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Fish: as a friend from Tennessee used to say: Mo-wer will be ree-veealed! (MWBR)

I swear, I pass out handfuls, armfuls, bucketfuls of condoms at work. Sometimes I think, seriously? You guys are using these? Or are you just taking them to make me feel good? :confused: :rolleyes:

MP: I just keep thinking how glad I am that the Death Ride didn't get to live up to its name. I cannot believe you did all the riding you did with clots in your lungs. How great is it going to feel when you've got this behind you and are up to speed?!

I remember one summer ('97) when I just felt so bloated and fat in the belly...and then, mid August, the 10cm endometrial cyst on my right ovary ruptured and filled my belly with blood. Oh. Maybe it was that big, blood-filled cyst in my mid-section! No wonder the crunches weren't doing much! Asthma....pulmonary embolus...my goodness. How odd that you were satting at 100%. What an amazing compensatory ability you have. That mouthful of blood may have been the best thing that could've happened for you. That has a way of getting one's attention!
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The Green Hornet is at the LBS, getting a new Serfas tri saddle and aero bars put on! I am so psyched to ride her tomorrow. I'm going to pick her up, ride downtown, donate blood, renew my driver's license, sit around drinking fluids and eating lunch for awhile, then go for a spin. Nothing too hard because I'll be down a pint, AND I start a 24 hr call shift tomorrow night. But still. To "go aero" on my own bike. Wow. I must be something like an athlete! ;)

I'm knackered kids...

Due to june 30th end of fin year, we started at 6am today...:eek: I knew i needed energy so what does this crazycanuck do...I left my house at 440am to go for an 1hr ride bf work...Why..err..why not...I worked on speed...

What's even funnier is when i went to have a shower at work i realized...no bra...so i had to keep my cycling bra on..oh well...At least i had underwear & socks......

Anywho, i am knackered...We finished at 5pm..freakin good thing we get paid for overtime!!!

I really wanted to go for a ride tonight but i highly doubt i'd be 100% awake & alert...I'm going for another ride tomorrow am & hopefully tomorrow night...

Bring on the weekend...the dirt awaits...
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Originally Posted by Lise

I must be something like an athlete! ;)

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something like that.

have fun on those aero bars.

I don't know if you are on Turin Cycles mailing list, but next Sat - the 8th - they are having a big sale. According to the postcard there will be supplier reps there with items they don't normally keep in stock. Sounds like some fun toys will be available. I have to take my bike up to WI to rack it for the danskin the next day, but I am going to try to check the sale out as well.

CC, hang on for the weekend!

Brina, thanks for the heads up about Turin. I'm not on their mailing list anymore, but I'll go to their website. I think I can get up there on the 8th.

You would think I was being poked with sharp sticks. My doc ordered a fasting cholesterol panel about, oh, say, 6 months ago! I just never, never leave the house without eating. I went to see her for something else recently (all's well), and she said, "I never got those results". That would be because I never gave them the blood....finally went and did it today. Oooh, oooh, faint with hunger, can barely drive....:rolleyes:

Due to nervousness about the date last night, I had eaten, essentially, a piece of salmon, a few lettuce leaves, and (when I got home) 6 Thin Mints (the last of the Girl Scout thin mints). So, at 4 AM, I'm up and STARVING! I ate a fat free yogurt...I figured...it won't affect the cholesterol...then had my blood drawn at 8:15. If the numbers are all wonky, I can blame it on the yogurt. :p

Lise - you bad girl! 4 hours of fasting - I'm thinking that's not going to do it. Hopefully you're levels will be perfect and it won't matter anyway ;)

I ran this morning (first time in over a week) and felt good. My knees were talking to me a bit too much when I started. I told them to quiet down and away I went. My next chance to ride is probably going to be Sat morning. I can't wait!!! The last time I rode was a week ago. Whatever was wearing me out seems to have subsided. Now - if only I'd get the call about the job!!!!! Every time my phone rings, my heart skips a beat!

Something really bad to eat before getting your chloesterol checked is lo mein!! That raises the total by like 100 points! (I know this from being a blood donor).

Lise, was it hard for you and your date to recognize each other?

My 200k Saturday, the super torture hill ride, is 133 miles, not 124...

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Something really bad to eat before getting your chloesterol checked is lo mein!! That raises the total by like 100 points! (I know this from being a blood donor).

Lise, was it hard for you and your date to recognize each other?

My 200k Saturday, the super torture hill ride, is 133 miles, not 124...

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Yeah, I know, 4 hr is not "fasting". But I'm special, don't'cha know? I am hoping that the numbers will be fine, and no further discussion until I balk at fasting again one year from now. I just have to eat more real food the night before so I can sleep through the night.

