Good lord there are so many posts that I would have commented on tonight wildly and freely back in the day... Alas, I have this little voice in the back of my head telling me "Oh you'd ruffle feathers".
I wish that voice would STFU. :p
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Good lord there are so many posts that I would have commented on tonight wildly and freely back in the day... Alas, I have this little voice in the back of my head telling me "Oh you'd ruffle feathers".
I wish that voice would STFU. :p
oh screw it, I went for it. :D Sorry in advance but I got a good giggle.
Rock on Kit! :p
I probably just pissed someone off in the car shopping thread. :o:rolleyes:
Nah, I kind of supported you.
I've always hated American cars, anyway, and haven't had one since 1980.
I love my Mitsubishi, all 100% Japanese made part of her.
Hehehe. Someone finally got my point over there. :D
Whatever happened to Corsairmac?
I had a "whatever happened to ________ " moment...
I was reading some old threads and had a lot of those moments CC, what ever happened to Lise, Nanci, Spazzdog... ?
Spazzdog I can update you. She is well and on her way back to Texas, near Dallas. She may already be there. I had brunch with her at Sauls last week before she left the Bay Area.
It's Passover, which makes me wonder whatever happened to Margo? And what about Bikingmomof3?
Thanks for the Spazzdog update, glad she's alive and well on planet earth. ;)
We had a "How is BikingMomof3?" moment last week...
I am loving seeing all this banter amongst the old guard. Keep it up ladies. So nice to see you all posting on TD again. :)
Spring has FINALLY arrived in Kelowna. Latest/coolest spring ever I think. Yesterday we drove down to Penticton and went for a long ride in the SUN! I even got a bit of a burn on my face - so nice to feel the warmth again...
Bikingmomof3 is ok last I heard. She cannot ride a bike ever since her stroke because of balance issues. She still jogs and yogas. She still battles bad migraines.
Rode my bike to breakfast this morning, then took the long way home to get in a couple of hills and a few miles. The weather was gorgeous for that!
Then I got home, saw that my native mason solitary bees had started emerging in their nest boxes- so cute, the males with their little white mustaches! The males emerge first and hang around the boxes like gangs of hormonal teenage ruffians, waiting for the females to hatch out so they can jump them. I did some checking in my honeybee hive (found the queen, she was laying ok), and as soon as I was done it started raining. D'oh!- there go my plans to finish cleaning the post-winter tomato/cucumber bed. :rolleyes:
Margo and I emailed each other for at least a year during and long after my weird disease debacle... from fall 2007 until at least fall 2008. She and I even had some hopes of matching our children up... her daughter was in the Israeli Army at the time and we thought Scott might really go for that! Alas, I don't think I have her email anymore, since my computer had a melt down and I lost all of my addresses.
Didn't Lise reappear last year for awhile? Maybe it was the year before.
Knott!!! One more post and you hit 10K!!! Yay! :cool:
How is every one? This writing stuff is expensive! I should have never sent that e-mail to the reenacting group:eek:!
I got an email from the woman I spoke to at the job fair, at the clinic near where I used to work. So, I guess my feeling that we clicked was correct. She sent me a list of "parameters" for fee for service clinicians, to make sure I was still interested. It was nothing unusual, so I emailed her back that I was *very* interested. I noticed she had cc'd the email to the clinic director, too. I recognized his name; I think I had applied for an internship there, but then I got the one I have before they called me. So, I have a feeling they like grads from Lesley. Yes, maybe it was worth the $ to go to a private university?
I will keep you posted.
Happy Birthday BSG!!!!
Happy Birthday, BSG!!!!!
Happy birthday Lisa!
Sounds good Crankin ... keeping my fingers crossed for you.
My friend Larry died on Sunday. :( Among other things, he built my race bike back in the day. He'd been sick a long time and it was time, but I will miss him.
Sorry to hear that Oak. :(
Crankin - glad you picked a respected school, every bit of edge you can get is a big plus nowadays.
Happy birthday, Lisa!
Sorry about your friend, Oak. No matter if it's "time" or not, it sucks. DH's cousin, who was more like an uncle, died last night. He had a brain tumor and he was actually having surgery when we went to AZ in March for my MIL's memorial. It was at his house; his wife still had the gathering, even though her husband was in the hospital. That says a lot about them. They were DH's only normal relatives that we enjoyed spending time with.
Pax, I chose Lesley because it has a holistic approach to therapy (we're known as the "la-la" school to students at other schools, but they are jealous) and they are tops in teaching/research about trauma. They also use a more project based type of education, lots and lots of reading, reflecting, research, writing and presentations, very little traditional exams (I've had one multiple choice test and 2 take home essay tests), which matches what I did as a teacher. They have a good track record for placing grads, too.
I just got an email from my mom about the tornado watch we're under. We have them all the time here and I don't even pay attention to them, but they freak her out.
She said "I'm tired of being scared all the time". This breaks my heart, I love her so much but I can't be with her all the time, she's lonely and she's frightened and it just sucks. :(
Well here it is almost midnight and I just checked in TE and fiind all these sweet birthday wishes....thank you all, so nice of you! :)
This morning I was taken to a lovely breakfast in town by my wonderful DH.
Then I worked my 2 hour shift at the food pantry (didn't want to make them have to reschedule). DH gave me a beautiful little porcelain rice bowl from Japan, with brown meditative spiral designs...very tranquil, a lovely shape and small size... I can use it for my steamed greens, rice, tea, whatever. I had bought the exact same bowl for my girlfriend's birthday 2 weeks ago and had confided to DH that I wish I had gotten one for myself too, but had resisted. So he knew i loved it it and he got another identical one, on the sly, for me. :p
It was a GORGEOUS day- so rare this Spring! So when I got home from the pantry i gardened- hoed and planted several new rows of Japanese onions, radicchio, lettuces, more radish.
