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June 17th, 2010

To-Do

Things I need to do…

  1. Take bike to shop, get gears fixed… again.
  2. Buy a food scale.
  3. Menu for Game Night.
    1. Peppercorn Pork Tenderloin
    2. Grilled Asparagus
    3. Corn on the cob, chipotle butter
    4. Ciabatta bread w/ spiced olive oil
    5. dessert… cake…?
  4. Take car of giant pile of stuff in the living room…
  5. Clean the bathroom, sweep, swiffer
  6. Dishes
  7. Laundry
  8. Vacuum the house.
  9. Make the bed
  10. Clean off desk
  11. Power Point slides for Religious studies.
  12. Read “Things Fall Apart”

And that is all I can think of right now. I think I did well on my quiz in history today. He let those with the papers, or computers, pull out the articles, and use them as references to the essay quiz, which was nice. I got an A- on the last quiz, so hopefully I do just as well, if not better. As soon as class is don I am going to take my bike to the shop, and then go to the store, pick up a few more things for the dinner tomorrow.

I’m a bit stressed right now because I parked in this area, just off campus, and it does NOT have any “no parking signs” – and it also does not have any meters. Since I have my bike I didn’t mind parking so far away, because I could just ride my bike from the car to class, especially nice since I needed to take my bike any way. Campus is half way between home and the bike shop, so I was trying to save a little gas – but it would be so easy to just steal a bike off the back of a car, since the rack can’t be locked to my car.

Since I didn’t ride my bike to campus though, I am only going to get 2 miles in. If the bike gets fixed while I am off doing my bit of shopping, I think I will go on a ride when I get home. I’m not sure where I would go, but if all of my gears are working, I could pretty much go any where. I am kind of bummed that B-man doesn’t have a bike though, because we could go together. I am seriously considering hopping on Craigslist and just finding him one!

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June 16th, 2010

Get up & keep going…

I had a dream last night that every one, including myself, forgot my birthday. This may be a good thing, as my seems to be unable to remember that I am aging… I told my own mother I was a year younger than I really am… honest accident. Sometimes I think dreams mean something… like the time I dreamt about Rigoletto a million times. I don’t know what it meant, but it has to mean something… right? Ok. This is a tangent. I just woke up so of course dreams are on my mind. lol.

I rode my bike to school yesterday, and I’m going to ride it in again today. I need to call the place that fixed it though, because now that it is in first gear (of the bigger gears) it won’t shift to second or third. It’s okay because I have the 1-6 gears on the other side, which give me enough variety to ride comfortably, but I got it fixed so that I could ride better, and I paid $100 to get it fixed. Hopefully they’ll just fix it up for free… since I already paid for it and they obviously didn’t do something right. I’ll keep you updated on that.

I did ride my bike into class yesterday. But, as I left class to meet up with a study group the sky turned black. Yes – black, not gray… it looked like it was night time. Yeah… I had checked, and it wasn’t supposed to rain until 5… but as the heaven’s opened up at 3:03 I tried to not panic. Luckily one of the girls in my study group lives near me, and she kindly shoved my bike in the back of her car so that I didn’t have to ride home and risk getting hit by lightning, or getting soaked. So, yesterday I only biked 4 miles. Looking at the weather today, it is supposed to start raining much earlier, and continue until much later. THIS SUCKS! lol. I hate taking advantage of people, but I also hate being a lazy bum.

Speaking of classes, they are going well. My Western Civ class is everyday, but I kind of really like it. I don’t know why I haven’t ever taken summer classes before, but honestly – best idea ever. I am shoving an entire semester of my least favorite subject into a month! And FYI… that month is almost over! Only three more weeks of class. In Western Civ we have a map quiz and a short essay quiz every week (one of Tuesday, one of Thursday). Then in my World Religions class we meet twice a week, and have a 5 question multiple choice quiz once a week. It’s not so bad. It is kind of crazy that, including today, there are only 6 class periods left. I should definitely get on top of writing my final paper. And reading. lol.

My garden in floundering. The green squash are growing like crazy, and the potatoes are thriving, but everything else seems to be frozen in the same state they were in a few weeks ago. I’m not really sure what to do with them. Should we replant? Should I just leave them and hope for the best? Who knows? lol, definitely not me!

