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[chickwhorips]

btw snap good job with the points! i loved being on ww. it help me BIG time. now though, not so good. i have a hard time out here bc i can't get ww friendly stuff. so now i just try to watch what i eat and just work out more. the nice thing is i'm so much more active now than when i was on ww so i just stay the same weight, granted i could lose 5 lbs, but i keep it for warmth.

[Kitsune06]

*maniacal laughter* HA!!!!! I FINALLY got a pic of my bike!


Careful! She bites!
Those are the new smoothie tires... =)

[chickwhorips]

very nice bike kit!

[Tater]

Sweet bike, Kits!

[DrBee]

CC - I love the house! It is so cool to be able to see the house! Thanks for posting the link.

I talked to my hubby this afternoon - the little one is not handling a day without his big sis too well. He's been mopey all day. At least in the afternoon he takes his nap. When he wakes up, he'll be able to go pick up sis from school. Poor baby!

[Bruno28]

Jeez - I'm scared just looking at your bike Kitsune.


I don't know why it is that the loudest most objectionable amercans seem to wash up on foreign shores. I had a real eye opener after visiting the USA having been subjected to american tourists in Scotland. I couldn't believe how polite and helpful people were stateside.
As for Scots - just because we don't smile, it desn't mean we're not pleased to see you....we're just kind of understated.

Fish your kids are sooooo cute.

[Lise]

Fish, the kids are so cute you could bottle and sell it!!! I'll bet the little guy really misses her. Ah, change. If you get the bee job, when would you move?

If you want to meet some seriously polite Americans, go to Salt Lake City, Utah. Almost creepy to someone from Chicago. They are nice, nice, nice. Worried me a bit.

Kitsune, your bike is very cool! I know you love her.

I just got back from a 30 mile ride, during which I decided I wanted a liver sausage and egg sandwich. I recently found this "low fat" liversausage at the Jewel. I loved liver sausage as a kid--who knows why?! But it's so salty and tasty. One day I saw this Oscar Meyer reduced fat braunsweiger (same thing, to me), and bought it. YUM! So I just boiled some eggs and chopped them up with the remainder of the liver sausage. A little mayo to hold it all together, and some minced onion. Yumolicious. Isaac the cat ate a couple of bites, too. He's a big fan of the liver as a food group.

Lara bars are energy bars, along the lines of Clif bars. They are made of only nuts and dates plus flavorings. Very good, and not overly sweet. CC and I really like the Cocoa Mole. I *think* it's the same people that make Maya bars--all of the flavors are based on chocolate.

[SadieKate]

Lara bars are made by the Clif bar people. They are made of only nuts and dates plus flavorings. Very good, and not overly sweet. CC and I really like the Cocoa Mole.

Lara bars or Nectar bars? I love Nectar bars. The cranberry almond or whatever it is. I just recognize it when I see it and buy it.

[Kitsune06]

Thanks for the bike comments- I'll probably love that bike forever... can't wait 'til I can put a brooks saddle on her!

Fish- AWWWW!!!! Such cute chillins. I hope FishJr has a good 1st day

Bruno- My exinlaws visited Edinburgh (my spelling's probably horrendous) but stayed in Scotland their entire trip and loved it...

[Bruno28]

:My exinlaws visited Edinburgh (my spelling's probably horrendous) but stayed in Scotland their entire trip and loved it...

Spelt like a native - but I'd like to hear you pronounce it - you folks just don't get that 'burru' thing.... No not 'Edinboro'. Jings! (- that's Scottish for 'Jeez' btw)

[DebW]

*maniacal laughter* HA!!!!! I FINALLY got a pic of my bike!

Careful! She bites! =)

She won't bite me. I have a 12 inch crescent wrench and some sharp cable cutters (they cut spokes too). Seriously, she looks like a great bike. I won't call her adorable or cute, but harda$$ might be appropriate. Is she what you call Miss 'Cakes? You must tell us how she got that name.

Trek, congrats on the new nephew. I have a new one too, born Aug 5, 8 lb 9 oz, 21 inches. His brother, now 3, has already been backpacking and bicycling with me. Truthfully, I'm only an honorary aunt (no real relation) but I love these kids and their moms are special friends.

[Kitsune06]

She won't bite me. I have a 12 inch crescent wrench and some sharp cable cutters (they cut spokes too). Seriously, she looks like a great bike. I won't call her adorable or cute, but harda$$ might be appropriate. Is she what you call Miss 'Cakes? You must tell us how she got that name.

She bites constantly when I'm careless with the screwdriver and it slips etc.
I was riding with a Eugenian MTB group, and my exdh and I were talking about how pagan folk in Eugene talk about woodland spirits. We decided it'd be funny if there were one named "B*tchcakes" who clomped around the woods in heavy steel toed boots (not unlike me and mine) and one guy in the group heard the name and thought we'd attributed it to my bike. It caught on with us quickly, and soon she was the woodland spirit that clomped through the woods with beefy, knobby tires.

Since then, I've had a hard time talking about the bike or her name because some people are sensitive to such words... and as I've grown more attached to my bike and less militantly "Grr, boots/leather/grease!" er... (less militantly *cough*d_key*cough*) she's gotten the title "miss" and her name abbrevriated.
... and that's the story of the name Miss 'cakes. If I'm a hard-a** cutie-pie, I must be the cutie-pie on the hard-a** bike.

[DebW]

She won't bite me. I have a 12 inch crescent wrench and some sharp cable cutters (they cut spokes too).

Since I posted that, I've been trying to estimate how may spokes I've cut in my lifetime. If I built 5 wheels per week for 15 weeks per year for 4 years, that's 300 wheels, and each wheel had 36 spokes, that's 1080 spokes. And cutting one wheel's worth of spokes was almost enough to give me tendonitis. The fun part was cutting the first half dozen spokes, which are under so much tension that they can fly across a room when you cut them. To be safe, we'd stand the wheel on top of a trash can and cut the lower spokes first.

My estimate of the number of exploding tires I've experienced is 400-500. I'm surprised I don't have hearing loss from that. Less than 5 of those were tires I was riding on, and most of them probably failed stitching in patched sewups.

[Lise]

Ho-lee cow, Deb. I had no idea that bike wrenching was such an exciting and dangerous profession!

[DrBee]

Congrats on the house CC! It looks nice and sounds like it's in a nice location! Cool!


Lise - she said she'd be gone a week. So - only a few more days. I miss her, too!