I need a nap. I'm REALLY sleepy. Any tips on sleeping at work? :) It was sprinkling as I walked across the bridge this morning. Hopefully it won't be raining tonight.

It looks awful out. Sprinkly rain most of the day. The pavement has mostly dried, but it's cold, windy and the clouds are low and nearly black. I'm thinking that we will skip the ride, and instead go to the gym. Hubby will lift, and I will swim. And play with my new lap counter. :)

Kona is a very bad girl. She chewed up hubby's new(est) cycling gloves. Well, glove, anyway. She's quite thorough. The largest remaining pieces are perhaps as large as 1/2" by 3/4". So naughty.

Can't wait 'til saturday. Breakfast out and then bike shopping!!!

Headache is gone finally.

Hubby is having a stressful hearing today. His client's relative-by-marriage is causing no end of problems. His usual fee for this type of service is about $1,500. The bill has climbed to over $10K and does not include today's mess or the prep-work involved, if that gives you any idea of the problems this dork is creating. I think the relative may be one of those sort that would rather spend all the estate in attorney fees just so that no one else in the family will get a share. No doubt the relative is also one of those who complain that their attorney charges them too much. So much anger, so little point. Life is too short. Hopefully the hearing will go in such a way that hubby will be done dealing with it - and get paid.

I'm thinking a run would be nice tonight.  And it was!

Still have the headache. Phthbbbbbttttt. Stoopid headache.

I stopped at my favorite bagel shop this morning - two people in my workgroup had b-days. I got an jalapeno-swiss. MMMmmmmmmm!!!!

Tonight is racing at PIR. I wonder how many people will be out tonight. Run planned afterwards.

MIL headed out to visit friends on the way home. It was nice seeing her. She doesn't get up to visit us all that often.

I am a bad bad triathlete. It was too rainy for a weenie like me to ride out at PIR (plus only had a jersey, no jacket, nothing.) so I went home, had dinner, got a killer headache and went to bed. Great evening. :(

For a "rest" day, I'm exhausted. We went out to b-fast with my MIL who flew in last night. Made out our menu for the week, and wrote up a grocery list. Cleaned out the fridge, and then went to work on putting in the new floor.

We moved all the living room stuff waaaaaay over, unloaded the antique secretary and glass cabinet and put all the stuff in the guest room, moved all the dining room stuff into the living room, then unloaded the freezer/fridge and moved it to the living room. Moved the range to the living room, unhooked the dishwasherand moved that to the living room. Unrolled the new-new floor and let it "relax" for about 45 minutes. Painted in the kitchen. Took up the old-new floor to use as a template, and made sure that when we cut out the new-new vinyl floor all the fake "tile" lines  would be square to the door and cabinets. Cut out floor. Install the new-new floor. This actually only took about 30 minutes and was the easiest thing we did all day.

Once the new-new floor was in, we put the stove back and then the fridge. The fridge door sticks and it refuses to be level. Lovely. While hubby and MIL worked on this, I weeded the garden and planted all my peppers and herbs. 2 hrs later I was tired and they gave up. The appliance store will be called tomorrow. Fridge is under warranty.

After a trip to the hardware store for silicone and then the grocery store and Baja Fresh for dinner, hubby started on installing the dishwasher. First, we had a little exercise in drying the floor. MIL had run water in the sink and flooded it out underneath. Exactly what we did the last time we installed the floor. She felt bad. We thought it was funny that it had happened again exactly as before. Total deja vu. So after we ran fans and the hair dryer a while, we went back to dishwasher installation. Well, hubby did. MIL and I put all the stuff back in the cabinets and put the dining and living room back together.

Dishwasher did not cooperate and the whole plumbing bit leaked like a sieve. After much irritation and minor cursing, all is well, our house has been put back together, the floor looks AWESOME, and I am going to bed. As soon as I get my clothes together for work and PIR tomorrow night. I'm TIRED!!!

I love weekends. :) I got up at the crack of 9am this morning. MMmmmm. I LOVE sleeping in. I picked up some ravioli at the farmers market. Guess what we'll have after our bike ride this afternoon! Sadly, I have to be at work for a while today. Software testing on a deadline. Gotta love it.

Scratch the ravioli. I forgot it in the fridge at work. I'm stoopid. Fun bike ride,though. This time the wind was at our backs on the way out. It made for a relatively comfortable 23-24mph. Nice! I was surprised that we didn't see all that many bikes out. Guess everyone else was already done and home by 5:30. We did see one of the Thurs Night Ride guys out there. The way back was definitely slower. I really could only do19. Spots of 20-ish climbed my HR up too high to be able to maintain. Hubby's knee has been popping and was 'tired' - not really hurting, but not normal either - so I pulled mostly. That works out. I want to do the Luna sprint tri this August, so I better not get used to drafting.

Speaking of... since I don't consider the 11 miles of race out at PIR a really good workout, maybe I should start pulling sometimes there. :) That would get me in good shape to do the tri. Keeping a 20-22mph pace pulling out there would get me an awesome bike time.

TGIF!!! It's Friday, and a Rest Day!!!

Instead of dinner out, we are having stirfry. Honey Sesame Chicken. It's a new recipe, simple but sounds pretty yummy. We may go see Indy, hard to say. If so, I see buttered popcorn in my future. :) MMMMmmmmm. Can't tell I bike to eat, can ya?

Housecleaning for tomorrow. My MIL is flying in at 9:30 - PM thank goodness. I've got dustbunnies that have entire colonies populated by dog fur and mud from the back yard. Kona, please stop digging. That hole is deep enough. Sigh.