On top of all that, I'm also caffeine deprived. It's a new thing prior to blood donation. Sheesh! I came home from my rigorous 4 hour fast/blood draw and ate 2 eggs scrambled with cheese and salsa, two tortillas, OJ, some almonds and walnuts, an over ripe banana (gag), and...oh, yeah, I had a Lara bar in the car on the way home. Anybody want state secrets? Deprive me of food for 6 hours, I'll spill all. Good thing our gov't has seen fit to keep me in the dark!

I'm going to pick up the Green Hornet, ride downtown, donate blood, and drink a BIG CUP OF STARBUCKS!

When I was up at 4 AM (eating yogurt), I googled my sister's name. She's a journalist, writes about a variety of things, personal to political. I was horrified to learn that people say mean, stupid things about her on their blogs! About my little sister! I was about ready to drive to Indiana and smack this one woman upside the head! My sister never tells me about these mean, stupid people, and I am glad I didn't know. I won't go looking again. I did find a sweet article she wrote about her best friend from childhood, who's an organic farmer...nobody wrote anything DUMB about THAT on their STUPID blog! Grrrrrrrrrrrr....don't mess with the siblings of the oldest, I'm telling you. How do the family of famous people take all the mean things folks say about their loved ones?
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Nanci, we recognized each other easily when he walked up to me and said, "Lise?" In describing himself, he hadn't mentioned the goatee. I would've mentioned that. Except, of course, that *I* don't have one. ;)
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133 miles of "super torture" does not sound good. You, however, are the woman for the job. Looking forward to hearing about it! L.

Doesn't tuna spike the cholesterol as well?

I really dislike moving and being without household items that I really need. Like a can opener!

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Very descriptive story, MP. I especially liked the mouthful of blood in the car. Well, who'd have thunk it- I'm sure we have all learned something from your experience!

Do you mean you're a compulsive throat-clearer like that character Sarah Jessica Parker played in that recent movie I didn't see and can't remember the name of?

Nanci

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Okay, Nanci - in a coincidence, DH and I watched that Sarah JP movie (I actually really can't stand her) because we wanted something light to watch after our "experience" (and the last thing we watched from On Demand was The Constant Gardener and that was TOTALLY not light).

So my throat clearing is very different from hers. Hers is compulsive in a prissy school-marmy way, with the sound never coming from anywhere but her throat.

Mine is different - think tuberculin ward. Mine actually resonates throughout my chest and lungs (especially in the morning when my lungs are really full of fluid). The fluid-y lungs have always been there - worse recently. I generally inhale a bunch of air to get "behind" the fluid before I do the throat clearing. So not prissy - gross!

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Doesn't tuna spike the cholesterol as well?

I really dislike moving and being without household items that I really need. Like a can opener!

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If it's high, I'll blame it on the salmon at 8 PM, and not the fat free cherry yogurt at 4 AM.

You seriously need a can opener. ----------------> TARGET! (any excuse :rolleyes: )

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I remember one summer ('97) when I just felt so bloated and fat in the belly...and then, mid August, the 10cm endometrial cyst on my right ovary ruptured and filled my belly with blood. Oh. Maybe it was that big, blood-filled cyst in my mid-section! No wonder the crunches weren't doing much! Asthma....pulmonary embolus...my goodness. How odd that you were satting at 100%. What an amazing compensatory ability you have. That mouthful of blood may have been the best thing that could've happened for you. That has a way of getting one's attention!

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Holy cow!! Blood filled cyst! Nice - isn't it amazing what we push through - and beat ourselves up for. You were all "fat" and I was all "stupid slow on the hills" and "out of shape". Crazy. The take away lesson is sometimes you don't need to beat yourself up and maybe there's something behind it?

Yeah the O2 sat at 100% really threw my doctor. Fortunately, she was persisten enough to order the d-dimer test as well just to make sure (which is the blood test that shows markers for PE) - and that test was what sent me to CT scan.

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If it's high, I'll blame it on the salmon at 8 PM, and not the fat free cherry yogurt at 4 AM.

You seriously need a can opener. ----------------> TARGET! (any excuse :rolleyes: )

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I know! What's worse is that I had specifically left out a few items NOT to be packed, the can opener, sandwich baggies, toilet paper, silverware, you know the essentials, until the movers delivered our stuff this coming Monday. Everything got packed except the tp and the silverware. I am certainly hitting Target after work for a darned can opener!

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. My knees were talking to me a bit too much when I started. I told them to quiet down and away I went.

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I know I'm lucky, fish, it's not my knees that talk back, it's my head. :rolleyes: L.

