Well, I’ve been for a few rides since I’ve posted last. I think I got it right. I may be lying about one of those 16’s…but NOT on purpose. Rode to Bartley and back several times and day before yesterday went East instead and went to Arapahoe and back. Now that was a nice ride. The shoulders were smooth…except for that one damn bullsnake that wanted to rear up and bite at me…aghhhhhhh! I did okay. My lungs stayed in my chest, my thighs and calves look like stovepipes…but hey…they always do. Yesterday we went for a short 16 to Bartley and back, Cindy wanted to go on to Holbrook but I wasn’t feeling it. She went on then and I stayed home. I was exhausted from working and my shoulder was hurting like hell. I also had to get ready to go to ballgames and get the boys ready and blah blah blah. Anyway, today would be a perfect day for a ride but Cindy had to go to Holdridge…maybe when she gets back.

Well, I’ve been riding again. Cindy and I went 30 some miles yesterday and I went 16 or so today. I think we went 25 or so a few days ago. I am vague because I am EXHAUSTED. Between work and the kids baseball games and trying to do something at home I cannot really get any rest time in. My shoulder hurts like a mo fo and my joints ache too. But hey the bonus from riding again are many. Like…Cindy Sue mentions her ASS CHEEKS ARE SWOLLEN. Yay Now that is something I NEED! Also, there is sunburn which helps my freckled damaged skin even more. Something I also love about bike riding is the bugs that either sting your head as they get caught inside your helmet OR the bugs you eat because they come flitting at you like 50 mph. Something I hope is true is that cow shit is good for your skin. Those semis that come flying by you often fling cow shit/piss/vile fluids onto me. Hopefully mad cow disease isn’t something you can get through osmosis.

Well, we got through a busy day at the shop today.  We had to cater a brown bag luncheon for 54.  That is quite a bit of lunch for us to prepare beside what we have at the shop.  I stayed up until about 4 am watching boiling chickens, making stickers, making plans, getting to go bags ready with silverware, napkins etc.  Our menu was homemade chicken salad sandwiches on a homemade bun.  We put slightly roasted, slivered almonds in, water chestnuts, celery, and onion in with lots of chicken.  We made and frosted sugar cookies and I made little stickers with fortunes on them to seal the cookies into a paper sack.  The group also received homemade potato salad and a big of sun chips.  We brought our house blend coffee, Sit Long Talk Much and also a flavored blend of Butterscotch Toffee.  I also brewed tea and served this iced.  whewwwwwwww  Thank goodness for our wonderful helpers.  Afterwards, Cindy Sue and I went for a short bike ride.  It ended up to be 20 miles or so.  My second real ride since March.  I don’t think we will do BRAN ride this year but maybe we can do the NUMB ride. The NUMB 2008 ride will be a 270+/- mile loop tour starting and ending in Wahoo, Nebraska.  The strangest thing happened on our ride today.  My eyes always tear up to much when I ride.  I think it is because I wear to small of sunglasses and the wind irritates my eyes.  Soooo I was wiping tears and I just said to Cindy, “I need to get a pair of good sunglasses” and it wasn’t more than 20 feet later and waaa laaaahhh there was a perfectly good pair of yellow Ironman sunglasses laying on the side of the road!!  I was like whoooahhhh is this strange or what.  Nothing wrong with them at all.  AND THEY FIT!!  

now…sadly after only 20 miles…I feel a bit tired and my right foot hurts.  Don’t know what to do about that yet.  Might need a pad in my cycle shoes.  

