Puerto Rico Day 1

Puerto Rico Day 1

So I lied last night.   As I closed the computer Mark and the photographer busted me down in the lobby playing on the computer.   They got this great idea to go and have a Mojoto.  I figured well what the heck just one.  I was really on track to be in bed by nine but that did not happen.   I only had one but this particular bar served fresh hard boiled eggs instead of nuts of something.  Mark started eating them and before we left we went through 16 eggs. I only had two and Mark had 12.   I was afraid to be in the same room with him.   We did not get our bikes and stuff ready until after 12.  Mark fell asleep quick and there I was listening to his breathing.   He has a lung infection so breaths pretty heavy.  I was up a while before I needed to get up at 4:30am.

This morning we hit the ground running.   The ride did not start until 6 but we were supposed to be there at 5.  I had a really heaving bag full of books to carry a couple of blocks but made it ok.   We got started on time and I did plan on leaving with the “A” group. All 460 people rode to the first check point and then the “a”riders went off.  I really did not want to ride to hard but I did not want to wait in lines either.   The price you pay for small lines in huge pain.   I was hanging ok  at first.  I worked my way to the front of the pack getting ready to do my pull.  We had two pace lines side by side and a good pace going.   Just when it was my time to pull the guy beside me decided to pick up the pace.  I looked like a darn idiot next to him so I pulled off to go to the back.  This was how the day started.   I hung on to the pack but just before breakfast we got to a big hill and I lost them toward the top.  I am lacking some power but I did catch back up to the group.   This is pretty much how the whole day went.    I lost the pack just before every stop that we took.   The pack was much faster than last year or I was  much slower.   I was suffering more than last year but what should I expect  after taking off for 2 months?  I was still enjoying the weather and nice climate here Puerto Rico.  I was just getting my butt kicked.

There are some people from Houston here and some of them were in the “A” group.  Well they were not actually from Houston.   Steve was from UK, Stewart from London, and this really fast girl was from Paris.   I hung with them as much as possible.   This guy Steve was constantly taking pictures and catching up to the pack.   In the end of the ride he was leading the pack in and dropped everyone.   There were some really great athletes here.   Stephanie was always looking out for me.   I would not mind living close to Houston if I were friends with these guys.  The accents were great.

So there was a point I did think about sabotaging my own ride.   I got dropped sooner then I wanted to near the end.   I was not sure how far since I don’t ride with a speedometer but I was cooked.   I started wondering what excuses I could make up for getting dropped.  I thought about saying I had a flat.  To make it look more realistic I could take out a tube and put a hole in it.  Then I remembered that I did not have any CO2 or a pump so I could get busted in my lie.   I then thought about catching a cab since I was going to have to anyway since the hotel was not close to the finish.   Just then I saw a tent with athletes in it.  I had caught up to them again.   I was stoked but really did not want to ride hard again.   WE only had 20 left but I got dropped again about 7 miles out of town.   There were others as well so we all rode in.   I did ride behind Stephanie.  Just at the end we could see the pack riding into the town square.  Stephanie had pulled us up to the pack again.  Talk about girl power.

Overall I had a good time today.  I knew I was going to pay for not training for 2 months but I will get it back.  Part of me never wants to take off but then another part of me thinks it would be easier just to sit around and watch TV.   Still training and meeting new people is my life.   I met lots of nice people today and that makes any hell ride worth it.  I am planning on going to with the “A” team but I might move back to the B team.   It sure was nice to have the hotel room to myself for my shower before Mark got in.  We got in at 3:30.   I heard one guy mention his ride time in my group was 7:35 for the day.  I was not but that might give you an idea of how fast the group was moving.

Freezing in Puerto Rico

Last night I arrived and made it to my hotel safe and sound. I froze my butt off on the airplane so I was wanting a heater when i got off the plane.   i hopped in the cab with the air conditioner cranked and then came to the hotel with the air conditioner cranked.   i met my roomate Mark and he had the room like a refrigerator.  i had no idea I was going to freeze my  butt off when i got here.   i slept in full gear and a fleece pull over.  i was chilled to the bone all night.   The room was like a meat locker and I was the meat.  

This morning Mark was even bitching about it.   We could not figure out how to get the air off so we just opened up all the windows and went out on the patio to thaw out in a tiny spot of sun.   we got our run gear and met two other really neat people from Houston.    We had breakfast and then headed out for a run to warm up.   I was on a red bull search.  i lvoe to have a sugar free red bull when I wake up.  it is a habit from RAAM and I dont plan to give it up.   I was freaking out after stopping in 3 stores  and not finding any.  We finally found some but ended up getting about an 8 mile run in….not sure it it was such a good idea before this 375 mile bike tour but it felt good.   It was nice to run in the sun along the beach with the sound of the crashing waves.  

