Sort of Maybe Update.

I was email bantering with a friend the other day and he commented that there hadn’t been a blog update in awhile. Usually I have things to write but I have trouble finding the time until one of my 3 fans comments that I’ve written nothing in awhile – then I find the time. Because that’s me, always aiming to please. And usually I like to write and to post stuff in the space.

Usually. But not lately.

Lately I have nothing to say. Or I have things to say but they don’t fit into the so.much. fun theme. Its not that life has totally ceased to be fun – it still has its moments – but I’m caught up in the boring suckiness. And I don’t want to be the girl that writes about the boring suckiness …

So that’s where I’ve been. I think there is a forest for the trees analogy that could come into play here. Maybe.

Anyway, today, I came back again to wanting to write and to write something here. I figured if I paid enough attention something worthy of a blog post would happen and sure enough, when I got home I looked at my bike and realized the rear tire was flat. After dinner I set out to change it and the first try took, a long long time and I had a few moments of “I am never going to be able to do this and I am going to have to take the tire to the shop which is so embarrassing” but eventually I got the tire on and decided to do it again and the second try took a long time but only half as long as the first time. Success. Twice. It’s the little things.

Sometimes you have to work at what you want. And that doesn’t just apply to tires.

Of course, in my 4^th (I don’t count the first danskin year) year of triathlons I should be a little bit better at this, but its not my fault, it’s the bike tire gods’ fault. They’re the ones that only gave me 3 flats in these past 4 years- two in the past 2 weeks. Hopefully I’m good for the season nowJ

Although, did I mention that when the tire changing was all done there was a lone screw lying next to my bike? Yeah, no idea where that came from. Hopefully no where important ...???

And there are other things on the horizon – things more fun than changing a tire. A newish bike fit that I think makes me hate the bike less (despite the flats), new sneakers if my achilles ever stops hurting enough for me to actually run, a fun girls weekend trip to Chicago when I’ll meet Liz and workout and hopefully see my college roommates and their children and a 150 mile charity bike ride in the Boston area.

I used to think I’d meet my husband in a field in Iowa during a cross state bike ride but on further reflection, Boston seems like a much more likely scenario.

So … I’m going to try to cheer up (even though its hard) and try to become a better tire changer (even though its hard) and try to write more things on this blog … because if I focus on the non-sucky things maybe I’ll see the forest for the trees or the trees for the forest. Or something:)