Well, now I need to go and figure out if I can ride my bike or not. I think I will call my friend and see if she minds giving me a ride home tonight, should the weather looks sketchy. Wish me luck!

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June 8th, 2010

On the un-mends.

I thought I was mending. My sunburn stopped hurting. I was feel good, I even rode my bike to class on Monday. Then Monday night I started feeling sick, and I was freezing cold… my house is 80+ degrees… it was crazy! Then my body got all confused because, well… it’s kind of gross but because of the sunburn on my back the sweat couldn’t get out of my skin, so my kind husband… well… there were lots of little bubbles that needed popped, and lots of skin that needed removed. I don’t know that I could be convinced to do the same for him with out throwing up. But he’s such a sweet man, lol. I don’t think my own Mama would’ve down it! lol. So, after the trapped sweat was… gone… my body was unsure of how to regulate it’s self, what with 1/6th of my other epidurmis missing.

Gross.

Any way, today my skin is red again, itchy, painful, tight. Everything it was two days ago. As much as I like riding my bike – if I can’t carry a back-pack, I can’t do it. So, instead I had to drive. I guess this burn is worse than I thought. I’ll just work on not sweating, or laying down. Gah!!!

In other news… my garden is growing. I should get my lazy butt out their to take a picture, and I will… eventually. Like, half of my plants are refusing to grow. But… we will have potatoes. That’s exciting, right? lol.

I will get back to actually blogging about my life when I’m not in such a tizzy over the pain of this ridiculous sunburn. In the mean time, forgive me. :)

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June 8th, 2010

One day at a time.

I rode my bike again. The bridge I take over the river was closed, so despite my best pep talk of “over this hill the the flat bridge” I had to go up a few more hills to the next available bridge. Stupid bridges.

It feels amazing. To be honest – I’ve always hated working-out. I hate sweating, I hate wheezing, I hate exercise. Let’s be honest. lol. But there really is something about this biking thing. It is kicking me but. I get home smelly and sweaty and nasty and I can’t breath, but I know that I just biked 7 miles. I honestly thought it would be something I tried and then gave up – but doing it just makes me feel so alive. And it’s not the boring gym stuff. I’m moving and I can feel the wind in my (sweaty) hair and I talk myself up those hills (Only walked up two short portions today!). I honestly think that once  I get my bike fixed at the end of the week I will be able to ride the entire way. And it is freaking AWESOME!

So that’s all.

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June 4th, 2010

Hello beautiful.

Before I was married, before I was engaged, and before I was even dating any one, I imagined that this was what I wanted to hear every morning and I daftly tried to pull the half a ponytail left up into some kind of flowing sexiness. Still working on that. I should just sleep with my hair down. Regardless, it is my favorite thing to hear him say. Or “good morning beautiful”… or well… any time he calls me beautiful. I’m loved.

I may sound gushy, lovey dovey, like – but the reason is, despite having one of the worst sunburns I’ve experienced in my 22 years of life (by the way, it hurts like the dickens), I feel fantastic. Ha! I said it! I honestly thought I was going to die today. I rod emy bike for 10 minutes, got lost, and ended up a block away from my house. I wanted to cry. I stamped my feet a bit, and tried to convince myself it would be safer to just ride the 2 minutes back to my house and drive, because obviously I was not ready for this. But, instead of making the left to go home – I went right. And from that point I got to school in about 25 minutes.

Let me tell you right now – it hurt. My head was reeling, my lungs were aching, I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest. I didn’t want to stand up, but my butt hurt from the bike – so I didn’t want to sit down. If I hadn’t run into a girl from one of my classes last semester… I probably would’ve sprawled out on the grass. But thankfully this girl was just an inspiration for me – she too rode her bike in, but she didn’t look nearly as disgusting and sweaty as I felt. And she just said “It’s hard, but you will love it.” Guess what… I loved it!? My ride home was perfect. Lots of flat. Some up, some down, but lots of flat. I went home the way I had intended on going to school. Now that I’ve done it backwards I should be able to do it forwards.