We came back to shower.  the room was a meat locker.  We both had chicken skin (goose bumps) within  a few minutes.   i went to turn the shower on and it never warmed up.   We had tried to turn the air conditioner off by taking the card that runs the electricity out of teh holder.   WE thought maybe that was why the water was not warming up so we put it back in and the air came back on.  We were doomed.  the water never warmed up.  i ahd one of those miserable showesrs that you just hate.    i got out cold as a popcicle and then mark got in for more his torture treatment.   The room was a tiled floor so I found myself putting my dirty socks on just to try to warm my feet up.  We went out for a bike ride later and got warmed up.  

This afternoon Mark found the remote to the air conditioner.  We also discovered that we had the shower turned the wrong direction. Mark is blond too.  We got our packets and weent to the carbo load party.   i ate and came back to the room to study and blog.     mark is still out having Sangria with the Houston bunch but I was in more if a chill out mode.

I am now visiting with friend got to go.

Puerto Rico

School- this is going great!  i got an A on my speaking engagment and got all my homework done.   I had to do a computer assignment and ended up going up to the computer lab at school to get it done.  We save everything on a flash drive.   i think that was a bad thing for me.  My flash drive literally broke in half when I got home so I had to redo it.   I was not happy but I had no problem redoing my homework.    We did not have our chemistry quiz tonight so I was happy about that.   Chemistry is over my head right now.

Training-well i cant walk and i am going to Puerto Rico tomorrow.   My legs are trashed from my personal training workout on Monday.   We did some stuff with my butt and hamstrings.   I am going to have a butt you can thumb a quarter off of but right now it is just a sore butt.    I love my training workouts.  they are going to make me stronger.   It is just taking some time.  My trainer does some balance stuff with me and his comment to me last week was that ” I looked like a monkey doing a football.”  I do look pretty bad.   i lack cordination as well.  Glad no one really sees me.

Swimming- i got up this morning to go and swim.   This getting up at 4:45am and swimming sort of sucks when I got to class until 10pm.   I might have looked a little more like a swimmer today.   I am not back the way I used to be in high school but i am headed in the right direction.   I love swimming with the gang even if it is so early in the morning.

Running-  I am doing a 50k at the end of the month but is is not going to be for time.   I am not sure how bad it is really going to be.   I did run this morning before class and felt ok but I have not done enought to do a 50k.   Talk about starting back to training with a bang.   I sometimes dont know why i chose to do these things so early in the season.  It has worked for me so far.  i work real hard and then get to recover some.  Recovery days are worth it.   i think I am only going to get to run in Puerto Rico once or so. 

This morning I was zoning out on the treadmill thinking about my speech I needed to give.  I heard a loud fart.  No it was not me.  This girl fell off the back of the treadmill and when she hit the ground it came out.  i felt so sorry for her but did have to turn my head away to crack a smile.   I have never seen that before.  There was not hardly anyone in the gym so not many people saw. 

Puerto Rico-  tomorrow I leave and i dont have anything packed but my bike.  i am to tired to do it now so it will wait until in the morning.  I have some massaages to give until I depart for the airport so my packing time is limited.    i am getting to the point now that I just chunk stuff in a bag and rewear it dirty if I have too.  i can ride on donuts if i ahve to.   i do have some hammer in my house but not much.  i

I dont think I will be riding with the lead guys but we will see how my mood is when I get there.   It was nice to finish early last year and ahead of everyone.  I did not stand in line for food or my hotel room.  the only problem is that crashing is sometimes an issue in the pack riding.   You ahve to keep in the pack or get lost.   the lead pack is not supported with the police.   With the way my legs are right now I dont see riding in the pack.  we will see.

school!!!

So it is great having an intenet connection that works….finally.  i also downloaded my printer and got it up and running.  It too is wireless so I hve been without a printer for a long time.

I have 3 assignments due in all of my classes on Tuesday.   the chemestry is kicking my butt and I am not getting it.   We will see about the computer assignment after I finish it tonight.  i am also the first one giving a speech on Tuesday morning.   Looks like I will be hitting the books pretty hard.

running-  this weekend I ran with my buddy Johnny and Author.   Donna and  Kit were on the run today as well.   We thought Donna was loosing it when she mentioned snow and flurries but later in the run it was sort of spitting some snow like stuff.  Donna was not loosing it afterall.   I cooked a roast and gave some massages this afternoon.   It has been a nice weekend in my new house.   Have I mentioned I love my house?