I don’t look like a girl who was drinking a beer do I???
Cindy Sue, Kurt and some bizarre boy child with an obvious deficit…~CECIL~ came over and we drank a couple beers…or so…and we giggled and talked about nothing…that I can remember really…ha ha ha…and we watched someone get picked up outside our house…surprise…it wasn’t my kids…for once…YET. give em time give em time…sigh. Cindy and Kurt(and that bizarre child with the deviant laugh and cross eyed loose lipped grin) brought the old road bike back with new tubes and handlebar wraps on. She is lookin’ sweet. Too bad as soon as I sit on the purty girl…her back tire will buckle and blow. watch out kid you might shoot out your eye!!!damn my large arse anyway…curses to the 3 axe handle wide pants I must wear…damn…damn…
In other news…well…ummmmmmm…nothing

A new record. I exercised TWO days in a row! I even got sweaty! Get this, I plan on exercising today as well. What’s going on you say? I just want to TRY to get into shape for bike riding. I don’t know that we’ll do the BRAN ride this year, but I hope we get to do some riding. Right now, I am in the WORST shape I’ve ever been in. I hate it.
must nap now…yawn

I worked my ass off today. First I got the roll order ready (8 dozen assorted cinnamon rolls etc…) to be picked up my 8, then I made breakfast sandwiches for the whole fam damily and delivered them. Rode my bike to mom and dads to drop off their sandwiches, went home and I turned my dinky garden soil over with a shovel, dug up a new area for my onions, mowed the lawn in back, cleaned the damn stinking pond, picked farking weeds, swept the damn garage…again, washed clothes, hung them on the line, vacuumed, dusted, mopped the floors, thought about drinking beer but it was only 1pm. Made lunch, called mom, spray painted some hardware for my cupboard doors which NEED TO BE PUT BACK ON MARK!!!!~!~, moved my old swing, picked dandelions from between bricks, got Katie to go get 5 bags of cedar mulch (she a strong girl), I then replaced some of the mulch from last year with the fresh smelling new stuff, ate 5 sweet tarts, made Alec take out the trash, Andrew mow, took mom and dad a coke with ice, noticed dad has a bad loose cough now, got him some medicine, thought about life and how short it is, thought about how stressed out we are and how unhappy our home has been lately, talked with mom, went home, talked with Katie, Mark, the boys, tried to be upbeat and not tired, took a bath and then noticed everyone was GONE…baseball practice, swing choir singing (which I MISSED because I do not know ANYTHING!!!), planted onions, called mom again, checked my periannuals, watered them, laid down for a bit, did dishes, decided to make CRAB LEGS on the grill and we gorged, washed more farking dishes, thought about how much work there was to do for graduation (2 WEEKS PEOPLE!!!), drank a beer and wished for more. I’m sure there was more but who really gives A RATS ASS!!!

ps…I need CALGON, BEER AND A BACK RUB!!

Just seems that life is so full of the little things that I don’t have a minute to sit down and type anything…let alone make sense with what I’m doing. I doubt it will slow down anytime soon.
First football game this week…then…let the games begin.
I did take a bike ride to Bartley and back with Cindy today. I rode like I’d never been on a bike before. Panting all the way. I was thirsty and tired and it was only to Bartley.
slipping into the gray abyss I’m afraid.
I’ve been doing weird projects in my few minutes of insomnia…decoupaging shoes and jelly jars.
yuh…high heeled shoes from junior high days and jelly jars of old.
I’ll take a picture and show you later.
Other than that those strange projects…same old same old.
Seems as though time is flying and I am not.

We got our BIKES! and the dingle bell WORKS like a MOFO!
Justin at Kearney Cycling & Fitness gave us a “deal deal” winkity wink wink…NOT!
Hell, it used to be easy to get a “deal deal” but now…man does it take some time! Well, the Tahoe didn’t break down and we shopped and ate ourselves silly. We laughed soooo hard at a WENDY’S drive through the poor idiot who took our order is probably scarred for life.
How many people owe their “scarring” in life to us.
Quite a few I’m thinking.
Katie probably said it best when we questioned Katie how she could find us in the big loud Target store. She said, “I have figured out I don’t have to look for you guys, I just have to listen.”
Well…that just makes me wanna hop on my big ass bike seat and peddle down the road dinging my bell as loud as I can!!

Our tent is packed. The cooler is full. The kids are taken care of…I hope! The dog is worried. The both of us are tired as HELL. The anti monkey butt powder is ready!