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[maillotpois]

Lise - hope Mr. Potential is fun!

Fish - good luck on your ride tomorrow. Just take it easy and breathe. Odds are you've been "pre-disastered" (anyone see/read World According to Garp?), so some doofus soccer field obsessed person will not again cross the line and ride you off the road.

Picked up the PP from camp. Long drive but we stopped a couple of times. I found out my seats go totally flat so I ended up sleeping all the way home - as did the PP, who snores a LOT louder than I do!!

[snapdragen]

Did you see this

Tons 'o Twins

[Lise]

Did you see this

Tons 'o Twins

Wow. That is just freaky. I don't even think there's an emoticon for that one!

The date was nice. I can barely eat on these things, though. Can this be a weight loss strategy? When I come home and eat ice cream after? Saw Superman, which was more fun than I expected. Fun talking with this guy....no huge fireworks...but potential, potential.

[DrBee]

That twin story is freaky! We have a lot of twins here in my town. I know a ton of people with twins. But I've never heard of so many being born at the same time! Wow!

Lise - glad to hear the date went well. Maybe even a spark? Maybe a bike ride will set off a nice chemical reaction???

Mom and stepdad arrived - 10:30pm. Kids stayed up to see them and I didn't get to bed until almost midnight. That's waaaaaaay past my bedtime. Then - kids (who were sleeping in same room together) woke up at 6:30am and of course woke us up.

MP - How's PP? Are you starting to feel better?

Nanci - how did the 200K go? I'm anxious to hear how you liked the shorts...

[Brina]

that twin story is freaky, but they are just becoming more and more common. I teach sunday school and in one class we have 3 sets (one set mine) and 1 set of virtual twins. According to a friend who works at IRI (information resources inc) the zip code just to the south of us has the highest rate of per capita twins in the nation.

[maillotpois]

Glad the date was good, Lise. Let's see if Mr. P lives up to his name.

Snap - the new signature line is fantastic.

Fish - I can't stay up past about 9 - 10 EVER. I am such an early to bed, early to rise!!

Feeling okay. More tired than usual. I think the drive to get the PP from camp was tiring. Slight chest pains, but nothing terrible. Headache from the medicine. Had to go get more blood drawn - I will have to do this every few days and then weekly probably while they figure out my dosage of the anti coagulants.

I have to start back to weight watchers regularly. While I only had 10 - 12 pounds to lose, now that I cannot exercise for 2 weeks and then am going to have to do something other than ride my bike 10 - 12 hours at a time, I am going ot have to be more diligent and monitor things. Maybe this is the time I actually knuckle down and lose that 10 - 12 so that when I can get back on the bike I start off at a better weight at least.

Sigh. The last time I took two weeks of the bike was almost exactly 2 years ago when we spent 2 weeks in France watching the Tour. The year before, we'd brought bikes and ridden a lot, but that year (04), we rented an RV and brought the PP and decided against bike for the hassle factor.

That was the year Jean Marie LeBlanc drove over my foot with his car.

[DrBee]

Brina - what is a virtual twin?

MP - How cool that you went to the Tour twice! What a great experience for PP. I'm glad you're not having terrible pains anymore. I hope they go away soon! Any prediction from the docs on how soon?

Bedtime for me - usually 10pm and no later. We'll probably be up late while they're here. We're having a good visit at least. FishJr and my mom are playing games right now in the kitchen. I'm heading into the living room to watch the Tour. I missed the last half this morning.

[Lise]

MP, hang in there. You'll have moments/days that are better/worse than others. Healing from anything usually takes twice as long as I think it should. Remember your body was working hard with this clot (s?) in there for awhile. Now it's working hard with medications. I honor you for that.

And, as aside, what a story to have your foot run over by one of the riders (? - I know so little) at the TdF!

Speaking of which, I have the most basic of cable, which means: Golf on two channels, TDF on no channels. GOLF?!? I ask you!

Have fun with the family, fish! L.

[DrBee]

Golf????? That's just wrong!

[maillotpois]

My foot was run over by the head of the Tour de France, Jean Marie le Blanc who follows the lead riders in his red car.

We were 2k from the top of Plateau de Beille in the Pyrenees and I was on the inside bend of a corner near the top, crouching down because it was the professional photographers' corner and they'd invited me and the PP over there to get away from the mean basques and I wanted to get down out of their way. Well, I was crouching down, with PP on my knee, and Lance and Basso came by so fast and the car was right behind them and rolled over my foot and must have hit me because I fell back into a ditch! I was just glad the PP wasn't hurt, but it took us a LONG time to get back down the mountain - we had to meet someone in Carcassonne the next day - and meanwhile my foot was getting totally swollen, which was a little scary.... turned out to be okay, but it was a little scary.

[Lise]

Wow! What a great story! As long as no permanent damage to the foot. PP has a phenonmenal story to tell in school! How cool that the photogs invited you and the PP to hunker down with them.

I was really sorry to see that Thor was downed by some spectator's sign. Golf happens all summer long. Why not put the TDF on one channel instead?!?

[Brina]

fish, virtual twins are siblings not biologically related who are the same age. They could be step sibs, or one or both could be adopted. Some people in the adoption community refer to it as artificial twinning but I prefer the term virtual.

[DrBee]

Ah - okay, that makes sense. Virtual twins.

MP - WOW! That's scary getting knocked into a ditch and mean spectators. But what an awesome story! PP is a lucky girl (on lots of levels).

[KnottedYet]

Forgive me, Beer Gods, for I have sinned....

I dumped an O'Doul's (non alchohol) into the dregs of my glorious Red Hook ESB to make it last longer. (there's a very important reason I only buy ONE bottle of real beer at a time. sometimes I forget why. not good.)

I won't do it again, I promise. Sort of.

O'Doul's is pretty sad. Does anyone know a fake beer that tastes good? Preferably a red/bitter? The closest I've found is Kaliber by Bass, but that's on the pale side, too.

I worked for a while at Sparrow (the hospital with all the twins). Pretty cool to hear news of it after all these years.

[maillotpois]

MP - WOW! That's scary getting knocked into a ditch and mean spectators. But what an awesome story! PP is a lucky girl (on lots of levels).

She is. She'll understand it later, I am sure....