My Husband Went To Camp and Family Came To Town

Last week was quite busy at the Butterworth South compound. Matt had Team Training Camp which entailed him swimming every morning and every night he had some other sort of training, lecture, or testing. Plus a 3-4 hour bike ride on Wednesday. The picture above is him getting his sodium testing done. Evidentially, Matt loses more sodium than average during training and needs to replace it faster than most. Good thing he found this out. I am just surprised that he hasn't had problems in his past races. For more pictures from his Camp adventure visit his team web site at Human Powered Racing.

While Matt was in super training mode, I went into full librarian mode attending an Electronic Resources Management conference on Thursday and Friday. Don't pretend that you're not excited! Basically it was a bunch of librarians getting together to talk about how to deal with all the databases and electronic books and journals we purchase. Trust me, it is not fun. I spend most of my work day trying to fix problems because people cannot access resources. The best part of the whole conference was getting to see my friend Jim who is also one of my vendors.

Then Friday, Mark, Brenda, Andrew, and Alivia came down for a short visit. They were in town for a high school state basketball tournament game and spent the night with us. It is great to be able to catch up with all of them, but I have to laugh at how excited both kids are to see Uncle Matt. Wherever he goes, they want to follow. He has always had that affect on all the kids in our family. Alas, our visit was all to brief as they met up with friends at COSI downtown and then had to get back home so that Andrew could maintain his eating schedule to control his diabetes. Matt had a 10K race Saturday morning (results here). He finished 32nd in a field of 189 and I think he had his fastest pace yet.

So that is all I have for now. We have had a few more house showings, but no offers. It is still early and maybe the warm weather will bring out more interested buyers. At this point, I am just trying to keep everything tidy and my spirits up. I think Matt is looking forward to not finding me crying over the bathroom sink because I can't handle the stress.

Thanks to everyone that has written to me about the blog. Please continue to let me know what you think and I will talk to you soon.

Finally, something to do...

Not much has been going on with Matt and I lately. The weather has kept us in most of the time. Still, we have managed to get out to look at more houses, escape while ours has been shown, and of course Matt continues to train for his triathlons. But, finally this weekend the sun came out and we took Goliath for a nearly 3-mile walk along the river. It felt good to get out in the fresh air and run. Although Goliath tends to run in the zig-zag pattern along the trail and he tried to make friends with the young couple several yards in front of us. I think he was throwing off the guy's romantic vibe.