Monday, May 07, 2007
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What a pain in the ass!
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Bicycle Race
see relatedI was going to start blogging about an hour ago, but then I remembered this lovely book I knew when I was very young. It is a square children's picture book. The front cover has a lamb's head (attached to a body, of course) in a green field. It was probably published in the UK, and after a few google searches and looking through a lot of images, I think it might have been so old and obscure that it is lost forever.
Last night I hopped on my bike and headed toward my work. I drove to the halfway point, as I estimated it, and turned around to come back home. It was a five mile ride, and it was glorious. My breathing wasn't labored, but my lungs didn't really know what to do with themselves. My face was flushed and glowing as it always does when I exercise even the wee-est bit. I planned on riding to work this morning but for a few minor excuses:
- My butt hurts. This happens if you get on a bicycle and haven't been on one for a while. Either you'll get used to it or you'll stop riding your bike. Either way, it will stop hurting.
- The best friend about whom I kvetched last time called. She said that the weekend plans fell through because the birthday boy decided to do some stupid things. That best friend and her boy did not join in stupidity was a delight. They're more vanilla and homebodyish than I give them credit for sometimes. Anyhow, they came to my apartment for a couple of hours and left about a half hour after I had wanted to go to bed. (I wanted them to stay, though; it was groovy.) So I needed my sleep this morning.
- It was 46 degrees out this morning. Sure, a couple minutes on the bike would have warmed me right up, but I was scared.
- The big hill near my campus is still scary. I will tackle it, though. Numbers 1 and 2 were the big obstacles.
Good news:
- I woke up somewhat early anyway, took my time, got to work early, enjoyed the morning.
- One of my coworkers stopped by and we may start walking again over lunch. She still wants to go to the gym Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and then maybe walk Tuesday and Thursday. I actually think this is perfect; I can maybe ride my bike MWF and drive TR. On Tuesdays, I'll have this class from five to seven p.m. anyway, and I don't think I'll want to be biking five miles home after I've been singing and dancing and laughing for two hours. And then I can make Thursdays outing-days. This biking thing should have me using my car less, so I hope to go to my mom's less often, unless I want to brave the twelve mile trek on bike (and I'm not ready for that yet). I'm not sure if I want to visit her today, either. Well, I do, but I don't know if I *should* go home and bike another few miles to keep up my momentum. I've said it before: I'm the inertia queen. Get me going, and I'll continue until I'm stopped (or fizzle out). It's hard to get me going, though. (Ask any of my friends from college. On Friday nights I was drained and napping.)
I want to get to this indefinite time period's Internet Island topics at some point. I was thinking about doing so today and my mind wandered to finding that lost book. Check out the link. This week/month, we'll be writing about our favorite games and toys when we were children. Most of you know I'm family oriented and love to talk about memories involving my sister and brother. Books, toys, games, and outdoor adventures abounded, and I'll write about them soon. Peace!
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Comments (9)
I remember a book from when I was a kid - I'm sure it was Lisa's when she was younger, and it just hung around the house waiting for me to learn to read. I have no idea what it was about or any of the title keywords or anything, but I do know that it had a bunch of VERY young children in it, babies watching babies, and one of the babies stepped on a sea urchin in a tide pool.
Can't find it ANYWHERE.
I would be so afraid that I would get to work and then not want to ride home. You're a brave chickie!
Dear Emily,
"Indefinate time period". I like that. I might just start using it. Actually, I think I'm going to keep the topics at about a month. I don't know what happened this time. Only three entries so far. Featured Grownups puts up a topic and there are immediately 6-8 entries, and after a week, 20-30. Perhaps I should just open the blogring up to anybody, get hundreds of Islanders, and see what happens. I sometimes take a week or two to 'approve someone" since I put up the separate site. I still find it difficult to have two separate blogs. I started the second site at the behest of some Islanders who thought it would be better, but I got more participation when I hosted the topics on my own blog.
Oh well. In other news.... All this talk about exercise is tiring me out. I've been overeating again, and my belly is back to "normal". I did lose almost 15 pounds, and gained it back in a couple of weeks!
Did you find the image of the children's book? Did you remember the title of the book? I wish there were a DVD box set of the old "Captain Kangaroo" show with Bob Keeshan. I think it was national. (So many children's shows I remember well were local to Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s) The Captain would always read a story, and the pictures on the TV were the pictures in the book. I still have fond memories of "Mulberry Street" and "Millions of Cats" and a host of others I could probably remember if I weren't hurridly typing this comment on a break from work.
Queen: My all time favorite group. I know why you chose Bicycle Race, of course, because of the theme of your entry, but "Fat Bottomed Girls" is my favorite song on the Jazz album.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
(aaaahhhh, you gonna take me home tonight.
aaaahhhh, down beside that red firelight;
aaaahhhh, you gonna let it all hang out.
Fat bottomed girls,
You make the rockin' world go round......git on your bikes and ride......)
ryc: out with the old, in with the new?
soar - within the first 24-48 hrs use dry coolness to help reduce the swollen areas ;) then dry heat to help get rid of the acheness and to reduce stress on tendons or what not. Or so I've been told
I problem isn't the butt, granted I have lots of padding, it does get soar which really only affected me when I got back on the bike the next day - my issues were my thighs - ugh! soarness! I normally could only do 1/2 of what I did the day before because of it.
Good job and Best Hopes & Wishes!