I LOVE my house!!!!!!!

Friday night-  today it is a huge celebration.  I have spent over 10 hours on the phone getting my computer up and running.   I finally got my internet up and running wirless.  I wont even bore you with the details of what all went on but lets just say I had every problem you could possibly have.  I actually just went and got a new router with warrenty just so I coudl get decent tech support to get me up and running.  My warrenty was out on my router so the tech support  for the router would not help me out at all.  They had to once I was with a new router.  i actually refused to do it myself and made them do the remote serice.   I built a fire in my  fire place while they figured things out.  the fire just smoked the house up but i got that figured out later.   I got to go through my paper work and organize tonight.  Now I think I can finally get back to a little bit of a normal life with a schedule…..just kidding…..I will never be normal and dont care to be.

School-  I like all my classes.   I really was enjoying the Anatomy class until this past week when we went into chemistry.  i might as well have been Charlie Brown with the teacher talking in some weird language.   I tried to follow but I can tell this is going to be my weak spot.   I am leaving to Puerto Rico next wednesday and will miss one day of class in each of the subjects.  i do have my teachers blessings with this but will have to make up for it before I leave.  this means  chemistry test on Tuesday before I leave…….yikes!   I also have to give a speech Tuesday and have a lab test.    My plan is to spend the weekend studying now that I am sort of organized.  i actually enjoy school.

Puerto Rico-  i finally got on my bike today.  Getting on the internet could be a bad thing.  I got the new series of 24 up and running.   this really sucks me into the TV for some dumb reason.  I am 8 episodes behind.   This means I have 8 hours of training to do before I can get caught up.   I got on the bike and road just 1.5 hours today watching two of the episodes.  i wanted to ride more but to tell you the truth my legs did not want to do any more.  How am I goint to do 375 miles in less than a week?  I will make it work but it is my way of jump starting off my season and getting off my butt.  True I have been training but not like I usually do.   Puerto Rico has about 400 riders.  I rode in the lead pack last year and almost killed myself.  I am not sure if I am going to do that this year or not.  First I need to fix my flat.  My bike has not been on the road since ultraman.   i noticed it was flat when I unloaded it here in my new house.   the chain is rusted to but I dont care…..I am going!     i got on the mountain bike once this week.  We have been having some crappy weather and the trails have been closed.   Now they will be closed for a month with all the rain we just got.   There really have not been any chances to get out on the bike much.  Sure my ranonnuer friends get out when it is in the 20’s but I dont move when it is that cold.   I figure I train enough all year that taking some time off was a good thing.   I just did  not expect it to be almost 2.5 months.

Running-  this is going ok but not consistant yet.   i have been getting up and going to swim early and then trying to run before class.  I am usuallly starving and falllinig asleep while on the treadmill so i find myself looking at  the magazine rack.   I ran with the Lukes running club last week but it was just a 10 mile run with a 4 mile tempo.  it was fun but I think I am running a 50k in less then a month…..it is going to be one long run!   50ks are not so bad when you build up to them but when you dont they really suck.   it is here in Fort Worth so close to home.  i will just treat it as a long training day.   the running will come but it does not have to come yet.  i really will just be running on the trails in Switzerland in July.  My big run is not until November….so what is the rush anyway?

Swimming-this was going great until yesterday.  Well never mind.  I waas pretty much drowning in swim practice.   I did learn that some people just swim 50 yds short to make the interval.  I dont get any rest and my back tightens up.   My neck gave me crap this week.  I have a real old injury and it does  not take much for my neck to strain.   I did a long swim workout on Tuesday and then pulled my neck muscles picking up my back pack Wednesday.  I could not turn my head yesterday and today.   It will get better but this neck thing sucks.  It is  part of the real reason that I want to be a fire fighter.  I would love some good health insurance someday.   My neck hates long massage days too.   It seems like some days just a sneeze could mess it up.  My smimming is going to get back to the way it was in the old days if I keep swimming with the team.   I DO plan to swim with them as often as possible.   Some day I wont be drowning in the workouts.

