I’ve been noticing a trend lately. Sometimes I get seriously obsessive cleaning urges and it’s been happening a lot over the past couple weeks. One day I will decide that I just have to vacuum underneath all the furniture in the living room. Or maybe weed and sweep the back patio area. Or wash the kitchen floor (white linoleum… a bad idea). But I’ve noticed a very important connection associated with cleaning my apartment. In practice, I swim really fast after a cleaning binge.

Yup, I’m Monica from Friends. Cleaning is relaxing to me and fortunately, with Greg and Ms. Jackson the cat around, the opportunity to do so arises fairly often. I’m relieved, however, that if I don’t manage to get to a cleaning project that I’ve been planning on doing it isn’t the end of the world. I just save it for later. Phew, at least I’m not that crazy.

It is possible that I’ve just been cleaning a lot lately and have swimming fast lately without any relationship between them. But whatever, the good part is that I am doing better in practice. Actually, I even had a lifetime best 50 from a push the other day, which was nice.

Today I’m leaving for JEI. It should be fun. The main goal to swim fast in a few weeks but this weekend will be a good opportunity to race a bit before then.

I’ve got 5 hours before I head out because my stupid cat thinks the tiny smudge of light that shows up at about 4:30 means that it is play time and time to wake me up. Here is my plan – Pack, shred piled up papers with ID info, vacuum, and then maybe clean the bathroom if I have time. Yes! It is going to be a great day!

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