Guys… it felt fan-freaking-tastic. I turned the corner onto my street and wanted to cry. I’ve never really challenegd myself. I’ve never taken on something with out knowing I would do well. I’m a planner. And this was out of my element, and it was hard. My back is hurting me so badly right now – I will probably drive in tomorrow. But I have purchased sun-screen (umm… I thought I was prepared, until B-man reminded me that my previous can of sunscreen exploded in the car… which is why I went without today). The only thing that hurts is my buttocks. I’ll get over that. So, assuming this sunburn should go down over the weekend – what with B-man applying body butter three times a day – I will definitely be doing this bike thing again.

It is an amazing feeling when you face your fears, and succeed. Something I will never take for granted. To be honest, I love my life so completely right now, and it just blows my mind. Three years ago I was at such a low, I couldn’t have ever imagined how happy I would be. Now as I sit in the office at 4 in the morning listening to B-man snore in the other room, I can’t help but feel a little bit undeserving of all the happiness this man has brought into my life. He encourages me, supports me, love me, and calls me beautiful – even with the mullet-like-morning-ponytail-thing.

I might have too many endorphines and vitamin D in my system right now. No worries – I’ll be myself again soon! Actually… that would explain my lack of pain. Toodles!

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June 3rd, 2010

YES!

I did it. Got lost on the way to class, but still arrived 30 minutes early. It wasn’t so bad, and I will do it again tomorrow… the only problem?

MY BUTT HURTS!

Thanks for all of the encouragement – and I’m really glad I did it.   Too pooped to keep sitting here, but my class looks like it is going to be interesting, and easy! Yippee!

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June 3rd, 2010

Fretting.

Once, when I was at the The Hague International Model United Nations, I sat next to this group of British guys.

I have always been a bucket of stress. Especially in high school, before my depression was sever enough to effect strangers, before anti-depressants, when my chill pill was talking to my future husband for hours on end. He really did save my soul. Regardless, I was probably the kid sitting in my seat the whole time, the only one who hadn’t gone out drinking the night before, or taken advantage of the legal marijuana situation. I was a stickler. And I was stressing. About my fake resolution of course?! What else would a teenager at THIMUN be stressing about?

One morning of the conference I arrived particularly stressed. I was rooming with people I really didn’t care for – the rest of my dear high school friends all signed up for rooms with out me. Yeah, I was the convenient friend for a lot of people. Any way – I was rooming with girls who didn’t like me, and whom I didn’t like. No wondering I was stressed.

That's me, on the left, being a loner.

Now the following is an unfortunate picture of me. I apologize, but I am sharing a closer image of the cute British guy I will never meet again – I don’t even remember his name.

Sorry. Countinuing onward. He turned to me one dreary Netherland morning and said:

Are you fretting? Why are you fretting?

And this question was rephrased and repeated multiple times. All I could think was “Who uses the word ‘fretting’ in everyday speech?”

Okay – onto my point. Since deciding I wanted to ride my bike to school, I have seriously been doing some fretting. I’m worried about my old lady hips. The last time I had problems with them was because of some bike riding – and it resulted in months of physical therapy. Months. I had convinced myself to wait until next week to try and ride my bike in, but I really decided I need to stop fretting and just do it. And if it’s hard, and it sucks, I won’t do it every day. But I realized how easy it was for me to talk myself out of doing it – and that is freaking scary. I am so thankful for all of the encouragement though, because I feel like I am being held responsible, and I would hate to let my blog-friends down. :(

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In other news, I think my bout of baby-fever has passed, my ovaries have been tamed, and I think if I were pregnant right now I would be wishing I had waited. Good thing my husband knows how to (occasionally) put his foot down. I have no stamina, and no patience. Really… when I am feeling uninhibited, I am probably one of the least patient people ever. Which is probably why I need to wait to have kids. That and I am trying to convince myself to ride 6 miles on my bike every day.

The End

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June 2nd, 2010

Wish me luck…

If I can find my helmet, I am going to try and ride my bike to campus and back today. I am trying to convince myself I don’t want to spend the money on a parking pass, and the gas required to drive there and back every day. It is a three mile trip each way. That doesn’t seem so bad in my mind, but it might be… or there might be some ridiculous hill. I don’t know. But I should probably just get to it. I don’t want the first time I try to be the first day of class. But I guess that wouldn’t be too bad. My first class is at 1:30. I don’t even know how long it takes people to ride a bike three miles! Gah. I wish I were more confident in myself. I also wish I knew where my helmet was.

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