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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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May 23, 2005

Just a flesh wound! permalink

It doesn't matter how long the weekend is—it's never long enough. Oh well. Yesterday we purchased a shed which will be delivered in two weeks, which means we need to get a move on with cleaning out the area that the shed will go in. So much excitement!

Other than a shed, we also purchased the world's coolest peppergrinder, and a hedge trimmer. The hedge trimmer is my new favorite thing. It decimates like a weed whacker, but with precision. I very happily cleaned up an area which is nowhere near the shed location, and it looks great. We need to get another one, battery-operated so it makes less noise, because I'd like to get a little decimation into my mornings too!

I've already wounded myself, of course—no biggie, but it was a dramatic flesh wound all the same.

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This morning I biked in. Blue skies, lovely, though a bit chilly. But my front tire was making a clicking noise. So much so that when I passed some homeless folk this morning, one guy yelled at me to get it in gear. Dude, it's already in gear. I'm sure it's something very obvious that will reveal me as the newbie I am, but I'm gonna bring it into the bike shop and let them deal with it.

Posted at May 23, 2005

Comments

I am so glad I found your blog today. I am 22.5 pounds into a goal of 163 pounds lost. I look forward to sharing the journey with like minded women.

Judi

Posted by: Judi Finneran at May 23, 2005 6:28 PM

Ha, I was tired when I read your post, so I read "the peppergrinder decimates like a week wacker" The eyes do funny things sometimes:)

Posted by: susan at May 24, 2005 2:47 AM

the weather is beautiful today isn't it!! Hedge trimmers...are awesome, too bad we have precariously perched hedges that just look like accidents waiting to happen!!

Posted by: brit at May 24, 2005 9:46 AM