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Light blogging here because I’ve been scrapping almost every night. Yikes. Apparently I don’t have much of a life.
I’ve finished Cyprus and started Rhodes. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Cyprus’ Temple of Apollo
Rhodes’ Lindos Acropolis
As usual, most of my scrapbooking results are on my Flickr page, tagged with “scrapbook”.
We picked up the bikes yesterday after their big tune-ups, so took them out for a “big ride” today. We returned to a favorite ride from last year – the one along the W&OD trail from Andrew’s work to Asburn. It was a bit chilly this morning – about 55° F when we left, but a nice change from our 90° rides last summer. (We’ll be back to those soon enough.)
My bike felt great! I should have had a tune-up last year, but kept putting it off because I didn’t want to leave my bike with them for a week. The more fool I. Next time, I’m going to get it to them as soon as I think it needs it. This ride was easier than I remembered it being last year. Now, I realize that I’ve done the ride before, so that could be part of it, but this was our first time on that part of the trail this year. In fact, it’s only our third time out on the bikes. I have not been keeping up with exercising over the winter as much as I should have, and certainly not enough to have made this ride *that* much easier. No, I think it’s because I was riding last year with my brake partially engaged part of the time – of course it’s going to be easier.
One other thing I noticed in the last two weekends is that when I’m biking I crave orange juice. Not juice in general, not sugar, but orange juice. I’m not sure why that would be. Usually if I’m craving sugar, it’s in the form of chocolate or something really bad for me. Sure, I’m thirsty on the trail, but why not water, then? Or full-test Coke? Nope. Orange juice. Not that I’m complaining. It just seems weird.
My goal for this year is 30 miles (though I really think we can make 35 if we tried). But I also want to work on a goal for doing longer rides two days in a row. Usually, if we do a long ride (i.e. about 20 or more), we’re fairly wiped out for the rest of the day of the ride, and a bit lazy the next (if we ride, it’s something shorter). I’d like for us to bike to the end of the W&OD trail, stay at Creek Crossing Farm, where we honeymooned, and then return the next day (or maybe two days later) – that will require two 25-mile rides in a row. I think by Fall we can do it.
Total miles: 17.2
Weekend miles: 17.2
Season miles: 35.8
Today is National Scrapbooking Day. To celebrate, my local scrapbook store, Scrapbooks Plus, was offering 20% off perchases made between noon and 4 PM – fortuantely, I didn’t realize that until I was already in line with my purchases.
My own celebration consisted of (besides buying more supplies) finishing my Rome pages and starting my Cyprus pages. Here are today’s results:
Rome Intro spread:
Cyprus Intro spread:
Did anyone else out there celebrate?
Small, black, enclosed tent in the sun + throngs of 6th graders = margaritas!
For our second bike outing, we decided to do our Rossyln to Alexandria ride. This takes us on the Mount Vernon Trail, which takes us along the Potomac. We both quite like this ride (except for the high number asshole cyclists). My legs were burning by the time we got back home, since I haven’t been keeping up with the stationary bike at home, but it was a good ride.
In Alexandria we stopped at A Likely Story, which was our primary reason for choosing this ride today.
We took our bikes into Spokes for their annual tune-ups, so no biking for a week.
Total trip miles: 12.6
Weekend miles: 18.6
It’s actually been warm enough to bike since our vacation, but we haven’t had a chance to get out on the bikes for one reason or another until this evening. We took just a short ride on the W&OD trail from Vienna to where it crosses I-66. We’re a little rusty – I couldn’t quite make it up the big hill just before the trail crosses I-66, but I did make it about three-quarters of the way up; I think that next time I’ll make it all the way.
I’m hoping that my wonderful, loving, caring, kind, generous, smart, clever, intelligent husband will make a little MT plug-in where I can keep a running total of my biking miles for the season in my sidebar. I’m also hoping that it will display the milage from our most recent outing, where we rode, and our longest ride of the season. I suppose I could do that by hand, but it’d be easier to just update a text file with the latest info.
Total miles: 6.0
Andrew is wearing his “camel pants” today. Hee hee hee.
At least they don’t stink anymore 🙂
Saturday was a scrappin’ day.
I started the day by driving up to Laurie’s, so we could check out a scrapbook store near her, Recollections. We spent entirely too much time and money there, so had to grab lunch at the Wendy’s drive-thru, before picking up my car and caravaning over to Sandy’s.
Once at Sandy’s, we looked through our loot again, and checked out the pages each other had done since our last scrapping Saturday, then finally got down to scrapping. I worked on my Egypt pictures from our cruise last month. Laurie did a spread of Connor at the beach. And Sandy plowed ahead of both of us on her pictures from 2004.
Here are a couple of our results:
A fun, fun way to spend a rainy Saturday!
After the hellish week I had, we decided to have a quiet weekend at home. We rented a couple of PS2 games (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and X-Files: Resist or Serve), and I gamed much of Friday, since I’d already put in more than my 30 hours.
Harry Potter was quite fun, though we came close to defeating the game by the end of Saturday. (We had gotten to Voldemort, but didn’t quite defeat him – we didn’t try again, but most of the fun of the game was done.) Goblet of Fire can be played by two players simultaneously for many of the levels – not the Tri-Wizard challenges or final fight with Voldemort, but all other levels. So, Andrew and I were able to play together, which I think is the first time we’ve done that. I can hardly wait to pull out Tak and Lok and play that with Andrew.
The rest of the weekend I spent scrapbooking. I finished up the “Wedding Odds ‘n’ Ends” book that I’d been working on. Here are a few of the spreads I did:
You can check out all of my scrapbook photos on Flickr. Next up? The eclipse cruise scrapbook!
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