It's time for a random's update

I do this a lot lately...


Oh well...

• The countdown is on - 19 days. Really? Where did days 60-20 go?
• I'm like a kid at Christmas when it comes to waiting for my bib number. Does that make me an uber dork? Probably... like it matters what the numbers on my arm are?
• Even funnier is that I secretly hope that there is a 5 in my number. I'd probably keel over if I ever got #555. Better yet, #549 or #2580 would make my day too. :)
• We did a long brick yesterday - 80 mile bike and 10 mile run. It's funny how it's not the longest I've gone, but I feel like it was the hardest. I have a 2.4 swim tomorrow and then the taper begins.
• A while ago I won a contest on the definition of Taper Crazy on Jon's blog. I wrote "Going Taper Crazy is the time between your hardest training weeks and your race when you totally doubt everything that you've done leading up to the race, you feel fat and lazy, you get bored easily, you eat a lot, you question your reasoning for thinking you can do a race, you feel like you'll have to start all over and that you'll never be able to race. But you do. And you kick ass. And you forget about the taper tantrums until the next race. :)"
• I have a feeling I'm going to go taper crazy in t-minus a week.
• Last year at Ironman Florida, we saw people buying ZENSAH sleeves like they were rare pieces of gold and everyone wearing aerohelments. I swore I'd never be that triathlete.
• 9 months later, I love my pink ZENSAH sleeves and yep, I have an aerohelmet.
• My mom calls my aerohelmet a sperm helmet. :) She's funny!
• I'm totally buying an Ironman finisher coat this year if everything goes well at IMLOU. I've done the Ironman 2 times already, finished both of them, yet have always been too cheap to buy the $180 jacket that proclaims to the world that I have issues.
• I need a new bathing suit. Mine are so big and non-swim-suit-like due to the chlorine (or algae at the lake) that has eaten the material. I want something cute though... any suggestions. Oh, and I don't want to pay an arm and a leg. No one sees me in it as no one swims at the lake or the pool. It's totally just for my enjoyment.
• My parents celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary this past weekend. They have a great marriage and I hope that after 39 years of marriage, I still love Tom as much as my parents love each other (I'm sure I will).
• My friend Rhiannon had her baby, Harper Quinn on Sunday. She called me in November squealing when she got pregnant. Hard to believe that 9 months have already passed!
• I get to see these cuties in just a few weeks - my niece Emily and my nephew Spencer.It's been nearly 2.5 years since we've seen them. They are like little people now. Too cute! I'm trying to think of something fun to do with them - maybe the zoo, maybe COSI, maybe just lunch and the park. I'm thinking lots of spoiling and things that mommy doesn't let them do or have all the time. That's what aunts and uncles are for right? :)