Not much to update...

It's been a rather non eventful month.



I'm working back at Tom and Jerry's at night. This is job #2. So, I'm up at 4 a.m. ride into work by about 5 a.m. and then work the day, leave there, ride home, change clothes, drive into Tom and Jerry's and work until usually 9 p.m. but sometimes I close which is 10 p.m. You can see how this could lead to a very non exciting series of events to blog about. So I have attempted to spare you, my friends, from being bored out of your gord by what I write.



A few highlights of the past month. Since getting my Trek fixed I still haven't managed to log more than a couple hundred miles (part of the cause and effect of having 2 jobs).



Gaven on the other hand has had lots of time on his bike, so much time in fact that he became bored with the normal, sitting your butt on the seat and pedaling that he decided it was time for some tricks....if you don't know what I'm talking about take a look at the movie RAD (great flick...should see it if you haven't and just excuse all the cheezy 80's stuff)...Well, to make a really long story short - he decided to do some tricks, fell on his face and knocked half of his front PERMANENT tooth out. He goes to the dentist soon for them to apparently use some type of composite material to make his tooth look right again.



For my girlfriends who read this I know you are thinking..."Oh my gosh...I hope he isn't doing bike tricks anymore" but he is...because we have always told them to jump back on the horse after getting knocked off. So, there may be more trips to the dentist in my future for repairs on broken teeth.



Other than that there isn't really anything new. The Beanzie ride is this weekend and I highly doubt that I will be able to do it since we are packing things up and moving....yes I know this is fairly soon (about 5 months since the last move) but we found a larger home with a fenced in backyard, for less than this almost brand new condo we are renting. It's closer to all the kids schools as well, and it increases my bike commute by about 4 miles each way - which is important since I can't seem to get enough riding time in as it is, so every extra mile will help!



In other news, my favorite celebrity, Lance Armstrong is doing great in the Tour de France this year. I find myself sitting at work and checking out news stories about him since I never seem to manage to catch the tour on T.V.



Okay, that's it folks...I've got to get some work done before someone kicks my butt!



Safe and Happy Riding!

Rim Tape/Brendon update/second jobs

Yes, Rim tape...it was the answer to all the problems that have kept me off the bike this year. So, all in all I've lost hundreds of miles of riding, hours of talking with friends while on rides all because my rim tape had gotten too thin in one spot (this was not noticable to the eye).

I took it into Tobie the other day and after some errors he found the problem that has haunted me for the past 2 plus months.

Wednesday night I will be back on the road with my group - barring any other catastrophies....

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Brendon update:

I heard back from the cardiologists office and he now has to see another specialist who will try to figure out how to get his irregular heart rythmns under control - which could mean putting a pacemaker in. We will see him soon and I will update as soon as I know more.

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Have I mentioned that having a second job is the pits. I love being home with my family, hanging out at the pool, and being on my bike - a second job cuts into those things - although considering the state of our economy I should be glad that I was able to find a second job.

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That's it folks - gotta head over to Midway Airport to pick up mom....WAIT - did I mention my mom has a new man?

Yes folks, my mom - who was so quick to say that she didn't want/need a man because she never wanted to have to answer to anyone again has A MAN!

The man I'm speaking of is a very sweet man named Gilberto. He is from Portugal (the islands) and they dated when they were teenagers...he has come back into her life and recently he came here for a week - two weeks later (last Sunday) she left to go visit him for a week - now she's coming back this evening. The 7th of July the two of them will be meeting up and going to Portugal together - it really is very cute! Love is a beautiful thing!

Wednesday Night Rides

I haven't been out on a good ride with my group in a long time! Since last season to be more specific.
This year it's been one thing after another keeping me off the Trek - the latest has been a need for new tires and given the financial state of the home right now I just couldn't justify it. Mike H. (aka "Dad") mentioned to my mother in law that I hadn't been out on the rides...so I told her to say "Patty said if only her dad would get her some tires she could ride"...well all joking aside - he did just that - pulled a pair of used tires he had in his garage and met me at the bike shop last night to hand them over---while giving me a hard time about not riding - and making me promise to meet them next Wednesday and do the ride. I'm going to have to really pull it together this week, get the tires on and get out there Saturday and do 40 or so miles to get myself ready for a good hard ride with these guys...I'll need a tank of Oxygen when they get finished with me next week I'm sure.

Anyway...Mike...if you read this - love ya and thanks for the tires!

