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[chickwhorips]

lise - awe how sweet. sounds like a winner. hopefully you can get a little vacation in somewhere, you earned it.

BMof3 - glad that gel worked out.

x - sorry to hear of the sad fate of the cookie. how horrible indeed. (don't worry i'm a cheap date too!)


there was enough snow on the ground to do donuts and figure 8s in the parking lot with the quad. i came in work to my boss laughing at me and everyone else that came in saying "gee, i wonder who could've done that". this is the time of year that BF and i fight over who gets to take the quad to work.

[Kitsune06]

I'm falling asleep, too.

gonna go put on my jammies (wooly socks, long underwear, sweats, turtleneck, sweater, fuzzy hat )

ARGH just like DGF. Long knee socks, flannel pants, t-shirt, sweatshirt, two comforters (one down, one just fill) and flannel sheets. I wear minimals and she complains *I* am "too warm to sleep near" ... um...

I have to say, it must have been the 1/2 glass of wine that caused the cookie mishap. Normally, you couldn't pry one out of my grip. (I actually am that cheap... **shakes head in disgust**)

Well, hot tubs greatly increase the effects of alcohol consumption... so you're not *that* cheap...
(I say this to make myself feel better... cheap, cheap date here...)

[margo49]

*I* am "too warm to sleep near" ... um...

More proof that Kitsune has fallen thru a hole in the fabric of the space/time continuum.
Think of the physics - the heat generated by the friction of a "mass" falling thru such a stellar phenomenon . Then multiply by the Kitsune factor (named after guess who?) squared (because it is not just a "mass" but no less than Kitsune *herself*)
I rest my case...

[Trek420]

Kitsune06 picturing you Groucho Marx-like with the see-gar "well if you'd take off the Long knee socks, flannel pants, t-shirt, sweatshirt, two comforters (one down, one just fill) and flannel sheets...."

We normaly don't get calls from employees here but my friend J called, got another rep, told her to say hi to me so V messaged me that J was on the line

J & I worked together in collections when I first came to the company then she followed me here (we joked about her being "my puppy" following me around to different departments)

she is the most amazing funny witty wise gal!! you would love her. She is a hoot.

then she left and worked for CTAP

and we lost track of each other....

then she came back to SBC but I did not kinow she was back so we still lost track ....

My first Bike Against the Odds was in a co. newsletter so that was 3 years ago...

and I'm just sitting at work and up pops an e-mail from the long lost Jeri!!!!

only it was bad news.

I found out that she then had stage 4 breast cancer
so here I was at work kinda bawling my eyes out for my friend....

that was i think years ago .

we got together for lunch then, she looked great (just no hair) and she said not to be sad for her, she'd had a good life, great kids, and a great GF if she wins this fight that's gravy and if not don't be sad for her....

I've done more rides since then I never forgot about her

but J never returns e-mail, she never writes she's always been bad about that so I literaly did not know if she's alive ... or not....I send e-mails to her she doesn't respond that's just her.

till today!! she called, sounded good, we didn't talk about how she is I'll try to call, just know that she's alive...

[mimitabby]

Sad story, Trek. I am glad she resurfaced though. we went through the same thing when my stepfather's sister wrote from Poland that she had incurable cancer. We all rememberd her from her recent visit, so much alive, witty, rosy cheeked... Then this letter comes and we all know she's never coming back here. It's very very hard.

hey, here in Seattle we have some NASTY weather. Lots of clouds, sharp winds... the summer feeling is Gone gone gone. Is it going to rain?

[chickwhorips]

trek glad to hear she came back to let you know how things were going.
i have (had) a friend that i've kept in contact with that is (was) a quadripeligic that i haven't heard from in almost a year. i hope everything is ok, but i'm kind of assuming the worse.

[Trek420]

mimitabby & cwr, what is good is having heard from her now I'm trying to put her together with some others of "that old gang of mine".

J and her GF broke up also so sure she could use some cheering up or some such.

here in the Bay we have gorgeous weather but where's the daylight???

[Brina]

kit, congrats on the job - I know I am a few pages late, but as usual I am behind on TD.

Lise, j is just sounding more and more awesome - that Paris idea of his - wow - and the way he handled your saying not during that week.

Weather here in Chicago is awful - rainy and cold. I would rather the temp just drop another 10 degrees and then it could snow. I was playing paddle tennis this afternoon and it was miserable. I was wet inside my rain gear from sweating so much and outside my raingear from the rain.

BMo3 - glad to hear you have found the right bra. i just got the cw-x firm support and wow, I hear you on the shoulder dislocation problem. But these 36Ds need the support.

[Bikingmomof3]

BMo3 - glad to hear you have found the right bra. i just got the cw-x firm support and wow, I hear you on the shoulder dislocation problem. But these 36Ds need the support.

I am glad you did as well.

[Lise]

Brina's right about the weather. Yesterday I was lucky to catch some dry weather for riding to and from work.

