Saltwater ramblings

I woke up at 4:30 this morning...because that's how I roll. It is now 7:45 pm and I am more than ready to go to bed. But I can only imagine what going to bed that early would do to tomorrow morning. So I'll tell you about my day.

I'm not sure if any of you are aware of one of my many nicknames: Gargoyle. I won't get into a full explanation of it, but it came from my time on the Asheville Hotshots when I had to share a hotel room on a regular basis with my friend Crystal. I like to sit in bed and have my first two cups of coffee in the morning in the dark. Sometimes it's only one cup, but on weekends or tough mornings it tends to be two. Anyway, sitting up in bed in the dark at 3 am drinking coffee apparently freaked Crystal out a bit and thus named me Gargoyle.

So, I gargoyled up for a cup or two and then started getting dressed for the gym. I forced myself to eat a bowl of oatmeal as a protein shake hasn't been cutting it lately. And off I went.

I made it to the gym around 5:45 and got on one of those awesome stair climbers that are like escalators. Half an hour, varying the speed. Then I did leg weights and a good long stretch.

I went home, ate and had another cup of coffee, got changed into my suit, loaded up my surfboard and met my new friend Clair at her house to go surf. Clair drove, which is probably a good thing as I brought seaweed home in my sinuses.

We drove the coast a little to check out the breaks and then headed down the steps to Pleasure Point to see what we could catch. The water was cold but the sun was warm. I warmed up my legs and stretched a little bit ahead of time. The surf was small but I caught quite a few and it felt good to be out again.

After awhile the tide started to get pretty high and the waves messy, so we paddled over to the other side of the little lagoon and got in on a different break. By the time I caught a few more, my legs were cold and tired and not coming out from underneath me very quickly. We were in just under 3 hours before we floated ashore and loaded up our boards.

On the drive home I was stuffing food in my face while we talked about more food. As it turned out, I had "Healthy Sea Vegetable" in my wrap that I had made and was eating. That's all I know. The rest of the label is in Japanese. So anyway, this may have prompted the next thing that came out of my mouth. I think it was a mixture of being tired, hungry, and worked up from the cold water. The question I attempted to ask was "Do you like sushi?" That is literally what formed in my brain. And then this came out:

"Do you eat seaweed?"

Wow. That was weird.

And strangely, after I said it, my speed at which I caught it was hilarious. Like a turtle through thick mud.

"No, I don't eat seaweed." She replied, half laughing and half baffled. I explained I was eating healthy sea vegetable. Then we got back on track and talked about sushi.

She eats sushi. So do I. She asked if I liked Mizu.

"Kazoo".

"No, Mizu. On Winchester." She replied.

"No, it's Kazoo. The place with the boats."

"No...the place with the little blue sign out front."

"Oh wait. Is that the place with the Japanese pop music? I read about that on Kelp."

"Haha! What? You've got kelp on the brain. Keep eating."

"Kelp. No, Yelp. Geez."

I managed to get home, eat again and crash on the couch. I woke up 20 minutes later to my phone ringing. I let it ring. I had no clue where it was and could not be bothered to find it. Then I had to get up to eat again, so I figured I'd call my friend back.

Now I'm done for the day. Exhausted. No longer eating kelp or replacing words with it, so that's good. My sinuses are still occasionally draining salt water.

By the way, for those of you who have not heard, I got 2 A+'s and an A on my report card. Now sits an extremely large Calculus book on my table that I'm afraid to open...but class starts on Monday and is 4 weeks long, so I'll be visiting it shortly.