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[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.

[Kitsune06]

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.

But I want the chewy center NOW! I burn calories like a furnace at night- give me a glass or two of wine before bed and hold a hand 3" away from me and you can *feel* the heat. With a heater like that, I don't understand the need for all the clothes, is all.

totally wore myself out Wednesday plotting out my commute course (and getting lost- a lot) then much forehead smiting the next day when I looked at a map and found I could cut about 10 minutes off that...

Mom 'n Dad might be helping me with safety gear etc so I don't freeze or get killed. That's a plus. Got my hair cut so I could put it in cute little pixieish spikes or ruffle it a little after taking the helmet off, so that'll make life easier, too.

The story after getting lost- I show up at my new place of work (after negotiating crossing 217 at Scholls Fry, and being lost for an hour and a half in the Murray Hills) clean up in the bathroom (after some young guy sputtered when I told him where I'd just come from) put on rain jacket (to hold in some of the sweat smell... no baby wipes yet...) I go upstairs to give my new manager the money for my fingerprinting, and she says "oh! You biked in! You didn't have to! How was it? How far? Think you can do that every day?" She and the receptionist were asking me lots of questions, then the secretary looks at me, and says very quietly "I am *so* proud of you."
It kind of knocked me back a little. I'm used to you ladies going 10-15 miles a day on your commutes and hearing that, and this lady was so surprised I'd bike anywhere more than 2-3 miles from my house to go to work. I thanked her, but wondered if my response was really adequate.
I bonked hard coming home- it'd been about 4 hours on my bike (between being as lost as I was and the hills) and swore someday I'd get a road bike that weighed less than 28#. Came home and about passed out... but the ride home was much easier than the ride there (way easier to figure out where I was going...)
How I can manage to make a 9 mile ride take an hour and a half, I don't know. Well, hopefully I can speed that up.

so... that was my weekend.

[mimitabby]

But I want the chewy center NOW! I burn calories like a furnace at night- give me a glass or two of wine before bed and hold a hand 3" away from me and you can *feel* the heat. With a heater like that, I don't understand the need for all the clothes, is all.

totally wore myself out Wednesday plotting out my commute course (and getting lost- a lot) then much forehead smiting the next day when I looked at a map and found I could cut about 10 minutes off that...

Mom 'n Dad might be helping me with safety gear etc so I don't freeze or get killed. That's a plus. Got my hair cut so I could put it in cute little pixieish spikes or ruffle it a little after taking the helmet off, so that'll make life easier, too.

The story after getting lost- I show up at my new place of work (after negotiating crossing 217 at Scholls Fry, and being lost for an hour and a half in the Murray Hills) clean up in the bathroom (after some young guy sputtered when I told him where I'd just come from) put on rain jacket (to hold in some of the sweat smell... no baby wipes yet...) I go upstairs to give my new manager the money for my fingerprinting, and she says "oh! You biked in! You didn't have to! How was it? How far? Think you can do that every day?" She and the receptionist were asking me lots of questions, then the secretary looks at me, and says very quietly "I am *so* proud of you."
It kind of knocked me back a little. I'm used to you ladies going 10-15 miles a day on your commutes and hearing that, and this lady was so surprised I'd bike anywhere more than 2-3 miles from my house to go to work. I thanked her, but wondered if my response was really adequate.
I bonked hard coming home- it'd been about 4 hours on my bike (between being as lost as I was and the hills) and swore someday I'd get a road bike that weighed less than 28#. Came home and about passed out... but the ride home was much easier than the ride there (way easier to figure out where I was going...)
How I can manage to make a 9 mile ride take an hour and a half, I don't know. Well, hopefully I can speed that up.

so... that was my weekend.

what do you mean, that was your weekend? You haven't had saturday or sunday yet!! next time take some food with you so you don't bonk.
I am sure you can cut your commute time way way down. Did you see that thread, how much does your road bike weigh? Mine weighs 26 pounds. so it's mental! (your problem) you don't need a 16 lb bike to have a pleasant 9 mile commute. Once you figure out how to get there and stuff, it should be a lot quicker. It was 9 miles to the opera the other day and we did it in about 40 minutes. You have any hills?

[Kitsune06]

what do you mean, that was your weekend? You haven't had saturday or sunday yet!! next time take some food with you so you don't bonk.
I am sure you can cut your commute time way way down. Did you see that thread, how much does your road bike weigh? Mine weighs 26 pounds. so it's mental! (your problem) you don't need a 16 lb bike to have a pleasant 9 mile commute. Once you figure out how to get there and stuff, it should be a lot quicker. It was 9 miles to the opera the other day and we did it in about 40 minutes. You have any hills?

My "weekend" is on Wednesday and Thursday. The entire route is mostly gentle rollers, some higher than others, but I have no real idea as to the grade. I had hammer gel 3x (1x per hour) and refilled my water bottle when I got there, but still felt like dying. The area where I was lost for maybe an hour and a half was very, very steep, to where it made more sense to stand and pedal or I was spinning like a madwoman. I actually got off and walked a little bit to loosen my legs again. None of that is anywhere near my actual commute path, though. People underestimate my magical ability to get lost.

I always go slow while warming up... sadly, though, warming up takes me a while. I'm getting better, though.

I'm thinking about OJ and oatmeal in the morning before I get on the bike, then bagels, cream cheese and coffee when I get there, and a gel if I need it on the way. (I have hammer gel in the flask, and love that stuff) It'll be a learning experience, I'm sure.