself. *I am constantly learning new things. Last Saturday I spent the entire day at a coaches clinic. It was amazing. I got to listen to coaches like Terri McKeever and Bob Bowman teach me what they have done to be so successful. They are pretty much the rockstars of swimming coaches. (Bowman coaches Michael Phelps.)
So there are many more reasons why I love my job, but I think you pretty much get the idea. They created this promotional video for the team and for Rose Bowl and put it on youtube. You get to see the absolutely beautiful pool that I get the chance to work at. I'm only on it for about a split second but if you pause it at about 49-50 seconds you can see me. Enjoy!
*I get to be outside all the time. Yes, sometimes it is absolutely freezing cold at night, and sometimes it is deathly hot in the summer, but overall being outside is great. * The kids are hilarious. I coach a group of 11-12 year olds and a group of 13-18 year olds. They crack me up. Sometimes they don't do it intentionally, but the things they say and/or do make me laugh. *Each day is different, there is always something new. I don't go into an office and do the same thing each day. Everyday I try to come up with a new workout. I try new things: some work, some don't. *Swim meets are a lot of fun. It's difficult spending almost every weekend at a swim meet, but that is the chance where we get to see all of our (and the swimmers) hard work pay off. *I get the chance to see kids set goals and achieve them. What can be greater than that? There really is nothing better than to have a swimmer reach a new personal best time and to have them come over excitedly to talk to you about it. Of course I also see some swimmers fail. And that's not fun. But I am learning so much about how to help them overcome the obstacles in their way and to push themselves to work harder. *I have a great coaching staff that I get to work with. We all get along. We get to have our coaches meetings at Los Gringos. I'm comfortable around them and I can be myself. *I am constantly learning new things. Last Saturday I spent the entire day at a coaches clinic. It was amazing. I got to listen to coaches like Terri McKeever and Bob Bowman teach me what they have done to be so successful. They are pretty much the rockstars of swimming coaches. (Bowman coaches Michael Phelps.)
So there are many more reasons why I love my job, but I think you pretty much get the idea. They created this promotional video for the team and for Rose Bowl and put it on youtube. You get to see the absolutely beautiful pool that I get the chance to work at. I'm only on it for about a split second but if you pause it at about 49-50 seconds you can see me. Enjoy!
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