My new house-   i love it!!!!I dont think I could be more statisfied with my new house.   I love it more nad more every day.   I forgot what is was like to be alone.  My grandad was 91 so I never ran arouund the house in anything but full clothing.  I always took my clothes to the bathroom and tried to put them on on wet skin after my shower.   I dont run around naked but I dont have to worry about it either.   I can stand in my closet in my robe and decide what the heck to wear.   I do however miss my granddad and could not have ahd a better roomate.   I found out that his house sold back in Lubbock and it really hit me kind of hard.   I guess it is the reality that he is not there anymore and that is not my home anymore.   this is why my new house is such perfect timing.  I am still in a funk but the excitement of my new house helps.   i know he is with me always but I cant help but miss him.   I have this huge cabinet in my house that has all if his War War 11 stuff in it.   It is a memorial and he would be proud of me showing it off.   It was almost tooo big for this little house but it is fitting in just fine.   It is the largest peice of furniture in my house.  I has old japanese bombs and grenades on it so it really makes a statement.

So I made a fire tonight.  I tried to be cheap and just bought some wood.  I smoked the house up trying to get it to light with some branches.  the flute was not open.  I gave up and then organized my paper work.  I decided to use it to get the fire wood going and ahve a nice fire and internet to relax with.   My house is pretty darn cool.   Next time I am going to just spend the extra money on the log that lights up itself.  I bet I went through two lighters to get the fire going.  Have I mentioned that I love my new house?   I almost dont want to go to Puero Rico now that I have my own place.

Back to training

Sorry for not blogging but I have not been able to get on the internet in my new home yet.  I have spent hours on the phone with the internet company and something is wrong with my internet.  today someone was supposed to come out and look at it in a 4 hour window but they never showed up.  I will get it someday.   I did run into an ATT truck today and took my side mirror off.  He was not worried about his truck.  no damage was done. My car got it.  Life goes on. I will hve the internet going some time in the near future.

So my life has been rather exciting.  I have already had a party at my house.  Well not really but i did cook on Sunday night.   I love my house and so do my dogs.   I am so happy to be in it.  I have been back to training.  I have been getting up to swim with the team at 530am.   I get up at 4:45 on these days.   I hvae found mountain biking and inline skating places close to home.  

I am at the school now.  My teachers know who I am since I am such an enthusiastic student.  I seem to do something in all of the classes to make a fool out of myself.  Today we cut open a rat and I seemed to be more interested in finding out if we had a girl or boy.  I was wrong in my guess.  I got an 80 on both of my quizzes so my scary tests for the week are over.  I did a face plant today in the hallway.  I guess my foot got stuck on the carpet and I fell face first.   I had a cute boy with a mohawk help the old lady up.

I am home

Moving-  I have moved into my new cute house.  I got my keys on Friday afternoon after I took my exam.  I got to move two loads and then had to go and work at the chiropractors.  It was killing me with exitement to get home to start unpacking.  I stayed up most of the night going through the stuff I had gotten out of storage.   At first I was enjoying getting everything out of boxes but after several of them i noticed my taste had changed.  

My clothing looked like it would have fit on a little girl.  It also smelled like it had been in a box and I hardly had room for it in this littlee tiny house.   i started making a goodwill pile and now it is a huge pile.   My taste in decor have changed as well.  I had a jungle room in my old house that was sort of my workout room.  I inherited this huge mask that was about 5 feet tall from one of my grandfathers.   When I started traveling I collected masks for this room and through a leapard bedspread out on the bed in that room.   There really is not any room for all of that decor and i am doing my house with a japanese theme and shoji doors to go  with my massage.  There is really only enough room for the stuff I got from Japan now. I have two collectors masks from Japan so those are staying up in the house.  

I love my house.  It is just perfect and now I have it ready to start massaging tomorrow.   I know I could have taken my time un packing but I did not want to be worried about doing it when I started school on Tuesday.  I still have lots to do but is it not so bad now.   I have a two car garage and it is full.  I dont see how two cars could have fit into it anyway but my van sure wont.  It is full of kayaks and bike stuff.  i have way toooo much stuff!

Failed-  I did not pass the physical agility test Thursday.  We had a maze, ladder climb, charged hose drag, ventilation simulator, dummy drag, fan carry, and ladder pull.   I will pass this someday.  It waas cold and rainy that morning.  The first test I took was in the morning.  I took my boots thinking I might need to use them instead of my running shoes.   I looked around and no one else had them on so I did not change them.  Big Mistake!  The charged hose is the hardest part.  Guys were not passing the test from this particular event either.  This got me nervous but no too bad.  I was not sure how to really do it but I gave it my best shot.  when the hose got harder to pull I was trying not to loose my momentum and my shoe came off.  I was then trying to walk sideways to finish but the hose waas too hard to pull after I lost my momentum.  I did not make it past the hose drag.

