My Birthday Ride

[mtbdarby]

Atta Girl Roxy! What a fantastic acomplishement and birthday present rolled into one. Keep working on that voice in your head and reprogram her to only saying loving things.

Way to go!

[tjf9]

Great job!!!! and Happy Birthday!!!!

[sbctwin]

goroxygoroxygoroxygo!
YEA!!!
You rock!!!
What else can I say. You have done yourself good, and you have encourage all of us who are down in the dumps about our riding accomplishments this year...
goroxygoroxygoroxygo!

Oh, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[Chile Pepper]

Congratulations and happy birthday! Great story.

[Reesha]

Happy birthday! In your honor, here is a bicycle related dino comic:

[channlluv]

Reesha, you crack me up.

mtbdarby, I agree -- really need to work on my internal critic.

And thanks everyone else, for the good wishes. It really was a good day all around. We went out to my favorite restaurant for dinner - Chevy's, and they've got some new salads and I tried one, then we went out for frozen yogurt instead of birthday cake (we have one of those new serve-yourself places in the strip mall across the street - I had chocolate, vanilla, and Nilla Wafer flavor with M&Ms and Ghiradelli chocolate chips).

When I got home and looked at the mail on my desk, there was a package from a friend of my dad's with some pictures of him when he was a hot young musician in the 70s, and one of him and his favorite dog, Misty, who passed a few years ago (he's got terminal cancer and he's on the opposite side of the continent from me, so this was a great gift), and a birthday card from my mom with a great big ol' check in it. Thanks, Mom!

And not to get too personal, but let's just say D*H turned into DH. I hope this lasts a bit. I like having him around.

Today I'm going to work on a list of goals I want to accomplish this year. I keep putting it off, but it's time. I figure I'm halfway through my life. My grands and great-grands on my mom's side mostly lived into their late 80s and 90s. I've got a great grandfather - Elgin Ward - who lived to 104, when he was killed walking into town because he was hit by a car or a truck - I need to get the story again.

Anyway, thanks, everyone, for the good wishes and all the love and support that you share with everyone here. I really do love this community.

Roxy

[emily_in_nc]

Congratulations Roxy!!! I knew you could do it! Happy birthday too!

I'm confused, tho...to me DH = Dear Husband. I don't think you meant that you got married to D*H who became DH, so what am I missing...?

[Jen72]

Congratulations! Sounds like you had a good time. What a great way to start off your new year. Go roxy go roxy go roxy go!