I'm leaving, on an airplane...

don't know when i'll return again...

i am on a plane right now- heading back from san jose and back into
the cold of chicago. we had our sponsor-team ride on sunday and then
our team dinner on sunday night. we had SUCH a fun ride on sunday!
i was definitely feeling the bike-love! we had a good showing too-
probably 20 riders or so.

we were just heading up canada road for an easy spin of about 2
hours... but we did throw down some fun attacks. stacy and i were
going pretty hard with our mechanic, roger, and victoria's husband
jesse. it was just playing on the bikes and it felt damn good! not
to mention- it was pretty much a perfect day out! just one of those
magical days.

after the ride- i headed down to morgan hill to go to the little baby
shower that we were throwing for my old teammate, lynn. naturally-
most people that i had hoped were going to go flaked (flakiness is in
the job description for volleyball players- it use to drive me nuts,
but not i have grown accustom to it), but heidi and jesse were
there. and heidi was pregnant too! that makes the 4th person who i
have found out is pregnant in ONE WEEK! andrew and i obviously did
not get the memo, but i am only drinking bottled water from now on...
that is for sure! i am WAY too selfish at this stage in my life to
even conceive of notion of having children! but i was so happy for
lynn and heidi. this was lynn's second and heidi's first, except she
has a step-son who she has raised for the last ten years (since he
was 4).

it was good to see them. we talked about the old funny stories and
slipped back ten years ago. it is amazing how quickly time has
flown. they still play volleyball... i, still hate it. i don't hate
it really- but i just can't play anymore. i know what i USED to be
able to do, but i just can't do it and it makes me frustrated and
makes it decidedly not fun. so, i don't play. i ride my bike.

then- we had our sponsor dinner. we ate at lavanda in palo alto,
which was another team sponsor. HOLY COW was the food good! and i
am not just saying that because they are sponsors... it was
delicious! and we just had a great time. victoria made a movie for
us, vivek from TIBCO was there with his daughter, who i really
liked... ming from LOOK brought us an absolutely GORGEOUS 585 in that
spectacular baby blue that is the 2007 color (i hope that it works
out that they can sponsor us again this year), jacquie from
revolutions in fitness was there and i will be meeting up with her
when i am training out there to do some LT/VO2 testing, and lots of
other people were there too. not to mention, it was GREAT to see my
teammates! we really had a great night. 4 hours later and a few
glasses of wine... we said goodbye.

i think that i undid all my fatcamp progress that i have made since i
have been back in chicago in a single weekend! i have been eating
very healthy and losing weight slowly. i have a feeling that i have
put it all back on! i have not worked out today, since i was
traveling, and i feel like a heffer! i am fine taking time off of
working out when i am in that mindset- but it is funny... once i
start working out regularly... i just can't miss it or i feel like
crap! maybe the kraft handi-snaks with fake cheese and crackers did
not help either! self-control was low this weekend... but i am
excited to eat a good breakfast tomorrow... i am thinking of a
healthy scramble with onions, mushrooms, zucchini, peppers... yum!

for now... back to my data. things are looking much more manageable
right now. looks like i won't have to redo as much as i had
worried. i am feeling much more optimistic about things working out
for my thesis. we will see! we will see!