I was told I could come back that afternoon.  I really wanted to try again so I dished out the money again for more punishment.  It was still cold nad I waited another 2 hours in the cold at least to take my test.  I made it a little further but not the full 100 feet.  some of it is technique but some of it is just not having the strength yet.   I will get it but it was not going to happen even if i got another change.  I am all cool with it.  I am taking these tests for the experience and know taht someday i will start passing them.

Gigathlon-  well I am on my awy to training for the gigathlon.  I am only 20 minutes away now from Arlington and some skaters meet there to skate.  I did not do much of anything else but I did get my butt out to meet these guys today.   It started out rough with me showing up late.  i drove to the wrong spot to wait and saw to recreational skaters out.  i asked them if i could skate with them and they looked at me like I was nuts.  i drove around the park again and found the skater people all matching and looking cool.   I got out of my van and greeted them.  One guy named Johnny was really nice in taking me in under his wing.  They were on a rougher part of the parking lot like it was not a bug deal.  i got my skates on and when I started to move I almost fell down.   I probably looked like Bambi but Johnny came to my rescue.  I skated with him and one of  the fist things he did was take me thorugh a traffic light and up a hill.  I was scared about coming down it but he told me that he would help me.  I really just had a good time.   I could have skated longer but my feet were starting to bother me.  I tense up really bad when i get on the skates.  My veins still have chicken blood in them from skating at the gigathlon.  Johnny is a really funnny charactor.   He does not skate with this gang often but I do hope to see him more.  In the meantime i hvae found a great place to practice that is not far off.  It also has some easy mountain bike trails to get me started.

Exams!

Exams!  i have been studying for my exams.   I hvae not been studying for the physical agility test tomorrow.  I am just going to see how it goes and take  it as a learning experience.  There are over 200 applicants for this job but i am still giving it a shot.   I think i can pass this one but i am not sure yet…we will see soon enough.

The written exam is a huge question mark.   Most of the places i have looked into for a job have sort of hinted what the test might be made up of.  I have 3 books and am not sure what the heck to study for so I overloaded.   I wont get my feelings hurt if i dont pass the physical part tomorrow.   If I dont pass then I dont get to take the written on Saturday.  The good side to that is that I can quit studying on Friday.  i dont plan to quit studying all together but I get my keys to my new house on Friday and would like to unpack this weekend.  i might be distracted right now.  I just go with the flow.

Facial Exam-  i take this on Friday morning.   i  took this over 10 years ago so refreshing myself on all this stuff has been interesting.  Lots of things have changed in 10 years in teh facial industry.  i am afraid my books might be out of date but like anything else i am just jumping into this and testing to find out if i even need to get the new book.  i have given some facials and i have not forgotten much but it is a state test so you never know what pass/fail rule might get me.  I have lots of info on this test and have forgotten a good bit of it.   i am tryingt to cram in relearning this book in 2 days.  i was in school for 1600 hours to cover this book.  Parts of it are goofy but oh well.

Training-not sure if I should have trained hard today but I did.  i did some mile repeats on the treadmill, worked out with my trainer, and did a long swim, .  I also came home and gave some massges then went and got my treatments from the chiropractore.  i am back in action and feeling good.  I am feeling like the break did me some good.

Power Cranks

Power Cranks-so one of my past sponsors is Frank at Power Cranks.   In looking at my website I do not see his logo but that will change soon.  This guy is the coolest guy.   I had a pair of power cranks that i loaned to a buddy of mine.  Things got sort of nuts last year with gramps being sick so I never got them back from my buddy.  I was riding with a young pro at the beginning of the year that really wante to borrow them.   I just never had the time to loan them to him myself but he managed to get them on his own.  He called my buddy and got them without me really knowing it. 

Power cranks are my off season technique training.   When i was home at Christmas time I found out that my buddy did not have them.  i really did not know the guy that had borrowed them so I sort of felt shit-out-of -luck.   i found out recently that this guy rode the crap out of them and sent them into power cranks to get fixed.  i figuerd this was my way of intercepting them.  i called my buddy Frank today.  I hate calling when i need something.  Turns out they had been sent back to this young man and they did know they were mine to begin with.  Frank felt so bad that i did not ahve any that he stuck some in the mail for me to have by this weekend.  what a great sponsor!!!!  Frank made me feel really special today.  i hated telling him that I had loaned my power cranks out but he was so cool.

