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[Nanci]

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...

[Lise]

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...

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.

[Tater]

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!

[maillotpois]

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

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!

[Lise]

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!

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 )

[maillotpois]

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!

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.

[Tater]

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 )

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!

[Lise]

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

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

[maillotpois]

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

At least you're never lonely...

[Nanci]

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

[maillotpois]

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....

[Nanci]

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.

[DrBee]

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!

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.

[DrBee]

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

Now that's positive thinking



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

[Nanci]

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.