Then one of our friends who owns a pastry shop in town came by the house and brought me a totally unexpected birthday cake! Chocolate mousse, and LOOK how incredibly beautifuL!
Then I found my little native solitary bees were hatching and mating on my kitchen porch, so I took some photos HERE of them mating :cool:: I even got a 'money shot'. :eek: lol!
Picked fresh spinach from the garden and grated last winter's stored carrots and had goat chevre for a great dinner salad- helped offset the huge serving of choc.mousse cake. :cool:
All in all, a great birthday! :)
Thanks again you guys.
Oak- I'm very sorry about your friend Larry.
'nuther day @ clinicals today. Went well. :) I'm happy. Got home and the cats insisted I take a nap with them. I couldn't disappoint, so we all piled onto the bed. :rolleyes:
Finally got my front fender all situated. Putting full coverage fenders on suspension forks is a little more difficult than it ought to be. :eek: Wanted to go for a ride today but having not slept so great last night, I didn't really have it in me to go out. Maybe tomorrow?
Nice pics, Lisa!
Oh gawd I'm tired. I went in pretty early yesterday at work, we got killed, and then I was on-call last night. So of course, we had a late night surgery that they needed me for. I got out of there at 2:45am. That was one lonnnnnng day. 16hrs total. I'm actually sore today. All over. I feel like I got beat up a bit around the edges.
Oh, please call me soon and tell me you got the hiring freeze lifted for my job. :o I need a break from the carnage.
It's Friday!!! And I'm not on-call or doing OT today. The cats have been taking turns nesting in my lap all morning as I sit at the desk clicking away. I wish one of them would start making bread on my thighs though. They could use a nice gentle massage. :D
So, Sorry ((Oak)) - It is hard to lose a friend.
Wow, What a birthday cake! I've been on a diet lately and I'm dying for more food about now. Stop showing all that nummy stuff!
X makes me feel like a wimp. I did my 8 as a student today and I feel sore, but probably because I'm new and green. :rolleyes: Took a nap with the kitties, then biked to the bank and to the store for therapeutic beer and cider. Tonight calls for a pint of Pyramid Haywire and beef 'n bean burritos. mmmmmmmm:cool:
I was awake from midnight to 3am last night, I worked all day on minimal sleep, came home and put a new tube in my front tire, mowed the grass, let a friends doggy out for a game of catch, cleaned up said doggies pile of barf, made dinner, then settled in for some wine. All in all a great day! :p
I hope you guys all catch up on your sleep! Sleep deprivation is so yucky.
I had breakfast early today on my way through town, then on to the supermarket run. Did some laundry with towels and throw rugs, mopped here and there, then finished a patent job of some remote control unit drawings.
I made a big spinach salad from the garden for dinner, then i did some online stuff and lastly practiced a Callabrian tarantella on my tagelharpa. A nice Friday. :)
Oh, and...
One of the nice things about getting older is figuring out it's perfectly ok to say 'no' to a friend, in a nice way of course.
This morning a good friend of mine asked if she could borrow one of my two bikes for a day or two to ride it around town and decide if she wanted to get a bike. She hasn't ridden since she was in college a couple decades ago.
I'm usually ok with lending things...clothes, books, tools, CDs, money, even my car....but not my musical instruments, and not my bikes. They are the best things i own, or will ever own, and i take super care to keep them protected from damage. My custom Luna is especially irreplaceable.
No sooner had her request left her mouth when I gently said "No, I'm sorry, i can't." She looked slightly taken aback. She'll live. :cool:
It wouldn't have worked anyway- she would have found my bikes too tall, she wouldn't have had the faintest clue how to work the brifters, and there are hills here that require shifting no matter where you go. Scary for her, highly risky for my bike. Whenever my friend gets in a fender bender (which is at least once a year), she says with a toss of her hand "Well it's just a car!". To me, my car is also 'just a car'. But my bikes are not 'just a bike' to me. ;)
But i had the perfect suggestion!- I just told her she should go to the local sports/bike shop and ask them to put her on some bikes to ride around the road there -for free- they would be all too happy to let her try a bunch and adjust seats for her, show her how to shift on a hybrid, falling all over themselves to help her out! :D
I know you women here on TD would understand.
When I was 25 or 30 this request would have caused a big internal battle for me. Now ...not so much. lol!
Absolutely. And agreed about the internal struggle, it gets easier and easier to speak our minds as we age, I'm digging it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
I never would let anyone ride my bikes, except maybe another friend who is a cyclist. But, why would someone like that want to ride my bike?
Being older is freeing, isn't it?
BSG - I wouldn't lend anyone my bike either. :eek:
I'm doing another long ride tomorrow and it looks like it's gonna be windy. Again. That means it'll take me an extra 45 minutes to ride the course. Boo.
Switched out my front tube and adjusted my hub yesterday, then we took off on a leisurely pedal to the coffee shop and sat outside to enjoy the sunshine. Followed up with dinner with friends last night... good day!
We pedaled to breakfast yesterday in the sunshine... I have to go in to school for positioning practice before the midterm, and I'm debating whether or not I want to ride in. I have the route planned but I'm not 100% sure I'm ready for some of those hills. :eek:
If it helps any, I will say that I'm never 100% sure I'm ready for hills. :o
Probably best to just go for it.
Pax- that sounds like a lovely day!!
I can't really wrap my head around this whole "hill" thing you all speak of, are they like highway overpasses???
:p