Emily- Alright, after hearing your fractured pelvis story I'm less inclined to gripe about my own circumstances. ARG I hate irresponsible dog owners. I love dogs. I even love walking dogs, both of my jobs involve dogs. But they don't run around clotheslining people or anything. I hope your healing goes rapidly and well.
I hope all your nervousness dissipates in the face of the fun you have on your road ride! Kudos to you for being brave. And thank you for your story. It's encouraging. I'm healthy these days, just tired.

TriGirl- I'm just so exhausted.. I can't face the idea of commuting to work on my bike right now.. It's 14 miles there. And I'm on my feet for six hours, 5 miles to the next job and I'm on my feet for another six hours and or doing heavy lifting and then the 19ish miles home. I just don't think I could do that and work a 12 hour day. I really think I'd die<G> I do think after finals next week I will start taking small rides. But I thought about trying the commute. Tried measuring it out once, but I don't think I'd survive shifts of work afterwards<G>

LBTC- Nice Pun. hehe I hate the ends of cycles though as other things pick up and I start to miss the former activity and.. well. /end whine. to everything spin spin, there is a season spin spin spin.

TriskeLionGirl- It's really good to hear that other people have phased out and back into cycling. I just had this heart attack moment of.. "What if that was it?! What if I NEVER ride a century now?!" Can't do club rides, no problems waking up early on weekends, I'm at work by 6am weekends, 7 on weekdays. lol. That'll be my schedule through the end of this month, likely the end of next month too at the rate I'm going. I do think after next week though at least I'll try and fit in an evening ride or two a week. I'm getting alot of exercise and activity at work but really craving the zen bike time. And realizing, especially after everyone's great posts that it doesn't have to be all or nothing.

Jo-N-NY- Again, it's good to hear other peoples stories, motivates me to at least get out -a little bit- and that it's not the end of it for me. I can be a way too black and white person. I hope your new business goes great and smoothly and you have much more free time for biking this time next year... And DANG ya'll here have some nasty injuries. I hope that's healed up alright?

RoadRaven- I know life's gonna be alright, but like I said.. Just this terror of "what if that was it for cycling?! I liked it so much and now I haven't done it in more than a month?! was that the end?! how did that happen?!" I think I'm recovering from my moment of panic now<G> Especially after all these great posts...

Tulip-Nothing I can really cut back right now... Just got out of a very long term relationship that I was not self sufficient in any way in... Finally went back to school after dropping out of HS and College in my teens.. finally becoming financially self sufficient.. Doing the math and scheduling.. The next few months will be hell eh? But it's -happy- hell. It's not like I'm stuck here and this is the rest of my life.. It's that I'm doing this so that I can improve my life in the long run ya know? working both jobs to pay off debt and get stable. going to school to finish up diploma and 2 year degree that I had no idea how close I was to finishing. Just all sorts of stuff like that... I figured it was better to have 2 or 4 miserable months then stretch it out for 6 months or a year of just barely coasting along, being unhappy with my situation in life and having a lot more free time to complain in. <G>