BIKE TRIP

Wheeeeee! By this time next week I'll be in Austin, getting ready to bike to New Orleans!

This is good fun.  Yup, that's about it!

No, seriously though, it's really exciting, but there's other stuff:

1) the war to take back our space from our stuff continues, and I think we're winning. A box of crap out every week....

2) If I can get through dinner time and the Peanuts' bed time, I'm good to go to almost midnight. Bam. All the energy!

3) My drinking is down. Like way down.  This is good

4) Spring is here in Prairie Metropolis, and that's lovely. Dirty and mucky but lovely.

5) I like running. I'm pretty good at it.

6) Social media sucks balls so hard, but it's where I put all the pictures of my cute kids, and it's where I see my friends.

7) My super nerdy thing that I loved to do that was awesome and then got super toxic and I hated it so bad might be coming back under my control again.... Stay Tuned...

Kindergarten... report cards?

So Peanut #1 got her first report card ever, and it was perfect. Like 100% As. (well, actually, 4s, but you know what I mean)

And she is over the moon, like incandescent with joy. So apparently we're raising a little Lisa Simpson.

Spring is here!

Prairie Metropolis is full of warmer temperatures and it's all lovely out there!

I have continued to run, and a had a lovely meeting with my chiropractor yesterday where he figured out that I have some bursitis in my knee, NOT a miniscal tear, which is nice and comforting.

My big bike trip is three weeks away, and I need to get ready for that, and prep that the whole family is ready for my absence, in particular Peanut #1 who loves to wrassle with the Project Manager while I'm not there, so I'm trying to instill some good _habits_ in her, like getting her clothes on by herself, and managing her own emotions etc.

She is so ... me.... at that age....

Well I was gonna blog a blase blog of blathering but then...

I found out that a friend of mine that I dated briefly had passed away (the tacit understanding being that she killed herself) and that should be unpacked a bit?

I'm a wee bit numb to it, as she had struggled for some time, and to varying degrees, and boy, if you needed someone alienated she was your girl.

She was brilliant and creative and aggressive and maybe autistic or pathologically introverted?  I'm not sure that there was anyone in her life, particularly, at all at the very end?

Ah well, I shall miss her a little bit in that way that I miss all my friends who are too far away from me.