I have been working on my bike ride dream for a while now. Sunday was it! I had brought myself a big enough car, Prof fitted the tow hitch on Friday but we ended up swapping vehicles so he could take mine to the city and not bother swapping the rack over.
No rain on Sunday, so got the kids ready, worked out fitting the kid's bikes on the rack, made a picnic, worked out the route and off we went ( that all took hours). Drove to the trail head, unloaded, geared up and off we went. #2 kid pulled me off my bike in the first 10 seconds, only a little blood and putting the chain back on. Off we go again, maybe 10 minutes later #1 says the bike is to hard to peddle. We get off and have a look, its a flat tire! I have no repair kit. So we turn around and walk back to the car. We maybe covered .2 miles, in total, and the bikes are kids are caked in mud. #1 looked at me said "This is a disaster." It was pretty funny. I would say 4 hours of prep and clean up combined, cause even with taking shoes and jackets off, the mud got all over the van and I needed to clean the racks off too. I won't mention the fact that one of my kids pulled the built-in bike lock out and it dragged home along the road. One side is filed horribly down a few inches !! It looks a mess. I will find a replacement and fix it before Prof sees it. HAHA, first use and one part is already kid shredded.
I went round to see Prof to swap cars back this morning. I finally asked him what he did in the city on Saturday night, he stayed up there. "Went to see a show," was the response, "What show?" I inquired. He wanted to finish the story of the random stranger getting into my car thinking it was his friend's. and fairly obviously ducked the question.
Must be a date. I ended up messaging about why he ducked the question and he said we should set up a time and day to discuss it. I said I don't want to discuss it just was curious as to why he avoided the question when he wanted me to ask him about anything. The compromise is; we don't set up dates and times to discuss ( his way ) but neither do we "throw out important information on the fly ( apparently and admittedly my style ).
I knew his dating would pick-up again post-holiday and now my schedule is different. I am not upset about it. Certainly am jealous that his weekend didn't involve lots of cleaning and a failed dream ( woe is me ) but was pretty much jealous of anyone who got to do something that didn't involve kids.( I do love my children and am very fortunate to have them, but hey, they can be hard work!) I also didn't mention the large autiobiography type project that #1 remembered to tell me about. I was going to teach them a lesson about preparation and not help but there were tears and "But I am the OSP! Our Special Person!!!! I can't be OSP with no project. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE." Much glue, display board, stencils, paint and ordering photo prints online for in-store pickup later...done. Took about 4 hours all up. I couldn't wait to get back to work today I am the least arty person you will ever met. But #1 was happy and #2 did their own version of the project too. More photos and paint!
Kip is still in pain from his hip, but was still game to try and schedule and then disappeared mid-schedule attempt. Annoys the crap out me. I have asked him before not to do it, because... it annoys the crap out me. If you have to leave the conversation then "BRB" or "Later" or "gotta run". I am going to take the mature path and ignore him for a day or 2. My guess is he will phone if I don't reply to him in half a day. Cause he doesn't like being ignored
I am avoiding my thesis. Can you tell?
No rain on Sunday, so got the kids ready, worked out fitting the kid's bikes on the rack, made a picnic, worked out the route and off we went ( that all took hours). Drove to the trail head, unloaded, geared up and off we went. #2 kid pulled me off my bike in the first 10 seconds, only a little blood and putting the chain back on. Off we go again, maybe 10 minutes later #1 says the bike is to hard to peddle. We get off and have a look, its a flat tire! I have no repair kit. So we turn around and walk back to the car. We maybe covered .2 miles, in total, and the bikes are kids are caked in mud. #1 looked at me said "This is a disaster." It was pretty funny. I would say 4 hours of prep and clean up combined, cause even with taking shoes and jackets off, the mud got all over the van and I needed to clean the racks off too. I won't mention the fact that one of my kids pulled the built-in bike lock out and it dragged home along the road. One side is filed horribly down a few inches !! It looks a mess. I will find a replacement and fix it before Prof sees it. HAHA, first use and one part is already kid shredded.
I went round to see Prof to swap cars back this morning. I finally asked him what he did in the city on Saturday night, he stayed up there. "Went to see a show," was the response, "What show?" I inquired. He wanted to finish the story of the random stranger getting into my car thinking it was his friend's. and fairly obviously ducked the question.
Must be a date. I ended up messaging about why he ducked the question and he said we should set up a time and day to discuss it. I said I don't want to discuss it just was curious as to why he avoided the question when he wanted me to ask him about anything. The compromise is; we don't set up dates and times to discuss ( his way ) but neither do we "throw out important information on the fly ( apparently and admittedly my style ).
I knew his dating would pick-up again post-holiday and now my schedule is different. I am not upset about it. Certainly am jealous that his weekend didn't involve lots of cleaning and a failed dream ( woe is me ) but was pretty much jealous of anyone who got to do something that didn't involve kids.( I do love my children and am very fortunate to have them, but hey, they can be hard work!) I also didn't mention the large autiobiography type project that #1 remembered to tell me about. I was going to teach them a lesson about preparation and not help but there were tears and "But I am the OSP! Our Special Person!!!! I can't be OSP with no project. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE." Much glue, display board, stencils, paint and ordering photo prints online for in-store pickup later...done. Took about 4 hours all up. I couldn't wait to get back to work today I am the least arty person you will ever met. But #1 was happy and #2 did their own version of the project too. More photos and paint!
Kip is still in pain from his hip, but was still game to try and schedule and then disappeared mid-schedule attempt. Annoys the crap out me. I have asked him before not to do it, because... it annoys the crap out me. If you have to leave the conversation then "BRB" or "Later" or "gotta run". I am going to take the mature path and ignore him for a day or 2. My guess is he will phone if I don't reply to him in half a day. Cause he doesn't like being ignored
I am avoiding my thesis. Can you tell?
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