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I know I'm lucky, fish, it's not my knees that talk back, it's my head. :rolleyes: L.

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At least you're never lonely...

I have to remember to e-mail you this guy's 600k report that was on- wait, you're on that randoneuring list with me, aren't you? Did you read it? Man, did it bring back memories!

Nanci

I'm on the list and read your response to it, which made me hang on to it. I usually read those right away but my inbox was so full after not checking that account for a few days that I might have deleted it otherwise - I still have to read it. Lucky I have some time on my hands....

He sounded like he was in a poor mental state for much of the ride- and never seemed to really believe he would make it. He was already sounding bad by 5PM of the first day! Well, actually, he was sounding bad before the first Control...

Someone on there today had a quote, "If you don't think you can finish, [a brevet] don't start."

(He _does_ finish.)

My buddy I met for the June 200k that abandonned with only 30 miles to go or something is sounding like he isn't going to do the July ride. Too bad- I really had fun with him! I'm sharing a room with a local (from here) girl, but she rides just slightly faster than me. It was keeping up with her and her group that killed my knee on the 400k. Maybe she'll be hot and slow down some, though. She just bought a Bachetta, but isn't riding it- there are a ton of hills- including the same one going out, coming back, and then one more time in the going out direction- the biggest hill in the area! Plus the hill that they mentioned in the triathlon pre-race meeting about you'd better be in a low gear when you turn the corner or you're going to tip over, and the long hill I came the closest ever to vomiting while on the bike on. (Yeah, I bet that sentence construction is making some people cringe!)

I'll be halfway to the R-12 award when it's over, though!

Crap, so how long until you get to ride? Is crap a word that gets filtered out? I can't remember.

Hmmm. I wish the new saddle would get here so I can hate it.

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Mine is different - think tuberculin ward. Mine actually resonates throughout my chest and lungs (especially in the morning when my lungs are really full of fluid). The fluid-y lungs have always been there - worse recently. I generally inhale a bunch of air to get "behind" the fluid before I do the throat clearing. So not prissy - gross!

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That sounds just lovely. I can't imagine Sarah JP making a sound like that, nah. Tuberculin ward. Great image!

Tater - my office neighbor is from Gooding (Southcentral Idaho he said). What town are you from?

Lise - your head might be talking, but at least you can run farther (that doesn't look right - is it further) :)

MP - I'm attaching a pic of FishJr holding the worm referred to in my sig. This was before the breakage.

Just found out the cert (list of quality candidates) was delivered to the research leader that is doing the hiring, by our Area Director. Sooooooo hopefully I'll hopefully hear something within a week or so about an interview. Aargh. Now I'm really going to jump when I hear the phone ring. :eek:

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Hmmm. I wish the new saddle would get here so I can hate it.

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Now that's positive thinking ;)



I didn't think that pic was going to come out so big!

That kid looks like she needs a cornsnake! I have the best picture of my daughter Kelly sitting on her white plastic potty chair, in the middle of the woods, about age 3 or 4, holding a garter snake up like a banner over her head. It's so cute. She wouldn't put it down for anything. Luckily, they aren't quite as breakable as worms.

Fish -

OMG - that picture is fantastic!!! She is SO cute. Wow.

We'll be waiting for the phone along with you.

Nanci -

Crap doesn't get filtered, but **** - as in **** Cheney - does. I don't know when I can ride again. Not for at least 2 weeks for clot reasons, and then the rest will depend on how the anti coagulants are working and whether i want to risk exsanguination by riding my bike (I do crash). I think there are a lot of spin classes in my future. :mad:

Good thing **** Cheney isn't on this forum, then, because he couldn't even sign his name. I wonder if it catches it if it's in the middle of a string of letters, like unpre****table...

I wonder if it catches it if you intersperse the letters with a symbol: *d*i*c*k*

Woo hoo!! (Only 18 more minutes of time to kill at "work.")

Ri****ulous....

Did it work??

I love it when you guys are bored while I am on bedrest, by the way!!!

When that pic was taken (a year ago) she probably would've liked to hold a cornsnake. Now - she yells "eek" if I try to get her to touch a frog. Her curiosity gets the best of her though and she will eventually touch them. I've shown her everything from a narrowmouthed toad to a big 'ol southern toad. There's hope :) The only snakes in my hard are garter snakes - I think FishJr would not appreciate getting musked. Now FishFry (Ben - age 2) - he would probably love it. Boys - aargh! They saw a 5-lined skink when we were in Knoxville and chased the poor thing all over the place. No "eek" on that one!

Ok - my turn.....Pre****tions


We are at the height of maturity today, aren't we???

