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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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April 6, 2006

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Kitten inspects the Stella
The worlds cutest kitten (aka Fuggles) inspects the Stella
I'm feeling rather underwhelmed today, but I keep reminding myself that I don't necessarily have to share that with others. Not, obviously, that I'm succeeding.

I biked home last night—a gorgeous afternoon, and as usual, the ride home kicked my butt. Someday it will be fun. I suspect that's a long ways off, and it will come when I stop looking for it. Soon afterwards, Sweetie and I scooted to our scooter club meeting.

The meeting consisted, as it frequently does, of all of us standing in front of the Bookstore, talking about motorcycles and scooters. There wasn't a vintage scooter in the lot. We even talked a bit about official club business: the parade coming up, and the Cherry Blossom Festival in the Dalles, maybe even getting patches. We're such dorks!

We were at the point of actually starting to ride when a clutch cable snapped—I'm thankful that it was before the ride started. As it was, A's bike had a waiting garage about two blocks away, so it could have been much worse. But he had been so excited about the weather and the first spring ride, and his regret was palpable.

Anyways, we ended up just riding down to the pizza place around the corner from our house, and as we were parking the scoots, up comes A with family, so we all got to hang together and chat. It was the nicest evening I've had in a long while.

No computer, no TV, just socializing. Good.

Not that I've been having bad evenings. On Tuesday, Jill and I hung out for a while after pilates, and it just felt really good to catch up with her. And I got to have coffee with Jess on Tuesday morning. But I feel like I've had limited face to face time with humans I like lately, other than my sweetie.

Speaking of pilates, every inch from the knees and elbows up aches. Damn. My glutes hurt so bad that I have to think about how to rise from my office chair!

Posted at April 6, 2006

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Sorry you're feeling underwhelmed. I'll share my relaxed vacation vibes with you. :-)

Posted by: neca at April 7, 2006 10:56 AM

I had a nice time catching up with you too!! And I wouldn't mind seeing you more often, Pilates or not. :o)

Paula and I have found some nice new death march routes up into hill behind PSU if you're interested, btw... I think we have a date with an absurdly steep and long staircase in our future.

Posted by: Jill at April 8, 2006 7:41 PM

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