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Hi Thread Drifters! I made an effort at getting caught up, but no doubt missed important details that will come back to haunt me.

For example: Nanci, who is Z? Are you a member of the New Snake A Day Club? Girl! I can't keep up! :p They all look healthy and pretty.

The weekend in Galena with J was so wonderful. We had a great time doing stuff and not doing stuff--I just enjoy being with this guy, and he enjoys me. We spent time in town on Sat, then went hiking in the State Park on Sunday. Moderately tough trail, hiked up to a scenic overlook of the Mississippi River. Drove back and hung out on his couch eating Thai food and watching MI-3 (very fun). Spent one last night together before the week got started. Now I'm at the hospital from 10AM-10PM tonight. I have two patients on the way in for induction of labor, so the next six hours and 45 min of call may be busy. Or not. Who can tell?

On Friday, before leaving town, I mailed packages to BMo3, OTG, and CC. Jennifer--I cannot believe that you got yours the next day in Ohio! Stuff doesn't get delivered that fast in the same city!

Back to work, greetings to all,

Lise

Lise,
Wow, that was fast delivery, must be a record for my mail carrier. Now I own a SmartWool t-shirt and I know I wear a medium. :)
I am SO happy for you and J. You to deserve all the best life has to offer. Now go bring some new little ones into the world. :)

Happy 500, TD!

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

OTG-I think spending the holiday bike part/accessory shopping would be fun! :)

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Actually, going to bike shops is very, very, very stressful for me. Virtually everything I have was bought online. I'm very self-conscious about my weight, and several different shops in the past have been extremely less than helpful and one was downright rude. :mad:

I'm in a different state now, though, and I need to get a new crank before spring (I can't change it myself), so gonna have to face the music sooner or later. In fact, I'd rather visit the dentist than a bike shop. :rolleyes: Even the mere thought of having to go in there makes me extremely nervous.

In other news, I have to help my brother and sister-in-law pack up their house tonight. They are moving tomorrow, actually slightly closer to my apartment. Now, who on earth doesn't hire a mover for a three floor, 3-bedroom house and then moves on a weekday?

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

I am SO happy for you and J. ... Now go bring some new little ones into the world.

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Hee hee ... had to re-read that last part there. :p ;) :p

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Originally Posted by Offthegrid

Happy 500, TD!
Actually, going to bike shops is very, very, very stressful for me. Virtually everything I have was bought online. I'm very self-conscious about my weight, and several different shops in the past have been extremely less than helpful and one was downright rude. :mad:

I'm in a different state now, though, and I need to get a new crank before spring (I can't change it myself), so gonna have to face the music sooner or later. In fact, I'd rather visit the dentist than a bike shop. :rolleyes: Even the mere thought of having to go in there makes me extremely nervous.

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Oh I am sorry you had bad experiences. :( I did here as well, only it was because we were not has wealthy as some of the regulars. Ugh. It is frustrating, but you know what? it is there problem.
You look, to me anyway, beautiful as you are. :) If anyone is rude to you, they shall need to answer the TD!

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Originally Posted by Offthegrid

Hee hee ... had to re-read that last part there. :p ;) :p

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Oh dear, I did word that poorly. :o

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

Oh dear, I did word that poorly. :o

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what do you mean? either way, it's a good thing!
:)

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Originally Posted by mimitabby

what do you mean? either way, it's a good thing!
:)

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True, but I did not want to rush the young couple into anything. ;)

uhh... huhh....
annnyyyyyway....
Kitsune can be old, old, old and still manifest as young women, so there. :D

I've got a date with tiger balm tonight!

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Originally Posted by Offthegrid

Actually, going to bike shops is very, very, very stressful for me. Virtually everything I have was bought online. I'm very self-conscious about my weight, and several different shops in the past have been extremely less than helpful and one was downright rude. :mad:

I'm in a different state now, though, and I need to get a new crank before spring (I can't change it myself), so gonna have to face the music sooner or later. In fact, I'd rather visit the dentist than a bike shop. :rolleyes: Even the mere thought of having to go in there makes me extremely nervous.

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I'll go in with you OTG. You've met me in person now. I'm sure you've figured out that I can be rather outspoken when needed. How do you see that encounter going? **there's X with a LBS guy pinned against the wall, feet off the floor, begging to serve us**

Oh, I'm just kiddin'.

Really. ;)
**rubs hands together, thinking back fondly of my 4 brothers' torture methods**:eek: :D The delicate art of persuasion.

