another bike date... he neglected to mention...

[Trek420]

Yasmin asks "And fess up folks, when was the last time you Googled yourself!?"

OMG, I'm surprised you don't all show up at my door sometime. Let me know first if you do, I'll try to clean up the hovel a bit.

and tomgrrl, she must have found out that bit about that you sleep with cornish game hens and can't eat anything that begins with the letter "g" unless it's at the far right hand side of the plate? Just kidding you, really I am.

And anyway we know about the cornish game hens and won't serve you gefilte fish at any TE events. We like you a lot but don't run for Senate because the Google images with you, Liberache and Fidel Castro? I think it's done in Photoshop, really I do but it'll just ruin the Senate bid.

and tomgrrl, was the no 2nd date because she googled you? or because she googled you and then was rude and non-reactive and not listening to what you said (how rude. that's like you get to interview William Shakespear and "oh whatever, I've read all about you"), or because she was picking her teeth with the parasol from the drink? ;-)

And googleing myself? There's some major porn star with the same unusual first name as mine. She's not me, really!

I keep pinned up on my pod at work a snippet of a TTY tape of a conversation that ends:

"and can I get your name?"

"TREK420? (insert real first name here)"

"OMG have I reached a wrong number heee heee, have a real sexy day"

"Uh, yeah, and thank you for calling da' phone co, bye bye SKSK GA."

And regarding the balance thing, I'm tending towards what Irulan sed. And I'm a totally unreformed feminist. I think the goal is balance and that's difficult to acheive in any relationship and especially for families with kids, working...there are only so many hours in the day.

And let's face it gals we all love a sport that takes a lot of time. I may or may not ride today, but I will clean and lube and check my bikes. If there was anyone here other than my dog would she resent that? Even my dog would rather I was walking her.

Bikemoma, I can identify with the team sports thing, with my ex for the last 3 years or so of our relationship I was a "football widow", yep, she played on a womens team. It's called pro but so far nobody gets paid or paid much or paid enough in my book to take hits like that but anywho. I went to the games, practices etc, good lil' football "wife".

I've heard football refered to as 'the crack cocaine of team sports". I don't play team sports at all, if there's a ball involved in the sport I can and will s*&^ at it. Yeah, I throw and catch like a girl, go figure. But aparently for sporty folk the intensity of the camraderie of football is addictive.

By then I'd rediscovered my love of cycling and the funny thing is she rekindled that. Also was well on my way to my goal of black belt in Aikido...but I went to the games. Did I resent it on a sunny day I could be rideing? Or that I was missing my own Aikido training? Heck yeah. Did I do anything about it like take time for myself? Nope.

My bad.

I don't think we'd be together even had I carved out time for myself but it's about trying to find a balance and communication I think.