Kiss My Knits!

Emily saw some of the women’s springboard diving in the Olympics tonight. Now she wants to go to the Olympics. Sport: diving. Her unwillingness to duck her head under water may prove to be a minor obstacle.

Her favorite diver was Guo Jingjing. She asked what her American name would be, since she knows that my Malaysian/ethnic Chinese friends have Chinese names and American names. She then extended that a bit further to all foreigners and wanted to know what the Russian’s American name would be, etc.

We askd what she thought the divers were going to do when they were standing at the edge of the diving board. She answered that they were getting ready to fly. Easy to see why she’d think that.

Sweet kid moment: she wanted all the competitors to get into the pool so they could all swim together. Aw.

It’s been raining since yesterday evening, and I’d been wanting to go run on the greenway. This morning on the way to the store, it was sprinkling, but I thought, “well, this isn’t so bad. I can still run.”

That marks the first time that I’ve actually wanted to go out and run in less than ideal conditions. So I’m going to go do it. And although it may be a spectacularly bad idea, I’m also going to try to move up to week 2 of the Couch to 5K program. If I have to drop back down again, no big deal, but I think I’d like to try to move up today.

I stayed up late last night and watched Dara Torres swim. If she can get out there and do her thang, so can I.

ETA: I just got back. I did week 2, and it went great. Clearly I’m ready for it. Go me!