yesterday was my birthday. i had a good day! ian and i did our standard ride to the farmer's market in the morning and we picked blake up on the way. blake spent the whole day with us, which was great. he gave me a pink timex watch for my birthday. *loves it*

it was afternoon by the time we got home from the market. i took a big siesta and ian kindly did as well. we rode to northside grill for an early dinner then got ice cream. picked up some coffee grounds from stir crazy. i was listing a little on the way home with 20 or so lbs of coffee grounds on the bike bus but the garden will be happy

today we've got to do all the chores that we procrastinated yesterday. and hopefully take ossian for a run in bryan park.

10 miles... i can do this!

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yay! biked to work today! feels like a victory! it was a really nice ride both ways. i have to do this more! quite sore now though. let's see if this works... my route:

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over the weekend ian and i (and ossian) went to the veggiefest. so fun! pics are on my flickr.

i'm very glad to have a day off today! so far i've been a total couch potato for a good couple of hours. it's time to get started on chores but i'll procrastinate for a few minutes by updating.

monday i got thrown back into work full force by being on call monday night. i like our computerized system, except when it doesn't work... i spent monday evening fielding calls from families that had gone to get their prescription and the pharmacy didn't have it. it was kind of amusing playing detective and guessing what the dr had intended to prescribe so that i could call it in :p

wednesday ian and i went to friendly's for a fundraiser event:

yesterday i worked a short day. though the couch was calling to me i listened to ossian's pleas and we went for a trail run before picking ian up from camp. snapped some quick pics of a heron by maymont:

ian and i are going to read the chronicles of narnia this summer. i read them many times as a kid. looking forward to reading them to him!

xterra is going on now! blake said audrey was in 4th place in the sport race when she passed him on buttermilk. go audrey!

it's gorgeous outside. my plan for the day includes laundry, dishes, groceries, lawn mowing and hopefully a picnic in the park for ian, ossian and me. better get going soon.

it's the end of my vaca week. sadness. it's been a stellar week though. ian and i have done lots of fun outdoors things. i'm well sore from way too much exercise for my sedentary body. my aim was for 2 hours of aerobic exercise for the week. i'm at 6 hours so far... no wonder i'm sore!

awesome! i got my laptop back. the macintologist was brilliant. he got me a new hard drive, since the old one went *poof*, and more RAM. it's nice to have a functional space bar again.

i don't think i've written much here about the mountain biking kids' program that i've been working on. the idea came to me in the shower one day, a few months back. what if we had a regular ride, just like the tuesday night ride like a girl, but for kids? there's a lot more to the idea, but i won't bore you with details (plus, it's past my bedtime). but check out the website: www.mtbkids.org. i got iWeb with the new hard drive, and put the site together over the past two evenings. *psyched*

we had a quiet thanksgiving today. it was nice to cook for just the three of us. shame about the rain. it was too wet for ian to play outside or for me to ride. ian has unfortunately been having some behavior troubles recently. he's grumpy much of the time and downright oppositional. he just can't seem to be good. i'm not sure what we're going to do to try to help him. hopefully it's just a passing phase. we'll see.

well, time for bed. happy thanksgiving!

post callagain this morning.  haven't been updatingbecause my laptopisbroken.  have been using ian's computer, which asyou can see has  a spastic space bar.

ampostcall this morning. ughitwas a busy night. workagain today.  it'sbeen busy & i'vebeen atwork late.   i'vegotten bettereat charting quickly, but often end upreturning phone calls at night & let parents keep me on the phone fora long time.   i wish they'd come in instead  of calling.it'spainfultobe talking about behavior  issuesfora halkf hour at 8pm  when i  should be home  with ian.

gottodo anight ride tuesday night.  that was great! ianwas sick tuesday with some kind of bug.    poorbaby.  he'sbetter now.  looking  forward toaday  off  tomorrow!