Yep, J. is something else. He's an IT project manager, not rich, but hey, if the man has a way to go to Paris, let's go! So looking forward to seeing him tomorrow.

So tired. Usually I'll throw some clothes in the laundry and go take a nap on a Thursday, but washer and dryer were both out of commission, so I went to the laundromat. It's efficient, but I have to stay awake the whole time! What's up with that?!? Dishwasher also on the fritz. Argh. Minor problems. Going to bed now. Sleep tight, TD!

[snapdragen]

Just got back from shopping for goodies for this Saturday's Bike Academy Grad Ride. I know I am missing something, here's what I bought for the SAG stops

Water
Mini Bagels and Peanut butter
Circus Animal Cookies
Trail Mix
Hot Cocoa mix

I still need to get Bananas and probably some oranges.

Anything else?

[Xrayted]

Trek - glad to hear you found your friend again. She's still here and that says a lot after going through stage 4 breast CA. Hope she is well and will continue to be so for a long time.
Kitsune - and what's the matter with her wanting to be warm? I get cold easy too and dress the same way in the winter. Besides, it's like getting to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop. The thicker the layering, the more time you have to enjoy getting to the chewy center.
Knotted - tried the child's pose tonight after work. Very nice. Stretched out some muscles that I didn't realize I still had. Really stretched me out from ** goes digging in the brain archives** the trapezius, through the lats and into the erectors. Got a yank on the glutes too. Put a twist on it and caught the external obliques deeper in. Course, my knees have stopped functioning now. (Don't think the left one will ever totally straighten out again. ) It was a little rough on the ankle too. It doesn't like to plantar flex much. Or dorsiflex past 90 for that matter. I already do the other move and it's very relaxing. Any other ones I can use on the lower thoracic and lumbar region with less trauma to my ankle?
mimi - hope you get some sleep. Honestly tho, even with a full 8 hours, meetings just get me bobbing and weaving. And forget it if they turn down the lights for a Power Point presentation. Gone, sister, gone.
Nanci - please explain musking. I think I have a clue but I don't want to misinterpret.
BMo3 - so glad you're still getting out for your runs since it's so cold these days. I'm a weather weenie and have been on the trainer for a week now. Not nearly as interesting but better than a gym. Get to surf TE while riding. Yea!
Lise - any new canoodling reports? I'm having a dry spell and need to know someone is kissing somebody somewhere.

Thanks everybody for the cookie retrieval support. I was just glad I got it out before it disintegrated and got sucked into the filter system. Instead of riding this morning, I would have had to check filters and probably shock the tub. I'm almost obsessive about I the water being clean. I bought a tub with filters that work so well, you can drink the water it's that pure. (The first tub's filters were junk.) I don't like to get in for at least 24 hours after a shock so there would have been no tub tonight. And I need it again tonight. (Right hip painful after a bit of a fall today. I didn't fall, someone fell ON me. Long story.)

[Nanci]

Musking is when the snake squirts smelly stuff on you. It's not poop, but it smells very bad. Milky yellow-white liquid. It's a defense mechanism.

Last night, Choco ate his first Fuzzy. Addy is shedding. I had Maizey out, and we're watching Wild Boyz Season Three. They do a lot of eating gross things and then vomiting on that show. So Maize is winding around in my hair, around my neck, and I'm massaging her belly- just to see if I felt eggs in there or anything, and suddenly I feel a drop on my wrist, and smell something bad. I lift her away from me, and discover she has totally sh*t on my hair, neck, shoulder, and it REALLY smells. I run to her viv and put her back in, gagging like Steve O and Chris, and tear off my shirt- poop flings onto the kitchen floor, and run to the back door and fling the poop shirt out the door, and run to the bathroom and stick my hair, etc. under the faucet...Ewww!!!

And I got my October SS packaage when I got home, that was cool!! I still have to send out October- I was off to such an on-time start, till I remembered I forgot about stationary, and then we were in the financial crisis...But I'm finally semi-caught up today.

I'm afraid that snake I want to buy on line will get sold at a reptile show November 11th. I could probably scrape up enough to get her now, but not enough for her furnishings. Maybe that's a sign. But it's my birthday in three weeks!

IM Florida next weekend, a 200k on the west coast (of Florida) the next, the Horrible Hundred Century the next, Thanksgiving the next...

Snap- something salty- pretzels?

[Trek420]

Snap ~ I like the mini boxes of raisins.

[Brina]

nanci, eeeeeewwwwwwwwww


i got my SS gift yesterday. It is so cool - the chick (UK Elephant) does her homework - she searched me out and discovered that I post on this thread a lot and geared her gifts towards topics in TD. how cool is that?????

I was able to pop over to a cool stationary store while my youngest was in ballet class yesterday. The socks arrived earlier this week. Now i just have to assemble my SS package and get it in the mail.