My keyboard is wigging out. I have to perio****ally (hee hee) flip it over so it will stop skipping letters and not letting me type! (It's wireless)

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Woo hoo!! (Only 18 more minutes of time to kill at "work.")

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I still have about an hour...

MP - when do you go back to work? How are you feeling, anyway?

MP, maybe you'd have fun at http://www.m-w.com You can make it pronounce anything! My favorite is "cloaca."

Nanci

This is where you girls have been hiding...

I never checked this thread before. Maybe I shouldn't have...

I don't know why garter snakes have to be so free with the musk...When I was a kid, though, I didn't mind. Now I get peed on my Buttercup all the time- but Koko has never done it. BC is developing a longer tolerance of being carried before peeing, though, and will sometimes even let me touch her head. Koko just hangs out of his shell and lets me hold him as long as I want. There is some kind of solid sandy substance in BC's urine. I read what it is, once, but can't remember. At least it doesn't smell!

Oh Grog- you have to start at the beginning and catch up!! But mostly we talk about birds, wine and Lise's dates.

Nanci

This is how we keep the other threads relatively drift-free.

Time to go home!!

Nanci - you forgot chocolate :)

Hey Grog - now you'll be drawn to come back. It is a good way to get the drift out of your system.

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I don't know why garter snakes have to be so free with the musk...When I was a kid, though, I didn't mind. Now I get peed on my Buttercup all the time- but Koko has never done it. BC is developing a longer tolerance of being carried before peeing, though, and will sometimes even let me touch her head. Koko just hangs out of his shell and lets me hold him as long as I want. There is some kind of solid sandy substance in BC's urine. I read what it is, once, but can't remember. At least it doesn't smell!

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Uric acid? Or is a separte component? My herp teacher would be po'd at me for no knowing. It's been a few years...

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Oh Grog- you have to start at the beginning and catch up!! But mostly we talk about birds, wine and Lise's dates.

Nanci

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Don't forget chocolate! We also talk about chocolate!

Can't believe you never saw us goofing off over here, Grog! C'mon in. You do have to start at the beginning, though. Only 1,035 posts to plow through. You can skip the ones about wine, as I do. Unless you can drink wine like a normal person, in which case, you might really learn something! :p

I love the word "cloaca". At the conference in Utah, I picked up a chicken & hen measuring tape. For measuring the pregnant ladies' bellies and making their bigger kids laugh. You pull out the tape by pulling the egg away from the chicken. Return it to the cloaca by pushing a button on its belly. (You know I'm tired from being up at 4, riding downtown, donating blood, riding home...when I can't remember if that's the "ITS" that gets an apostrophe or no. I'm living on the edge here.

Yeah, Nanci, that "on the bike on" sentence got me to reread it aloud a couple of times!

Poor **** Cheney. Never to see his true name on the TE board.

Fishjr! TOO CUTE! Thanks for the picture!

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Don't forget chocolate! We also talk about chocolate!

Can't believe you never saw us goofing off over here, Grog! C'mon in. You do have to start at the beginning, though. Only 1,035 posts to plow through. You can skip the ones about wine, as I do. Unless you can drink wine like a normal person, in which case, you might really learn something! :p

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I love wine and chocolate and procrastinating.

I definitely shouldn't have opened this Pandora thread!!

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At the conference in Utah, I picked up a chicken & hen measuring tape. For measuring the pregnant ladies' bellies and making their bigger kids laugh. You pull out the tape by pulling the egg away from the chicken. Return it to the cloaca by pushing a button on its belly.

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Me, too! I also have the cow tape where you pull its tail. Too bad it doesn't moo at the same time.

I also have a tiny fly reel tape from Orvis. I guess this means I have a collection of measuring tapes.

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Me, too! I also have the cow tape where you pull its tail. Too bad it doesn't moo at the same time.

I also have a tiny fly reel tape from Orvis. I guess this means I have a collection of measuring tapes.

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No way! I did not see the cow one! Now I covet it! Heck, SK, you're well on your way to being a midwife!

Has anybody else noticed how SK's "Lizard Time" lizard seems to be doing the "Hammer Time" dance, as first danced by MC Hammer? Hmmmmm?

Grog, if you like procrastinating, you've found your home right here. ;)

The Cow
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...es=0&lastmenu=

The Doggie and his bone
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...es=0&lastmenu=

Pinocchio
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...es=0&lastmenu=

The Chicken
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...les=0&lastmenu

I think I'll stick my knitting.

BTW, how many of you know the measurement of your handspan? 8". Comes in very handy. This was probably on V's silly measurement thread.