I have the hots for my man too :D
My eyes are driving me nuts...They're drippy & hot making it hard to bike :mad:. Hopefully i won't grow a tail.:rolleyes:
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I have the hots for my man too :D
My eyes are driving me nuts...They're drippy & hot making it hard to bike :mad:. Hopefully i won't grow a tail.:rolleyes:
Can you tell me roughly where, so I know to avoid?Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
south King county; Kent, Federal Way, Auburn. where MaryQFC was hit.Quote:
Originally Posted by jocelynlf
yep, same here, Mimi and Jocelyn...while I have been back out on the trail (Linda and I, just last weekend, rode from South Park to the site in Auburn where we were hit)...and a bit on the road, I have not done some of my[former] favorite routes - through Kent out to Flaming Geyser or Auburn to Black Diamond (with mandatory bakery stop!)...am still kinda scared and am not going to push myself to ride down there again, while I still feel like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
To note: I was hit (mowed down is a more accurate description:() while in a painted crosswalk, with lots of signage for traffic approaching in all directions - whew!
Even when you, Salsabike and I rode on the Centennial trail recently, I noticed that I was still kinda "hinky" (technical term there, = shaky) on getting back up to where I was previously with bike handling, traffic crossings and the like.
It is all part of the crash and injuries experience, including aftermath, I guess...understandable and part of what I'm easing myself through, without pushing too fast.
Hi, girls.
Just thought I'd say.
Hi! back at you from the Big Easy. Hurricane season officially starts on monday - the annual panic has already begun.Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
Me, I took off early from work yesterday, went to my local nursery bought some plants, came home, ripped out the sorry straggly rose bushes by my front door and relandscaped the to front beds. Looks much better now if I may say so myself. :)
Hi there Salsa!
That sounds VERY satisfying! Sometimes it's hard to rip out plants that are still alive and chugging along. I've slowly learned to harden my heart and just do it, otherwise I keep looking at them and resenting their scraggliness. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
I've been gradually getting more efficient in my bread baking so that now I can be making bread in between multi-tasking work and other things at home. For the past 2 hours I've been working on patent drawings AND baking two new loaves of bread- a plain white sesame boule, and an olive/tomato/cheddar loaf....mmmmm.... I think we've bought only two loaves of bread in the past 6 weeks- and we eat a lot of bread.
Yesterday I planted a bunch of new seeds in my little veggie garden- scallions, French radishes, Italian purple pole beans, bok choy, and others.
I can't wait for my new large veggie garden to get dug in and fenced. :(
You pulled up roses?
i dug down 3 feet once to get rid of a rose. It came back. They're related to blackberries :cool:
now I just cut it to the ground whenever i see it. At least it doesn't spread or multiply like some of my weeds.
What is it with me this week, where three separate people are ticked off at me now for things I DIDN'T post on TE but somehow they think I did???
Someone is getting you confused with me? :D
:D:D That's probably it.
Let them be ticked.
You know, I am getting worried that I am liking the student life too much. I keep thinking that in 2 years I am going to have to get a job, work 8 hours a day, in the summer, too, until I get my hours for my license (1.5-2 years). Not that I haven't worked my whole adult life, but I have always been on a "school" schedule. What I have found is that I like having "different" routines each day, with a variety of things to do, which is why my goal is to work part time. And then, of course, there's the time to ride, run, walk,yoga, x country ski, snow shoe...
I have my priorities right :eek:.
Hey, Mimi,
Sorry that older lady put out such negative energy. It's a good reminder to me not to project my pain/frustration/fatigue at total strangers (or near strangers, or vague aquaintences...) It doesn't really relieve anything for me, and the negativity stays with the others, as evidenced by us discussing it here...
I'm really glad you were out for that ride. Reading about it lifts my spirits!
My foot and leg really hurt today. I took 2 Tylenol at 5 AM and 2 Aleve at 8 AM, and it still hurts, though less (I'd hope so!) I cannot believe that three months post-op it's still so "weak" (that's how I think of it).
