And Now For Some Bat Talk

We learned about bats today.
I'm volunteering to drive on all the field trips now since I'm one of those stay at home ladies now. Although I'm not really a lady according to Lulu. Ladies wear high heeled shoes and lipstick and do their hair up and wear dresses. I'm just a woman she tells me. I just do stuff. Women do stuff and ladies get dressed up.
Today we went to the Oakland Museum to the Bat exhibit.
I felt a little sleepy the whole time. They keep it too dark in there.
Except in the bat cave. Yeah, we went through the bat cave. And we met a bat lady, who has live bats that live at her house. She brought some live bats she'd rescued for us to look at. And they were kind of cute.

On the way back to school, the five kids in my car argued about what a "goth" is. Apparently only teenagers are "goth". And they're mean looking. And you're not supposed to look at them too long or you turn to stone. It was all news to me.
Next week I start swimming. It's been a while since I swam. I swam competitively growing up. But now, well, you know. The most I've swum in the last year is during a few hot summer days during the 10 minute adult swim, while stopping every 2 laps to make sure my kids aren't running wild around the pool.

So recently there was a tri-relay team missing a swimmer, so I volunteered to do the swim leg. Now I need to start building some endurance up for the race in May. I'm thinking it'll be good for the lungs and it'll get rid of my tricep flabbers and it'll be good for the start of the summer bikini season.
Yes, those are my reasons.
The only problem is that I'm blind as a bat without glasses. So when I swim I can't see the walls very well and my flip turns are out of wack. Good thing they have those big black lines in the pool. At least I can go straight.
But really my favorite part is getting in the nice warm steamy water on cold rainy days and just swimming and swimming. I swam for a few days during the last rain storm when I didn't want to ride in the rain, and it felt great. Like a nice long stretch.