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As I stare across the frozen tundra that is Colorado Springs today, I realize that it is less than 4 weeks until I go back to Buellton, California. Woohooo!

8:00 pm

Depressing Decemeber Snow Storm : Part Deux

3:30 pm

1:00 pm
10:30 am

Steph sets up the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve last week, a little late, but Christmas travel plans were aborted by the blizzard we got last week. We right in the middle of another one today, more on that later.

Christmas Eve dinner at Daniel's. Followed by dinner (looked mostly the same) at James' and Mary's on Christmas.

Because of the storm my Christmas presents from my family were delayed until mid-week. It was like having second-Christmas on Wednesday.

Rocky Balboa - Movie Review

It got 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I figured it would be a good bet. It really wasn't very good, but not in the usual cheesy Rocky movie kind of way. It was just not a very well developed script, not that you could have expected more. Plus the training montage was way too short, and besides watching some old guy work out isn't really inspiring.

What can you do to amuse yourself in a blizzard? (well we really didn't get a blizzard like Denver, but it did snow a lot Wednesday night)

You can get the cats cracked out on catnip. That really only provides about 10 or 15 minutes of amusement.

Then you can find all your friends with 4-wheel drive and head on down to a Christmas party at Shuga's.

A fine time was had by all.

There was even a rare Emmett sighting.

And Dr. Eric too, notice he's not boozing it up but drinking coffee, just like any good doctor on call.

Snow Miser Targets Colorado

Looks like it'll be a white Christmas, and that riding outdoors will be out of the question for a while, I mean unless he and the Heat Miser come to some sort of agreement real quick.

Pet Peeves:

1. It's spelled definitely. Defiantly means boldy resistant. Definantly isn't a word, neither is defanintly, or defenitley.

2. WRITING IN ALL CAPS. JUST STOP YELLING!!!!! (oh yah, excessive punctuation too.)

3. notusinganycapsorpunctuationorspacesisjustasannoyingtoo

Straighty does it again. Katie - straight out a' - Compton wins her 3rd consecutive title at cross nationals. Click here to read more. This, of course, means she'll get to wear her superhero costume in races for another year. Good job Katie!

No updates in a few days, but really there was nothing even remotely interesting going on.

Friday - in my pajamas and in bed by 5:45 pm. No, that is not a typo.

Saturday - rode my bike in the wind until I got really, really tired, then I laid on the couch until it was time to go to bed. At which time I moved from the couch to the bed.

Sunday - spent all day in Denver at the ACA meeting and annual awards. I did get to collect many, many awards for various friends and teammates though, so that was kind of fun.

Here's Steph shown modeling her new Best Cross Rider jersey she must wear on every group ride for the rest of her life.

I also got to bring home the Best All Around Team award for me and my awesome teammates. My awesome teammates also won the Best Cross Team. My only contribution to the cross team award was handing up Margell a bottle at the last cross race, does that count? Anyway, Beth also got 2 individual awards for 2nd Best All Around Rider and 3rd Best Cross Rider, which was totally awesome because she's the only one on the podium in both categories, and doesn't that really make her the best "all-around" rider? I did get one for myself too, 3rd Best All Around Rider. So there you go.

(from Elf).

I went Christmas shopping today, and since I can't blog about anything I bought, here's another cute picture of Caroline from Thanksgiving. Jackie O. reincarnated?

Desert Island.

Here's how you play the game. You're trapped on a desert island and you can only have 5 CDs. What do you choose?

1. The Smiths - The Best of the Smiths Vol. 1.

2. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

3. Pearl Jam - Ten

4. Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
5. REM - Automatic for the People.

Ok, so number 5 was really hard to choose. Honorable mentions were the Clash - London Calling, 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden, and New Order - Substance (1987). That's kind of cheating by mentioning them, but anyway, I still made my final list. I don't mean to stir debate of all time best albums because these are personal choices of CDs you want to play on repeat for an undetermined amount of time.

So, if you were trapped on a desert island what 5 CDs would you want with you?

So I spent all weekend at Beth and Jon's. It was awesome as usual. I feel like the Tarkington-Fisk's is my home away from home since I have my own room there and everything. One thing, I did make the unfortunate mistake of leaving finger prints on the stainless steel trash can.

