Total B.S.

It's April 8th and I woke up to snow today. Whoever is pissed off about global warming can move to Bend, because at this point I would welcome ANY type of warming. In fact, I am going to drink as much bottled water today as I can (and then throw the bottles away, into the landfill for 30 years!) AND leave my car running as much as possible. I'm not going to leave a weenie 'carbon footprint', I am going to leave a 'carbon snow-angel' by the time I'm done. Ha!

On a side note: we went for our first bike ride yesterday, it was pretty fun and the trail was good. I kicked Michael's ass up the hills, he had to stop and push at a couple of spots. Haha, sorry Michael, but it was funny. What wasn't funny is that we noticed a bunch of problems with his bike. The pedal started falling off, it's not shifting gears correctly, the seat wasn't on right and the brakes needed to be tightened. So, we took it back to the store last night so they can fix it. We bought it at Joe's and apparently they don't return bikes unless they're defective?! A lame return policy if you ask me. Then the kid helping us rolled his eyes and looked totally put out when I asked him for a receipt or something to prove I had left the bike. Call me crazy, but I wasn't going to leave a $300+ bike there with nothing but my name and phone number that he had written on scrap paper. What a turd. Anyways, hopefully everything will get fixed and not be a problem anymore. I called and spoke to the gm this morning and he said if we have problems again after the bike tech fixes it all that he would take it back and get us a new one. It's not like we could go for a ride today, anyways. Stupid snow.

A new month...

So March did not go as well as planned in the diet/exercise area. And no, Kayte, I'm still not telling how much I weigh, let's just say it's too much. I'm hoping April is better for a few different reasons. Reason #1 is that the weather is getting somewhat warmer. They still say that it may snow and it does get pretty cold at night, but overall it is a lot warmer during the day and it stays light fairly late now. Reason #2 is I got some cool new workout clothes this weekend. Hey, it helps! Reason #3 is we also went and got mountain bikes this weekend so the plan is start riding them a lot. There are a bunch of trails and parks around here and Bend is a bike-loving town so it should be fun. I haven't had a bike in a long time, but always liked having one. I would ride it to work but I would get wayyyy to sweaty and we don't have a locker room or shower here that I could use. It would be nice, though. Reason #4 is we also got a juicer this weekend. (Wow, we spent a lot of money this weekend! But we haven't done that in a long time, so what can you do?) It's one of those Jack LaLane Power Juicers and it is pretty awesome. I made some juice with an apple and two pears and it was really good. Maybe I will just start juicing everything. :) And Reasons #5 and 6 is that Michaels brother is getting married at the end of June and Michael has a family reunion and high school reunion later in the summer. I can't be the chubby girlfriend!! Well, that and it will be summer, so that means shorts and tank tops. And my annual Cove adventure. I will try to post some more pictures, too. Maybe we'll take some with our new bikes! :)