Did I get a hold of this yound man?   You bet.  i might have been a little bitchy at first but then i felt bad for being that way.  He admitted he had rode the crap out of them  and did not want to return them back to me damaged.  I cooled off seeing his point but did not like the idea of him contacting the sponsor and using my name to repair something.  the yound man is sending my old ones back to me.  i will not sell them but i will return a pair back to Frank.   I just did not want Frank to think that i had sold them for money or something.   I appreciate all my sponsors and dont want to disappoint them.  Frank was so nice and did not seem disappointed….thank goodness.  I have cooled off now but there was a moment i was pretty steamed about the situation.  Right now i am also waiting to get one of my bikes back.  i loaned my Colnogo c50 out and have been hunting that down as well.  i dont mind so long as they use it and I dont have to hunt things down when i want them back.

Flower Mound-so this week I take my physical agility test for Flower Mound.  If I pass this test on Thursday then I take the written.  i have no idea if the written is a civil service like test or what.  i have two huge books but dont know what to study in them.   I am not sure how i will do in either of these tests but i am taking them for experience.  i am still waiting for my TExas EMT license so who knows if i even have a shot.  i have sort of been playing ding dong like I forgot to attach the copies just to stall time waiting for my license to come.  Today i spoke with teh state of Texas and it could be March before I am reveiwed again.  Oh well…we will see how it goes.   i am also studying for a facial exam on Friday so my mind is going nuts….wonder why I hvae anxiety?

Chicken Blood-  today was a pretty day and nice enough to go mountain biking. I was tied up on the phone all day getting all my stuff switched over to my new address…..for the last time I hope.   I did not want to break away and take the time to mountain bike without someone being around to watch me make a fool out of myself.   I think I had a little chicken blood pumping through my veins.  The trail close to home is a little more technical then i would like to start with.  I have my mind set on Cedar Hill park.  Perhaps i might break away and go on Sunday but rain is coming so i might be just talking about it.  I am going to get out my skates as well.  I hate this chicken blood feeling I have.

Anxiety

This morning I hit the ground running.  I  have not slept well the past week.   My doggies and my head have been keeping me up.   I got up ready to tackle the world this morning.  I called places where I put all my applications in to just to check up.  No real good news but i guess that is not bad.  I also called my health insurance company, realator (looks like it is spelled wrong), bank, title company, and whoever else might be involved in getting my new home closed.   I the went to my personal training appointment, did a long swim, went by the school,  went to the see Dr. Lauren, paid for my new car insurance policy, and talked to my health insurance providor. i have not sat down this evening much either.  No more sitting around.

This afternoon i did some research to see if my schedule was going to work in taking classes closer to home.  My darn van will fit into the parking garage but it will only fit on the first level…i heard the top of my van hit a sign in the parking garage.   This sort of screwed up my schedule not being able to park close to the school in downtown Fort Worth.   I could park there today but who knows about next week?  i decided to go back into the school nad find a schedule that would work.   I was dreading the computer….AGAIN.   I had a back up schedule saved that will work.   I submitted it and it did work!  i am now officially registered in some decent classes.  I am taking anatomy, computers, and speech.   I had a girl from the information desk escrot me to all the places i needed to go.  Yes i do need my hand held.  I was so grateful.  We went o financial aid ,the parking pass business office, the name tag place (whatever you call it), and then the book store.

ok so I almost had a cow when i found out how much the books were for one class.  I almost dropped out of school. My books came to a total of $602.00.   I have bene penny pinching and have been reluctant to pull out my credit card but my little cold cash fund was not going to cut it.  i was expecting to pay about $150.00.  The kids laughed at me.  I will be worth it and I know I will always keep my Anatomy books since I love that stuff but it was hard to think about spending that much on books.  I could have gotten a new bike for what the semester is costing..haha.  I go to school mostly on Tuesday and Thursday.  My speech class is at the downtown campus so if parking is a problem then I will just have to drop it. My main goal was just the anatomy class so i got that covered by taking at the campus  close to where i live now…and close to a mountain bike trail.

website-  remember all that hard work i did a month ago getting all my pics organized.  I think the changes are finally taking place.  I see that my website is changing.  My web guy has most of the stuff he needs from me.  Be patient and you will see some more good pictures getting posted.  I also dont mind if someone has any tips.