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[crazycanuck]

BMO3....Ohio not Iowa...Ooops...

I now have a map of the US saved so I can remember where you ladies are..

Nanci-ick is right!!!

Unsettling news from work. One of my co-workers has been off sick for 3 months or so now with an inner ear infection. (That's what the dr's said) She couldn't sit up or stay awake for long but recently seemed to be getting better. However someone in her family noticed her neck was starting to swell. Finally went to the dr today and a family member told me she has another lump in her neck and is having a round of tests next week. The young lady had a tumor removed 2yrs ago. She's 23... I sure hope she'll be ok..I;ll keep you updated.



Anywho...snow or 30c...snow or 30c...I want some snow...

c

[mimitabby]

HOw crazy is life? DH & I are very close. After almost 30 years you either have to hate each other or be best best friends. We chose the best friends route.
For 2 years I've wanted to take a trip to visit some cousins in Southern Italy, but i wanted to go during a particular festival. This little town they live in is not the most organized, shall we say? Recent updates to their website include advertisements for stuff that already happened... in August.. Well, anyway, I know they have their chestnut festival SOMETIME in November, but i don't know when, so I didn't book my flight until i knew. Meanwhile, my DH booked HIS trip to AZ to hang out with a buddy who just moved there. I don't care for the wife, so I was never included in the plans. But he booked HIS flight before I booked mine. So when I found out what the date was... it was too late. He just left for Arizona. I just kissed him goodbye and drove to work with tears in my eyes. I leave for Italy next week. Fun, scary, dramatic.
here's the strangest part:
on wednesday, i have to pick him up at the airport. Then he drops me off.
THAT is going to be a wrenching experience.

and yes, my secret sister is definitely getting something from Italy.

[mimitabby]

xrayted, i really loved your chicken dinner story. especially the doggie bag part.

Nanci, you have to potty train those snakes. Any self-respecting CAT would have held it until they could get to the closest cat litter pan or flower pot!

Crazicanuck, stories like the one about your coworker are part of what makes me so aware of the fragility and temporariness of life. Live every moment to the fullest. Do not take your loved ones for granted. and that includes your bicycles!

[chickwhorips]

nanci i think we should invent some kind of snake diaper. i had the exact same thing happen with me and fido. i think i made more of a mess flinging off clothes than she orriginally made on me.

[mimitabby]

that stuff must really stink!

[snapdragen]

Why am I surprized to find out snakes poop?

[mimitabby]

Why am I surprized to find out snakes poop?

that's a good question. Why does this surprise you?

[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?

[snapdragen]

that's a good question. Why does this surprise you?

I have no idea why! Like the book title says "Everybody Poops".

Nanci - is snake poop stinkier than dog poop?


hmmmm, maybe I should take this elsewhere, start The Poop Thread......

[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.

[mimitabby]

Believe me, you do not have a corner on the market of getting lost.
we could probably have a huge thread just on how lost we have become.
I always love it when my husband goes off on a new road that suddenly goes down a STEEP HILL.... (i'm following or on the tandem) next thing i know, we are far far down to the bottom.... and it's a DEAD END.
what to do? sit and cry? or Ride back up that MUTHER of a hill.

[Fredwina]

Kitsune06,
I've found that you can't "unbonk" yourself. There's an old axiom in cycling that you should eat, drink, and shift before you need to. Index shifting has made last one sorta obsolete, but I find the other two still apply Eating always been a problem for me, espically now that I'm extra-fluffy
weekends. I have either three or two days ones, This will be a two day affair Now what to for the ride Saturday. I can do the club to San Dimas canyon (and see if anything is afoot at the Circle K) or see if my "falling off the bike curse while in Orange County" is still in force. The Orange County are having the Fall metric from Redlands to Oak Glen. It's In San Bernardino and Riverside counties, which is good. The bad: lots o' climbing, and it fairly close (less than 10 miles at times) from the Espranza fire decisions, decisions

[Trek420]

random thought....anyone seen Bikerz in a while?

[chickwhorips]

if you could unbonk yourself that would be so great!