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

Lise,
Wow, that was fast delivery, must be a record for my mail carrier. Now I own a SmartWool t-shirt and I know I wear a medium. :)
I am SO happy for you and J. You to deserve all the best life has to offer. Now go bring some new little ones into the world. :)

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hahaha hehehe bwaahahaha *snort* hahahaha You crack me up! Hey Lise, get right on that now, ok? :cool: :D

Well garage door guy came, and for those of you single and looking, he was hot!! :D Anyway, he will be back tomorrow and I will be out $1250. Upside, my garage door will be new and in working order. :)

Today is DH's birthday and I told him I expect $1250 to be spent on my birthday. ;)

The twins are buying Chinese takeaway for their Dad's birthday dinner. YUM!

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

Well garage door guy came, and for those of you single and looking, he was hot!! :D Anyway, he will be back tomorrow and I will be out $1250. Upside, my garage door will be new and in working order. :)

Today is DH's birthday and I told him I expect $1250 to be spent on my birthday. ;)

The twins are buying Chinese takeaway for their Dad's birthday dinner. YUM!

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Jennifer, maybe the twins can help with the price of the door?
Kids these days are independently wealthy; or it seems!

Happy 500, TD!

Lise - I am so happy for you and J. The whole thing is SO great!

BM03 - good job on the bracelets...

Knot - I wanna work at REI, too. Problem is I wouldn't take home any money because I'd always find something I couldn't live without. Hard enough haveing TWO of the stores on my commute route.

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Originally Posted by mimitabby

Jennifer, maybe the twins can help with the price of the door?
Kids these days are independently wealthy; or it seems!

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That would be nice. I can dream. :)

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Originally Posted by maillotpois

BM03 - good job on the bracelets...

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For you MP....

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...3/bracelet.jpg

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

That would be nice. I can dream. :)

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When my older son was 12 or 13 he told me that when he grew up he'd buy me a house with a view. (He's 28 now and living in my basement) I'm not holding my breath.

That chain's great!

Mimi - LOL. That's pretty funny.

Jennifer, it's great that you have those pretty med ID bracelets now! I bet your famiily feels less worried now wehn you go off somewhere. :) Oh too bad about that garage door- I hate it when life gets in the way and ruins nice plans.

Mimi, too funny. Well, he did make sure that you were in a house with a view....a view of him sleeping in the basement. :D :rolleyes:

I think everyone sees different numbers on their TD pages- depending on how many posts per page they have their TE preferences set to view. This page for me is in the 300's somewhere.

sheesh! i got my flu shot on thursday and my arm is still sore. what's going on here? then again i lifted weights yesterday for the first time in about 2 weeks and i'm sore. i think i'm falling apart.

CWR - I think it's your body screaming "I'm stronger!!!!" ;) :D

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Originally Posted by Xrayted

CWR - I think it's your body screaming "I'm stronger!!!!" ;) :D

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or just put me out of my misery now. one of the two.

for the record: one can not live on chocolate. i have tried today. i now have a tummy ache.

the rest of the tim tams got it, and i savored every one of them. but :( sadly no more. now some yummy ohio buckeye candy is getting it and wow are those good! i think i need to stop while i'm ahead. and i got down to my goal weight too.

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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

Lise,
I am SO happy for you and J. You to deserve all the best life has to offer. Now go bring some new little ones into the world. :)

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OK, TD, even *I* read that as Jennifer telling me to go out and procreate! This being a physical impossibility... I'll just keep on midwifin'. :p

CWR, some pages back, it seemed folks were supporting you in going through a hard personal situation? But I couldn't find your original post. Maybe you pulled it. Whatever's going on, I join the rest of TD in offering loving best wishes. L.

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Originally Posted by Lise

OK, TD, even *I* read that as Jennifer telling me to go out and procreate! This being a physical impossibility... I'll just keep on midwifin'. :p

CWR, some pages back, it seemed folks were supporting you in going through a hard personal situation? But I couldn't find your original post. Maybe you pulled it. Whatever's going on, I join the rest of TD in offering loving best wishes. L.

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Yeah CWR,
me too! I am sorry you are having trouble. I too found out you have to eat more than chocolate... hehehe. Now I try to mix other things into the diet
when i need a lot of chocolate.
Are you back up in Alaska? How much light do you have (I imagine that would make life tough too, it's bad enough here with our measly 9 hours going down to 8!)