The scars are super sensitive to touch, as well. I've found these great silicone scar protector sheets at CVS. I cut one patch into two strips and cover each scar. Makes it much more comfortable to wear shoes and socks.
keep moving those sore parts, Lise! I don't know what else to tell you.
and (blush) I got featured in the NY TIMES!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/ar...gn/31pain.html
Obama’s Face Rules the Web
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: May 30, 2009
Mimi Torchia Boothby’s job as a technician puts her outside a wind tunnel every weekday at the Boeing plant south of Seattle, but in her free time two years ago she took up watercolors. Among her favorite subjects are cats, idyllic scenes of Italy — and, of course, Barack Obama, whose contemplative, sun-splashed portrait she completed a few weeks after his election as president.
Congratulations, Mimi!
I have to go to the "wedding from Hell" today. I think I wrote about it earlier, when I was annoyed about having to buy so many gifts for this person, who will never stay married.
Well, I will enjoy the lunch and dancing, and the fact that I get to be with my son, too. I feel so badly for my friend (the mother of the bride), who has put up with so much over the years, from this girl. Trying to be supportive, but both parents just give in to her. I would not be paying 20K for this wedding.
Wow Mimi! That's FANTASTIC! With Shep Fairey in the same article, too. Very cool.
Yay Mimi! :)
Tres cool Mimi! I must say, of the paintings they had in the slideshow, yours is the best. :)
congratulations mimi!!!!!
Great job. Your art is really taking off!
Congratulations, Mimi! What a wonderful way for your work to be recognized!
Congratulations, Mimi. Great exposure and well-deserved, too.
It may not be apparent from the web site that this is a front-page story, at least in the home delivery edition that I get.
If you want extra copies, I can send you mine and probably snag my neighbors' as well.
Pam
Way to go, Mimi.
I was in the New York Times once, too. Little ol' me, in Arkansas, talking about a radical educational philosophy. I thought it would escape notice in my little conservative town--but no, the local paper ran it on the front page on THANKSGIVING, so everyone in town read it! yikes.
Karen
What a trip! I didn't know they'd run it in other papers too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
Thanks everyone for all your kind words, I am truly overwhelmed!
Attagirl, Mimi! This is so well-deserved...blush all you want, but enjoy it to the hilt!Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
Beautiful work and now, great press: Congratulations!
Mary
What happens is your local paper will monitor or get a notice (I don't know the apparatus) that the AP (or whatever news service) has mentioned a place in their distribution area. So, naturally, if they have the room and it's relevant, they run it, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
It's a really good painting. I'm happy for you!
Karen
Ho, ho, Mimi! It's delightful to see your talent getting the recognition it deserves!
Crankin, I sort of do, now, what you may be thinking about. Half-time school psychologist, pick up occasional consulting jobs in my other profession (workforce/economic development), and have triathlon training time as well as some measure of work-related sanity. It can work out, although probably not if one is the sole bill-payer. And it's very good for the soul.
Re people getting mad about what they THINK others say in posts...there should be a big sign on every online forum that says, "Please try to underinterpret what you read online and in email." Without hearing voice tones and seeing facial expressions, it's so hard to know if posts have any additional layers of meaning that you can't see easily on their faces. So it would be nice if readers would think twice or even more before they decide to take umbrage (barring the occasional blatant insult, which doesn't seem to happen much here).
Ugh. That wasn't very coherent and I am very pooped having just come back from out of town and not enough sleep last night. SO--I hope my meaning is...uh...sort of understood.
Funny how the oncoming of spring is also the opener for hurricane and tornado season. Bleah. I don't miss Michigan's tornado warnings one bit. Better come up here and visit, bmccasland. We're entering our benign season, here. (as opposed to the fall and winter flood and windstorm phase)
I have the world's most wonderful tea rose. It's called "Sheer Bliss". It has very pale pink, long blossoms and the most wonderful light fragrance, and it is unbelievably vigorous and just blooms its head off from May through the first frost. It has about a dozen blooms/buds on it right now and it's right off the porch/outside the weaving studio window.
I understood it quite clearly.Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
But keep in mind i speak fluent Gibberish ;)
Hey, all,
We went for a really nice ride through the forest preserves yesterday. Loaded the bikes on the car and drove to the North Branch Trail. Temps were perfect, and the trail not toooo heavily used, though there were a few tight moments.