Gotta run - off to ride the bikes to school and then head to work.

Safe and Happy Riding.

11 years ago...

I had Gaven. Really, where does time go?
He was such a chubby little baby - now he's skinny like Bobby used to be (for any of you who remember that).

Yesterday he was showing me new tricks he learned on his bike - like standing on the back pegs and going no handed while going pretty darn fast down the road...glad I believe in making them wear helmets!

Anyway, we all bought him books and this weekend is the big project of redecorating his room with a surf boarders theme as opposed to his current scooby doo bed stuff. He's growing up and doesn't want to have baby stuff anymore!

He is having a swimming party on Saturday the 6th and some of the guys from that will be spending the night so I need to make sure his room is done by then.

My baby girl turns 17 today

Today my daughter turns 17. Where have the years gone? I'm certain that it wasn't so long ago I held her in my arms amazed that such a beautiful little girl was mine. It wasn't so long ago when she would run off the porch and into my arms when I got home from work with her long blonde hair flying behind her and a big smile on her face. Now in the place of that little girl is a young woman who I'm often in awe of. She is amazingly talented, witty, engaging, trendy, kind, compassionate, a fighter for many causes. She has such conviction and passion about things.

I am so proud of her and love watching her grow into a young woman...yet a part of me is a little sad that the time has passed. I wish I could roll the clock back and hold on to that little girl with long blonde hair and big blue eyes who loved to sit in my lap, so that I could read her one more bedtime story, or play at the park another day with her. Silly huh?

Anyway, Happy Birthday my Sassy Cassy!

Heart Monitor

Today we went to the cardiologists office - Brendon is now on a heart monitor for a month to see what is causing the heart palpatations.

It's recorded twice now and I just found out that we have to call it in from a land line phone and not a cell phone. Hurray! So off to mom's since we decided to go cell phones all the way in my house. Sheesh - that's kind of a pain in the you know what.

Day in the ER

So an interesting few days have gone on.

Monday night (late) my daughter came in my room saying she didn't feel so good - pretty much as she slid down the wall and passed out - I carried her downstairs and fed her - she was okay after that.

Yesterday I ate lunch, a huge greek salad with chicken, got back to my desk and an hour later felt like I was having a heart attack (well, the symptoms of) and asked a nurse to check my blood sugar (I've been hypoglycemic since I was in the 8th grade) so it was a whopping 56...that's not good! After about 3 hours - some orange juice and a ham sandwich on multigrain bread I began to feel a bit better.

This morning my daughter tells me she feels a bit crummy as she's getting ready to leave - I told her to make sure she ate plenty of food and off she went - before 8 a.m. the school nurse calls asking permission to take her blood sugar - sure thing! - it's in the 70's even though she had eaten not too long before...

shortly after this - around 10 a.m. my son's school calls, Brendon is in the nurses office saying it feels like his heart is starting and stopping (sounded like heart palpitations to both the nurse and I). We decide maybe if he lays there for a little bit he will feel better - a bit after that she calls me back and asks me to come and get him or they are calling the ambulance because he's still complaining of it plus he's having a hard time keeping his eyes open, breathing is shallow -etc....I rush over - get him to the ER. That's where we sat for the day....all the while I was getting phone calls from the nurse at the high school updating me on the almost hourly blood sugar tests she was doing on my daughter - who after chowing down again at lunch managed to hit a blood sugar of 82! Hurray!

At the ER they did an EKG, blood work and a chest x-ray - yeah - nothing too off kilter - so they call the cardiologist - ours isn't in the office but his partner is - and decides that Brendon should certainly see our cardiologist ASAP - but for us to call and schedule the appointment - GGgrrrrr . I was also informed that they are going to put him on a heart monitor for a month to see what's happening. Good deal!

Cassy also has an appointment to get her blood sugar checked and a total exam by the doctor to try to figure out if it's simple hypoglycemia that she needs to manage better or something else.

That's the state of my week thus far - no ride tonight - things were a bit nutso! Very stressed about the kids health but also stressed about money, missing hours etc. Rent due this week - Lord help me!

So that's about it - opening night of the musical Cassy is in is tomorrow night. See link - my daughter is not mentioned but she is one of the prostitutes...makes a mother proud :) http://www.midweeknews.com/articles/2009/04/28/95339131/index.xml

Going to get off now and go do something useful with myself until Cassy gets home from the last rehearsal.

Safe and Happy Riding.