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Ferret Dogs, Sneakers with a Dress, and Giveaway Winners

You might have thought my post title is a little nuts, but it’s exactly what this post includes. 

First: Ferrets who are mistaken for dogs. PLEASE tell me you heard about this in the news.  It’s about as good as news gets.

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Some guy bought not one, but TWO, ferrets and thought they were dogs.  The ferrets had been given steroids from birth and their hair was poofed out to resemble poodles.  Guys, I can’t make this up. It wasn’t until he took them to the vet that he found of he had been duped.

Next: Sneakers with a dress.   I wouldn’t be my classy self without wearing sneakers around DC in my dress for our engagement pictures! I knew that they are the only things that wouldn’t wreck my feet and legs, so I threw other shoes in my bag and just went with it.  I am a style expert, of course.  Here I am outside the building I worked at a few summers back, the Madison building of the Library of Congress!

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Another crazy thing added in for good measure: Have you ever heard of Wim Hof? He is from the Netherlands, and he is known as the Ice Man! He has spent almost two hours fully emerged in ice, which is world record material! The cool thing: he uses a mind over matter technique to get it done. I guess this just goes to show that your mind is a powerful thing!

Here’s a pretty incredible video with a bit about his story.  If you ever doubt yourself, watch this! At the end, he holds himself up, yoga style, on the edge of a cliff with one hand.  I mean, wow.

And the moment you’re waiting for, I’m sure! The winners of my NuNaturals giveaway! Congrats Jessie, Alysia, Renata, and Lauren!!! Please send your name and address to lifeafterswimming AT gmail DOT com.  Thank you!

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That’s all the nonsense I have for you today! Serious nonsense.

Have you found anything nuts lately? I mean, once I found a story about a goat going to court, but I think this dog/ferret thing takes the cake.

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Beach Day + Giveaway Winner

I don’t have a full weekend update for you quite yet, but I do have a little bit of one!

Travis and I have made a goal to go to Assateague Island (my favorite place in the world) every month this year.  We were engaged there in December, and it has been my family’s vacation spot since I was a toddler. We went there in January when there was snow on the ground, and we got our February visit in yesterday.

It was a really nice February day, which I guess was also a great day for surfing because there were a LOT of them riding waves!

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We were pretty happy to see some animals in the bay on our way out! Love my Assateague ponies Smile

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It was a GREAT day needless to say! Followed by the Oscars which I always love!

If you watched, what did you think of the results?

Speaking of results, here are the winners of my Running Divas giveaway!

Half-marathon mom shirt:

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“at the end, you’re just exhausted” shirt:

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Natalie and Debbie, please send me an email with your mailing information ASAP! lifeafterswimming AT gmail DOT com! Congrats ladies!

Off to swim practice, and then spending the day in elementary school today! Smile So excited for my first paycheck at the end of the week! It’s been far too long!

Happy Monday!

How was your weekend?

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Empower Fitness Review

Hola, amigos! I am so glad that all of you enjoy the new blog look as much as I do! I truly am so happy with the work Travis did, and I think he is loving all of the praises on yesterday’s post.

The only casualty I’ve discovered so far is a loss of all blog subscribers, so head over to the left sidebar, add your email, and subscribe!

And now I have something awesome to show you! I was lucky to receive a pretty awesome package to review the other day:

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The 3-in-1 Kettlebell from Empower Fitness (Geno not included…).  This thing is great! It switches from 8 pounds to 10 pounds and up to 12 pounds! And it came with a fancy DVD with 3 quick strength workouts.

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You better believe I busted out the DVD immediately and tried out the 14-minute total body workout.

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Sweaty and smiling.  It was a great workout in my opinion, especially when done with the 12 pound KB. I loved the quickness of the workout and the fact that it can be done in my bedroom.  I also love that I can easily store the KB and DVD without taking up much space in he apartment.  Win, win in my opinion. With all of the swimming I have been doing, I have totally be slacking on strength training when I know how important it is.  Doing these quick strength workouts is great for me!

All in all, I think the 3-in-1 Kettlebell is great!

Speaking of great, I’m sure you would like to know whether or not you won the Sambazon Smoothie giveaway!

Here are the five lucky smoothie and hand-crafted bowl winners, thanks to random number generation at Random.org!

Ali, Monica, Kate, Alicia, and LaTanya!

Congrats, ladies! Stay on the look-out for an email from me with further instruction!

Now, anyone out there a Kettlebell user? Any workout suggestions for the KB newbie?

The 3-in-1 Kettlebell was sent to me from Empower Fitness to review. However, all opinions about the product are my own and I am not being compensated for this post.

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