The best part was that I wore my biking shoes instead of sneakers for the first time since surgery. I've been riding for over a month, but the first time I wore bike shoes, clipping out with my left foot was very painful. Yesterday was fine! My foot is always sore, because a normal pace for me (walking, riding, whatever) is what most people seem to call "over doing it". So I take the Aleve and keep going.
I noticed that, clipped in, it sometimes felt painfully slow to ride behind John. Now this is a big guy-- 6'2", 200+# --but he often rides at a pace I consider, well, painfully slow! Some might say he's just enjoying the day... Then, at some point, he really poured it on, and I had to work to keep up. :o
It was a great ride, a great day, and I'm not even too sore. I've got a 6 hr clinic today followed by a 24 hr call starting at 10 tonight, so I'm glad I got in some fresh air and fun exercise this weekend.
Hope y'all did, too!
And Mimi, I said it before on another thread, but congratulations, and lovely work! :D
I got my fresh air putting up the pool. Exhausting work.
Karen
thanks for the explanation, Tuckerville
LISE you go girl!!
can i retire now?
The wedding yesterday was actually nice, in terms of a ceremony, party, etc., but it was more like a party for the parents, since the bride and groom are so dysfunctional that they didn't interact much with the guests. And it was one of those weddings where the families are from totally different cultures and sort of different social classes. Very interesting to observe. Well, I got to dance with both my husband and my son...
This morning I went to yoga/meditation class that I am going to take for the summer. I don't know why these types of things sort of rile me up. The class was exactly what I am looking for, but I always feel like the other people in yoga classes belong to a "club" that I am not a member of. I don't need to be best friends with them, but it is just a weird feeling I get. I was, however, pleased to see that all of my home practice has paid off, as I was as flexible as the other people in the class who are instructors or training to be instructors.
Crankin, that's great about the wedding! sounds like a strange couple, all right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
meanwhile the yoga thing? I always seem to get vibes like that too.
I attended a yoga class for a while where the owner/instructor always brought her little pug dog. I'm ok with sharing space with a dog, but it also expected love and attention from all of the students. I did not wish to have the snuffling creature on my mat, so it started barking at me. How professional! I never took another class from her. She wasn't even in the room dealing with her dog!
mimi, that's just wierd about the pug. That said, I think I should be able to take our Tibetian Terrier to work with me. He'd be very soothing, I'm sure. ;)
as long as he doesn't bark at people who don't want to pet him. He could remind mothers in transition to pant. pant pant pant pant.
Well, there were no dogs in the yoga class, which is indeed very strange. Just a bunch of women my age who all seemed to know each other and were all the same "type." It's funny, every sport or activity seems to attract a certain type of person. I don't seem to fit the mold for people who practice yoga or meditate, even though I really enjoy both of these things. I feel much more comfortable with cyclists!
ha, Crankin, at least you DO have a group you feel comfortable with. Some of us just don't.
That's funny, the yoga studio I go to has a wildly varied clientele. A bunch of employees from the beach bar and grill across the street, who definitely fit the stereotype of beach bar employees ;); some older people who've been athletic all their lives, and some older people who've never been athletic; two or three nurses (not including the owner/teacher who's an RN as well); some pretty hardcore athletes; one devotee who's a former MMA fighter and seems to be going a million miles an hour whenever he isn't deep in meditation; etc.
My gym has one aerobics class that's pretty clique-y, but other than that, they're pretty open.
But that's weird about the dog. I'm all for bringing well-behaved pets to work, but when they're behaving badly, especially someplace like a yoga studio, that's crazy.
Agreed. At the Pilates studio I used to go to one of the students would bring her yellow lab. Alma is a therapy dog at the hospital I work at (she even has her own employee badge). My teacher said they only had one incident, Alma couldn't resist one of the small balls and popped it when she tried to pick it up. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
I think Mr. Spock (our 13 yr old Tibetian Terrier) would be great with the pant-pant-pant part of labor! Mostly I want him to just hang out in the call room so I can come and hang out with him.
I LOVE China Kitchen's Combination Lo-Mein. I eat and eat and eat, and the quantity does not seem diminished. Hmmmmm...
For fun, go back and read the early days of TD. I miss Nanci.