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I feel bored... and it makes me realize how much time I usually spend riding or x country skiing/snow shoeing. There isn't any snow for skiing, at least locally, and it's rainy/freezing rain here. I've been going to the gym, doing spin, tabatta, and circuit training, and doing an occasional trail run, but those things don't take up too much time. I am exhausted the 3 days I work, but since i don't have as much take home work, like I did teaching, I find myself doing some exercise on the days I don't work, and then a lot of errands, and a little socializing. It's not like we are not going out with friends on Fri., Sat. or Sunday nights, but it seems like I have way too much free time on weekends. DH is spending lots of time at the condo, remodeling, but within reason. If there was snow, I'd be out there. Any day that's been OK for road riding, I've been at work.Plus, there's been a bit too much ice on the sides of the road for me to be on a road bike. I know this is a first world problem... it will resolve as soon as the weather is more season appropriate, or warmer, and we move.

I hear you Crankin, and I've been feeling a bit the same since I've had to pull back a bit on my kettlebells until we learn the results of my neck MRI from yesterday. I seem to be really prone to tweaking neck, shoulder, and knee right now so am dialing back a bit until we learn more and to allow my body a chance to heal. Tomorrow will head to the gym for some time on the ArcTrainer - it doesn't hurt me and allows a chance for SOME movement. Hiking is working better for me, but it's too wet to do much of that right now, and an arctic blast is coming this week. From 50 degrees today, and on Tuesday we are supposed to have a low of something like 2 degrees. It must come, but it would be nice to have it come in increments :eek: Oh well, at least I will get to finally wear the new snow boots to work that I got from Costco - not for the snow but for the cold (my feet and hands get very cold).

Mmmmmkay, I'm back, much as it might annoy some people. Kind of fell off an emotional cliff this fall. Then I've spent about the last two or three weeks thinking I should get back to TE but not sure how to make my re-entry. So here I am. Off to catch up on some other threads.

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

Mmmmmkay, I'm back, much as it might annoy some people. Kind of fell off an emotional cliff this fall. Then I've spent about the last two or three weeks thinking I should get back to TE but not sure how to make my re-entry. So here I am. Off to catch up on some other threads.

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Good to see you back Oak, I've missed seeing you!

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

Mmmmmkay, I'm back, much as it might annoy some people. Kind of fell off an emotional cliff this fall. Then I've spent about the last two or three weeks thinking I should get back to TE but not sure how to make my re-entry. So here I am. Off to catch up on some other threads.

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Oh yes I was wondering where you had gone, worried that something was wrong. I hope things are looking up.

No need to plan a re-entry, just dive on in!

Hey Oak! MIssed you around here, it'll be great to finally meet you in real life.

Nobody here thinks you're annoying, Oak.

*waves* Heya! :-)

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Originally Posted by Crankin

Nobody here thinks you're annoying, Oak.

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I agree. I have missed you in the running thread. It is nice to have someone else training for a race.

I saw my first "picture" of my grandchild today, at 10.5 weeks gestation. Ultrasound technology has sure improved in the past 30 or so years!
You could clearly see the baby's legs, and it looked like they were moving around furiously. The doctor told my DIL the baby is very active.
I think we have a cyclist here...
Definitive due date for this one is August 12th. Since my other son's kid is due either last week in August or first week in September, I suppose there's a chance they could be born on the same day. DH and his brother were born on the same day, 10 years apart and my older son and DH's brother's son were born on the same day, 8 years apart.

How exciting!

Cool beans, Crankin!


If all goes as planned my honey and I will be heading back to IL for a short visit in mid February! Not our favorite time of year but her work doesn't seem to care that it's cold. :p It will be nice to see friends, enjoy some culture, and eat in our favorite places again... probably should have kept my winter coat.

Yep, I always kept my winter coat, while living in Florida. I actually needed it in AZ, contrary to what most people think.

So I'm watching "Jezebel." New Orleans, 1852, Bette Davis wears a RED DRESS to a ball even though unmarried girls are supposed to wear white dresses. She is shunned by everyone. Her fiance (Henry Fonda) leaves her, goes to NYC and marries a nice northern girl. Then he catches yellow fever. To atone for wearing the red dress, Bette Davis volunteers to go with him to the island where all the people with yellow fever and leprosy are sent.

It's a really good thing I wasn't born in antebellum New Orleans. I can't even count the number of red sweaters I own. Hell, I wore one today. :D

I love that movie!
And yes, it's a good thing I did not live then.