Wednesday, May 14, 2008

My 'green' attempt

Drinking all of that bottled water is finally starting to help, it's supposed to be around 90 this weekend! Nothing better than going from freezing to frying in a week. We have been doing pretty well lately. I got my wisdom teeth out a few weeks ago, which was awesome, but I missed a few workout days. We've been going on walks quite a bit and getting out of the house a lot more now. We also got a new puppy about three weeks ago, so we've been dealing with that too.
So I won't go into gas prices because we've all heard it a million times before, I really haven't noticed the increase lately though, I was only filling up about once every two weeks. But, in an effort to save even more gas and maybe lose a little chub, I've started riding my bike to work. It only takes me about twenty minutes each way, so I only have to get up a little bit earlier than usual. So far it has been awesome and I've been riding almost every day. It's awesome to get in the exercise in the mornings and the roads are usually pretty quiet. The only bad part is coming home, I have to ride through downtown and a couple of busy intersections that get crazy during Bend's version of 'rush hour'. It is about equal in steepness each way but for some reason the ride home KILLS me. I've only been riding for about a week or so, so hopefully it will get easier as the weeks go on.