Trail of Death...aka the Tour de Cure

I went on a 25K bike ride for diabetes this weekend with Team Lockheed Martin. I gotta tell you, I was feeling pretty un-sexy in my lycra bike jersey, mushroom helmet and padded spandex bike shorts that made me feel like grandma ethel after a prune juice bender. I have been going on practice rides the last couple of weeks on the silver comet trail. If you don't live here, the silver comet trail is fairly flat. The course we rode Sunday morning started at a high school in Tyrone, GA (near Peachtree City) and wound through the country roads, neighborhoods and we looped around at a golf course. The hills. The hills! I thought I was going to die. I ate Beth's dust. I felt bad because she kept slowing down for me. I got off my bike to walk up the upteenth hill and was laughed at by a dude on unicycle. A few more feet and he was walking that excuse for a real ride up the hill. Now who's laughing, circus freak!?!? I barely made it to the finish line. I got a sweet free massage after the ride. The massage students always set up tents at these charity athletic events. The holy grail of free gifts came in my post ride gift bag...a port-a-potty squeeze toy. It's the best thing ever.

In other news, apparently, I'm a "bagel and cream cheese" girl. WTF you may be asking yourself. I went to Publix to buy super slaw ingredients for a party Saturday night. I also bought a 12 pack of diet pepsi. If you don't have a Publix where you are, they like to hire disabled folks to bag your groceries. Which is fine by me. So, this alter-abled young man was helping me load my groceries onto the conveyor belt and wanted me to know that the pahaahshsee was on sale 4 for $11. I asked a couple times what he meant and then figured out he meant Pepsi. However, the senior citizen working the cash register didn't quite catch that and she said to him, "Oh honey, I don't think she likes the pop tarts.....she looks like a bagel and cream cheese type of girl to me." I didn't correct her as she had just provided me comedy gold....but...wait...what exactly does a "bagel and cream cheese type of girl" look like?

Estate Sale

I had never been to an estate sale so I went and checked one out today. I didn't expect it to be as sad as it was. The caretakers of this lady's estate brought in a management company to hold the sale. This lady had so much crap and they priced everything way too high. Room after room full of clothes, shoes and random house stuff. They even had her makeup and tooth paste for sale! She had purchased hundreds of dollars of Chanel and other high end make-up. They were selling it for $6 - $10. Who would even pay $1 for someone's used cosmetics? Gross. I was beginning to think this person had no children and died alone but I found a few pillows and tea towls with "supposed to be" funny sayings about being a mom. From looking at her belongings, I would say this person was in her 50's to 60's. I bought a NYC Ballet workout DVD that I heard was good..it was unopened and a neat silver spoon. She bought all this stuff and now she's gone and here we all were....strangers picking through her belongings. I was in one of the upstairs bedrooms that had even more clothes and shoes and another browser said to me...can you believe that one person could have so much stuff? Just sad. She had spent thousands on cosmetics, clothes and unopened fitness equipment. It made me think about the lengths this woman went to in the hopes of looking better or being happier, but in the end none of it really mattered. I'm going to go clean out my closet.

Girls just want to have fun.

I went on another silver comet ride with Beth today. We decided to best our 16 mile record and went 20 today. I'm going to feel it tomorrow. Last night, I went to a grown-up slumber party at Ashleigh Gardner Volker's house. Her husband was out of town so Jenn, Sarah and I came over. We started the day by going to see "Made of Honor." Definitely not an oscar winner, but entertaining. Then back to Ashleigh's house for drinks and to make dinner. We asked the ouija board all the interesting questions, prank called husbands and guys we know then finished the night with drunk yoga. Definitely a good time.

I'm only happy when it rains.

It rains so rarely here, that I enjoy it when it does. I'm trying to get motivated to make a trip to Lowe's so I can pick up supplies to finish out my dining room floor. I ripped up the old ceramic tile and put down a new floor last week. I have to patch a few spots, put up new baseboards and replace the heating vent, then I'll be done with another room.

Sarah, Rob, Beth, Rich and I went to the new Cobb Energy Center to see The Marriage of Figaro last night. At 3.5 hours long, it was about 1.5 hours too long. That crazy Mozart. Beth and I went to Marlowe's after and had a martini at the bar with various drunk guys. Sigh.

Go Braves!

Sarah's boss gave her tickets to the Braves game tonight and she asked me to go with. We had a great time. I have to say, it was the most perfect weather for a game. Warm enough where you didn't need a sweatshirt and cool enough where you weren't sweating. Perfect. There were plenty of fans around us to keep us entertained. The drunk guy that kept yelling at the guy that came with him. The underage kids in front of us that would not sit down. The weird guy in the dark shades that stared and walked in front of us as we tried to pass. The foul balls that flew into the stands at such a velocity we were sure it took someone's hand off or busted an eye. To top it off, neither Sarah or I are that into baseball so we had no problem leaving at the top of the 8th to avoid traffic. Like I said...great time. :)

If it's free, it's for me.

I enter a lot of drawings, so on occasion, I win stuff. I got a call from Star94 (local radio station) last Tuesday letting me know I won a prize basket from a drawing I had entered at an event the week before. For the life of me, I could not remember what was in the basket, but I had to wait until I could go downtown on Friday to pick it up. Wow! It was some prize basket. This was what was in it:

3 Star 94 t-shirts/stickers
Pure Romance Gift Basket, including various lotions and ...um..a "toy"
Cd's...Fergie, Hannah Montana, Maroon 5, Jordin Sparks, Paramore
DVD's...101 Dalmations, Dan in Real Life and the 24 Season 5 box set
Signed photo of the Backstreet Boys (woot!)
4 tickets to the World of Coca-Cola
Frontgate Digital Cocktail Genie
$10 gift card to Starbucks
$50 BP Gas gift card
$100 Super Certificate (redeemable at over 100 merchants)
5 Cash 5 Georgia Lottery tickets (one of them won me $50)
$15 iTunes gift card
$50 Blue MedSpa gift card
Bose QC2 headphones ($300 if I bought them).

I was pretty stoked after getting my basket. I then went shopping with Sarah and Mrs. Volker up at the Mall of Georgia in Buford. We shopped until we dropped...literally...into Macaroni Grill for dinner. I wasn't going to do anything yesterday. I spent the day replacing electrical receptacles and light switches in my place. Yay! I'm glad that is done...what a pain. Got a call from Fragment when I was in Target last night. I guess our friend (use the term loosely) Charlie was in a Kickball League and they had a season ending party at a bar in midtown. I hate paying covers, but what I didn't know, is that it was free beer until 11. I'm pretty sure everyone had a better than average time.

Meh

Ever have that feeling that change is afoot? I feel a disturbance in the force. Lot's of unhappy people at the Lazy L and one of my coworkers is moving to another group, something I'm not heartbroken about. I had one of those crazy days where it seems like I was hit up for work constantly. I got to go to lunch with the guys, which was a nice break. I went along with Randy to the tag office so I could get my married name off my car title...good riddance. After work, I hit the silver comet trail. 6.5 miles on the bike I borrowed from Natalie. I only have to work up 8.5 more miles for the big Tour de Cure I'm riding in next month. Not too shabby. I did it in about 40 minutes. If I can only figure out how to keep my um....parts from going numb. Oowww!