Did you know you can breathe like this?

I've recently started a SCUBA course to get certified for open water diving. So thrilling!! My fiancé signed up too so we are learning together which could come in handy since having a buddy to dive with is much safer. It's also fun to have something we can do together that I truly enjoy!

During this first class I learned you can breathe in such a way that is so foreign to me!
I'm the person who swims while holding her nose. I jump in the water always holding my nose as well. I supremely hate having water up nose! It just sucks!

Well, our dive teacher asked us to put a snorkel in our mouths, place our heads under water and breathe without plugging our noses. No mask allowed either.
At first I just kept breathing above water making like I'm about to dunk my head under, but I kept giggling because I just couldn't bring myself to do it! I had visions of taking a breath and snorting a half liter of water in the process.
I figured that I'd come up choking and spraying a geyser of snotty water back out of my nose, that would be rather embarrassing!

So, the dive teacher said, "you know what? Just go ahead and pinch your nose, put your head under and start breathing. Once you are ready, just let go of your nose and keep breathing."
I felt like such a noob but, I tried that while resigning myself to the fact that I just may have the worst happen but I may also have the desired result occur as well!
I faithfully did as my teacher instructed and it worked! I started breathing AND laughing with my head underwater. It sounded like a dying seal through my snorkel but I didn't care! I was doing something under water without plugging my nose!

Ah, 1 triumph over a life long nuisance!

Slap Hand Fight With a 10 Year Old, During a Field Trip

 While on a field trip with my daughter to a marvelous lake here in B.C., her rather large male classmate challenged his young lady friends to a duel of this nature. They all turned him down. I didn't know this kid in any way at all and thought maybe the young girls just were scared of a little pain. So, when he turned to me with hope in his little smirk, and asked me if I'd like to try it, I straightened my back, returned the smirk and said, "let's do this!" 

I don't know how you'd imagine this went since I'm no big person and this young man was nearly as tall as myself and easily weighed as much as or a bit more than myself but, I am here to tell you, we had a very fair and equally played game! I held nothing back just because he's 1/3rd of my age. He got as much slap as he delivered and it turned out once he knew that I wasn't going to play with kitten mittens, he returned the effort in his slaps too! 

We exchanged slaps for about 4-5 minutes at the glee of his classmates and the open smile of my own daughter who I think was either proud of me or quasi embarrassed. I never asked her. 

Either way, that was a lot of fun, my hands were left stinging and pink, as were his. We both called a truce at the end and I enjoyed feeling like a grade 5 classmate for 5 minutes. 

Yeah, that was fun! 

What's This About Then?

Hello all of you beautiful Internet browsers!

 

    Aren't blogs fun? Yes, I can use poor grammar and use words that don't even exist in the Merriam Webster Dictionary! Ahhh, freedom.


So, did you come to find some nitty gritty miserable ranting and raving? Or some deets on how I saved someone from causing a recycling calamity? Perhaps a piece about overcoming a moment of horrendous judgement? Or maybe something involving some bitch slap violence?

Well, if you were looking for any of those, (aside from the bitch slap violence, I am kind of soft-hearted) then you are arrived at the right blog! I intend to fill my readers with any sort of odd case happenings that I deem worthy of your precious time and interest. Dashcams find the strangest things (and I own one so who knows, maybe I can post a link to some neat finds) and our human eyeballs and ear holes happen to witness even MORE amazing strange things. I can tell Facebook, or I can tell you. I personally prefer you, Facebook is getting pretty old hat in my opinion. So limited...

Alright then, lets stretch these typing fingers and see what I can share with you!

.....please read next post, that's where you can find the first official blog in this series. This is an intro.