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Originally Posted by Xrayted

**there's X with a LBS guy pinned against the wall, feet off the floor, begging to serve us**

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Actually, this mental image is not too bad ... :D

BEEF - It's What's For Dinner

I have no idea what the heck I'm doing. I bought cow parts at Costco. Whatever it is (sirloin top cap-off something or another) it was $3 a pound. I have one of the steaks (is it a steak? big flat hunk of bleeding cow flesh) in a frying pan with olive oil and pepper and garlic.

It shrank. Which seems to be the common experience with beef. Smaller than you think at first. Not that I've had that much experience with beef.

Anyway, I'm cooking it on low and I'm gonna add a whole bunch of mushrooms in a few minutes. I'm hoping it is edible. It seems to be miserably tough and chewy. I think I killed it...

Four other steaks are in the freezer, and two are going to be made into beef stew tomorrow.

Knot,
if you LIKE beef, which i'm sortof getting the impression you don't;
but if you do, even if it is as tough as wangleather, it should taste pretty good
even if you burn it. But if you add the mushrooms and onions and keep adding liquid so it doesn't dry out, and you are patient, it will be delicious. (be sure to add a little salt too)
PS so how come you are eating beef?
PPS I am a carnivore myself.

Mimi - I'm an omnivore, and I've been wanting beef. SKnot doesn't eat red meat, so I just don't buy it. But I have no idea how to cook it since I so rarely have it. Pork chops I can figure out, so I'm sorta treating this like a pork chop.

I'll keep cooking it, slowly in the yummy mushroom and olive oil juicy stuff. I've got a baked potato to go with it.

Stew I can figure out. We're good there.

Interesting side note: I was close to vegetarian when I got preggers with SKnot. I craved red meat the whole time I was pregnant. Guess I needed it.

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Originally Posted by Xrayted

hehehe. I know how old Kit really is. Visa and MC are accepted through Pay Pal. :D ;) :D

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You think you know, only because of what she told you. Watch out for those tricksters :rolleyes: :D :rolleyes: :D

CWR- I feel your pain. Sorta. I was overly optimistic about my riding abilities going to and from work. I'm so sore and so tired and (SO HUNGRY!) I'm in the process of making more soup (having eaten too much already) so i can just stuff myself and then fall asleep. I should stretch, though. d'oh. *sigh*:(

Don't get me wrong, I liked the ride down there (would've liked it more had it not been so hard) but the ride back was scary (dark and with stupid people) and I'm just tired beyond words.

Fun fact: When people tell me to "Get on the F****ing Sidewalk!" I enjoy telling them to do silly things, too... I can't say any of them here (there might be timid or meek folks lurking) but it's fun.

:p

Knot - quickie marinade for mystery beef, Newman's Balsamic Vinaigrette. Let it marinate for about an hour, then cook it.

I had a final meeting with the other 2 "cochairs" of our community Tgiving dinner tonight. Too many chiefs in the kitchen and I'll be glad to have this behind me. The meal will be delicious and beautiful, but I'm a nuts and bolts kind of person. Besides this being a free community dinner, all the donations have gone to good charities. They keep added "trivial" stuff to me like table decorations (hand made stamped cards, flower arrangements, tablecloths, disposable serving platter, confetti, individual serving cups for cranberry sauce, etc.) and all my black and white self (I AM a project manager folks!) see's is money not going to the senior center, or the sponsoring church. Ugh, I volunteered to do this myself, they have pretty much taken over because they both work in town and only part time. But I am thankful cuz that's less I had to do:p And I'm sure it will be appreciated by those attending. OK, vent off my chest....

OTG, I say let X rought 'em up a bit. Then they'll treat you with respect. Like raising kids my parents always said, a little fear can go a long way:cool:

CWR, whilst chocolate is a food group, it can only be used so for 2 consecutive meals. Now go eat a salad and send me the candy, lol. JK, my bootie doesn't need any. I'm sending my cool North Face pants back cuz they're too long. And if I can get into the shape I want to be in, I'll order them again and hopefully they will have some short lengths in stock.

Off to take the garbage out. Yippee!

Umm CWR..If you need more tim tams I have some in my cupboard i could send you.

c

ARGH! I am so mad! :mad:

A 12 hr shift today, busy, sometimes frustrating, but not awful. The midwife coming on after me arrived 1.5 hr early, not to help out, but to do paperwork or nap, whatever, in our call room, which meant that I essentially needed to stay out of there. Minor irritation.