Good thing Beth was there within 20 seconds with Windex and a rag to clean it up. (notice how fast her hands are moving!)

So we had our first official team ride of the 2007 season today. See yesterday's post in case you didn't realize it's already time to start training for 2007. It was a great time and the first time we had a chance to ride with the newbies on the team, Lisa Matlock and Sy Rae Weikle.

We stopped to refuel during the ride today. Here Sy Rae and Lisa study the ingredients of this snack pack and decide the 1,200 calories and 19 grams of fat per serving weren't worth it. Instead we ate cake when we got home... I don't really think that was any better, in fact not better at all.

To read more about the weekend, click here.

Let the training for 2007 begin.
...because I am inspired now (after watching this movie with Beth tonight.)

What's Steph doing????

I think she's making cake! I love cake.

I went up to Boulder today to hang with Beth and do some team bonding .
We went to watch some of the cross race where Captain Katie Supercross girled most of the Pro 1/2 men's field. (For a guy, getting "girled" is getting beat by a girl.)

I wonder how this kid did.

Happy Birthday to me. A little elf came in to my office and left this on my desk. Ok, so it was my roomate Steph, but her cookies are awesome!!!! I hear there's cake too.

I'm getting ready for the big birthday tomorrow and coming to grips that I'll be turning twenty fifteen this year.

A lot of good things happened in 1971. The first Starbucks opened. Walt Disney World opened. The microprocessor was introduced, and the price of a 1st class stamp was only 6 cents.

A lot of famous people were born in 1971. Snoop Dog was. So were Marky Mark (uhm, Mark Walburg), Ricky Martin, Kid Rock, Tiffany, Shannen Doherty, and even the Corey's.


Both Coreys (Haim and Feldman) were born in 1971.

At least I can say I've aged a little better than one of the Coreys.

Even some famous cyclists were born in 1971, like Lance Armstrong and Mari Holden. Ok, so they're both retired, but Tyler Hamilton is still racing, kind of.

Getting older means other changes too.

• Like now saying "I'm old enough to be your mother" totally applies to high school kids. Which also makes me think about those poor teenage moms in my high school who are getting ready to send their 1st born to college next year. Scary thought that I'm technically old enough to have a kid in college.
• Now when I talk about dyeing my hair it's not to something punk or rebellious like hot pink or jet black, it's just to back my natural color to cover up the grey.
• My new age demographic is now 35-49. Great, they might as well just say I'm in my mid 40's.
• I'm officially a Master's 35+ racer now. Yah, I know my racing age was 35 last year, but now no one can call me a 34-year old sandbagger in the master's cat, and we know how much the 35+ racers like to complain about sandbaggers.
  

Full moon, PMS, and major milestone birthday this week. Mentally unstable much?

Things to do when you're procrastinating getting on the trainer to do your workout because it's cold and snowy yet again.

1. Alphabetize your CDs. Note, the procrastination of unpacking my CDs, since I moving back to CO over 15 months ago, was overcome by the procrastination to ride the trainer. I wasn't really in a hurry to unpack these since all my music predates the 21st century anyway.

2. Clean house. The bathroom is spotless, I mopped the floor, and even cleaned the espresso machine. Ok, I haven't used it in over a year, but it was very important to do that yesterday BEFORE I could even think about riding the trainer.

3. Buy crap you don't need at Target. Why is it that you can't get out of there for less than $80? You'd think it'd be less because everything is so cheap. These gloves were only $1.49 for TWO pair!

4. Create a major household disaster. This takes the cake for procrastination, but I do have to say it's not my fault. The guy that lived upstairs moved out, turned off all the heat, and subsequent multiple days of freezing cold weather results in a burst pipe and a flood in my kitchen and basement.

You can't really tell from the picture, but there's at least 3 inches of standing water in the basement here.

So between tracking down the landlord, waiting for the plumber, and then the water vac dude coming I have almost procrastinated the whole day away.

5. The absolute best way to procrastinate riding the trainer is, of course, to update your blog with useless facts and marginally amusing stories.