She's also the midwife who does our schedule. She was also the director of my graduate program (13 years ago), and has been a midwife > 25 years. You get the point, she's one of my respected elders. BUT. She gets worked up about the schedule. I requested a week off in March, to go to Italy with J. A part-time midwife had a request in that overlapped mine by 3 days. No big deal, thought I, as there are 10 of us, although most are part time. Without going into details here, what I'm MAD about is that tonight, at 10 PM, Betty's telling me, "I don't think we can do it!" I said, "Betty, I have PLANE TICKETS TO ITALY." :mad: :mad: :mad:

I emailed our boss and said, "Please help me with this." I am sure it will work out. Betty sometimes does this sort of frantic, "it can't WORK!" stuff about the schedule, but it works out. I mean JEEZ! it's four months from now! We can't figure something out?!?

OK, I'm tired, I'm frustrated, and there's nothing more to be done tonight. I will get the days off some how. Sigh. Thanks for letting me vent, TD, or for ignoring it and moving on to a post with chocolate or wine or snakes in it! :p

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Originally Posted by Offthegrid

Actually, this mental image is not too bad ... :D

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Well, I'm all booked this coming w/e so how about the next? I say we head out and scare the little men at the LBS. I'll bring a camera. You know these ladies like pics, especially action shots! :cool: http://members.aol.com/krkool286/baby.gif

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Originally Posted by mtbdarby

OTG, I say let X rought 'em up a bit. Then they'll treat you with respect. Like raising kids my parents always said, a little fear can go a long way:cool:

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See, Dar says it's cool, so can we, huh, huh, huh?

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Well garage door guy came, and for those of you single and looking, he was hot!! :D Anyway, he will be back tomorrow and I will be out $1250. Upside, my garage door will be new and in working order. :)

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Gee, is it just me or should the upside be that the guy is hot? BMo3, do you think you could get him to take off his shirt for a few TE pics? ;) C'mon ladies, pony up some loot and help pay for this door so we can get the pics.

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Originally Posted by snapdragen

You think you know, only because of what she told you. Watch out for those tricksters :rolleyes: :D :rolleyes: :D

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Oh I know so much more than that, snap. It's in the new biography I'm writing called "Kitsune: The Young and Crazy Years." Knowing her zest for life, I won't be able to finish it until she dies at the tender age of 104 in a mosh pit mishap. :eek: :cool: (which is exactly ** years from now)

Kit - Glad you had a nice ride to work today and that you're safe. Watch the language tho, you're a biking embassador now. Sign language however is a beautiful and expressive alternative. Wha? I'm just sayin'... :rolleyes:

(oh yeah, it should be in the mail soon. thanks Kit.)

(((CWR))) You know I'm a hugger so quit looking at me like that. I'll hug ya if I wanna, so there! :p

'night TD!

Oh, hey, CWR this one's for you... http://members.aol.com/krkool286/tigger.gif

Lise - I'm so happy for you and J. It sounds an awful lot like the start of my relationship with my sweetie two years ago. I think it's something to do with age and knowing what's important. We are still gloriously happy after two years and I expect we will be for years to come. I have a good feeling about you and J too. :) Yay!

Take a deep breath and give the whole work/Italy thing a day or two. Something will work out. Like you said, it's four months away. The schedule chick just doesn't "get" it - so much can happen between now and then. I don't blame you for being mad but it'll work out. It has to.

CWR - glad to see you around. Hope things are tolerable. Chocolate is good. Eating something healthy too. ((((CWR)))

Dar - sounds a bit frustrating. I agree about spending the money on more important things. When is your TG anyway? This week? On a Thursday usually isn't it? At any rate, I think it's so good of you to do the good deed. I've thought about doing it but that's as far as I've gone.

Knot - how'd the beef turn out? When in doubt cook it a long time.

X - you kill me. I just love reading your posts... So much energy!


Well, I am finished my report cards! Yay! Well I think they're done. Gotta see what the powers that be think. I'm sure there will be a coupla typos to fix up. Anyway, I am happy.

Now I'm off to try some "self-myofascial release" on my "iliotibial band". Geez the stuff you can learn about on the internet. I'm sure you guys will find a way to make that sound sexual. :D

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Originally Posted by crazycanuck

WHERE IS DIRT DIVA???? DENISE223??

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I've got this far. I'll see you in another 650 posts or so. :p

So DD, where ya been? What ya been up to? Did you miss us? How's NZ?

Have ya done any mtn biking whilst home??

i missed you :)

c

so does this mean you have the clues for where denise223 is?

You better watch out DirtD....holly is coming into flower around now in England IIRC

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Kitsune can be old, old, old and still manifest as young women, so there. :D

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See, I told you-all so